I’ve included {tmdb-21735} in the name of the directory.
Plex still shows the title as The Invaders.
I see both IMDB and The Movie DB say “The Invaders” is an alternate title. However, nowhere is the movie listed as “The Invaders”. The trailer that plays at IMDB says “49th Parallel”. Even on Amazon Prime, it’s available as “49th Parallel”.
It seems this movie should be referenced as “49th Parallel”, even though “The Invaders” is an appropriate alternative.
I created a test file in my Movies folder. I was able to recreate this. It’ shows the 49th Parallel poster.
I clicked on the move, and then clicked on the pencil icon. “49th Parallel” shows up as the Original Title. Then I went down to Advanced and set “Use Original Title” to Yes. Then I went back to my Movie library, clicked on this movie and did a Refresh Metadata. The title changed to 49th Parallel.
I think this is happening due to the combination of three things:
The origin country is set to the UK
“The Invaders” is set as the alternative title for USA
Your library is set to English (which defaults to English (US)).
What’s happening is technically correct, since the movie was released in the US under the title “The Invaders”, and your library is set to use US metadata. Enabling “Use original title” and refreshing metadata would fix it as napolij mentioned, as would setting your library language to “English (UK)”. Since you probably don’t want to make sweeping library changes for this one case though, it’s probably easiest to just manually edit the title.
Just to note you can also change just a single movie to use a different metadata language on the same screen you can set the movie to user Original Title on it’s advacned settings for the movie itself without changing for entire library
I just tested that. Put the library back to the defaults and doing a plex dance, it came back as The Invaders. Went into the Advanced Settings for that movie and selected English (UK) and then refreshed metadata and it changed to 49th Parallel
Thank you for the responses @napolij and @BigWheel. However, they are not really sufficient.
I don’t have any issues manually modifying individual movies / shows. However, it means I have to keep track of every manual modification if the database is ever corrupted and have to rebuild the database. I would love to specify these things in some external metadata file that Plex could ingest during media scans. However, I’m aware that such a solution would probably be prohibitively complex to implement.
If the metadata from the source cannot be corrected, I wonder if there could be a “foreign language only” toggle so the original title would always be used, unless it’s in a foreign language. Honestly, this is the only reason why I don’t already have “original title”; I need the English translation of foreign movie titles.
The metadata source is correct. It was launched in the US as The Invaders. Just like the movie Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain was launched in the US as Amélie and will be named that way based on library language.
If your file is an mp4 you can embedded the name in the file and if you have “Prefer local Assets” enabled in that library setting it will get that title from the file
We are working on NFO support which should be out relatively soon but I can’t a precise ETA
