Titles in multiple languages

[Baz_Zerg]

Hi forum,

Server Version#: 4.110.1
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My question is related the searching movie titles in multiple languages.

I have ripped a discs of mine to my server under English naming scheme. This allows for perfect matching with online metadata. And it therefore is served up in plex when you search for the English title. So everything is great thus far.

My problem is that its an old movie, witch I first saw many years ago, titled in my national language. I therefore then to remember it under this title, and not the English one.

I would therefore like the movie to remain in the English naming scheme (for metadata), but the be able to search it in Plex under multiple title languages. Is this possible in some way?

I would be most satisficed by having the search result showing the English movie title, even though I wrote the foreign title in the search bar.

I have been searching for solutions both in Plex, and directly editing the MKV’s metadata, but haven’t managed to find a solution thus far. And therefor I am not asking you experts in here

Best Regards
Henrik

PS. Hope someone can help.

[DTR]

You can set the ‘Original Title’ in Plex, and searching for either the displayed name or the original title should show it in your search results:

[OttoKerner]

If you edit the movie,
and go to the Advanced tab
you can set the language of the metadata plex shall fetch for this movie.

Normally you would define this for the whole library at once, but there are sometimes certain movies where you may be preferring the descriptiuon and the title in a certain language.

[AnotherAussie]

You could also add the IMDb (or TMDb) ID to the folder and/or file name, Plex will then use that ID for metadata, after which it doesn’t matter what name you give the movie.

--\Movies
  --\City Of God (2002) {imdb-tt0317248}
    --City Of God (2002) {imdb-tt0317248}.mkv

[Baz_Zerg]

Thanks for all the great feedback, and sorry for the late reply. I haven’t been in front of my PC before today.

I ended up mostly following the instructions send by drahn. The search for “Original Title” is not all I could hope for, seeing it will only show if exact match is achieved. No partial search So I ended up renaming the “Title” and “Sort Title” ti my native language, and ensuring the “Original Title” were set to the English title. Then I can partial search it on the title I remember, but also find the original title if copy/pasted.

But I will also make a mental note of the other two suggestions. Sounds as if they will be good to remember

Again, Thanks.