Regression: Local Asset fanart no longer working at season level for TV Shows

[dokuro]

Server Version: Version 1.42.2.10102

So this is a recent enough regression, cannot say if it was added with beta 1.42.2.10102 but I suspect most likely it is.

I have local assets for all my artwork, so fanart.jpg for my tv show backgrounds. This is still working fine at the show level but is no longer working at the season level. See example below:

Show Level Star Trek: Strange New Worlds:

Now, when I switch to a season …

… you can see the fanart background image has changed to the plex supplied background and not my local asset version.

Workaround:
As a workaround I can copy fanart.jpg to season01-fanart.jpg and this fixes the problem.

I suspect the issue is that plex does not find a season01-fanart.jpg, its now defaulting back to plex cloud supplied artwork and not the show level user defined local asset of fanart.jpg.

[Yaracuy]

Something similar is happening with theme music (in the clients which still play theme music, of course .)

TV Shows theme music not using theme.mp3 as local asset

Server Version#: 1.42.2.10102 Player Version#: Web: 4.147.1 I’ve found out today that TV Shows where Plex has a music theme already, the local theme.mp3 is not honored. Please note, I’m talking about the Web app which still plays theme music and not the new Experience apps. I am curating the show ‘Peaky Blinders’ and as theme.mp3 I have the full ‘Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (Peaky Blinders OST)’ song which is about 6 minutes long and I noticed that the theme version playing …

[dokuro]

Cool, its probably a symptom of the same issue. I seen a post a while ago saying the plex team are refactoring some of the scanner/agent code so that work could be a factor.

[Tion1]

It reminds me of this regression:

Season specific Backgrounds loading wrong

Server Version#: 1.41.9.9961 Player Version#: 4.148.0 (Web); 4.147.1 (local); 7.36.15 Roku I’ve been seeing Season specific backgrounds showing up lately and I don’t remember this really kicking in until recently. When I went to check on it I found that they are loading even when nothing’s been selected or even ones that don’t even exist. Here’s Derry Girl’s Season one: [Screenshot 2025-07-17 at 19.05.09] That background that loaded is different from my show background and if you look the …

It might be related.

I’m still using 1.41.6.9685 specifically because of that bug.

[dokuro]

Thanks @Tion1, didn’t see the post from @Insomnic_1 which looks like the same issue (I only lurk occasionally these days on this forum for the sake of my own sanity)

[Insomnic_1]

Heh… love that you used the same example series I did!

The fact it’s triggering even with local assets is new info though too.