The artwork for music albums can be obtained from the audio files’ embedded image, an external image file in the Album’s folder, or downloaded from the Internet. Can someone please confirm the order in which these are checked for a suitable image? With Local Media Assets at the top, I think that pu…

Funny, I just answered a similar question for someone else. This answers part of your question: [image] Plex Local Media Assets vs Personal Media General Discussions When you edit your library , on the Advanced tab you’ll see this: [image] The “Plex Music” scanner is th…

Thanks for that. You state in the ‘How-to’ that if ‘local files’ are included in the settings, Plex will use local artwork files first, then embedded artwork. However, you later state that Plex will read and store ‘embedded album cover’ which somewhat contradicts the previous statement. So does it…

I think it uses the local files first, but not 1000% sure. For a quick test, embed a low quality image in the files completely different than the image file version, and see which one plex picks up. Then delete your test album if necessary… I think Plex will also see the embedded image as an opti…

Where it says Plex will ‘also read and store…’ embedded album cover, that section is merely a list of tags that Plex can recognize. It has nothing to do with the logic of when it uses them. I’ll look for a way to make that more clear. The earlier section, where it lists the order in which Plex se…

Brilliant, thanks. You confirmed what I thought and hoped was the case. I have used iTunes for years as my main organisational tool and then sync’d across to my PMS, but iTunes became progressively worse (sometimes simply not updating the files with modified metadata) and now the Music app even fai…

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beckfield February 9, 2023, 4:53pm 2

Funny, I just answered a similar question for someone else. This answers part of your question:

The How-To article linked in that post answers the rest of your question.

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