Is there anyway for plex to use local artist covers? if so, how?

[image] [HowTo] Configure Plex to use embedded metadata (music) Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Please only reply to this thread with corrections or questions about the information in this How-To article itself. If you want to report a bug or ask a question about Plex and metadat…

Continuing this here, rather than in the How-To thread. Audiobooks may be a problem here. I have several as well, and since the recent changes that improved metadata scanning for popular music, it has gotten worse for classical music and audiobooks.

How can i get plex to use my local artist artwork? i have tried using the following naming structure, but it does not work. artist.jpg artist-folder.jpg artist-poster.jpg artist-cover.jpg folder.jpg poster.jpg cover.jpg J. K. Rowling.jpg My folder structure is Audiobooks ----J. K. Rowlin…

This works for me in a music library, and I imagine it would work for audiobooks too: Edit the library, and in the advanced section, make sure you have “Prefer local metadata” enabled. Scroll down a bit, and there is an option for Cover Art. Select “Local Files” or “Both Plex Music and Local File…

[image] leelynds: artist-poster.jpg must be named exactly that way, and reside in the artist or author folder, not in the book folder. Plex won’t use files names like artist.jpg, folder.jpg, J.K.Rowling.jpg for local artwork. Hopefully, a “Refresh metadata” will fix it all up, but the Plex Danc…

It appears you are correct. Plex simply refuses to recognize a local image for the Artist/Author I tried with a new library, with the agents and scanner the same as you have used and it didn’t use any of the local files. Created another new library, and changed the agent and scanner to Plex music…

Searching the forums, I found the solution that worked for me, and the artist-poster.jpg file is used. from this post: [image] Local artist-poster.jpg sometimes missing Desktops & Laptops For everyone with the same problem: The artist folder must be named exactly as the t…

But the problem is, the artist/album artist and folder names are all the same [image]

I get the same results you see, with settings for a library that are identical to yours. In particular, the Scanner and Agent settings. When they are set to Plex Music Scanner and Personal Media Artists none of the local files or metada seems to be used. That might be a bug, but I think the plans …

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