Managing Local TV Artwork Coming Into Effect

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Wiki Local Artwork



My TV artwork is managed by a 3rd party application for an alternative media browser.

I have T:\TV\Showname\Folder.jpg which conforms to the Plex standard.

I have T:\TV\Showname\Season XX\Folder.jpg which does not conform to the Plex standard.



I have two issues

  1. The Local Media Scanner is including \Season XX\Folder.jpg in its function for determining Showname artwork, so i get the wrong show artwork. (when perhaps it shouldnt, as it is in a different subfolder)
  2. My season artwork naming convention is not valid for Plex. Plex expects Season-X.jpg…so i get the wrong season artwork (the default on tvdb).





    Is there a way to fix issue 1 without renaming my metadata?

    Can anyone advise on a tweak to the local agent to work for issue 2, without renaming my metadata?



    thanks
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I have found

def FindMediaForItem(metadata, paths, type, part = None):



in \plugins\LocalMedia.Bundle





with


 # Figure out what regexs to use.<br />
  search_tuples = []<br />
  if type == 'season':<br />
    search_tuples += [['season-?%s[-a-z]?' % metadata.index, metadata.posters, imageExt, False]]<br />
    search_tuples += [['season-?%s-banner[-a-z]?' % metadata.index, metadata.banners, imageExt, False]]<br />
  elif type == 'show':<br />
    search_tuples += [['(show|poster|folder)-?[0-9]?', metadata.posters, imageExt, False]]<br />
    search_tuples += [['banner-?[0-9]?', metadata.banners, imageExt, False]]<br />
    search_tuples += [['(fanart|art|background|backdrop)-?[0-9]?', metadata.art, imageExt, False]]<br />
    search_tuples += [['theme-?[0-9]?', metadata.themes, audioExt, False]]


so if i could add a path requirement into the regular expression
i could make seasons look for "\season -?%s\folder.jpg"
and shows look for "\showname\(show|poster|folder)-?[0-9]?"

Can anyone advise?
My understanding is that because the local agent has higher precedence then if the local agent can 'find' the artwork, the tvdb will not use up my internet bandwidth looking for a poor version from tvdbs 'default'.
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