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[Lamarmotte]

Hi all !

I've just discovered Jellyfin around 2 months ago after searching an alternative to Kodi going too heavy and buggy for my usage !

The transition was quite easy but I've got a last issue that I can't solve. I've searched a lot, on this forum and over internet, but I've not found any response to my answer...


I am storing all my movies on my synology NAS, with my Jellyfin server working in docker.

My problem is this one:

The collections are well detected, with the movies inside. But the poster of the collections are wrong. For the most parts, the poster of the collections is a poster of one movie inside the collection.
I've disabled all the scrapers because I use TinyMediaManager to manage all my movies.

I would like to store, by hand or with tinymediamanager, the pictures of the collections  (Posters, fanarts, ...) in the collections folders.


For example:

- MyCollection (Collection)
|
- - - - (YYYY) - Name of movie 1
- - - - - - -  (YYYY) - Name of movie 1.mkv
- - - - - - -   (YYYY) - Name of movie 1-poster.jpg
- - - - - - -   (YYYY) - Name of movie 1-fanart.jpg
|
- - - - (YYYY) - Name of movie 2
- - - - - - -  (YYYY) - Name of movie 2.mkv
- - - - - - -   (YYYY) - Name of movie 2-poster.jpg
- - - - - - -   (YYYY) - Name of movie 2-fanart.jpg
|
- - - - (YYYY) - Name of movie 3
- - - - - - -  (YYYY) - Name of movie 3.mkv
- - - - - - -   (YYYY) - Name of movie 3-poster.jpg
- - - - - - -   (YYYY) - Name of movie 3-fanart.jpg

So, I would like to know how to name the pictures files and where to store them to allow Jellyfin finding them automatically when updating the libraries.

Big thanks for your help !

[TheDreadPirate]

I think they need to be simply "poster.jpg" and "fanart.jpg".

[Lamarmotte]

Hello,

Thank you for your answer and sorry for taking so long to reply, I've had a busy weekend.

I've already tested that. It was, as you said, the first idea I had...

I've already tested folder.jpg and cover.jpg in the folder of the collections : Name of the pictures for films on the Jellyfin docs

No one seems to works...

Does anyone else have any ideas?

[toasted-jelly]

Have you tried 'poster.jpg'?

[jimmyjammy]

Putting your image (folder.jpg / cover.jpg) in your actual media folders will not work. Jellyfin seems to store the images in it's local database. On a Mac this is located at ~/.local/share/jellyfin/data/collections. Am not familiar with Docker but finding that folder should not be hard. There you will find separate folders for each collection eg. "The Mummy (Universal) [boxset]" & in those folders you will find the actual images being used & a .xml file for the collection. Replace the images with the same naming convention ( mine are folder.jpg ), rescan your collections library & then refresh your browser window & you should see the new images. You can also add nice backdrops into these folders by naming an image "backdrop.jpg". Alternately you can download an image you would like to use, right click the collection & choose "edit images" then select your downloaded image & it will replace the existing image with the new one. The TPdB (https://theposterdb.com) is a great place to find collection images although it seems to be down temporarily but the TMdB also has "collection" images available on their site. Jellyfin defaults to one of the movie posters if no images are available which explains why you are seeing that. Disabling scrapers negates Jellyfin from identifying your collections - I would reenable them & then use "identify" in order to get images & metadata.
Hope this helps !
Cheers, jj