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Hi. New user of Plex. So far, I am liking it a lot. A couple of small issues, but nothing I wasn’t able to manually repair after I did some reading (e.g. titles being merged into one movie that are really two and a few title mis-matches).
I have a collection of about 2K movies that I have been building for 10 years and using with Apple TV (started with iTunes and the original Apple TV, back in 2010 ). I love the collections feature in Plex.
Recently (a year ago?) Apple switched from portrait DVD-style movie poster art to 16x9 ‘widescreen’ movie posters. So, I dutifully went in and manually changed the embedded movie poster art to match, using Subler and/or the Apple TV app on my Mac mini.
My embedded metadata is carefully curated with Subler, so I was pleased to see that Plex allows me to set that as the default, rather than using the Plex scanners.
Unfortunately, that works for everything except the default movie poster, as Plex will only display as a portrait style image. As you can imagine, this doesn’t look great when the default poster is 16x9.
Yes… I was an idiot for changing all of my movie posters… but, before I go through that process (again) in Plex to select a downloaded portrait style poster, I thought I would ask if it was possible to tell Plex to ignore the embedded movie poster, but use the embedded metadata for everything else.
Thanks, in advance, and prepared to work on my carpal tunnel changing all of the movie posters, one at a time.
That’ll depend on what agent you have set for this library.
Using the Plex Movie agent, you should be able to disable Use local assets while keeping Prefer local metadata (see: ⋮ > Manage Library > Edit... → Advanced from the library’s context menu).
Did you refresh the library’s metadata after disabling Use local assets? Those agent settings aren’t automatically applied to existing matches… they’re just the default for future matches or updates.
Yes, I went to Manage Library / Refresh All Metadata. No change.
For what it’s worth, I tried this at the beginning, but concluded that ‘Prefer local metadata’ also meant including embedded poster art, even if ‘Use local assets’ was disabled. From what I am observing, this seems to be the case.
In other words, you can prefer the scanner’s metadata but use local poster art, but not the reverse.
Wow… a LOT of mismatches, as I go through my collection. I have to assume that the Plex Movie scanner is ignoring the embedded meta data, as it seems to ignore release dates when deciding between versions of similarly titled films.
Wow… so after I manually changed the poster art to the DVD covers (i.e. portrait vs. landscape), I am now seeing these images revert to the embedded version.
). I love the collections feature in Plex.