Plex have just pushed out a new Local Media Agent, and as part of it has posted all about how to make your TV shows look better.
This is what Plex posted on their blog:
One recurring request we’ve gotten is to make it easier to add posters and background art to TV library sections, especially on Windows and Linux. In some cases, TheTVDB might not have a show, or maybe you want to create a completely custom section to organize your home videos into seasons and episodes. We just pushed a new Local Media Agent (which you’ll automatically get in the next few hours), that makes it really easy!
So what can you add to TV show sections?
- Show posters: show.jpg
- Show banners: banner.jpg
- Show background art: art.jpg or background.jpg
- Show theme music: theme.mp3
- Season posters: seasonX.jpg
- Season banners: seasonX-banner.jpg
- Episode thumbs: match the filename of the episode file
You can also use PNG files, if you’re a “losslessite” (I’m sure you listen to FLACs too). One really cool feature is that you can actually have multiple elements; just name them suffixed like show-1.jpg, theme-2.mp3. For multiple season elements, use the suffix a, b, c, etc.
Do that, and you’ll end up with something that looks like the image below. Pretty cool, right? We also fixed a few other bugs in the agent while we were at it:
- NEW: Pick up genre in MP3 files.
- FIX: Issue where different movie posters were picked up during each scan.
- FIX: A stray folder.jpg file could apply to every movie in a folder.
Do you use Plex? Let us know what you think of it and how you use it.
