This has frustrated me also, some tv shows just will not apply any art work change in my local library.
I thought I would check your theory out, alas I have a tv show with 39 episodes spanning 4 seasons where the artwork changes fine. But another tv show with 25 episodes spanning 3 seasons where the artwork will not change. Both tv shows are stored on the same external HD, identical file permissions. Just cannot figure out a pattern.
Fixed in the latest dvr pre-release.
This was a LIE! Sorry guys. This hadn't been merged in yet. That's why I thought I "forgot" to mention it 
. It'll land eventually though.
This new feature is working great. I'm really enjoying being able to incorporate more of my older media library, tagged nicely into Channels DVR's unified interface. The possibilities now feel (even more) endless...
This is a UI request that would help anyone editing a very long list of newly imported media like I am. The Edit Metadata window could use a "Save & Next" button, or perhaps a keyboard shortcut, that achieves the the same result (save the edit, and advance to the next recording's metadata window.) This was a big time-saver when I was editing MP3 tags in iTunes back in the day. Managing without either of those means lots of mousing and clicking around.
Is it expected behavior to lose the show artwork when you edit metadata for an episode?
DVR > Manage > Shows
Bunch of fixes in the latest build:
Can you replicate this on latest build? If you don't check that box, it should finish almost immediately.
This is fixed now.
YES, YES, YES!
This is awesome! Thank you @Maddox @tmm1!
I updated to v2022.03.04.2327 and images load and show on my Mac. Uploaded images showing up as blank purple box on AppleTV beta. Didn't see a new build in TestFlight. Anything I need to do to see the images?
Questions on importing Specials. Like a documentary.
Importing as a flat TV Show.
Many of mine end up getting automatically mismatched when imported as a flat TV Show and there is no correct match available. In order to import them, I have to choose the closest match and edit the metadata/poster.
Question here is since the closest match I select has a gracenote series id and tms show id, my understanding is the DVR will not record this if it ever airs, since it sees it already imported. So the closest incorrect match I chose would be considered already recorded, correct?
Importing as a Movie.
Same thing, have to find the closest match and edit. Same question.
The latest pre-release has a button to remove the match for movies.
We’ll work on doing the same for an imported show.
Was really excited about this ans just tried it this morning. I had some shows created with non standard urls in the 4:3 areas. On the clients, these actually were displayed, but perhaps not in the greatest quality.
Just updated the libraries with all home grown 4:3 artwork.
They appear perfect in the web server. However, in the clients they are now blank. Do i need to refresh something somewhere?
Also something i noticed that may be an issue once music videos and home videos are supported more down the road.
It would also be very nice to add local import of the 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio images for the collections, and the virtual channels logos to keep in line with the local import for the metadata editor.
This is exactly what im seeing too. Didnt see your post and just posted the same thing…
Can i ask how people have the folder structure for these kind of files? Eg i have approx 30 random football videos from the internet. I have these in a single folder under imports/TV/ but when scanning it probably takes about 5 minutes per episode for each to finally appear in my library. So for all 30 is going to take well over an hour before they have all been added into channels for me to then edit the metadata etc.
Is there anything i'm missing or is it just that each episode takes a while to be scanned before Channels ultimately decides it cannot find a match and moves onto the next?
What does the Log show about those files?
Try latest TestFlight build
No issues. Infact nothing at all other than an entry each time one has eventually been imported:
Eg "2022/03/05 18:04:03.230339 [SCN] Imported TV show West Ham Videos/EVERY PAOLO DI CANIO GOAL FOR WEST HAM-(1080p).mp4"
Not sure if its a file name issue or whether it just takes this long as channels needs to search for several minutes before finding there is no match (there wont be). Only time i've ever come across it but then i've always added actual broadcast tv shows or movies upto this point.
And the entries are exactly five minutes apart?
