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Sort and use the best rated pictures for primary pictures #6629
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Originally created by @sic6SaNdMaN on GitHub (Jan 1, 2025).
This issue respects the following points:
Description of the bug
When adding new series/movies to the libraries, the automated choice for primary pictures is always the worst.
It uses "Unrated" pictures that aren't as good as others, that also have a ranking.
The same can be seen, when you "edit the pictures" via the three-dot menu.
Two examples:

You can see, that the first pics in the row have a rating of "Unrated" or at least a lower rating and the better ones (with rating 8.0) are later on in the list - so they aren't used in the first place.
It seems to work just fine on logos, thumbnais and backgrounds.
It also should consider the language of the user (in my case 'de').
So the order should be:
Reproduction steps
What is the current bug behavior?
==> no particularly order of the pictures, so the first one, that is taken, can be the worst...
What is the expected correct behavior?
The best rated primary picture (in the current language) should be first in list and automatically used when a new series/movie is found in the library.
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10.10.0+
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10.10.3.0
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10.10.3
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@sic6SaNdMaN commented on GitHub (Jan 1, 2025):
It is OK, when we label it an enhancement...
But it becomes more a bug when you consider that I'm using Kodi and in most of the visual modes there are only the primary pictures visible - no additional text (unles you select one).
So having "random" pictures, not saying much about the movie/series makes the overview in Kodi quiet useless.
So with this in mind it's becoming more a bug...
@sic6SaNdMaN commented on GitHub (Feb 9, 2025):
Perhaps it can help:
It seems like a primary picture, that doesn't have a language specified, get's prioritized, because I don't use English as language (German, so "de").
@TimoLumera commented on GitHub (Feb 13, 2025):
+1 one on that
@Mixzzz commented on GitHub (May 11, 2025):
I've also just been annoyed by this bug - can it be changed so that unless theres the language specific version, it defaults to the highest voted english version?
@Kianda commented on GitHub (Jul 10, 2025):
Crappy workaround for non-english libraries:
Or just suffer through editing them manually, one by one.
This behavior is pretty annoying. I'd much prefer it chose the highest-voted English version instead of a random one with zero votes. The random ones are usually bad and require manual replacement. 😞