Title: Allow Users to Delete or Replace Automatically Downloaded Trailers

Feature Suggestions
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TL;DR: Plex currently provides no per-item control over automatically fetched trailers. This request is for the ability to hide, reject, or replace a specific trailer without disabling trailers for the entire library.

I’d like to request a feature that allows users to remove or replace individual automatically downloaded trailers.

Currently, when Plex allows a poor-quality or incorrect trailer, there is no way to delete just that trailer or substitute a local one. The only workaround is disabling all online trailers for the entire library, which is an all-or-nothing solution and not ideal.

Requested improvements:

  • Ability to remove or blacklist a specific auto-downloaded trailer

  • Ability to replace it with a locally supplied trailer

  • (Optional) Ability to choose from multiple available trailers

Many Plex users carefully curate their libraries, and low-quality trailers negatively affect the viewing experience. Providing basic control over trailers would be a major usability improvement.

Thanks for considering this request.

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Trailers are not downloaded. It is only a link to a web source, outside of your server.
If you supply your own trailer file(s), it will be shown before the automatically fetched ones, if you tick “Use local assets” in the properties of the library.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/local-files-for-trailers-and-extras/

Request - Option to Filter out Trailers from the Plex Pass extras
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Thank you for the clarification. I understand that automatically fetched trailers are streamed via external metadata links and not physically downloaded to the server.

However, this clarification does not address the core issue being raised.

Key framing: This is a metadata UI control problem, not a storage problem.

I understand that trailers are external metadata references rather than downloaded assets. However, the limitation is not storage-related but UI and metadata control-related.

Plex already supports per-item overrides for posters, backgrounds, and metadata agents. Trailers are currently the only media-adjacent asset that cannot be disabled, hidden, or overridden on a per-item basis unless a local file is manually provided.

A simple per-item flag (e.g., “Hide online trailers only for this item”) or the ability to blacklist a specific trailer metadata entry would resolve the issue without changing the underlying trailer fetching mechanism.

The current design forces users into either accepting incorrect/low-quality trailers or fully managing replacements manually, which is inconsistent with Plex’s otherwise granular metadata controls.