Pet Peeves

[Dex Luther]

Ehh..just use tmm or mediaelch for that and disable all metadata plugins. The metadata providers can be a picky on that sort of stuff. If you set it up yourself, then you have control over that

By TMM, I assume you mean Tiny Media Manager. I've tried it in the past when I was looking for a replacement for Filebot and I didn't like it. Plus having to resort to 3rd part programs doesn't resolve my pet peeve with the APIs they are all getting their information from. I can get those images from inside Jellyfin anyway.

It's like creating an API to return primary colors, but having it return only colors made by combining the primary colors. Kinda defeats the purpose of your primary color API. Sure, having it return other colors could be useful, but its first/main return should always be Red, Green, or Blue. Not Purple. If someone wants Purple, they can make specific API requests for it.

That's the annoyance. Most of the metadata providers will even have an image posted on the page as the "main" image for the show/movie, but their API doesn't return that image. It'll always send the "clean" image first for Jellyfin (or other programs/services) to grab.

Maybe the issue is that the API are serving that image because it's the "Newest" one, or maybe Jellyfin/Sonarr and everything else that pulls from the API is requesting the "Newest" image. Maybe a distinction should be made in the API for the "Main Title Image". Maybe there already is one and Jellyfin and others should be requesting it, but aren't and there should at least be an option for it. Maybe it's all of the above or some combination of it. I don't know, I'm resolving it by "Edit images," but it's a pet peeve nonetheless.