When PLEX grabs/assembles metadata from its various agents/sources, it is ultimately at the mercy of those sources as far as ensuring accuracy & consistency. But how can a PLEX user make corrections when the metadata itself is incorrect or inconsistent? I’ve come across this in particular with some foreign films, in which the titles and/or cast members’ names have – and sometimes don’t have – diacritics.
• Case in point: I have many films in my library featuring Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune. They all show up (the Kurosawa, Zatoichi & other films) when I click on his icon in the Cast lineup. In those film entries his name is spelled “Toshirō Mifune” with the diacritic on the second “o” of his first name.
But I recently added a movie in which his name is written without the diacritic, just “Toshiro Mifune.” When I click on his icon in that movie, the only Mifune title that shows up is that one movie.
According to the cast member link to his photo, it’s two different actors. The one with the diacritic (& all his movies) shows: actor=1296. But the newer one (Samurai Rebellion from 1967), shows: actor=91566.
Is there any way I can correct this? Manually add his name correctly spelled, along with all the other cast members, to the metadata myself using MKVToolNix? If I do that, will his & the other cast members’ additional movies show up properly when I click on them?
I believe I did a similar thing several years ago on an .mp4 movie, manually editing the metadata using kid3. As I recall, however, the corrections I made were exclusive to that movie only. When I brought up that movie in PMS, there were no pictures accompanying any of the cast, and neither did clicking on them take me to any of their other movies in my library.
Any suggestions/insight would be appreciated. TIA.
