Server Version#:1.26.1.5798-99a4a6ac9 Player Version#: Just discovered the “Fix Match” and “Match” features of Plex for my music library, which is immensely helpful in repairing incorrect listings in my library. I am using local metadata as I have lots of non-commercially released content (conc…

Music / <-- folder which is added to the music library |--Albumartistname / | artist-poster.jpg <--- a photo of the artist | artist-background.jpg <--- a background/wallpaper particular to the artist |--Albumtitle / cover.jpg <--- album cover background.…

Thanks - this will be helpful if I decide to override the default pic with my own. But what about fixing the default artwork at the source? I imagine other people have music by the band Belly in their library, are all of them overriding this incorrect jpg of a Canadian rapper?

As I understand it, Plex sends all requests for metadata, including images, to MusicBrainz. MB doesn’t store artist images, but they farm the request out to other sources, like fanart.tv, Last.FM, etc. (I don’t know the full list). This basically means you have to figure out where MB is getting th…

Thanks, this is quite helpful. I went through all the links on Musicbrainz, and found a couple of dead ones which I reported. I suspect last.fm is the culprit. The page for Belly there lists both the rapper and the alt-rock band, and the photos (also mixed) include the one that is showing up in P…

Perhaps also of interest - the bio in Plex is not sourced from last.fm, but rather allmusic.com . I would suggest that site may be a better match universally for initial photo downloads than last.fm. I’m also considering reporting the last.fm link on Musicbrainz for potential removal - if the link …

Yup, I asked a couple years ago “What comes from where?” I was told that AllMusic was the intended source for bio info, Last.FM for “popular tracks” data, and fanart.tv for graphics (other than album covers, which come from MusicBrainz, if they have it). Each of those will fall back to other servi…

Interesting - I didn’t look at fanart.tv before because they weren’t linked from Musicbrainz. But they have separate pages for the two Bellys, and neither has anything under “Artist Thumb”, which upon checking a few other artists seems to be where Plex is getting pics. Maybe because it’s empty it’s…

I just posted to your thread at MusicBrainz too, but yeah, an image needs to be uploaded to fanart.tv. After that, it may take Plex 2 or 3 days to update their info from external sources before it will automatically grab the image.

An update on this… I was able to successfully upload an artist image to fanart.tv, so now there is something for Belly (the band) in Artist Thumb. However, it’s been over a week, and still no change in the artist art in Plex - Belly the rapper persists. I’ve been refreshing the metadata on the ar…

Incorrect artist art coming by default

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Incorrect artist art coming by default

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