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…

Has this been fixed? Reddit has been pretty quiet on this as well as I have not been made fun of for the gracenote posters downgrade in a while.

Nope. I still notice this happening on any posters that I haven’t manually changed either by drag/drop or providing a url.

Another reddit post requesting a global lock on movie posters instead of the gracenote downgrade. https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1hh97o2/how_to_or_can_you_even_lock_your_movie_posters/ Just give us a global lock. That’s all that’s needed.

Following up - why can’t you just give us a global lock for posters? Why don’t you give us a global lock? I had to refresh all metadata for movies library due to “extras and trailers” automatically being selected from plex on a backup server “magically” being turned on by default. I now have the pl…

Here to also ask why a lock function can’t be provided by default on all posters. Seems like the Plex Devs aren’t interested in fixing this issue, considering it’s been around for MONTHS. So here’s my +1 asking Plex Devs to LEAVE MY POSTERS ALONE. There— we get another 3 months of this thread being…

How are we coming with our global lock request?

I do not think they will fix it, but ill still add my +1, i just lost DAYS worth of work and most if not all of the posters were locked. So even locked does not matter, dont let them fool you.

[image] skoubah: I do not think they will fix it Not until we have steps to reproduce. So far the two scenarios that user’s asked us/me to test has not successfully reproduce the issue that is reported here. [image] Stop. Changing. My. Posters General Discussions I…

[image] Atomatth: I wasn’t able to get this environment matched 1:1 but as you can see this user had left the forums so I wasn’t able to get any additional information. To clarify… I asked to have my previous forum account removed. I’d given you my db, logs and extremely detailed steps on ex…

Stop. Changing. My. Posters

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Dnviel February 27, 2025, 12:46am 187

Try this Cover art metadata and subtitles changes automatically

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Stop. Changing. My. Posters

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