How do I best organise movies in multiple languages?

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But if the problem is the missing definition for Norwegian, than why are 24 out of 30 movies properly labelled with their Norwegian title?

Okay, it looks like I have found a pattern.

  • Out of 30 movies that should get a Norwegian title, 24 do. I have done some checking, and it seems like TheMovieDB has Norwegian information pages for all these 24 movies.
  • One of these 24 movies shows a spelling mistake in the title (in Plex). This exact same mistake is also there in TMDB. Clearly, titles are retrieved from TMDB, even when using the Plex Movie agent.
  • Of the 6 that get an English title in Plex, 3 don’t have any Norwegian information in TMDB. So TMDB cannot deliver a Norwegian title, and it is fitting that Plex would show the English title.
  • This leaves 3 movies that get an English title in Plex, but that do have a Norwegian page in TMDB. With some more investigation I discover that even though these three movies have a Norwegian title in TMDB, they don’t have a Norwegian summary. Further checking shows that this is the situation only for these 3 movies.

From this I can conclude there is a bug in the query that is retrieving information from TMDB. If no translated summary is available, but there is a translated title, then the translated title is disregarded and both the English summary and the English title are used.

To go further, I went into the Plex Movie agent settings, where there is a setting from where movie summaries should be retrieved. The default is TMDB, but this can be changed to IMDB. I changed this, and did a “Plex Dance” for the full directory. This is what I discovered.

  • Scanning the folder takes a lot more time than it did with summaries retrieved from TMDB. :slight_smile:
  • All movies do indeed show summaries that come from IMDB.
  • The titles still come from TMDB. (Including the one with the spelling mistake.)
  • Curiously, the bug with missing summaries in TMDB is still there. Even though summaries are now retrieved from IMDB, movies that have no translated summary in TMDB, but that do have a translated title, are still showing the English title.