I’d like to be able to assign the default matching language based on the folders assigned to my library (e.g. as part of the “Add Folder” page).
I own a number of movies/tv shows which I knowingly bought abroad because the German dub is… poor. At the moment I need to fix-match library items to ensure their metadata won’t show in German either.
Synology’s Video Station allowed such a configuration… this way I could e.g. have 2 main movie folders such as Movies (German) and Movies (English) in my Movies library and let the media server take care to get the metadata in the right language without further manual intervention.
I suppose such multi-language libraries are more of a rare use case… to avoid confusion for those users who don’t mind, we could have such a language setting as an optional overwrite parameter and keep the default library language. If a folder comes with a different language setting, this could overwrite this default language.
that’s how I’m doing it at the moment – does the job.
coming from Synology’s Video Station (some years ago) I thought this might be an interesting QoL feature… seems there’s (a) only a small group of people with actual mixed language libraries and (b) an actual need to “improve”
I’m confused: Is this new because this wasn’t yet in the new Movie agent because the old one already has “Language” in the General tab ; or is this something different? (RNs mention “advanced” but I don’t see such setting in the Advanced tab.)
Previously you could only set the language on the library level (Library: Edit... > General > Language). If you wanted the metadata to show in a different language you had to unmatch that item and re-match it, manually specifying agent+language.
Now you can switch the language of an individual item right in the advanced settings of that item (Item: Edit > Advanced > Metadata language).
Might be helpful for others: you have to “Refresh Metadata” to enable “Advanced”. Refresh… will revert to the default language, therefore requiring setting the language the new way then refreshing again.
I lost an important “feature” along the way: I used to be able to have 2 items in 2 languages for the same movie (2 files in 2 different audio languages).
Play version… doesn’t tell much about the movie
It’s nicer to have the poster in our children native language (before they speak english
Sadly, the metadata language is linked to the “movie” not to the item itself so changing one (if you Split) changes both and if you refresh, Merge is automatically performed ;(
If that’s not a known bug, is there a way to report that ?
I know this is a bit old, but I still see enough value in having this configured at a “per-folder” level rather than having to change it manually. I have a relatively large library and it’s not comfortable to have to change things manually.
Also, depending on the user, I share a “HD Movies” (1080p-) or a “All Movies” (all up to 4K) library, to avoid transcoding of 4K if they cannot reproduce 4K content. That means I have to do any manual change in two different places, which is twice as annoying
