Hi, The new Musicbrainz feature to scan the musiclibrary is really messing up with embedded covers. (There is a long time problem with Covers : When more that one single image is embedded in a musicfile, Plex is fetching the wrong image as a frontcover. Most users seem not to use e mbedded covers …

Has the Plex team ever been able to make Local Media Assets actually work? I’ve been struggling with this for literally years. My music collection has high-rez artwork, but PMS has always refused to use it, preferring to download incorrect or terrible-quality artwork from whatever site it happened t…

…but now, we have a new chance, because the new scanner is broken too. Maybe we can motivate the team :slight_smile:

Hahaha my guess is that they’re too busy chasing some new BS trendy “feature” that nobody asked for and nobody will use to bother fixing actual bugs with their software. Changelog: NEW FEATURE: PLEX BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY - access Plex using your Dogecoin wallet app! NEW FEATURE: SMART TOASTER FUN…

Sounds like you are disappointed and I can understand that a lot. But making sarcastic comments won’t help, nor it is productive or helpful in any way (to my thread), here. So ,if you have any help or constructive comments, which might help me or the Plex Team to catch those bad little bugs they s…

Nobody (from the Plex Team) who had something to say here? I don’t think this is a user/setting fault, but IF, I really like to know how to get around that nasty cover issue. What can I do to address this issue, to it get fixed?

Plex has never, in my experience, prioritized using the embedded cover art. Often using the lowest quality option from the online sources instead. Also, if you have a subfolder with the booklet, Plex will usually pick something from there. I usually see Plex using a scan of the disc or page 1 of th…

Thanks! Thats what I experienced too ;-/ while testing with embedded art vs. art on disk. In real life, I don’t have any image files in my music folders. Everything is embedded. Mp3tag or foobar2000 do good work here. Even Picard. The first file found by Plex is never the one the user sees in alp…

if you have a subfolder with the booklet, Plex will usually pick something from there. I usually see Plex using a scan of the disc or page 1 of the booklet in this case. Filename does not matter, I think it just picks the first file. Unfortunately, this definitely doesn’t work. that was suggested…

I think you misunderstand. My point isn’t that it works. Because Plex doesn’t pick the actual album art. It picks something else at (seemingly) random if a booklet is present somehow. Also, my impression is that Plex seems to be fine with half-broken features as long as they can present new stuff n…

[image] sensei321: Also, my impression is that Plex seems to be fine with half-broken features as long as they can present new stuff no one asked for. Did the Plex Team ever respond to (one of) your Posts regarding the “imperfect” way of dealing with images? I just wonder, because my other p…

New PMS Musicbrainz Scanner is disimproving Cover behaviour

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New PMS Musicbrainz Scanner is disimproving Cover behaviour

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