NFO-files with Title and Sortitle. No metadata scraping from TMDB

Metadata & Artwork
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I simply cannot get Infuse to behave as I understand it should behave. What am I doing wrong?

I have my movies in folders. Folder name is like this example:
The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Inside each folder I have the following files:
The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) {tmdb-120}.iso
The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) {tmdb-120}.jpg
The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) {tmdb-120}.nfo
The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) {tmdb-120}-fanart.jpg
The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) {tmdb-120}-logo.png

I am not able to attach the NFO file (new user). NFO in next post.

When I remove the NFO from the folder, Infuse finds the movie and all metadata is scraped from TMDB.

However, when I have the NFO file in the folder, Infuse finds the movie but only shows basic metadata such as name and ranking. However, synopsis, actors, director and all other information is missing/not shown.

I want to use the NFO to use custom names and custom sortorder, but I want the scraper to get the rest of the metadata from TMDB. Why does this not work properly? Is there a bug here?
I have tried all combinations in the settings for fetching and using embedded metadata. To no effect.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<movie>
   <title>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Theatrical Cut) (non-remastered)</title>
   <sorttitle>Lord of the Rings 001</sorttitle>
   <tmdbid>120</tmdbid>
</movie>
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I use Infuse on AppleTV, newest version with ethernet.

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When using NFO files the details from the NFO file will replace info from TMDB, so you will want to ensure any and all details you wish to see are included in the NFO file.

A sample NFO file can be found here.

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So, what you are saying is that if I want to use NFO-files they need to contain all the information I want to display? It is not possible to combine fetching data from NFO for title and sorttitle and fetch the rest from TMDB. If so, thats kind of limiting. This limitation should perhaps be mentioned in the documentation?

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Correct, it’s not possible to show a mix of TMDB and NFO metadata for a single item at this time. Sorry.

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Okay. Good to know. Then I don’t have to spend any more time and energy on getting this to work. Might be a good suggestion for future improvement?

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Come to think of it, I don’t care much for the synopsis (might contain spoiles) and taglines, so missing those is not a big loss for me. Director and actors would have been nice.