Well… I sorta have it working. Notice that after scanning all of the movie soundtracks have the same album artwork. Apparently, the first album added determines the graphics.
I know how to fix it. I have the CDs, so I can scan the covers and use those. I’ll need to devise a graphic for the category, too.
The issue with the cover art:
Did you stick to the recommended folder structure?
And if you did, is there perhaps a graphics file in a folder higher up in the hierarchy?
I think I have the recommended folder structure. It works for everything else and I currently have 90 CDs online. There aren’t any graphics files. I don’t have anything in there but folders and music files. I also check the tags before running the library scan. This time, the problem seems to have been that I didn’t understand how to set the tags.
The cover art is correct most of the time. I don’t now what happened here. I fixed it by scanning the CD covers and uploading the images. That works well and often is better resolution than what comes in from the library scan. Low-resolution images do not display well on a 65-inch 4K TV. The graphics from my scanner are impressive.
Did you follow my link above?
It explicitly tells you to look out for files which are hidden and sometimes even marked as system.
So their existence is easily missed.
The commands “dir /ah /s” and “dir /as /s” both return no files in the “Movie Soundtracks” folder structure. There are hidden .jpg files in other folders in this library, however. They must have been put there by Plex server. They look like this:
Plex server doesn’t put files anywhere, except into its own data folder.
The file names in your screen shot look familiar though: you can “thank” Windows Media Player for putting them there. It is likely these which are creating the issue in Plex.
I don’t use Windows Media Player, but I have used some other players. Perhaps I need to make sure to use a player that doesn’t add junk files. Can desktop.ini be deleted, too.
So, you’re saying all these files can be deleted (also per the link you provided). That would be okay with me.
If they’re all so tiny like above they don’t add any value. So you can indeed erase them.
You can however put your own folder.jpg in place if you have a beautiful, high resolution file of the cover art.
(It rarely makes sense to embed cover art of >1MB into an audio files which itself is only a few MB big, so having one “sidecar” file is preferable)
I have been using the upload utility that’s included in the server’s administrative tools.
I am not sure what this implies. But these files travel like blind passengers when you copy the whole folder, so you may have brought them from somewhere else without noticing.
Regarding the desktop.ini: these will get recreated by Windows if you change the folder view mode or assign a custom icon to the folder. You can either leave them or erase them, it doesn’t matter much.
This is what I mean by the included file upload utility:
Basically, a user-provided image can be uploaded and used as the poster or background. I don’t know where the images are stored after they’re uploaded, but I assume they are in the database, because I don’t see any indication that they’re stored as files. I haven’t looked, though.
I cannot recommend to do it this way. The pictures you upload this way will be lost when you transfer the album to a different server/album/library or perform the Plex Dance.
Put your cover art in the folder, beside the music files.
You can do the same with a photo of the artist, btw.
That’s a good tip and certainly worth keeping in mind. So far, however, I only have a few that have needed an image and I have saved my scanned cover images.
I have a bigger problem today. Some of my Plex players have stopped working. They’re hanging, throwing various error messages or not responding. My phone still works. It’s the PCs that are having problems. They were working yesterday. Today they’re not.
Please create a new thread for this. It is far outside of the topic of this thread.
I know. I also understand forum etiquette. This thread, however, has just about run its course–and it’s my thread. 
I doubt I’ll create a new thread, though. This issue simply looks like the kids have been playing with the code and the problem will probably be fixed in a day or so. The error messages indicate an error in a function call.
