Anime English Voice Actors

[system78 2]

So Myanimelist has both the original and English voice actors for shows on their site. Recently I have been manually deleting and adding the English actors (as I only do dubbed) but it would take forever. 

 

I do have preferred Metadata as English but it makes no difference. Is there a way to have the info off Myanimelist pull the English actors rather then the original ones on dubbed animes pull and load? Would save so much time seeing that I am at about 30TB right now?? 

 

Thank you. 

[system78 2]

I did notice that the plugin for one of the animes, anisearch I beleive,  pulls the actor data in Japanese even though my default is English. Where are the XML or Json files for plugins located in Linux? Maybe I can change the file to show English? 

Also Anidb always pulls the German site, how to fix? 

[Luke 38803]

HI, what do you mean by "original ones on dubbed animes pull and load' ?

[IsJustaGhost 2]

On 5/23/2024 at 10:03 AM, Luke said:

HI, what do you mean by "original ones on dubbed animes pull and load' ?

Not exactly sure what they meant by their phrasing but, the simple answer would be, anime often come in sub version (original VAs) in Japanese and Dub in English or other language.

Not having a way to differentiate between the languages in emby like for language texts are in, makes having the cast mostly useless. We can't click on a VA to have it list other anime in which they appear. 

In "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime"  character "Rimuru Tempest" Japanese VA "Miho Okasaki" English VA "Brittney Karbowski"
"Brittney Karbowski" English VA is not synonymous with  "Miho Okasaki" Japanese VA for other series.

I believe the solution may be a file or folder naming tag for dub/sub series.  Much like S1E01 for series/season. However, dub could be any number of languages other than the original. Having English selected for the library for "Preferred metadata download language" would not guarantee a match or every episode. As is, that selection is fine. Synopsis and other text based info is based on the selected language if available from the downloaders. But How best to differentiate between language based VA lists? 

Mostly I have a library of dubbed episodes, and none of them have the correct cast in emby.
I think as it is, one would have to drop the cast from the entire library and manually add each "cast member" for the correct language.

Edited October 19, 2024 by IsJustaGhost

[Luke 38803]

On 10/19/2024 at 5:12 PM, IsJustaGhost said:

Not exactly sure what they meant by their phrasing but, the simple answer would be, anime often come in sub version (original VAs) in Japanese and Dub in English or other language.

Not having a way to differentiate between the languages in emby like for language texts are in, makes having the cast mostly useless. We can't click on a VA to have it list other anime in which they appear. 

In "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime"  character "Rimuru Tempest" Japanese VA "Miho Okasaki" English VA "Brittney Karbowski"
"Brittney Karbowski" English VA is not synonymous with  "Miho Okasaki" Japanese VA for other series.

I believe the solution may be a file or folder naming tag for dub/sub series.  Much like S1E01 for series/season. However, dub could be any number of languages other than the original. Having English selected for the library for "Preferred metadata download language" would not guarantee a match or every episode. As is, that selection is fine. Synopsis and other text based info is based on the selected language if available from the downloaders. But How best to differentiate between language based VA lists? 

Mostly I have a library of dubbed episodes, and none of them have the correct cast in emby.
I think as it is, one would have to drop the cast from the entire library and manually add each "cast member" for the correct language.

OK I see what you mean. We'll have to look at it in the myanimelist plugin, but have you tried with tvdb?