Natively supporting .NFO files for metadata as part of the Local Media Assets would go a long way for helping people with tons of home movies, alternative versions of films/tv shows, and other difficult to scrape content.

Same request: [image] NFO files and Local Media Assets Feature Suggestions I love the ability to add Local Media Assets to items in my Plex servers. Is it possible to add NFO files common on Kodi systems. They are explained in Kodi documentation as: “NFO files can be u…

Isn’t it better to just tag the files? All these sidecar files are so 90s.

Yes, tagging sounds nice. There exists matroska tagging , but do you know a software that makes use of these tags? And do you know an OS independent comfortable GUI to edit these tags? At the moment we have tags inside of Plex, but those are written to the Plex database. By that you can not use them…

I agree with mgutt. nfo files are already a “thing” and Plex should adopt them.

+1. It would also make it easier to migrate to (or from) Plex, or to share libraries between different services. For example, Kodi/XBMC: https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/Movies

I don’t mean tagging as in editing the Plex database, but tagging the media files itself. There’s many apps that can write these for MP4 and MKV files, I’m using Subler on the mac but there’s loads of others, even iTunes does it. That’s way more practical (and portable) than writing the metadata in …

[image] certuna: Plex and all other video players already read MP4/MKV metadata. Only mp4/m4v. Not MKV.

As @OttoKerner said. Plex does not support MKV tags. I tried to add DESCRIPTION, SUMMARY and LAW_RATING through mp3tag: [2019-12-20 00_19_47] but everything is ignored by Plex: [2019-12-20 00_24_06] P.S. adding tags is done through creating an XML file and if you export them it will create an …

Ah that’s news to me - I mostly use MP4 containers and Plex is reading those well. Is there a specific reason why MKV metadata isn’t supported?

Please please please add MKV metadata support. I’ve just learned that all of my ‘odd’ content that is in NO database online (which is, of course, all in MKV) can never be named properly unless I name every Plex entry by hand. Should the drive crash, while I have backups of all the files, all that wo…

With Plugin Support Dead - Can Plex finally have native .NFO support?

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mgutt December 16, 2019, 11:06pm 2

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With Plugin Support Dead - Can Plex finally have native .NFO support?

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