"metadata" folder not used anymore?

[jimmybenkins]

I think this is new expected behavior if you save artwork to your media folders.

I'm not sure which version of v10.9 brought these changes, but there are a couple new changes to artwork/image metadata.

1. Season folder.jpg covers are now saved in the parent show directory as "season##-poster.jpg"
   
2. Episode images are now saved alongside the episodes and named with "...-thumb.jpg".
   

The metadata folders are now removed as well as they're no longer used.

@TheDreadPirate, did you try running a "replace all" scan and choose the "replace all images" option too? Jellyfin currently works fine with the old version, but if you replace the images, it will put them in the new place with their new naming structure (and update the nfo files to point to them too).

I was able to replicate this behavior on v10.9.6 by simply uploading a new season cover or replacing an episode's image.

So should I just delete all metadata folders since they're deprecated and wont be used going forward? This feels like a weird thing to just randomly change after years. The right way to make a change like this probably would've been to issue a warning 1-2 updates in advance, then write a script that runs on first startup that pulls the images out of the metadata folders, renames them to "....-thumb.jpg", then deletes the metadata folders.