TV Shows not displaying plot summary but identically set Movies do

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.19.5.3112
Player Version#: I use the server Chrome browser window to play directly on 75" 4K TV

OK - how I got this issue first…
I built a new Media Server (Grandia GD09 - very nice case) with new motherboard, cpu, ram, NVMe SSD, etc… Windows 10 Pro x64 with latest (yucky) updates
Then I just moved the 3 x 12 TB HDD’s to the new case.
1 drive is Movies (2746), 1 for TV Shows (15000+ episodes of 412 Shows), and the 3rd is split (simply 2 folders for Music (18K MP3s), Music Videos (2400+ Music Video Clips)

I use TinyMediaManager to do ALL metadata and naming before moving anything to these drives AND I use exact naming conventions and folder structure as recommended by Plex. before rebuild, everything worked perfectly.
Before I dissassembled old server, I took screenshots of all the advanced Plex settings screens so I could ensure I set it up the exact same way.
Because I scrape all necessary metadata using tMM and store it correctly within the folders before moving to the server, I figured once i’d done the advanced settings setup, it would just do a lengthy rebuild scan and present as before.

It mostly does, except most annoyingly, the plot summary no longer shows for any TV Shows in summary view, but it does for Movies.
Now both have exact same settings…
Movies > Personal Media > Local Media Assets (Movies)
Shows > Personal Media (Shows) > Local Media Assets (TV)
And the plot summary is definately in the metadata (ive both checked locally and via tMM. Techniocally nothing has changed data-wise, as I just migrated the HDDs to the new PC.
I had to do a complete new scan and rebuild, took an i7 with 16GB DDR4 RAM and an nvme SSD primary C drive 4 days, but I cannot for the life of me find out why its not bringing in the Plot Summary (Library Summary View) right down to the episode level…

Thoughts?

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Plex doesn’t read .nfo files. You’ll need to install the .nfo importer agents and pray they’re still working.

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Hey thanks for the information OttoK, very appreciated. The best part is tinyMediaManager keeps its own database of the server media metadata and it can quickly scan and redo the metadata tag in Plex’s format so won’t be a major issue.
What does confuse me though is why did it work fine with plot summaries etc before? I haven’t changed anything at all regarding the metadata stored with the media files on D, E & F drives, they were simply installed as is into the new server case… It’s simply a fresh install of Windows 10, a fresh install of Plex Media Server, and a complete scan of the drives with only local metadata assets used…
(Maybe, likely, I’m nowhere near as smart as I think I am and Plex actually did/does more than just read local metadata …)
Anyway, thanks for your words of wisdom, I now know it can be resolved, and keep remote accessing Brother happy… Cheers mate!

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I never used TMM, but I seem to remember that it installed an own, custom metadata agent into Plex.
I could be wrong though, and maybe it only writes Kodi-compatible .nfo files.

You can try the .nfo importer agents, but they won’t work with movie libraries which have been set to the new “Plex Movie” scanner and agent.

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