Hi everyone! Official support for NFO files has been a highly requested feature for a long time and we promised it would be coming towards the end of last year. Some other priorities got in the way of that but today I wanted to share the first preview build to get some feedback and test it out in t…

Using the newest update, For Shows, using: [image] I don’t get any matches. With a manually search/match using Plex Series (Built-in agent), it also doesn’t give results. If I manually search/match with the Plex NFO Series (Built-in agent) I get results; I confirmed it is from local NFO. This al…

That should work, could you provide server logs?

Did you ever find a fix for this? I have the same issue with my series library. I made a custom agent with Plex Series (primary) and Plex NFO Series. Metadata refresh just hangs at the first show when I set the NFO agent at the top. If I switch the prio (Primary on top) it’s working fine.

Yes, fix coming on Monday. What platform are you on? I can post a link to the new build so long for you to test out.

Running Plex in Docker. But I’m using Hotio’s image, I will have to wait till next week. NP, I will test again then.

Update available which should resolve the issue where metadata refreshes were hanging for TV shows. [image] Plex Media Server Announcements NOTE #: QNAP builds are unavailable at this time. There is no estimate of when this will be resolved, however we will pu…

I can confirm, the metadata refresh hanging for TV shows is now fixed. Thanks for the fix.

Here is an example of an actor field from an NFO created by Jellyfin. The actor images are saved as a path. If this path is accessible from within plex, will this still not pick up actor images? Thanks! This should be possible, I’ll add it to the todo list. Wouldn’t have to host my actor im…

With the most recent beta (1.43.1.10561) I can confirm I do not have issues with Shows anymore for the Plex NFO scrapper. I did have to create a new Metadata Agent for it to work though. Right now for Movies and Shows the only items I see missing/not working as expected: —Movie reviews not worki…

I’ve noticed the agent doesn’t seem to support the <displayseason> and <displayepisode> tags so far. This is useful on other servers to correctly display the specials in line with the regular season. Plex already does this but seems to just look at the airdate and (possibly title). This poses a p…

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Update available which should resolve the issue where metadata refreshes were hanging for TV shows.

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