Help with overriding artwork

[ajmartin001]

Hi, I’m a new user of Infuse having moved from Plex in many years.

I’m trying to understand how I can apply customer work to my TV library. I don’t tend to use library view very much as you can’t seem to set custom collection posters (for example if I have multiple TV shows in a custom collection I can’t set artwork for that collection. It just shows a tiling of the first four shows).

I use folder to navigate in many cases as you can set custom artwork at a folder level but I can’t figure out how to get it to work for TV shows. I followed the infuse guidance as below:

"TV Show Artwork

Overriding series/season artwork is available when episodes are organized into folders by season (Series Name/Season X/episodes.mkv).

E.G. Breaking Bad/Season 1/Breaking Bad S01E01.mkv

Usage details

Episode image
seriesname/season 1/episodefilename.jpg

Season poster
seriesname/season 1-poster.jpg

All Seasons poster
seriesname/season-all-poster.jpg

Series poster (available only while using Library)
seriesname/poster.png

Series fanart
seriesname/fanart.png

Series logo
seriesname/logo.png (or clearlogo.png)"

What then happens in folder navigation ‘view’ is that I end up having a folder for each season which is blank (no artwork) and then that has inside each individual season folder, the season with custom artwork recognised. I then have to go into that folder to get to the season which then opens into the library view. It isnt a deal breaker but is annoying you need to go into a folder with the season name to then go into the season itself.

Are there any other ways of doing this? I tried using local metadata but then you lose all the nice stuff like clear logos etc.

[NC_Bullseye]

@ajmartin001

Are there any other ways of doing this?

It may help if you could provide a screen cap of one of your tv show directories.

[ajmartin001]

Thanks for the reply - attached example screenshots of file structure and what I see in infuse (namely, I go into the Doctor Who show folder, then you see the folder structure, and then you go into the folder and see the custom artwork. It’s just not very clean. I could set folder art on each folder but then you’d have to still go into the folder to select the season.

Any advice welcome!

[aabernathy]

I too use folder view and for me what works is to put a folder.jpg (or png or whatever) inside the season folder.

[FLskydiver]

@ajmartin001

I go into the Doctor Who show folder, then you see the folder structure, and then you go into the folder and see the custom artwork.

As @aabernathy said, putting a “folder.jpg” in the season-subfolders shows the season posters immediately when you select the “Dr. Who” folder; and then immediately presents all the episodes when you select the season-poster.

Assuming you folders look like:

Movies and TV
     TV
           Dr. Who
           folder.jpg (Series Poster)
                Season 01
                      folder.jpg (Season 1 Poster)
                      Dr. Who S01E01.mkv 
                      Dr. Who S01E02.mkv
                Season 02
                      folder.jpg (Season 2 Poster)
                      Dr. Who S02E01.mkv
                      Dr. Who S02E02.mkv
           Severance
           folder.jpg (Series Poster)
                Season 01
                      folder.jpg (Season 1 Poster)
                      Severance S01E01.mkv 
                      Severance S01E02.mkv
                Season 02
                      folder.jpg (Season 2 Poster)
                      Severance S02E01.mkv
                      Severance S02E02.mkv
 […]

Cool?

You can use a batch renamer with regex scripting to change all your poster images (with precision, and on an ongoing basis as you create/download them and place them in your collection) to “folder.jpg” …

… or just do an explorer/finder search for all “season*.jpg” images currently existing, select the whole lot of them, and rename to “folder.jpg”.