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Online details: artwork, plots and subtitles

Your own artwork and .nfo files always come first. For everything else, your server can look things up online — only the title and year (or artist and album) are sent, never your files.
Versions, extras, details and subtitles — .nfo details, trailers and extras, several versions of one film, Find subtitles and Settings → Online details.

Album covers (no key needed)

Albums without a cover in the files or folder get one from the Cover Art Archive (found through MusicBrainz). This is on by default on your own server.

Film and TV details (your free TMDB key)

  1. 1Get a free API key or read access token at themoviedb.org (Settings → API).
  2. 2In the web app: Settings → Online details → paste it → Save.
  3. 3Posters for films without artwork, plus plots, genres, scores and US age ratings, appear over the next few minutes. Look up now re-checks immediately.

Subtitles (your free OpenSubtitles key)

  1. 1Get a free API key at opensubtitles.com and paste it in Settings → Online details.
  2. 2On a film's page (admins), Find subtitles → pick a language → Search → Add.
  3. 3The subtitle is saved next to the video (e.g. Film.en.srt) and appears in every player's Subtitles menu.

Privacy

On Silux Media Cloud this is off unless you switch it on, so titles never leave your encrypted vault without your say-so. Switch it off on your own server any time: Settings → Online details.

Questions

Is TMDB required?

No. Without a key Silux Media uses your own artwork, .nfo files and pictures from the video itself.

Last updated 2026-11-12.