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…

Most of it is documented here: https://support.plex.tv/articles/using-nfo-metadata-files-with-plex/

Thanks testing out the new Agent i am noticing difference in responses as i mainly deal with GUIDs for sync purposes. the show level does not return guid:// for the specific show see the following for show level metadata <MediaContainer size="1" totalSize="1" offset="0" allowSync="1" art="/library/…

@drzoidberg33 I’m running into an issue with a custom agent configuration in Plex and wanted to report what looks like unintended behavior. I have a custom agent set up with: Primary agent: NFO Secondary agent: Plex Movie During scans, the logs show that the NFO agent is being invoked as e…

Pretty sure that is expected. As you set NFO as primary, if its does not exist then plex cannot match the media so they would remain unmatched and not process additional providers in the list. It will only populate the data if its matched (at least that is my experience). If you do this in this o…

Can you provide the show and episode NFOs.

Thanks, the show nfo has the ids, the XML you pasted though is for a season response, not a show and we won’t have these Guids on the season response.

i shouldn’t check late at night. You are completely right. that was my bad. The show response does include it. the metadata i linked was for season request. Thanks

Thank you drzoidberg and dokuro! That fixed my issue!

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drzoidberg33 April 28, 2026, 10:49am 328

As above, dokuro has the answer.

The “primary” provider is the one used to match the item, if it fails we abort the metadata ingestion.

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