How to stop Emby auto-updating images that already exist?

[floppyhat 3]

I've just spent an age going through my movie library replacing poster images that Emby has "helpfully" auto-updated, even though there were poster images there already.

 

There doesn't seem to be any way to tell Emby what makes a good poster image in my mind (only text is the name of the movie in English, no borders, poster is actually for the right movie) so I'd much rather have the auto-updater only attempt to download images where there isn't one already stored in Emby — everything else I'll change manually.

 

The only options I can see are "don't auto-download anything" or "give Emby free rein to clobber any image at any time". Is there a way to have the auto-updater only work on missing images, so that a movie that has a poster but no banner will still have the banner auto-download but the poster will not be touched unless I explicitly say so?

[Luke 42086]

Hi there, can you please go over an example? Thanks.

[floppyhat 3]

Hi there, can you please go over an example? Thanks.

 

Sure. For Boogie Nights, I had the third picture in this list selected as the poster image. When an upgraded version was added to the library, Emby went ahead and replaced the image with the fourth one. All I did was replace the video file — I made no change to image files on disk.

 

I don't know if that was the image that had the highest rating at that time, which would have made sense, though it was only two days ago — but it's probably the worst option of the six as far as I'm concerned, thanks to that yellow text which is illegible in all the sizes it'll be displayed at.

 

I would prefer it if Emby only auto-downloaded new images where there wasn't one already attached, and didn't try to upgrade existing images. I'm sure this would need to be an option, though, as I bet there are also people who like the current behaviour

 

Thanks!

 

[crusher11 1102]

Do you store your images with your media?

[Luke 42086]

Yea i'm guessing you have image files in your media folders next to your video files and the server keeps reverting back to that.

[floppyhat 3]

Yup, I'm storing image files as I'm using Kodi with native playback, so I'd want Kodi to be able to see them (not 100% sure that's necessary).

 

Some of the folders are old enough to predate the use of Emby, and they seem to have multiple image files, so that looks like it's the cause.

 

Guess I need to write a script to clear out the old ones. Which file naming convention does Emby use in these circumstances — should I be keeping poster.jpg or <movie name>-poster.jpg?

 

Good to know it's not supposed to be doing that, though 

 

Thanks for your help!

[Happy2Play 9785]

@@Luke Does the wiki show order of precedence of image naming?

 

see video images section

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159102-movie-naming

[Luke 42086]

@@Luke Does the wiki show order of precedence of image naming?

 

see video images section

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159102-movie-naming

No but that could be added.

[Luke 42086]

Yup, I'm storing image files as I'm using Kodi with native playback, so I'd want Kodi to be able to see them (not 100% sure that's necessary).

 

Some of the folders are old enough to predate the use of Emby, and they seem to have multiple image files, so that looks like it's the cause.

 

Guess I need to write a script to clear out the old ones. Which file naming convention does Emby use in these circumstances — should I be keeping poster.jpg or -poster.jpg?

 

Good to know it's not supposed to be doing that, though 

 

Thanks for your help!

 

If you enabled saving images to media folders in emby, then it will delete the old image file when you use the image editor and you won't have to worry about this.

[floppyhat 3]

If you enabled saving images to media folders in emby, then it will delete the old image file when you use the image editor and you won't have to worry about this.

 

I did have it enabled, but that doesn't seem to have happened in the past (including a couple of days ago). I just tried it and it did delete the old image this time — only difference is that I was using a desktop browser rather than the iOS app. That shouldn't make a difference, should it?

 

In any case, I think a script to nuke the old images is going to be much quicker than editing each image

 

Thanks again!

[Luke 42086]

 

 

I did have it enabled, but that doesn't seem to have happened in the past (including a couple of days ago)

That means either it wasn't enabled at the time, or the server was denied write access and so it automatically switched to using it's internal metadata folder.