I spend a lot of time customizing my posters and making them just right. There’s absolutely no reason for Plex to be shifting my posters around, especially after I took the time to choose specific ones. Doubly so when the posters Plex insists on shifting my library to are the absolute ugliest choi…

I am SO with you on this. I had things set exactly how I wanted them & then BAM. FUGLY posters were inserted OVER my choices!

@drzoidberg33 as an FYI… the poster for Under the Skin remains intact and so far as not been deleted or become blank. I’m continuing to monitor …

Wild idea: could it be that the affected movies were originally added into Plex with the old metadata agents? (i.e. anything other than “Plex Movie” [without “Legacy” suffix]) And the locked poster was originally delivered by those old agents as well? If this movie library was at one time converte…

[image] anon5074910: My understanding (which is always open to correction) is that when we select a poster manually it gets stored as a bundle. Exactly which is why the remote source going away doesn’t matter. Had to test this to be thorough but I wasn’t expecting it to break (although that w…

[image] drzoidberg33: It might just be that something else happened in conjunction with the remote poster being removed and it looked like that was the issue when in fact it was probably just a coincidence. I’ve certainly been convinced based on the evidence of the testing we have done here. …

Going to reference my post here: [image] Lock Posters Feature Suggestions After going through this issue again, found the difference in metadata. <Field locked="1" name="title"/> <Field locked="1" name="titleSort"/> <Field locked="1" name="studio"/> <Field locked="1" name…

[image] xSean: If ‘thumb’ isn’t one of the fields locked, then it looks like the item can be changed upon a refresh. Correct. Posters will lock if you change it to something else but there isn’t any lock indicator in the UI currently.

Except I know for 100% certainty that I have changed countless posters that I have to change again. I’ve said it before in here, but I have gone through every single piece of media I have had, after having had to fix this before, and manually picked a different poster. So if “thumb” is actually the…

Again, we’ve been trying to figure out what might be causing this in this thread but so far nobody has come up with any way to reproduce the issue. I’ll need something to go off to try and track down any potential issue but at the moment I’m not going to chase something I don’t understand (and I’ve…

Stop. Changing. My. Posters

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SwiftPanda16 May 20, 2024, 6:12pm 129

I don’t really have any new info to add, but since I ran my script to select and lock all my posters, I occasionally re-check all my poster providers and nothing has changed in the last 3 months. Locked posters have remained locked.

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Stop. Changing. My. Posters

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