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Firstly I couldn’t find a specific section regarding LMA or metadata so apologies if I’m posting in the wrong place.

So after all these years, I have suddenly started taking an interest in custom posters since the advent of https://theposterdb.com/ and the related https://www.reddit.com/r/PlexPosters/
Prior to this, I have never really used LMA

Now a couple of questions.

  1. After reading the support articles it seems that as I’m only interested in posters I’m fine with
    Die Hard (1988) - Remux-2160p [HEVC DTS-HD MA 5.1 HDR].mkv
    Die Hard (1988) - Remux-2160p [HEVC DTS-HD MA 5.1 HDR].jpg
    Can someone kindly confirm this before I get too carried away and find I’m naming them wrong, please?

  2. Does LMA support custom collection posters at all currently? I didn’t see anything in the support articles for this.

Thanks in advance.

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1 - yes, that should work
2 - no

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That’ll work.

I used to do that myself, but it cluttered up the kitchen after a while and I wasn’t happy - not to mention if you delete a TV Show from the interface and there’s a poster image, or subs, in there… no can do. TV Shows/Movie folders with stuff that ain’t TV Shows or Movies in them don’t get deleted when the TV Shows or Movies do.

Nowadays I just drag the poster into the edit window in the area provided - or paste a link to an image online - it shows up in the list of poster, I select it, and the kitchen is spotless.

2:
You would like to give a collection a poster of your own?

Yea, shouldn’t be a problem. Just hover over the collection, strike it’s pencil, and do your worst, Magillicutty.

Apologies if I misunderstood.

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Thanks, guys.

@JuiceWSA
Yeah, I have been collecting them and just keeping a separate folder of them as I go and just pointing Plex to that directory. It does seem a good idea to keep a backup though and started thinking I may as well store them alongside the movie and adopt LMA.

As for 2. I use pretty much the same approach as with the individual movies with regarding workflow.
I just think it would be cool if a tag could be added to identify it as a collection poster in LMA.

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Oh, I see.

Along with that letter stack we need, that wouldn’t be bad, would it?

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Yes as my collections grow a letter stack will be more essential.
I haven’t got as far as decades and things like that. In fact I haven’t got as far as Actor collections yet but the tpdb has become a serious addiction now and my number of collections is growing fast.

I have no idea how the backgrounds work on the Roku, but on the ATV 4K the individual collection
background adapts to the colour of that collection poster. So dark collection posters mean the more colourful posters of the related individual movies really pop and stand out.

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Wow. Sounds nice. Roku has, so far, scored a big goose egg on backgrounds.

Unfortunately.

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Yeah, i can’t say I have noticed it doing the same thing on any of my other clients.
Knowing my luck it will change on the ATV 4K to something awful.

Oh and one other thing I forgot to mention… the ATV 4K does actually have a letter stack for collections too.:grinning:

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