I can’t even count the hours it took me in the last years to correct manually selected posters that have been changed by Plex for an ugly and/or different language version of the cover.
It’s especially annoying for non-english users with non-english libraries like me that don’t use the default (e.g. english) posters because all the movies are in a different language and so are the posters. You upload a movie, you change the cover to a cover in the movies language, you come back a few days later and see an english cover with a totally different movie title again. You change it again. A few weeks or months later it’s reverted by Plex again…..
I have seen posters changing randomly when I do not manually change the default poster selected by Plex, but lately even manually selecting a poster it is randomly changed during a metadata update.
I do not want to disable the automatic metadata update, because I do want to receive updates to the other metadata but not the posters. I upvoted this feature.
Wow. Still no feed back from Plex. Apparently they give a sh.. about customers with their own libraries.
Of course, I have the same problem. I have posters embedded in the movie files themselves, a poster jpg in each movie folder, have chosen to use local assets, and still …
I might try to write a script to update movie posters from local assets. Any suggestions?
I don’t do it for all content, But a lot of my content has cover-1.jpg and fanart-1.jpg files added into the folders and the libraries are set to use local content if there is any.
I mostly do this for favorites and collections. I’ve even designed or edited some posters myself over the years.
In the past this poster art issue has caused problems when I migrate my media though.
I’ve sure there’s a better way to store this user selected artwork locally that allows for easy migration and protects it from unintended alteration.
