Use different Local Media images (backgrounds) for different seasons within a TV Show

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Hi there Plex team,

 

I'm hoping that you can modify the code that looks for background.ext or backdrop.ext files (as detailed on your support doc here) to allow for those of us who want to have different background/backdrop images for each season of a TV show. I confirmed that it doesn't work right now - I have my media organized as

 

Show

     Season 1

            Mediafile.mkv

            Backdrop.png

     Season 2

            Mediafile.mkv

            Backdrop.png

 

 

And when I go to the pencil "edit" button for Season 1, the locally-stored media file does not come up as an option for Background. It is empty by default for a TV show season.

 

I know that I can set each background manually by using the load from URL or load from file on my (local, not server) computer. The problem is that while Plex has no problem using online sources to hunt for Poster images for each season, it doesn't do that for backgrounds. Which means if there's a glitch and all my backgrounds get reset (which happens frequently when I use the Update button) to the default, I lose my carefully-curated set of season-specific background images.

 

I'd rather negate this issue by just storing a background.png image in each season folder, and then having Plex automatically recognize that, and use it instead of the default Series/Show based background image if it sees I have one there.

 

What do you think?

2

Wonderful that Plex is looking at this, there's a nice entry in today's PMS update - https://forums.plex.tv/topic/62832-plex-media-server/?p=939154

"Allow seasons to have artwork."

However, how does this work? I have tried both backdrop.jpg and background.jpg in the Season # folder, and Plex is not auto-detecting these files and using them for the background. They also are not showing up auto-populated in the Edit options for Background, I still have to search for a background locally (on whatever computer I'm accessing the plex web interface on, not the server) or from an internet URL.

But glad to see some progress being made on this!

3

Sorry for activating this question again.
Does someone know if this feature soon will arrive or how to do it manully

4

Early 2021 clean-up: implemented (addition of local season background or manual assignment via Plex Web)