Hi, All my music files have correct cover art tags embedded in each individual files. I know this for a fact as I run my entire library on multiple platform and applications (MAC, iTunes, Windows, MediaMonkey, Google Play Music and even old Winamp). All these different platform show correct albums…

I believe it’s hard-coded to prefer local files over embedded art. It used to be the other way around. The reason for the change is that embedded art is generally low resolution, and looks terrible when displayed on a large screen, like a TV. Explanation from a Ninja here: https://forums.plex.tv/…

Thanks beckfield. So does this mean that there is no way that I could instruct it to only look to the embedded files? All my cover arts are of high resolution and quality.

To the best of my knowledge, no, you can’t do that. Do you really insert high resolution images into all your music tracks? That’s got to eat a ton of disk space.

[Implemented] Plex Music Files Tag Embedded Cover Art

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[Implemented] Plex Music Files Tag Embedded Cover Art

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