# Plex movie art changing

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-movie-art-changing/943576>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [September 28, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-movie-art-changing/943576 "2026-09-28T12:18:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![AshTray900](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ashtray900/32/12660_2.png) [@AshTray900](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AshTray900)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-movie-art-changing/943576/1 "2026-09-28T12:18:46Z")

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So, apparently now my server is changing poster art for movies that I’ve even manually specified in the server (and one I used a program for to put all the artwork in the expected directories for others)

this is infuriating! Why is this even a feature and I can’t seem to disable it. This isn’t Netflix where they try to make old stuff look like new additions, I actually want to remember my movies by poster art.

to top it off it picks the absolute WORST poster of all, like ones with “Oscar winning” or a crap load of small texts, I’ve even gotten ones that don’t fit the block and also ones even with blue bars on bottom and top saying “blue-ray”. But never has it ONCE picked a decent photo on its refresh that looked right and original and high quality.

I have media libraries I tirelessly organized specifically for plex, had a third party app bring in cover art into the folder to folder for use if plex didn’t have a good one or even for it to auto select (I used the right file names) I have turned off everything possible in refreshing but eventually have to manually do it for new content.

is there anyway to just disable this infuriating “feature”???

I know I’ve asked a year ago but wanted to see if anything changed or I could get a real plex person to respond to this horrible feature

Server Version#: latest windows 10 paid their  
Player Version#: latest  
\<If providing [server logs](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/) please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only [debug logging](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201643703-reporting-issues-with-plex-media-server/#toc-1) should be enabled\>

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**Author:** ![smann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@smann](https://forums.plex.tv/u/smann)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-movie-art-changing/943576/2 "2026-09-28T12:32:18Z")

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Edit the library and enable “Use Local Assets”. Then it will use your artwork saved in the folders.

[https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/)

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**Author:** ![AshTray900](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ashtray900/32/12660_2.png) [@AshTray900](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AshTray900)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-movie-art-changing/943576/3 "2026-09-28T13:04:58Z")

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Yes I have seen this, since I had 2000+ movies I had to gloss over the local assets and did spend alot of time changing things around in plex after (scrolled and re-selected everyone I wanted to change) I’m afraid this might revert everything and unlink me from stats I like etc. if I could just padlock a poster then I could slowly clean it up over time as they go bad here and there instead of letting them pile up resetting ones I changed.

I guess if this is the only option I’ll start a new library when I build a new server in a little over a year when the house is paid for lol, this one is 13 years old and still kicking ass

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**Author:** ![AshTray900](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ashtray900/32/12660_2.png) [@AshTray900](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AshTray900)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-movie-art-changing/943576/4 "2026-09-28T13:06:50Z")

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I still have no idea why this was added a few years back, I mean does anyone like changing artwork? Am i the weirdo?