NFO files and Local Media Assets

I love the ability to add Local Media Assets to items in my Plex servers.

Is it possible to add NFO files common on Kodi systems. They are explained in Kodi documentation as:

“NFO files can be used to provide metadata to the library for video and a music files. They are helpful if the metadata fetched from a web site does not match the video or music you have, or if data for that particular file does not exist, such as for home movies. It can also be used to control the search behaviour of scrapers.”

This would allow us to create our own metadata for items on our servers when none is available from online resources or when the metadata from online resources is wrong or inappropriate.

Seems like if Plex can accomodate SRT caption files, accommodating NFO should be straight forward.

Jim

.nfo importer agents

How long will this continue to work for as you are removing support for plugins?

Since this is technically a meta data agent and not a content plugin, it will remain operational for quite a while.

That’s good to know, the blog post didn’t make that clear.

Here is a FAQ

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Thanks Otto, that is helpful.

It would still be a lot better if Plex just done native support for nfo files like Emby does

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I am in two minds about that as I often tweak plugins to make them do what I want.

It’s great that NFO data can be imported from Kodi - - that means Plex can handle it.

But the use case I have in mind is dropping an NFO file in the same directory as the media, subtitles, and artwork using the same file naming convention.

This is probably called a native feature.

This is needed for media that does not have a commercial source e.g. home movies, personal music, etc.

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Not sure what you mean by that.
All my .nfo files are in the same folder as the media files.

Similar to how Emby creates nfo files for media where there is none

A duplicate request for the same feature has been filed and has gathered more votes than this older one, here.

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