Iam using Plex for my Anime Collection
I try to customized the metadatas much i can, to have a perfekt collection with perfekt informations.
i have a big problem to reach my goal.
I cant cahnge the Actors i watch Anime only with german voices but plex show only the Japanease actors.
it feels uncompleded if i cant change it i workt so many years for this database.
I tryd much to chance the Actors name with Local Media assets or look in the plex install diractory to change it Manuel but nothing work,
i have read all topics but no one helped me.
my last hope is that have someone an idea to solve my problem
I whant only change the voice Actors name to enter the German actors Name
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It should be possible to configure your library to prefer embedded metadata and to provide the cast information to the files themselves. Plex can read embedded metadata from mp4/m4v/mov files.
That being said – Plex won’t give you the same experience with cast information from embedded metadata as it can based on the metadata sourced online (e.g. there’s many same-named persons and Plex has no way to know which one you mean just by the bare name; here’s an example of various Tom Becks on IMDb)
I guess this is kind of a tricky topic for Plex to handle automatically. Some of the online sources are listing localized voice cast information for japanese Anime – though they’re usually focusing on the English Dub. Looking at some Studio Ghibli releases, there’s even different casts for different releases (e.g. original English dub vs. later Disney dub). Also… if your items have multiple audio tracks – for which of them should Plex pull the voice cast (assuming the data is even available)?
TL;DR: it’s tricky and I’m afraid there’s no simple solution. You can try to squeeze the information in using embedded metadata but that’ll have its own downsides.
None of the metadata sources which Plex is using is suporting “dub” voice talent.
For instance TheMovieDB.org has a policy which disallows explicitly to add any voice actors which are not in the original Japanese version.
