We have started rolling out a change which will affect the default poster artwork we use for movie titles across our entire service, including the “Plex Movie” agent used for personal media inside Plex Media Server. We’ve selected a new primary metadata source for images which should improve the quality of the posters we use, especially for lesser known titles in our metadata catalog. This new source will also make it easier for us to manage our metadata database moving forward. Not every item...
Per the linked thread, this is already rolling out but requires a refresh of metadata for it to actually pull in from the new source, so if you don’t periodically refresh metadata, nothing will change. Additionally, any locked field (i.e. if you’ve changed it manually before) won’t be updated, so any manually assigned posters will remain the same.
I’ve already done the refresh on my library and I think I only had 2 or 3 posters that I really didn’t like and overall I actually prefer the new source. Not all changes are necessarily bad changes…
You know what would be a not-bad change? A global lock button, or simply allowing you to lock items which are correct (but which you have not manually changed - what a dumb fucking rule that is). I just want Plex to stop fucking up stuff that is working - or at least give me a “don’t fuck my shit up” switch. Maybe they’ll release a premium - premium tier so that I can pay extra over my lifetime license to get them to stop fucking up my stuff…but I doubt it.
Per the linked thread, this is already rolling out but requires a refresh of metadata for it to actually pull in from the new source, so if you don’t periodically refresh metadata, nothing will change. Additionally, any locked field (i.e. if you’ve changed it manually before) won’t be updated, so any manually assigned posters will remain the same.
I’ve already done the refresh on my library and I think I only had 2 or 3 posters that I really didn’t like and overall I actually prefer the new source. Not all changes are necessarily bad changes…
You know what would be a not-bad change? A global lock button, or simply allowing you to lock items which are correct (but which you have not manually changed - what a dumb fucking rule that is). I just want Plex to stop fucking up stuff that is working - or at least give me a “don’t fuck my shit up” switch. Maybe they’ll release a premium - premium tier so that I can pay extra over my lifetime license to get them to stop fucking up my stuff…but I doubt it.