[Feature Request] Films/Personal Media - JSON Metadata Import

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.18.2.2029
Player Version#: 4.8.4

I have an idea for an enhancement to the Films/Personal Media Agent (though equally applicable to all Personal Media Agents). There may be a whole host of reason for a movie (or other media) to not be listed in the online agent of choice, or maybe the server doesn’t connect to the internet at all, etc. Currently when this happens you have to enter all metadata by hand and if for any reason you have to rebuild your server, you have to do this all over again. For Poster and Background you can save poster.jpg and background.jpg next to the media file and Plex will pick these up and use them; my suggestion is to also support [media filename].json to populate the media details in Plex.

Ex. Movie Title.json for Movie Title.mp4

{
    "title": "Movie Title",
    "short-title": "Movie",
    "original-title":  "The Movie Title",
    "originally-available": "2019-11-19",
    "rating": "10.0",
    "content-rating": "PG",
    "studio": "Movie Studio",
    "tagline": "Movie Tagline",
    "summary": "A Great Summary",
    "directors": [ "That Man", "That Lady" ],
    "country": "USA",
    "genres": [ "Comedy", "Action" ],
    "writers": [ "That Lady", "That Other Lady" ],
    "Collections": [ "Movie Series Name", "Funny Movies" ]
}

Thoughts?
How do I get this considered for inclusion in a future release?

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You should check in the Feature Requests forum to see if this has already been suggested. If so, add your vote and comments to that thread. If there is no existing request, you can move this thread to the Feature Suggestions forum by editing your post and changing the Category.

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ISn’t this just nfo files in another format?

https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files#Movie_nfo

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Yes I guess could use NFO files too… but Plex doesn’t support them natively either…

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Yes, that was my point, you need a plugin agent to support them; or am I misunderstanding that quoted post?

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Nope, but all scanning/import in Plex is done via an agent.
It’s NOT native by the PMS itself, and doubt it ever will be

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Maybe native was the wrong word to use, how about Out of the Box.

However, I’ve now got NFO files working as expected so I’m happy with that.

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It kinda is, since Local Media Assets agent is a Plex agent, that comes with PMS :wink:

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