Possible bug in metadata - Same files in two libraries in different languages get mixed language metadata

Server Version#: 1.26.2.5797 Linux
Player Version#: any
I am a lifetime plex pass suscriber.

I have two tv show libraries pointing to the same files. All video files are dual, that is, the audio is both original language (japanese, french, german, danish, etc) and dubbed to my language (spanish). The two libraries one of them is in spanish and the other is by default in english but I manually change every new show to its original language if it is not english. The bug is that, sometimes, the spanish version is also changed to the foreign language. It only happens sometimes, and I have detected that the problem is more common if the show has been misidentified and I changed it to the correct one. The mixup happens in the automatic metadata updates: the show looks correct and some days latter it is in the wrong language. For example, a japanese show dubbed into spanish is in spanish in the spanish library and in japanese in the 2nd library. But one day, it is in japanese in both libaries. I re-select the version in the spanish library into spanish, but doesn’t change. But if I select “spanish (mexico)”, then it correctly changes. The same happens in the other way: a french show that was correctly in french in the international library, spontaneusly changes into spanish and the only way to get it back in french is selecting “fix match…” and looking for the show in “french (canada)”. Languages that have only one locality cannot be fixed, not even with “unmatch” and then matching again. What I do in those cases is deleting the show folder, forcing a rescan and then adding the show folder again with a different name. This is happening since at least a year, maybe more, and I usually upgrade the server the same week a new version appears.

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