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A walkthrough for optimal Audiobook experience using Plex
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Book covers will not use local versions. #13

Closed brandontravis closed 3 years ago

brandontravis commented 3 years ago

I have everything working properly, but no matter what I do I cannot get Plex to use the local artwork instead of the Audible artwork. When using MP3Tag to import, I made sure that the artwork I wanted was the ONLY cover image listed. Plex properly sees this artwork when I change the agent to Plex Music. Am I doing something wrong? Is this working as intended?

Any help is much appreciated.

seanap commented 3 years ago

Something doesn't sound right, the covers should be pulled in from the file. Are you using my version of the Plex Audiobook Agent, or macr0dev's?

My version of the audiobook agent specifically does NOT set the cover, because I am assuming that the actual files will have your preferred cover embedded. I do this because sometimes I don't like the Audible cover, and I don't want to go through the work of tagging the files with the correct cover only to have the agent scrape the audible cover.

In my Audiobook Plex Library settings, I have "Audiobook" selected as the Agent, and I also set Album Art = "Local Files Only"

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Also, make sure that you have "Local Media Assets" ABOVE everything else in the Plex Settings > Agents > Albums (and Artists) > Audiobooks (and Personal Media Artist/Albums)

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brandontravis commented 3 years ago

I am using your copy, and have it set the exact same as you. Here is an example of a book in MP3Tag (using my cover) compared to the book in Plex using your agent. The cover shown here is the one from Audible. mp3tag plex

Also confirmed that the cover.jpg image that gets output by your MP3tag actions match the cover seen in the MP3Tag screenshot.

For what its worth, these are m4b files. Not sure if there would be any difference with mp3.

I am completely at a loss with this one. Luckily I am using Audibles covers a significant portion of the time, so I can work around this issue, but would love to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Anyways, thanks for the help.

seanap commented 3 years ago

Now I'm very confused as well, lol

My version of 11.22.63 had cover1, I duplicated the folder and edited the tag of the copy to cover2. Plex imported the new copy but changed both albums (original and copy) to cover2. I unmatched the original album and now it has cover3... I have no clue where it's pulling cover3 from. That said, my copy matched to the custom cover2 as expected. Another odd thing, is that my cover1 is tagged in my files is what Plex is displaying in your third image, but my plex is pulling in cover3 which is what you are setting in the tags. Opposite from what you are seeing.

The agent must be doing something it's not supposed to. This is very weird, and certainly a bug. Let me know if you figure something out.

price2113 commented 3 years ago

I had the same/similar issue, after verifying my agent settings in Plex, I clicked on the individual books "3 dot menu" > Fix Match... > Changed "Auto Match" to "Audiobooks" and it loaded the album art from the folder.