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About Primary Images and Bulk Locking - lucillecrawford - 2025-05-09
Hello all.
I'm new to Jellyfin, coming from Plex. I've been working on getting my film collection recognized and sorted. I've been able to work out most of the issues I've come across, but not these—
Regarding "Primary" images, or movie posters. There seems to be a trend toward something I find very strange: movie posters edited to remove everything except the name of the film. I am a big fan of movie poster design and really find this off-putting. Beautiful posters made very ugly, often. Also, I like to see the names of the stars of the films. I realize that not everyone feels this way, and that there must be some cases where a simplified poster is better, maybe for viewing tiny posters on tiny phone screens, but I wish it wasn't the default. Does anyone also prefer the original artwork, and what do you do about it?
My second question is related. After manually changing a poster, the next time I scan the library, the poster goes back to what it was before I changed it. I see that there's the option "Lock this item to prevent future changes" in "Edit Metadata" and "Metadata Manager," but not in "Edit Images." Is there a way to lock items in bulk? Like, I would change the posters I want different, then lock them all at the same time.
I really hope that's possible. Thanks so much for anything you can add to the discussion.
RE: About Primary Images and Bulk Locking - bitmap - 2025-05-09
If, when you scan a library, you don't use "replace all images", the original image or your uploaded image should remain.
RE: About Primary Images and Bulk Locking - lucillecrawford - 2025-05-09
Thanks, bitmap.
Sometimes, it seems, I need to select "Replace existing images." For instance, when the "Primary" image doesn't download during the initial scrape. I have been using the "Search for missing metadata" option for those entries. If I do not select "Replace existing images" then Jellyfish keeps the screengrab, or whatever you call that default image when there's no poster.
It would be extremely handy to be able to "lock" multiple items at once.
Also, about the edited movie posters, it seems that IMDB never uses those. Is there a way to add IMDB to the list of Image fetchers?
Thanks!
RE: About Primary Images and Bulk Locking - lucillecrawford - 2025-05-12
Just a gentle bump here. Does anyone know how I can "lock" items in bulk? Doing them one at a time is a bit mind-numbing...
RE: About Primary Images and Bulk Locking - theguymadmax - 2025-05-12
You can lock an entire library by editing the option from the Metadata Manager. But there's no way I know of to multi-select and edit the metadata of multiple items at once. It's either one at a time or all items.
A better way would be to save any images next to your media. Jellyfin will not replace those images, and they always take precedence.
Ex:
Code:
Movie Library/
├── Movie 1 (2000)/
│ ├── Movie 1.mkv
│ └── folder.jpg
├── Movie 2 (2024)/
│ ├── Movie 2.mkv
│ └── folder.jpgRecognized file names are:
Code:
poster
folder
cover
default
movieRE: About Primary Images and Bulk Locking - lucillecrawford - 2025-05-12
Thanks much, Max.
I think I'll add a feature request...