# Plex Agent Logic for Posters

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-agent-logic-for-posters/764531>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [December 15, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-agent-logic-for-posters/764531 "2021-12-15T14:36:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![don.alcombright](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/don.alcombright/32/4716_2.png) [@don.alcombright](https://forums.plex.tv/u/don.alcombright)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-agent-logic-for-posters/764531/1 "2021-12-15T14:36:03Z")

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I am actually wondering what the logic is when choosing a poster art during scans? I notice on occasion it grabs a bad image, that is listed in the poster list, so I was wondering if when users correct it, we could also help and correct it for everyone.

My best guess is its grabbing a flagged image from [tmdb.org](http://tmdb.org), or the most popular or something, which could be corrected from [tmdb.org](http://tmdb.org) side by end users?

This is what I mean by this:  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/9/0/f/90fdda41aa0654fea51895e347bf6e24e0228564.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Divideby0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@Divideby0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Divideby0)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-agent-logic-for-posters/764531/2 "2021-12-15T23:24:15Z")

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I always thought images like those were some random screen-grab from a scene in the show/movie, in case Plex can’t grab any metadata from TMDB/TVDB. If there is no poster, it’d rather grab a random image from the show than show a blank image.

Plex has been really good at defaulting to metadata posters, not the screengrab.

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**Author:** ![drzoidberg33](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/drzoidberg33/32/4184_2.png) [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-agent-logic-for-posters/764531/3 "2021-12-16T07:32:50Z")

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Your media file contains an embedded poster, that’s what you’re seeing there.

To prevent this from happening, you can edit the library and in the Advanced section **disable** these two options:

- Use local assets
- Prefer local metadata

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-agent-logic-for-posters/764531/4 "2022-03-16T07:32:56Z")

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Closed on March 16, 2022, 7:32am UTC

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