I always edit my music through MusicBee, adding the highest quality album covers, however, some albums add a horrible sized artwork, along with my hi res artwork, but the low quality gets picked, i don’t know where its getting the art cover, i checked my folder where the album resides and i don’t see any art cover there, or folder.jpg, i made sure hidden items are visible.
There are a lot of albums with the same symptom and it will take a long time to do it manually. Any help on this?
With “adding artwork” you mean
you are putting a cover.jpg file beside your music files
or
you are embedding your high-res cover art into the files themselves?
If it’s the former: Plex is defaulting to the already embedded (likely lower-res) cover art in the files. The ‘sidecar’ cover.jpg is only offered as the second option.
There is already a request on file to change this behaviour.
@RealPetChicken said:
i don’t know where its getting the art cover, i checked my folder where the album resides and i don’t see any art cover there, or folder.jpg, i made sure hidden items are visible.
If on Windows, do also switch on visibility of ‘protected system files’. Windows Media Player had the nasty habit to not only tag its cover art files as ‘hidden’, but also as ‘system’.
@OttoKerner said:
With “adding artwork” you mean
you are putting acover.jpgfile beside your music files
or
you are embedding your high-res cover art into the files themselves?If it’s the former: Plex is defaulting to the already embedded (likely lower-res) cover art in the files. The ‘sidecar’ cover.jpg is only offered as the second option.
There is already a request on file to change this behaviour.
The art cover is embedded in the flac file itself, and I don’t use Windows Media Player, I use MusicBee.
Have you checked the folder with activated visibility of ‘system’ files?
Have you checked your flac files, if they contain more than one embedded picture?
Which type of music library are you using?
Was the order of agents in your screenshots above already this way, when you added the album the first time?
As a test, perform the Plex Dance (for music, omit step 4) with one album.
@OttoKerner said:
Have you checked the folder with activated visibility of ‘system’ files?Have you checked your flac files, if they contain more than one embedded picture?
Which type of music library are you using?
Was the order of agents in your screenshots above already this way, when you added the album the first time?
As a test, perform the Plex Dance (for music, omit step 4) with one album.
You are the man, i checked to show protected system files and there it was a folder.jpg, with another jpg art, and thumb.db. I will see if i can erased all of them with a search.
Will post back results after doing a rescan through plex.
So i did a rescan and it still using old low res folder.jpg, should i just delete the music library and remake a new one?
@RealPetChicken said:
So i did a rescan and it still using old low res folder.jpg, should i just delete the music library and remake a new one?
No, just perform the Plex Dance (omit step 4) with the affected album.
If only a few albums are affected, you can also take your HiRes cover art file and insert it into the album manually. (Edit album - Poster- drag&drop the album art into there)
@OttoKerner said:
@RealPetChicken said:
So i did a rescan and it still using old low res folder.jpg, should i just delete the music library and remake a new one?No, just perform the Plex Dance (omit step 4) with the affected album.
If only a few albums are affected, you can also take your HiRes cover art file and insert it into the album manually. (Edit album - Poster- drag&drop the album art into there)
tried it, it didn’t work, it still brings an low res art cover.
Depending on the used software, hires album art is resized down before it gets embedded into files.
Also, the metadata specification supports several embedded files. Can you say with certainty, that your files only contain one, HiRes album art?
@OttoKerner said:
Depending on the used software, hires album art is resized down before it gets embedded into files.
Also, the metadata specification supports several embedded files. Can you say with certainty, that your files only contain one, HiRes album art?
Yes i can. I will check with mp3tag and other programs to make sure but I am most certain there is only 1 hi res art cover.
Have you performed indeed the Plex Dance with one album as a test?
@OttoKerner said:
Also, the metadata specification supports several embedded files. Can you say with certainty, that your files only contain one, HiRes album art?
Unfortunately, Plex doesn’t appear to reliably support multiple embedded images. I reported a problem a couple years ago. To my knowledge, it has never been fixed.
@OttoKerner said:
Have you performed indeed the Plex Dance with one album as a test?
yes i did, i also deleted the music library and added a single album and 2 low res, and 1 hi res artwork shows in plex,
added a single album and 2 low res, and 1 hi res artwork shows in plex
What do you mean by that?
You mean if you edit that single album, you are getting a choice between 3 versions of the album cover (2 low res and 1 hi res?)
If so, which is selected by default?
@OttoKerner said:
added a single album and 2 low res, and 1 hi res artwork shows in plex
What do you mean by that?
You mean if you edit that single album, you are getting a choice between 3 versions of the album cover (2 low res and 1 hi res?)
If so, which is selected by default?
yes, i went to the album, edit, artwork, and there is 3 album covers there, 2 low res, and 1 hi res. The low res is selected b default.
And this low-res version is nowhere to be found either in your files or beside your files?
Coulkd you experiment by adding a completely different picture as cover.jpg and embed yet another completely different picture into the files.
Then repeat the Dance. This should make it clear which version Plex is picking as default.
@OttoKerner said:
And this low-res version is nowhere to be found either in your files or beside your files?
Coulkd you experiment by adding a completely different picture as cover.jpg and embed yet another completely different picture into the files.
Then repeat the Dance. This should make it clear which version Plex is picking as default.
That’s a good idea Otto, i will try it once i get close to my PC. Hopefully it will work.
The old Hi-res and Low-res art covers still show in plex, however, this time it took the new album cover as you suggested.
The other cover art will still be coming from the ‘online’ agents.
Putting them into a lower priority is not switching them off. They will still be fetching albumart. And this is what you are offered there, in the ‘Edit Poster’ dialog.
