Ignore Local Image Files?

[jon_ 27]

Hi,

 

I've had a look through the guides, and through all of the config options, but is there any way to ignore image files that are stored in the Movie directories? 

 

If there's a .jpg file with the same name as the movie in the directory, it gets used as the default image for that movie, Emby doesn't appear to download anything from it's metadata sources - so you end up with some crappy image for the cover for that movie. If you go in and manually replace it everything works as you'd expect..

 

Any suggestions?

 

Jon

[Luke 42077]

Hi,

There is currently no configuration for this right now.

[jon_ 27]

Hi,

 

Can I add it as a feature request please?

 

Thanks

 

Jon

[bluemonkey07 590]

If you don't want them used why not just delete them?

Edited January 28, 2016 by Vidman

[jon_ 27]

When everything else is automated in terms of placing media in folders, making it into a suitable name for being recognised by Emby etc then going in and having to delete an existing jpg file or manually going in and forcing it to download a new cover is a pain! (And I'm lazy!)

[bluemonkey07 590]

Ok. ..so if this is for new folders how is there an existing image?

[jon_ 27]

Some media comes with a matching image file in the archive - so Moviename.mkv will come with a matching Moviename.jpg file (which could be of anything!).

 

Emby recognises this as being the primary image so won't fetch the 'real' primary image from TMDB or wherever... 

[bluemonkey07 590]

Ok so again if it is automated why not strip those out before hand?

[jon_ 27]

The various pieces of software I'm using to do the automation don't support doing that on a per category basis. I could strip out *.jpg, but that would delete every .jpg downloaded, which would be a pain...

 

I suppose I could write a script to do it, but I'm sure this must affect other people too.....