I’m from Finland so I selected Finnish language for my movie library. For most movies Plex is able to find Finnish language metadata, but for some movies only English is found. This is understandable and fine with me.
However, if the metadata is in English, all the tags are in English too. Now the Genre search is really messed up because there’s “Animation” and “Animaatio” for movies with English and Finnish metadata … Most of the movies have English audio with Finnish subtitle, no matter what the metadata language is.
For TV Shows, tags are be always in English! Even for Finnish shows like “Ketonen & Myllyrinne” which even have Finnish audio, it’s correctly marked “Comedy” and not “Komedia”… Why movies behave differently?
Please call up the Plex XML info of one movie with english genre and then from one with finnish genre.
Compare the content of the guid= tag
Maybe you’ll find that one movie has imdb in there while the other has themoviedb
this is an indication that they were ‘matched’ with different metadata agents.
One of the metadata sources may provide translated genre info while the other does not.
Both English and Finnish metadata seems to be from imdb.
It’s interesting that guid shows “guid=“com.plexapp.agents.imdb://tt4940370?lang=fi”” , yet the returned metadata including genre tags are in English. So Plex requests lang=fi but gets English result!
That is probably exactly what’s happening. This is more like an imdb feature. Not much that can be done, I guess?
Only possibility would be to request both lang=fi and lang=en and take genre tags from English and rest from Finnish? I have Plex language otherwise set to English, so it would make sense to have genres in that language too.
The user interface language of Plex has no influence on the language in which the metadata are fetched.
Right now it is a best effort: you get finnish meta data when they are available. If there are no finnish meta data you get them in english. Otherwise you wouldn’t get any metadata - and that would be worse IMO.
However it’s a bit odd that my TV Shows only have english genre tags? Apparently TVDB always returns english tags even if rest of the metadata is in Finnish?
