Currently, plex is not supporting reading metadata from local nfo files. It will be a very useful feature if plex could read it, since I have other tools that manage my media library’s metadata through nfo files ( like tmm)

Support local nfo files

BigWheel June 5, 2020, 3:03am 2

Duplicate closing.

vote here

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