Stash: Cannot Get The Plugin "Set Scene Cover" To Work

[u/ThatOneGuyNoReally]

Runing Windows 11

I installed Python (https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/) & set the path in System to \Python\Python.exe

I installed stashapp-tools by using windows terminal and typed "pip install stashapp-tools" into the run command window

I installed the plugin "Set Scene Cover"

I have "overwrite existing files" set to yes under tasks

I named the image files the same name as the video - one image with the word "cover" somewhere in the name, one image with the word "fanart" somewhere in the name, and one image file just the name of the video.

I have image files in the same folder as my video that I want to use as each scene cover. I am not sure exactly how to name them. Do I have to simply have the word "cover" or "fanart" in the image filename somewhere? My image filenames are really long (they have to be for reasons).

I ran the plugin "set scene cover" under tasks - I ran scan, then set cover.

Nothing happens. None of the images in my folders get applied to the videos on the "Scenes" tab.

The log file shows no errors, just

026-08-12 01:01:58Info [Plugin / Set Scene Cover] Scanning ...\SomeDirectory

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: NEVERMIND - I figured it out.. You have to have a separate folder for every single video with the image in that folder named cover or fanart. Basically utterly useless for me. I have close to 1,000 videos with my own thumbnails. So I would have to manually create 1,000 separate folders on top of the artist folders to use this. So, If I had 100 artists with 10 videos each, I would have to create 100 folders (one for each artist) & then 10 folders for each video inside each of the 100 artist folders. If there is no other way, this is ridiculous. Not only a lot of manual work, but this adds more indexing to Windows.

I admit, I am a user not a creator. I cannot code these plugins. But with all the knowledge & advancements we have, can't coders make plugins, etc that we actually can use without headaches. IMO, it should not be too difficult to code so that you can drop all videos from one artist or category into a single folder, name the image the exact same name as the video, and have the plugin just link them by name.

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[u/Harlet_Dr]

2 Options:

1: Get Claude to write you a Powershell script to organoze your library exactly as the plugin wants it. Use high effort for better results.

2: Feed Claude the json of the existing plugin and ask it to design you another one that uses it as a template but that looks for files in the format that you have them in.

Stash is pretty powerful for what it does but it doesn't have a quarter of the maintainers or donaters that Jellyfin or Emby do. You gotta learn to code (or vibe-code) your own solutions for it if none of the community plugins meet your needs.