I tried TMM, but for some movies it only downloaded one poster. No way to choose from multiple choice, as Plex allows.
Is there something I’m missing in this application?
Aside from that does anyone know of a functional way to download the already chosen posters from Plex’s metadata, and make them local jpg’s?
i dont even think what dokuro orignally said and what you tested are the same. he made a comment about having thousands of movie in a single folder. The way your structure is is just a few movies in a single folder that are in a specific year.
If i am understanding correctly, that means that if you have 10 movies for a year then you only have 10 movies in a single folder. I think dokuro was originally thinking you might have 100s of movies/files in a single folder that it could slow down your speed.
could be misunderstanding but i think if you wanted to test what he was saying, you would have had put all 1492 files in the single parent folder “Movies” with no other folders in it and then tested. which isn’t even how your strucutre is.
That was my initial though as well. However…
I think the spirit of their original statement was absolutely true; but it really didn’t bear out in @trumpy81’s use case. The hybrid hierarchical folder structure being used was specifically mentioned. And while it’s absolutely true that folder-per-movie is superior from a performance standpoint to dump-all-files-in-a-single-folder, the hybrid structure being employed here could still result in similar performance, depending on which folders are added to the library.
So while I agree that folder-per-movie is the best performing option available, a specific use case was called out and testing was done based on that. I think the parameters were probably properly understood.
I think you need to go back and read things again.
You have clearly misread/misunderstood what was stated.
Plex recommends that all Movies be placed in a folder with the same title as the Movie, which is what my second test library contained.
All of these Movie folders are usually contained in a single folder.
E.G.
M:\Movies\All About Eve (1950)\All About Eve (1950).mp4
M:\Movies\Born Yesterday (1950)\Born Yesterday (1950).mp4
…
So, for me, M:\Movies might contain ~8000 folders and Movies (16000 files total) if I followed the Plex recommendation.
Using decade and year folders, I end up with around 100 or so files per year folder and it makes things more manageable for me, or at least I think it does … lol
The largest single year folder I have, is 2009 with 436 files (218 Movies)
For me, the idea is not to have a physical copy of everything, but a physical copy of the one poster you prefer so it doesn’t get changed when you refresh your metadata, move, or rebuild your server
If you download multiple posters, you still have to go in and select them manually. I don’t see a difference between picking it from a poster you have stored on your file system vs. picking it from the posters Plex supplies. (they are likely going to be the same)
You can’t download the posters Plex provides in the UI and there’s no program I’m aware of that can download posters in bulk
If you want multiple posters, you still have to hunt them down
This Poster Database also has more customized posters uploaded by users. You won’t find a lot of these on Google, TMDB or using something like TinyMediaManager
https://theposterdb.com/
For Chrome I find these extensions useful to speed that process up
WebTools-NG can download the posters you have selected in Plex for your library and save them to disk.
It will not download ALL possible selections, just the one you selected or that Plex applied to the Movie or TV Show.
It will also download the background art if you wish.
WebTools-NG is available here: WebTools-NG
WebTools-NG runs on Windows/Mac/Linux computers. You cannot install it on a NAS though, it is not intended for that use case, but it will take advantage of any NAS you have linked to your Plex server.
No I’m not looking to download multiple posters. I was saying that Plex gives a selection of multiple posters to choose from and I couldn’t see that TTM was giving any choice. It just downloaded whatever it liked (I only tested it on one folder of movies btw, so I have really limited experience). I was wondering if their was a way to choose from a selection (like Plex offers) using TTM.
Thank you for pointing me to these websites though. Really helpful.
That’s exactly what I’m looking for. Thank you, will give a try.
Kewl, make sure you read the Wiki regarding ExportTools. You will find lots of other useful info on the Wiki as well.
Also check out the video I put together showing how to Create a Custom Level and Export Art & Posters from a Movies library
So 20 days later, I used WebTools and it worked like a charm.
It took a long time to transfer each jpg to the folders because my naming structure didn’t always match and I found multiple posters missing or in need of change, but this was an amazing tool to have.
Two questions:
Is there a way to download for a specific movie. Because if I add a new movie/movies to the library, will I have to run the export for the whole library each time?
Is there a way to download the posters/art for collections as well?
Thank you for creating/contributing to the creation of this tool!
You can set the Limit Export range in WebTools-NG. When you do an export, click on Export Media and then you should see the Limit Export dialogue. You then input the item number to start and finish with.
One way to get a reasonable count, is to view your Movie library By Title from A-Z in Plex. Then select the Movie you want by clicking in the circle (top left of poster) then hold down the shift key and click on the very first file in that library. Plex should display the number of items you have selected and that number should be what you need to use in your Limit Export range.
Give yourself a margin of error, so if you selected 50 files in your library, output from item 45 to item 55.
That will output a total of 10 files which should not take too long and fingers crossed, the file you are after will be among them.
As far as I am aware, you cannot export Collection Art/Posters. I think that is on the todo list, but that is on the back burner since Tommy is very busy with his duties at Plex now.
Please lodge an [RFE] here though: Issues · WebTools-NG/WebTools-NG · GitHub
So that Tommy can keep track of the requests.
Thank you so much for the count tip, and I will put in the request.
Your software was a huge time saver.
My library is now maintaining some visual consistency at least.
This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.
