I haven't changed any of that code, so the behaviour if the file is missing still should be the same as before.
...it was question for all, if we talking here about info for recorded files
Untill now, the stored eit section was inserted into the OSD, as if it came from pid 0x12.
So there was no support to use the text fields from the meta file.
Now that we no longer will be using EIT, indeed we could do a fallback to the titel/description from the meta file.