I have both front and back covers for some of my music albums, they’re both tagged appropriately as front or back using MP3Tag. But when importing them into Plex, the back cover is always shown. I see this issue was posted almost 3 years ago with no comments.
Although it would be nice to be able to hover over the cover for the back to be displayed, but at least correctly identify the front album cover in the ID tag instead of displaying the wrong one.
I posted a similar problem, apparently my searches didn’t find that 3-year-old one.
I tag my music in this way as well, though it does seem Plex is now able to identify “front cover” vs “back cover” so that is good. It would be great, though, if Plex had a way to actually show the back cover, such as a small link to click and see the back cover if it is present in the tags. That being said, while I have a lot of my music tagged in this way, I’ve never seen an app that actually reads any of the extra images tagged as back cover, media, etc. Are there any clients out there that actually display this metadata?
Hello Everybody,
I came here, because of this oldschool Bug, Plex showing the Backcover instead the Frontcover.
I’ve seen post regarding this from 2015 and later, but it’s still present in 2019…
Back in 2017, I reported a similar issue to the MadSonic Musicserver Team, because they had the same bug and it has been fixed in less than 2 months.
So it can’t be so hard to identify the correct tags 
Developers, look here:
Image Types
While the ID3v2 tag standard allows any type of image to be embedded in an MP3 file, it does advise that either PNG or JPEG formats should be used when interoperability with playback devices is required. Practically speaking JPEG images have been adopted as the de facto standard in this respect.
The ID3 standard is very flexible with regards to the type and number of images that can be embedded in a MP3 single file. The full list of different images that can be embedded are:
$00 – Other $01 – 32×32 pixels ‘file icon’ (PNG only) $02 – Other file icon $03 – Cover (front) $04 – Cover (back) $05 – Leaflet page $06 – Media (e.g. label side of CD) $07 – Lead artist/lead performer/soloist $08 – Artist/performer $09 – Conductor $0A – Band/Orchestra $0B – Composer $0C – Lyricist/text writer $0D – Recording Location $0E – During recording $0F – During performance $10 – Movie/video screen capture $11 – A bright coloured fish $12 – Illustration $13 – Band/artist logotype $14 – Publisher/Studio logotype
If you don’t show effort to fix such “simple” and “age-old” bugs, how can we trust you in fix the hard ones? (and pay a monthly fee…)
Thank you all.
This bug is really unnerving. Please, Plex guys, don’t punish people who try to organize their archives following the standard.
This is an example in a newly created Music library (I have tried with other formats —flac, mp3, ogg— with the same result):
The music files have correctly identified attached images.
In Plex the cover is incorrecly selected.
The folder doesn’t have images (even hidden files). The images in Plex came directly from the id3 tags.
Please, fix this bug!
And in the meantime, is there any workaround (apart from changing manually the cover of every album)? Seems that id3 images take priority over cover.jpg or folder.jpg
There is no workaround inside Plex.
The software just takes the first embedded image as the frontcover. Thats simply the problem and it’s easy to fix.
In the new Picard you can easily see where/why Plex is failing its task.
Two images to understand it easily:
Plex shows correct cover:
Plex shows wrong cover:
