Is it possible to have Local Media Assets for Music auto-populate posters for artists from poster.jpg? Plex doesn’t seem to be doing this automatically for me.
I can’t find any reliable information for local artwork in a music library like there is for TV Shows and Movies.
TV Show:
show.jpg, season 01.jpg, etc
Movies:
Movie Name (YEAR).jpg, etc
front.jpg, cover.jpg, etc, just doesn’t do it like you think it would. You can always hand edit the item in Plexweb, dragging in artwork as needed, but I like to have that done beforehand so I can worry about something else. The Artist/Band image requires an Edit I think. For Albums a proper structure with a good match at the appropriate database will almost always drag in a proper bit of artwork, but sometimes that too leaves something to be desired.
However, this will absolutely solve that little issue:
http://www.mp3tag.de/ - MP3Tag
Drag your artwork into the space provided, hit save and that’s it. No guesswork. Done in seconds:
@chyron8472 said:
Is it possible to have Local Media Assets for Music auto-populate posters for artists from poster.jpg? Plex doesn’t seem to be doing this automatically for me.
Yes, if you have a proper folder structure,
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1319703/#Comment_1319703
and the ‘Local Media Assets’ Agent active and in top position under Settings - Server - Agents - Artists - ///
Rename poster.jpg to artist-poster.jpg to avoid conflicts with posters for movies or cover art for albums.
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Oh yea, there’s that ‘documentation’.
(I knew if I waited long enough you’d throw it in - added to bookmarks now)
Thanks
Good to know
@JuiceWSA said:
I can’t find any reliable information for local artwork in a music library like there is for TV Shows and Movies.
TV Show:
show.jpg, season 01.jpg, etc
Movies:
Movie Name (YEAR).jpg, etcfront.jpg, cover.jpg, etc, just doesn’t do it like you think it would. You can always hand edit the item in Plexweb, dragging in artwork as needed, but I like to have that done beforehand so I can worry about something else. The Artist/Band image requires an Edit I think. For Albums a proper structure with a good match at the appropriate database will almost always drag in a proper bit of artwork, but sometimes that too leaves something to be desired.
However, this will absolutely solve that little issue:
http://www.mp3tag.de/ - MP3TagDrag your artwork into the space provided, hit save and that’s it. No guesswork. Done in seconds:
I use mp3tag already. But are you suggesting that I edit all of my albums/audiobooks to embed an artist poster into each and every file? I already embed (front cover) album art, but embedding artist posters as well seems overkill because most audio players don’t use that and it increases storage used by that much more, given that the artist poster is added to every individual file.
Including a single file with the right naming convention, as @OttoKerner suggests, would seem make more sense. It would only be worth it if Plex refreshed that poster to the current file’s embed assuming that different files for that artist had different artist posters.
@chyron8472 said:
It would only be worth it if Plex refreshed that poster to the current file’s embed assuming that different files for that artist had different artist posters.
Don’t bother. AFAIK Plex doesn’t read embedded artist pictures from files.
@OttoKerner said:
@chyron8472 said:
It would only be worth it if Plex refreshed that poster to the current file’s embed assuming that different files for that artist had different artist posters.Don’t bother. AFAIK Plex doesn’t read embedded artist pictures from files.
I’ve never had the need to try, but I do use Album covers often in that way.
Of all the artists I think I changed Pink Floyd 'cause they had a really dumb group picture and I did that in the edit (pencil) window. Everything else come in fine with proper structure and file/folder names.
My interest was for audiobooks. I don’t care for most of the scraped book author photos (I prefer to have an image of a popular series/character rather than one of the authors themselves). When I restructured my Audiobook libraries and Plex refreshed them, the manually-imported author posters were overwritten. So @OttoKerner’s suggestion helps prevent that in future.
EDIT: Make sure your MP3 tags for author EXACTLY match your folder title. Otherwise things won’t match up. Took me a bit to figure out why certain authors weren’t syncing photos
I found something that works in version 1.14. I set up my audiobooks like this:
media\Audio\Audiobooks<Author Name><Book Title>\ Author Name - Book Title - Title 1.mp3
Following this structure you can get pictures to auto-populate (or if the files already have embedded images, at least get the choice to show up in the selection)
In the author folder, name the photo you want as “artist.png” (or jpg, or whatever format you want) without the quotes.
In the book folder, name the photo “album.png”.
Naming photos “cover”, “poster” or other generic names has some mixed success, but usually leaves the artist photo blank, even when following the folder convention.
Sometimes the plex dance is still needed (copying out, scanning to remove, copying in, scanning to add).
Hope this helps!
