But maybe you’re a longtime media collector but a recent Plex adopter and you want to keep using all the media artwork you’ve painstakingly paired with your collection. Or maybe you have less-than-mainstream taste in movies, and the metadata scraping fails more often than not- tweaking a few artwork entries manually in Plex is easy enough, but doing your whole collection that way would get old fast, and doing the whole library yourself is usually a better bet. That usually works well enough for most people, and they’re more than happy to let the scapers do their magic. RELATED: How To Use Custom Media Artwork On Your Plex Media Center The scraper basically says “Okay, based on the name of this folder and/or file we’re pretty confident that this movie file is “The Labyrinth” from 1986, so we’ll download the metadata for that!” And boom, your movie will have cover art, poster art, and other associated metadata without intervention from you. Thankfully, you can easily use your own media assets with your Plex collection.īy default, Plex uses a tool known as a scraper to “scrape” the metadata for your media files from online databases like TheTVDB and The Movie Database. Plex can automatically label your media and apply artwork to it, but sometimes there’s no substitute for your hand-picked movie and TV show artwork.
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