I just switched from using iTunes to using Plex for my primary music library.
It’s really great so far, but some of my album art is being cropped because it is cassette tape artwork (2:3) rather than vinyl/CD artwork (1:1-ish). By comparison, iTunes does not crop my weird album art.
It would be great if Plex were more forgiving with album art dimensions.
Let me know if you’d like any more information or examples.
I just wanted to bump this cause I think it would be a great feature. Apple Music/iTunes really had great support for any artwork type. The fact that Plex is lacking this has bothered me for a while now.
I personally, have a lot of media that only exists on cassette tape, and thus only have cassette tape artwork to upload. It would be awesome if Plex supported the artwork better instead of just cropping it down to a square.
Probably a pretty niche request. I just started digging into parts of my library and just realized that much of my music teaching materials uses the book covers as album art (an aspect ration closer to a movie poster). Support for non-square artwork/artists would be great. But at the very least give us the tools to control the crop, as the title/head isn’t always in the center of the crop.
Not so niche, I think. Cassettes or books, sure, but CDs come in jewel cases, digipaks, and box sets. Jewel case covers covers tend to be square, some box sets are square, but many are not. Digipaks, which are becoming more common, are almost never square.
I’d like to see Plex accommodate non-square album art. It would be fine to keep a square space for the album — just scale the album image so the longest side doesn’t exceed the square.
