Simple, really. If you’ve uploaded a poster, you can tag what makes it special. Probably this tagging would be completely open, but you may start out with some suggestions: Original movie poster, vhs cover, bluray cover, simplified streaming cover, homage poster, minimalist… and so on. Then language of the poster. Then whatever else people can think of.
Then people could pick a preference for poster type. Or like, the server owner, the nerd behind it. If they want to.
This way I could have my plex be all vhs covers. Real and fake. I want that.
Just to clarify… is that some tagging you want Plex to provide or something you want to do on your own?
Plex’s posters should already consider the language – usually providing posters in your library language, the original language and (if it’s deviating from that) English. Though, it’s not listed on the posters or part of the accessible metadata.
User. I’m assuming that the movie posters are user submitted. I’ve uploaded a few.
And my current theme is original movie posters. With all the graphics. Plex seems to default to minimalist screen versions. Which is cool. But if the posters were tagged, you could pick themes.
Which would be cool and fun. I would not have to do it all manually.
This is not essential, but its a cool feature to have.
As far as language goes, I’d love to default my native Icelandic, but I don’t want it set as any preference, since I don’t want Icelandic UI and I’d like to see the English title below the poster.
This is why a separate option would be nice to have.
But mostly its about making the library your own, having a sense of ownership or home.
Its comforting to be able to arrange things as you want.
Not necessarily a solution to what you want, but are you aware that labels exist for library items of all kinds.
You could use user-created labels that are using certain graphics in these items and you would be able to have smart playlists, smart collections for these labels and you can filter library views by labels.
I understand that this is in no way bound to a certain poster (so it does not help you 100%), but you could use a label like “poster-US-Blu-Ray-motive” or “background-lovesceen” or whatever you like to have.
As long as you manually choose the posters/background images for a library item, these posters or background libraries should stay with the library object.
