"metadata" folder not used anymore?

[bruce]

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.

Can we have an option to use the old method of saving all thumbnails to the subfolder metadata? I really liked the old method and I dont see why it was changed.