I’m running the latest Plex Server for Windows. My movies have suddenly started showing with foreign titles instead of local ones, so searching for them is impossible. For instance, I have Resident Evil Raccoon city displaying as what appears to be Japanese, and I can’t make it stop. This was fine before, now it’s doing this. I could use some help.
Example: Sleepless Beauty now shows as “Я не сплю” for title, sort title, and original title. The filename is Sleepless Beauty (2020).mp4 and was showing up as Sleepless Beauty until I saw the problem yesterday when I was searching for it and got 0 results from Plex.
Also, metadata are blank, so I’ve ruled this out:
I’m a bit cautious when it comes to Explorer’s capabilities to recognize/display embedded metadata. Can you verify this isn’t about embedded metadata with some regular metadata app (e.g. mp3tag on Windows – despite the name it should recognize embedded metadata of mp4 files just fine).
Another thing to check… did you maybe configure your library to display the original title?
For “Sleepless Beauty” this seems to be indeed the russian title (latinized: “Ya ne splyu”; Cyrillic: “Я не сплю”). When editing the library, check Advancded > Use original titles
I found that the “Original titles” was the problem. Any idea why that would suddenly change? I’ve made no changes to my libraries in who knows how long, and I’m the only admin for the server so no one else can get in. It was still unselected for TV Shows, but now I have to refresh metadata on over 6K movies to get it fixed. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this behavior?
There’s been no change to any defaults.
Maybe you accidentally selected it at some point without noticing.
That being said… as you pointed out, refreshing the library metadata will fix the library items.
On a somewhat diff. topic, Plex will stop auto moving through TV shows, such as playing Monk S1E1 through E8, then stop and want you to click play instead of automatically playing. I’ve had this happen on three different Plex servers, all latest version, any idea what could be the problem?
That is the “dead man switch”. It is intended to stop playback after the user has dozed off. This is normal behaviour in all Plex apps.
Simply to avoid you waking up to a tv show that has been marked as “watched” in full, while you weren’t actually watching.
Is there a way to turn it off?
Unfortunately not.
Can this functionality be requested? I have a sleep disorder and hearing TV shows helps tremendously, when the shows stop it can cause me to wake up in the middle of the night. Would running another program in the background which was actually doing something itself (independent of Plex) cause the switch not to trigger?
The only workaround I know of is to play a playlist instead, which is long enough to last through the night.
Oooh, good idea! Thanks!
I just installed the previous version of Plex on another server which has never had Plex and set up the library for movies, unchecking the box to use original titles. I saved it, Plex found and scanned the movies, original titles were not used. After a metadata refresh, original titles were being used. I went back to the library and the box was now checked. You may want to check into this. I upgraded to the latest version of Plex and the box remained checked. Yesterday is when my regular Plex server was showing the correct titles, today is when it wasn’t anymore. It’s fixed now, and if it happens again I’ll make sure to let you know.
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