I couldn’t find one of the old threads I remember dealt with this issue of changing movie posters and was about to post a new thread when I saw this one. I keep being annoyed by Plex’s habit of changing posters whenever it feels like it, which seems to happen regardless of whether I had previously “locked” the poster choice by selecting custom posters or not. Based on the earlier thread and some of the support documents, I have begun putting copies of the desired posters (where I have them) as files called “poster.jpg” alongside the main movie file in the main movie folders. However, despite having enabled using local assets and done all the other things I have found references to, I still haven’t found a way to make Plex actually use these local poster files, even if I manually refresh the metadata after adding the poster.jpg file to the relevant folder. The only way I’ve been able to get Plex to display the embedded poster file is to do the Plex Dance, but there’s no way doing that for thousands of movies makes any sense at all.
Is there any way to actually make Plex use these local poster.jpg files without having to do the dance on every one? I have about 2,000 of these poster files ready to add (I’d previously assigned these posters to the movies when I originally added the movies, using the “choose an image” method from within Plex, long before I saw the recent posts advising not to use that method, but that wasn’t stopping Plex from randomly changing those posters from time to time).
