I try to include local trailers and extras in my movie sections when I have them, but there doesn't seem to be a way to edit the basic info. I'm always stuck with the thumbnail image that Plex chooses/creates and, in my case because I use Window, certain characters such as a question mark ( ? ), or a colon ( : ) can't be used in the filename. I've tried to include images with various naming methods, and include some basic info in the embedded metadata, but no luck.
I'm sure it's considered low priority, but any chance we'll ever be able to edit that information?
I also noticed that if you have multiple sources ie multiple resolutions of the same movie for different devices to stream to, the extras will not populate. I will have to delete all my extra copies of the movie to get that functionality to work.
Even though I can’t actually vote for my own feature suggestion (I’ve placed my votes for others I feel are more important) I still would like to be able to edit and change the basic info Plex displays.
I’m disappointed that this was not implemented in either of the new agents for TV and Movies. I can supply my own image for an episode, season, show and/or edit the info Plex downloads. It’s an obvious oversight not to extend that ability to local extras.
I’ve tried including the title and image in the embedded metadata in both mp4 and mkv files, including a sidecar image, and combinations of both, and nothing works. Maybe I’m missing another option.
I have a lot of extras, and sometimes if I’m not lucky the thumbnail will get generated on something that can be considered a spoiler. Being able to edit the metadata for extras would be very useful.
8 years later and still not implemented, frankly pretty ridiculous. Extras feel like a complete afterthought from the Plex devs.
The lack of metadata editing is bad enough, but the automatic thumbnail generation is so consistently awful that I make fake TV shows for my music videos instead of using the Extras feature.
I hope to be able to modify the title and sorting of additional content, as well as the cover image. Additionally, I would like to be able to search for extra content, such as music videos.
I think expanding the extra’s would be great. One thing I thought of was the ability to add descriptions for extras (in addition to editing the title).
If you’re a little more comfortable with development, you can modify the extra’s thumbnail using an HTTP request.
For example, in Python language, this would give :
request_url = f’{PLEX_SERVER_URL}/library/metadata/{EXTRA_RATING_KEY}?thumb={NEW_IMAGE_URL}&X-Plex-Token={PLEX_TOKEN}’
response = requests.put(request_url)
