Plex-Meta-Manager/docs/home/guides/assets.md

Image Asset Directory Guide

The Image Asset Directories can be used to update the posters and backgrounds of collections, movies, shows, seasons, and episodes.

You can specify your asset folders under the settings attribute asset_directory:

settings:
  asset_directory: config/assets

To use multiple Image Asset Directories specify the directories as a YAML list:

settings:
  asset_directory:
    - config/assets
    - config/more_assets
    - config/assets_ahoy

• You can specify an Image Asset Directory per Metadata/Playlist/Overlay File when calling the file. See Path Types for how to define them.
• By default [if no asset_directory is specified], the program will look in the same folder as your config.yml for a folder called assets.

How assets are run

Assets are searched for only at specific times.

1. Collection and Playlist assets are searched for whenever that collection/playlist is run.
2. Item assets and Unmanaged Collections assets are searched for whenever the assets_for_all Library Operation is active.

• If you want to silence the Asset Warning: No poster or background found in an assets folder for 'TITLE' you can use the show_missing_assets Setting Attribute:

  settings:
    show_missing_assets: false
  

Asset Naming

The table below shows the asset folder path structures that will be searched for. There are two options for how Plex Meta Manager looks at the files inside your Asset Directories. Choose an option with the asset_folders Setting Attribute. Note that asset_folders is a toggle; you can't put some images in folders and some not in a context where it is enabled.

Image Type	Image Path With Folders asset_folders: true	Image Path Without Folder asset_folders: false
Collection/Movie/Show poster	assets/ASSET_NAME/poster.ext	assets/ASSET_NAME.ext
Collection/Movie/Show background	assets/ASSET_NAME/background.ext	assets/ASSET_NAME_background.ext
Season poster	assets/ASSET_NAME/Season##.ext	assets/ASSET_NAME_Season##.ext
Season background	assets/ASSET_NAME/Season##_background.ext	assets/ASSET_NAME_Season##_background.ext
Episode poster	assets/ASSET_NAME/S##E##.ext	assets/ASSET_NAME_S##E##.ext
Episode background	assets/ASSET_NAME/S##E##_background.ext	assets/ASSET_NAME_S##E##_background.ext

• For Collections replace ASSET_NAME with the mapping name used with the collection unless system_name is specified, which you would then use what's specified in system_name.

• For Movies replace ASSET_NAME with the exact name of the folder the video file is stored in.

  • i.e. if you have Movies/Star Wars (1977)/Star Wars (1977) [1080p].mp4 then your asset directory would look at either assets/Star Wars (1977)/poster.png or assets/Star Wars (1977).png for the poster.

• For Shows, Seasons, and Episodes replace ASSET_NAME with the exact name of the folder for the show as a whole.

  • i.e. if you have Shows/Game of Thrones/Season 1/Game of Thrones - S01E01.mp4 then your asset directory would look at either assets/Game of Thrones/poster.png or assets/Game of Thrones.png for the poster.

• For Seasons replace ## with the zero padded season number (00 for specials)

• For Episodes replacing the first ## with the zero padded season number (00 for specials), the second ## with the zero padded episode number

• Replace .ext with the image extension

• When asset_folders is set to true movie/show folders can be nested inside other folders, but you must specify how deep you want to search because the more levels to search the longer it takes.

• You can specify how deep you want to scan by using the asset_depth Setting Attribute.

Here's an example config folder structure with an assets directory with asset_folders set to true and false.

asset_folders: true

config
├── config.yml
├── Movies.yml
├── TV Shows.yml
├── assets
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings
│       ├── poster.png
│       ├── background.png
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
│       ├── poster.png
│       ├── background.png
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (2002)
│       ├── poster.png
│       ├── background.png
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003)
│       ├── poster.png
│       ├── background.png
│   ├── Star Wars (Animated)
│       ├── poster.png
│       ├── background.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars
│       ├── poster.png
│       ├── background.png
│       ├── Season00.png
│       ├── Season01.png
│       ├── Season02.png
│       ├── Season03.png
│       ├── Season04.png
│       ├── Season05.png
│       ├── Season06.png
│       ├── Season07.png
│       ├── S07E01.png
│       ├── S07E02.png
│       ├── S07E03.png
│       ├── S07E04.png
│       ├── S07E05.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels
│       ├── poster.png
│       ├── background.png
│       ├── Season01.png
│       ├── Season01_background.png
│       ├── Season02.png
│       ├── Season02_background.png
│       ├── Season03.png
│       ├── Season03_background.png
│       ├── Season04.png
│       ├── Season04_background.png

asset_folders: false

config
├── config.yml
├── Movies.yml
├── TV Shows.yml
├── assets
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings.png
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings_background.png
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).png
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)_background.png
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (2002).png
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (2002)_background.png
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003).png
│   ├── The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003)_background.png
│   ├── Star Wars (Animated).png
│   ├── Star Wars (Animated)_background.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_background.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_Season00.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_Season01.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_Season02.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_Season03.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_Season04.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_Season05.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_Season06.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_Season07.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_S07E01.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_S07E02.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_S07E03.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_S07E04.png
│   ├── Star Wars The Clone Wars_S07E05.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels_background.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels_Season01.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels_Season01_background.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels_Season02.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels_Season02_background.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels_Season03.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels_Season03_background.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels_Season04.png
│   ├── Star Wars Rebels_Season04_background.png