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 f…

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 [image] Discontinuation of Plugins, Watch Later, Recommended, and Cloud Sync Announcements This morning, in our latest blog post, we announced the retirement of Watch Later (and its cousin, Recommended, for recommending Watch Later and plugin items to friends…

[image] OttoKerner: it will remain operational for quite a while. It would still be a lot better if Plex just done native support for nfo files like Emby does

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 …

[image] juren: 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. Not sure what you mean by that. All my .nfo files are in the same folder as the media files.

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OttoKerner September 26, 2018, 7:43pm 2

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NFO files and Local Media Assets

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