Is there a way or a possible future way...

[Ronstang 293]

Is there a way or a possible future way to bulk upload cover art to the emby server?  I say this because the as default downloaded images are not only all over the place quality wise most are sterile images that are horrible.   I have spent many hours painstakingly obtaining and often times editing for poster fold lines etc. and I have, at least for my library, what I consider the highest quality poster art that is available.  Sure, some people may have equals or even some better than mine but they are not available to download from emby.

I always start by looking in emby to see if there is a quality poster that is usable but the success rate is rather low.  Now that I have spent all this time getting over 10K movie titles, mostly classic movies, I am sure there are a lot of people that would appreciate the posters I have but I simply do not have time to one by one upload all these posters manually.

Is there a way or a possible future way to accomplish this endeavor?  I am seeing more and more original poster art on emby than 5 years ago as opposed to mostly sterile garbage just a few years ago so there are people that want this.  I would like to share but need a time saving way to do so.

[GrimReaper 4740]

I have to admit I'm somewhat confused about what you're actually asking from Emby here? 

All the artwork (that includes posters) comes from online providers, so whatever they have - Emby has/can obtain. You'd have to look at your preferred online provider (or several of them) for means to upload your posters, but AFAIK all of them (that Emby has plugins for) provide for per-item upload only. Not sure about TPDb, but that would first have to be implemented. 

Edit: IIRC @mickle026had Custom Provider plugin at some point in the past, have no idea whether it's still maintained and whether it'd include posters, you might get in touch with him and see what are the possible solutions. 

Edited May 23, 2025 by GrimReaper
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[Ronstang 293]

Sorry, I didn't truly understand how all this was handled and obviously it is something I will not be able to do so I will just forget about even attempting it since I don't have time to one by one go folder to folder and upload images.

[Luke 42078]

Hi, how would you bulk upload while being able to ensure that each one gets assigned to the right thing?

[Ronstang 293]

4 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, how would you bulk upload while being able to ensure that each one gets assigned to the right thing?

That is why I was asking.  I didn't know a way to do it.  Not a big deal to me as I already have all the hi-rez corrected and original poster art.  I just wanted to share is all.