# Changing metadata langugage

**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/changing-metadata-langugage/557135
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files
**Tags:** server-windows
**Created:** [March 18, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/changing-metadata-langugage/557135 "2020-03-18T15:23:30Z")
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The metadata language for _newly added_ items is defined in the properties of the library. “Edit” it, to see the language selector.

It’s not possible to change this _en masse_ for existing items.  
The language is part of the “matching” to a metadata source. So to change that you needed to do either:

- perform the “Fix Match” procedure on each item separately
- [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-incorrectly-identifying-tv-episodes/100265/4) the affected items
- Remove the whole library from Plex and recreate it, this time with the right language setting

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