Stop Emby from using the image within a folder for Movie thumbnail?

[Leader2light 4]

How do I do this? I don't want to bother deleting them.

There must be a setting for Emby to ignore these, right? I want my server to pull the metadata images like it normally does instead of using whatever image is included in the folder. 

A lot of my media has a preview image matching the movie's filename, so the thumbnails are trash. 

Edited November 26, 2024 by Leader2light

[GrimReaper 4032]

1 hour ago, Leader2light said:

There must be a setting for Emby to ignore these, right?

There ain't, local artwork/metadata will anyways take precedence. 

As long as your images are named in one of the supported naming conventions:

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Images are supported in video folders. Below is a table of the supported image file names. Supported image extensions are jpg, jpeg, png, gif and tbn.

Several image types support multiple file names. They are listed in the order that they're checked for.

Image Type	Supported file names
Primary	{name}.ext
	{name}-poster.ext
	{name}-cover.ext
	{name}-default.ext
	{name}-movie.ext
	folder.ext
	poster.ext
	cover.ext
	default.ext
	movie.ext
Art	{name}-clearart.ext
	clearart.ext
Backdrop	backdrop.ext, backdropX.ext
	fanart.ext, fanart-X.ext
	background.ext, background-X.ext
	art.ext, art-X.ext
	extrafanart (subfolder)/fanartX.ext
Banner	{name}-banner.ext
	banner.ext
Disc	{name}-disc.ext
	{name}-cdart.ext
	disc.ext
	cdart.ext
Logo	{name}-logo.ext
	logo.ext
Thumb	{name}-thumb.ext
	{name}-landscape.ext
	thumb.ext
	landscape.ext

{name} represents the video file name, without extension. For videos that are not contained within their own folder, only the conventions using {name} are supported.

they'll be ingested by default. 

You can tackle that in two ways:

1) Manually delete/rename local artwork (which you've already stated you're not inclined to) 

2) Refresh Metadata with Replace existing images ticked/enabled (which will result in existing artwork being deleted or overwritten with artwork obtained from online providers, depending on your settings) 

[Dextardo 0]

Is there somewhere that we can request this setting as a feature? Huge pain in the ass, and is making me use Plex again... which I swore never to do.

Alternatively, is it something I could write a plugin for?

[Luke 39824]

Hi, there is currently no way to ignore local images. We should probably have an option for that, but the vast majority of users want their local images used so that's why there isn't one at this point.