As already pointed out several times in this thread alone, it is truly a shame we have to beg again and again for this imho essential feature, that should be implemented in V1.0 of any media library software. I am using Plex for a long time now, but the declining scraping capabilities have never been to my taste. Now that the use of plugins has obviously been disabled, I am somewhat angry to have paid a lifetime pass. I expected the package to become a smarter media asset handling app, and not adding overly fancy web features I will never use.
So I strongly vote for native .nfo support. I am mainly using Plex for my archive of tv recordings, and I am having a struggle with a lot of documentaries and such. Adding the ability to feed Plex .nfo files to display meta data & images would dramatically increase my user experience and give me some peace of mind.
The funny thing is, reading from an nfo file is stupid easy. I wonāt pretend to know how Plex is structured internally, and maybe thereās some weird stuff going on that would make it more difficult, but itās hard to imagine what could be going on that would make āpull information from text fileā hard, especially if itās disabled by default so itās not like you have to worry about users all of a sudden being confronted with something new.
The ability to read nfo files would solve so many issues that I genuinely donāt understand the aversion to adding it. I can only imagine how many support posts theyād be able to easily respond to with ājust use an nfo file [instruction link].ā Itās been four years - thereās aversion. This isnāt some massive change requiring things be rebuilt from the ground up. Hell, youāre already using local files to provide relative data, so 80% of the work is done.
My only real guess is that they correlate nfo files with piracy and as such will never do this, which would be unfortunate because they have a plethora of uses. If that is the case, though, just come out and say it so at least we know WHY this has been blown off for almost half a decade.
As far back as TEN YEARS ago people were still coming up with ways to do this, because Plex just refused:
Starting to feel like one of us is going to have to code something to automatically convert nfo files to .plexmatch files and have it run on import within *arr.
Hi Plex Dev team,
please listen to our needs.
we need the native .NFO file supporting to get the localization done easily.
And stucked so many times on the display poster and names, itās insane for refusing this!
Iāve got a Lifetime Sub for Plex, but after many years, still having to use Emby for my Music Video collections as Plex does not support music videos at all as it has limited tags in Plex. If we were able to use nfoās, I could just make a custom library and use that.
I appreciate there is a āglobalā videos directory for music videos, but this is far from ideal. Iād like to be able to just put on a ā90ās collectionā and let them play, which you can do in Emby and Jellyfin.
If I didnāt already have a Plex lifetime sub, Iād have jumped ship to Emby by now. Is there any update on nfo support does anyone know?
Wow, this thread is 4 years old and still no .nfo support. Kind of crazy this hasnāt gone anywhere. I use TMM for all my Movies and TV Series so I have easy control of naming etc. and backup files of the poster & fanart and a .nfo file with all the metadata I want in it.
xbmcnfomoviesimporter.bundle works and works fairly well, but it fails to show imdb rating and logo. It only shows a % based on the rating and no imdb logo.
I know this will go nowhere, but Iām just bringing it back from the dead to get eyes on it againā¦
Native *.nfo support is really something that I would consider essential for a service like this. Iād like to move all videos into Plex, but I have a lot of stuff that canāt be scraped and therefore uses *.nfo files that I have created (some documentaries, NBA games, concert videos etc.). With Kodi, obviously no problem at all. Importing the same stuff into Jellyfin, also no problem at all. But why canāt Plex do it? And then seeing all these paying customers asking for this (essential) feature, for years, and still not being heardā¦ So, Iām adding my voice (and vote) too, in the hope that some day soon theyāll start listening to their customers.
Ich habe viele MKV Dateien, dabei werden die integrierten Metadaten nicht gelesen. Genauso habe ich Dateien die nicht in einer Datenbank vorhanden sind. Auch werden von Plex keine Tags heruntergeladen, dass ich gezwungen bin eigene Genre hinzuzufĆ¼gen. Bei MP4 Dateien werden die Genre zwar gelesen, aber bei mehreren Genre werden diese von Plex als ein Genre angezeigt. Also bin ich auf NFO Dateien fĆ¼r die Metadaten angewiesen. Ich habe auch schon nach Alternativen zu Plex gesucht, aber Plex ist immer noch am besten. Allerdings ist eine Alternative nicht weit davon entfernt, Plex fĆ¼r mich zu ersetzen. Also liebes Plex Team, fĆ¼gt die NFO UnterstĆ¼tzung hinzu.
Feature Request/Suggestion:
I was just trying to figure out a method on how to use my *.nfo files from my varied media collections Music | TV | Docu | Anmi ?
ATM, I have a pretty long winded workflow to get correct information from either scraping via the Plex agent or tvdb manually, which got me to thinking, a perfect fit would be to simply import the accompanying *.nfo file.?
Why cant this be as simple as 1,2,3 when organizing my Library by hitting āMatch > Browse for .nfo file > <local *.nfo file>ā ?
Dont get me wrong on the vast majority of my content gets mapped\tagged perfectly but there seems to be a big gap in some of the less well traveled areas of TV suck a s Documentaries and I have also become unstuck on some of my really old DnB discographies/collections on a number of occasions.
The Scene used Nfo files to bring order among other reasons, the information is already in my collection (in the nfo) its just I cant figure out how to import said *.nfo file data into Plex. A nfo Plex Plugin or some webtool would work a treat, i cant see why its not been done already
I mean the structure of an Nfo file is as simple as it gets, to parse it out and only have the relevant sections extracted on import into Plexā¦?
In essence *.nfo files contain the information required for missing metadata elements. It couldnāt get any simpler.
Yes I agree,
*.nfo files are a Standard, there are [Scene] guidelines on what is required to be inside .nfo files, just like with any kind of open standardized specsā¦
Plex should integrate and enable local (or Remote) *.nfo assets, at the very least to compliment the Plex Movie/TV Agent service, as a fallback option when Plex agent falls short.
I have many examples where Plex via the Agent [tvdb imdb, apis etc] just does not provide the metadata for certain Library items, Iām at a loss as to why NFO files hasnāt already been integrated into PLEX years ago?
Nfo files usage could be an alternative, ready baked, readily available solutions to the problem. Its practically good to go, I just donāt see the problem if nfoās are properly parsed, sanitized, checked on import.
Iām working on a couple of libraries for which there is no scanner for media. In particular, old Wrestling TV shows, and internet series that donāt meet TheTVDBās standards for inclusion. Iām manually entering descriptions, dates, writers/editors/actors etc. Itās a labor of love and a very, very lengthy process.
I donāt mind doing this, but the thought of ever losing such hard work is a nightmare.
I thought of a way to make it very simple to:
backup your metadata
Share your metadat
Restore metadata even if files are moved or shared
Iām not sure how difficult it would be to implement this, but I think it would be cool if manually-entered metadata could be automatically saved as a .txt file. It could, for example, be put in the same same directory as the movie and could be named ā-meta.txt.ā
So youād enter all the metadata into the fileās Plex entry, it would generate this text file, and then, when Plex searches for files, if the file had a properly named and formatted text file in the same directory, it would auto-fill the metadata from it. People could even collaborate on series, creating custom meta files for them.
Is there any news about how Plex can handle NFO ? I especially struggle to have plex Name my personal (not in IMDB) TV shows based either on the NFO or the filename. I feel lost at this point
Not even XBMCnfoMoviesImporter.bundle works anymore.
An update some point in the past 6 months has finally killed all plugins and legacy metadata scrapers.
We need NFO support!!!
How are you loading NFO files with Plex legacy agents? Iād love to do that!
I tried Lambda, based on XBMCnfoMoviesImporter, and it only loads the NFO for secondary info where itās found of the secondary agent. Not even sure if itās working though because Iāve never gotten it to work.
In my testing, I have yet to get NFO files reading.
My goal is to fix how I do TV shows. Absolute Series Scanner and HamaTV are great, but when somethingās messed up (a number of shows are funky in aniDB and TVDB), Iād rather write the metadata NFO files and define the episodes and seasons myself. That would solve my issue without Plex folks or plugins having to do anything.
I remember there being some talk about native NFO support by Plex employees when plug-ins officially go away. That was great news! But itās been a few years, and I havenāt heard anything since.
In that thread, it seems like the general sentiment from Plex is that itās a streaming platform with millions of paying users, and we local-file guys are very much on the back burner :/. They wanna support us but arenāt offering tons of resources even if we paid/pay for Plex.
The point of the new direction was to make Plex more customizable overall to allow any sort of external tools to assist while removing plug-ins and that whole plug-in API system.
After loading the XBMCnfo importer for TV & Movies to the correct folder.
I set it up like this in Plex (example with just Movies):
*For trailers, I use tMM to actually download them locally which provides a more consistent experience
āI remember there being some talk about native NFO support by Plex employees when plug-ins officially go away. That was great news! But itās been a few years, and I havenāt heard anything since.ā
They announced it last yearā¦ it was supposed to happen this yearā¦. still time (fingers crossed) but I have a feeling it wonāt happen this year (I hope Iām wrong).
