You may want to take a look at OttoKerner’s comments about infrastructure and nfos going forward… 
in this thread:
Hi @russprince
What naming convention are you using for the artwork?
I have always used the same name as the movie file plus “-poster” for poster and the same for fanart, Kodi picks those up perfectly. However, I’ve just imported my movie library into Plex per the settings we discussed above but none of the posters are being picked up. I assume that naming convention just doesn’t work for Plex and it just wants to see poster.jpg without any reference to the movie name, unlike fanart which is being picked up?
You’ve got to love consistency, haven’t you? LOL
i’ve always named like i mentioned above:
movietitle (1999)-poster.jpg
movietitle (1999)-fanart.jpg
but i’ve never added any tags to my movie names, so I’ve never encountered problems that could arise with those, and I’m not sure what the order would be. possibly:
movie title (1999)-poster [tags].jpg
or
movie title (1999) [tags]-poster.jpg
or neither
movie title (1999)-poster.jpg
or with the dash spacer
movie title (1999) - [tags]-poster.jpg
i would try all those, but the last one is probably most likely to work. the " - " after the year is important to plex if you want to add extra text (and probably tags) to your filenames. for example i have a couple of movies that I have multiple copies. one being a directors cut or 4k or something like that. this example worked fine for bladerunner:
Blade Runner (1982) - The Final Cut
…Blade Runner (1982) - The Final Cut.mp4
…Blade Runner (1982) - The Final Cut.nfo
…Blade Runner (1982) - The Final Cut.srt
…Blade Runner (1982) - The Final Cut-fanart.jpg
…Blade Runner (1982) - The Final Cut-poster.jpg
You’ll probably want to try this kind of format for your movies if possible:
Movie title (1999) - [tag1] [tag2]
…Movie title (1999) - [tag1] [tag2].mp4
…Movie title (1999) - [tag1] [tag2].nfo
…Movie title (1999) - [tag1] [tag2].srt
…Movie title (1999) - [tag1] [tag2]-fanart.jpg
…Movie title (1999) - [tag1] [tag2]-poster.jpg
The poster is always at the end. Same as for Fanart. It’s odd that Fanart is working but not Poster. I’ve just posted this thread:
Let’s see if anyone comes back on that…
Also definitely not picking up my nfos either. I wonder if it’s all to do with this “update library” notification going on at the moment and they’ve stopped all other agents working…
My naming is:
Aladdin (1993) {imdb-tt0103639} [bluray-1080p] [U]
…Aladdin (1993) {imdb-tt0103639} [bluray-1080p].mp4
…Aladdin (1993) {imdb-tt0103639} [bluray-1080p].nfo
…Aladdin (1993) {imdb-tt0103639} [bluray-1080p]-fanart.jpg
…Aladdin (1993) {imdb-tt0103639} [bluray-1080p]-poster.jpg
I can only assume it’s having the certification tag at the end of the folder name that’s causing an issue. It’s not necessary to have it in the filename and shouldn’t be a problem for plex either but perhaps it is.
Everything has still been working fine even with it constantly notifying to update the libraries
Odd then…
It’s definitely picking up the fanart as I’ve just checked one that I chose myself not from the usual fanart sites such as TMDB , etc.
Quick update, I switch to the new plex movie agent for giggles… It’s now finding my local artwork… Obviously it’s now supposed to go and find the movie info instead of using the nfo but it’s not 
but im guessing it’s not really using the nfo data either. try adding a character to the title in the nfo or add a genre or set and see if it propogates
I thought the new plex agent completely ignores nfos but maybe I’m wrong? Isn’t it supposed to go out to TMDB to get the movie info like plot, certification, release date, blah, blah?
It’d be so much easier if it just read the nfos already created that worked perfectly well for Kodi 
I know they’re two separate platforms and I’m just having a moan.
By the way, thanks for your help and patience @russprince
No Problem. I created a small test library and set it up with the newest agent. It didn’t get any data from the nfos at all (not surprised).
Did it fetch any data at all as mine doesn’t appear to be doing so but it hasn’t finished scanning to be fair. Looking at the alerts, it says its finished with an item but when you go look at that item all that is there is the name, poster and video/audio codecs. No plot, no actors, no certification, no release date, etc, etc.
yes it does. it grabbed all the data you’d expect, plot, actors, ratings, etc… if i customize any data in the nfo it goes completely ignored
I did a little more experimenting and found that it actually DOES read the nfo. however sadly the only tag it seems to care about is the ID field. everything else is ignored. I put the movie alien (1979) in my temp library and changed the id field in the alien nfo to the id for Akira, and sure enough the new library agent saw the movie as Akira even with everything named as alien. weird
That was the behavior of the old agent.
AFAIK, the ‘tt’ (name) info is all they brought over. No new functionality was added.
Only the NFO-plugin agents (user added) could read and populate more info.
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