I have roughly 7,000 movies, and probably more than 30,000 TV episodes, so any manual task of doing this is very tedious.
I wrote a program that queries the Plex DB looking for unmatched media, and it’s working great.
I would like to add a check to look for cases where there is no poster, and Plex uses a snapshot of the movie, rather than a poster.
Is there a way to query the DB to find media that uses a snapshot for the poster? Or, if you could tell me how to do it based on the XML info, I could probably figure it out.
Even though I fix these as I find them, for unknown reasons, sometimes Plex reverts back to the snapshot, and stops using the poster that I manually attached.
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
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