Problem with posters in one library.

[yocker 1247]

I'm having a problem with the posters in just one of my libraries.
The posters gets scaled wrong and look awful.



This only happens in a mixed library where i have two folders connected into one.

/Serries _
                 |
/Movies_|
                |_To this library

All other libraries are fine.
I tried copying the settings from another similar library but the issue does not go away.
I tried removing all plugins, disabling collections, a meta scan refresh with replacing images, moving in and out movies and shows with no luck.
Also looked for posters that might have a strange resolution but all seems fine.

Yes.. I know i'm an animated comic nerd!

Edited October 3, 2025 by yocker

[GrimReaper 4739]

Agree, that doesn't look appealing. 

Is "Auto open single items in folder view" option enabled or disabled in your user Display settings? 

Edit: Just came here after having a rant in CA plugin thread about similar issue with posters and presentation, so I'm somewhat antagonized by all these occurrences. 

Edited October 3, 2025 by GrimReaper

[yocker 1247]

7 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Agree, that doesn't look appealing. 

Is "Auto open single items in folder view" option enabled or disabled in your user Display settings? 

Edit: Just came here after having a rant in CA plugin thread about similar issue with posters and presentation, so I'm somewhat antagonized by all these occurrences. 

The setting is off, tried it with on but had no effect what so ever.

Yeah it looks very bad and really tickles my OCD. 
Going to read the CA thread to follow up on this.

[GrimReaper 4739]

That's odd, maybe that's just the new presentation, though I'm still trying to figure it all out. There ever few related topics about folder view today, one in particular was concerning Mixed-content libraries, one example had placeholders like yours (square) :

The other example has normal 2:3 AR posters on folders:

So I'm still trying to get to the bottom of that and what is causing it. 

What happens if you add a media item directly into root folder, without its folder? 

[GrimReaper 4739]

3 hours ago, yocker said:

Yeah it looks very bad and really tickles my OCD

Oh, don't tell me, mine is going ballistic.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, what's happening is the folders don't have images, so the UI is grabbing the images from something underneath. When this happens, the aspect ratio of the inherited image isn't being passed along, so this needs to be looked at. Thanks.

[yocker 1247]

29 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, what's happening is the folders don't have images, so the UI is grabbing the images from something underneath. When this happens, the aspect ratio of the inherited image isn't being passed along, so this needs to be looked at. Thanks.

So not me being an idiot.  
Many thanks!

[GrimReaper 4739]

@yocker

Ever tested this? 

13 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

What happens if you add a media item directly into root folder, without its folder? 

Another thing, do you have library option to Merge top level folders enabled? If you don't, what happens if you enable it (i.e. having both Movies and TV shows displayed together in Folders view, as it used to)? 

[sh0rty 715]

Is this behaviour consistent for all users after the upgrade? Seems I don't have this issue.

[yocker 1247]

36 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

@yocker

Ever tested this? 

Another thing, do you have library option to Merge top level folders enabled? If you don't, what happens if you enable it (i.e. having both Movies and TV shows displayed together in Folders view, as it used to)? 

No change with either of those.

I'm considered trying to just make one folder and see if that works but it's a lot of data that will have to be moved.

[yocker 1247]

Just now, sh0rty said:

Is this behaviour consistent for all users after the upgrade? Seems I don't have this issue.

It's not even consistent for me, it's only one library doing it.

[yocker 1247]

I've narrowed it down to maybe being one movie being a problem, not 100% sure though.

[yocker 1247]

@LukeThink i found the problem.
It happens as soon as the library hits a certain number of movies/series in folder view.

I don't have the precise number of videos yet but around 60-70.
Sadly don't have more time to test before tomorrow.

[Luke 42077]

13 hours ago, sh0rty said:

Is this behaviour consistent for all users after the upgrade? Seems I don't have this issue.

Those folders probably have images assigned.

[yocker 1247]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Those folders probably have images assigned.

I will respond tomorrow when i'm sober  

[sh0rty 715]

9 hours ago, Luke said:

Those folders probably have images assigned.

They have indeed. 

[yocker 1247]

@LukeI have no tried to replace all the images in the library and it didn't fix the problem. It still seems to happen when the library hits around 70 movies/shows.

[Luke 42077]

8 hours ago, yocker said:

@LukeI have no tried to replace all the images in the library and it didn't fix the problem. It still seems to happen when the library hits around 70 movies/shows.

Right the folders probably do not have images assigned as I've mentioned above.

[yocker 1247]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

Right the folders probably do not have images assigned as I've mentioned above.

Sorry if i misunderstand you, as said my english understanding can be a bit bad at times.

I don't think images are the issue.
Lets say i have 70 movies and TV shows in the folder, i remove a random one so the number is 69 and the posters are shown as they should.
Add a random movie and the posters are scaled badly again.
Remove another random movie and it's back to normal.

Something seems to happen when i hit that magic number.

Edit:
I fixed it by making the the library point to only one folder and not two.
I used to have it point to two folders, one for movies and one for series. Merging the folders solved the problem.

Edited October 5, 2025 by yocker

[Luke 42077]

On 10/5/2025 at 7:34 PM, yocker said:

Sorry if i misunderstand you, as said my english understanding can be a bit bad at times.

I don't think images are the issue.
Lets say i have 70 movies and TV shows in the folder, i remove a random one so the number is 69 and the posters are shown as they should.
Add a random movie and the posters are scaled badly again.
Remove another random movie and it's back to normal.

Something seems to happen when i hit that magic number.

Edit:
I fixed it by making the the library point to only one folder and not two.
I used to have it point to two folders, one for movies and one for series. Merging the folders solved the problem.

If you use the image editor on the folders, do the folders have images assigned?