Poor quality media graphics

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Why is the media graphics for CD covers of such poor quality. All of my media art is of terrible quality

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You’re at the mercy of whatever agent you’re pulling from


If you want better quality Covers and Posters, download your own and organize them with your media, and use local media assets


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If I had to venture a guess:

‘Album Art’ is set to ‘Local Files only’ in the properties of the music library.
And the music collection has grown over many years from any different sources and has only embedded art, which is often abysmal in resolution.

To add in some particular bad resolution, it has been “touched” by Windows Media Player, which puts ultra-low-res miniatures into the album folders, in ‘hidden’ jpg files – sometimes even with the ‘system’ flag set, so that you cannot see them in Windows explorer, even if you have activated the display of ‘hidden’ files.
Still, Plex can see and use those files.

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Thanks for your post. All of my CD files were ones I ripped to my hard drive, and they looked fine when Windows Media Creator was around. Must be something related to Windows Media Player as Otto referred to in his post. Wish there was a fix.

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Thanks Otto. I think you hit the nail on the head. All my audio CD files were Ripped by Windows Media Player. However, when Windows Media Creator was around they looked fine. Now they are mostly unviewable. Any idea on how to fix this?

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Get rid of those hidden files. They are useless.

Inspect also the resolution of the cover art which is embedded in your files.
I recommend mp3tag
Remove or replace.
Or you get a really high-resolution file and name it cover.jpg and place it into the album folder.

Or you simply pick ‘Album Art’ = “Plex Music only” in the properties of your library in Plex.

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Otto,

Great suggestions. I will get right on it. Some of this is very new to me but will carefully give it a try.

Thanks so much.

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Thanks Jason,

A daunting task to be sure.

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