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…

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.

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.

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.

Thank you drzoidberg and dokuro! That fixed my issue!

Hello all. I setup my plex server with local metadata, agent is xbmc as plex nfo movie is not showing in agent but I upgraded to the latest version. It works well on web with actor info and image showing. However, my plex app iOS and iPadOS cannot show these things. I also checked the file info in …

@drzoidberg33 I used to be using XBMCnfoTVImporter and my nfo were working. I’ve experimented using Agent “Plex NFO Series” and my nfo files don’t work anymore. Artwork shows up for seaons posters and episode thumbnails but I get no information. I’ve even edited my nfo files to have the plex for…

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings are not solved for me. My code looks like this: <rating name="tomatometerallcritics" max="10" default="true"> <value>8.5</value> <votes>20</votes> </rating> <rating name="audience" max="10"> <value>8.7</value> <votes>15430</votes> </rating> And it stil…

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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

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