How to use local cover art automatically

[grazza2a 2]

It's been a while since I last tried Emby and I'm liking what I'm seeing.

 

I have only one niggle that I can't seem to find an answer for...

 

I've saved an image file for cover art into the root of each title's folder called dvdcover.jpg

 

Example -

 

Parent Folder: DVD Movies

 

Sub Folder: Alien (1979)

Files in Folder:

Alien (1979).mkv

dvdcover.jpg

Extras (Folder - also has the dvdcover.jpg file in it)

 

Sub Folder: Aliens (1986)

Files in Folder:

Aliens (1986).mkv

dvdcover.jpg

Extras (Folder - also has the dvdcover.jpg file in it)

 

etc... x 1000s of titles...

 

Instead of downloading metadata and other cover art, I simply want Emby to look in the root of each title's folder and extract the relevant dvdcover.jpg file as the primary image for that title.

 

I'm not a huge fan of metadata and I find a relience on using it to find the correct image or description for TV shows and movies can be hit and miss - so I prefer a simple folder view of my content that shows the cover art I've already chosen / downloaded / created.

 

I can see that I can change cover art manually for each individual title but wondered if Emby can do this automatically? Is this possible?

 

Many thanks in advance.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

If you used the standard naming conventions for the images this would happen automatically.  Rename them to poster.jpg.

 

I also strongly recommend storing metadata in the folders with the movie files and allowing download of metadata if you plan to use emby.

[Luke 42080]

Hi, welcome. Our supported naming conventions for movies and images are listed here in our wiki:

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Movie%20naming

 

Unfortunately right now there's no way to configure the system to use your dvdcover.jpg

[grazza2a 2]

Many thanks for the quick replies - renaming my cover art jpgs solved the problem. Much appreciated.