Ability to pick "Original title" as a library setting

[louiselind 3]

I know there's a similar request, but it's not exactly what I have in mind, so I will make a suggestion for the only feature I'm missing from Plex (All other things are way better here, so I have no intention of moving back)

The ability to, on a library folder basis, to pick the language that titles are displayed in, not as a subtitle, or an extra title, just pick which language titles are displayed in - and most importantly, the ability to, on a per library basis, to select to show the original title of the movie.

The last part is the most important one, and probably the easiest one to implement, since it seems like it's already available.

As a non-english speaker, I would like english/american movies to be titled in their language, but my local movies and shows should have their local name.

This information is already available in the metadata, but it's a bother to go change it manually for every thing, so would be nice to be able to set it as the default to be shown

 

Thanks, and I appreciate all that you do

[Luke 42077]

HI, so you want to configure the metadata download language for the title field?

[louiselind 3]

Yes, but specifically, I do not want to chose a language, I want to be able to chose to always download the original title, the title it have in the country of origin for the movie or show, no matter what country it is - as an example I just installed plex on my pc to show the setting they have:

As shown in my previous post, it is already part of the metadata, but I would like the option to have that shown as the main title without having to do it manually for every single item.

 

And again, it would preferably be on a per library basis - for example, I would like it on my movies and tv-shows, but on anime, I do not want all japanese titles, there I prefer the translations.

Edited October 31, 2024 by louiselind

[GargiMan 1]

My thoughts were to allow selections of different download language of metadata, but using original title would be also helpful.

Also very helpfull could be adding option to display original title in library list. Currently there is only option to display name and filename.

[brothom 177]

+1 because I'm getting really tired of translators creating abhorrent translations in my native language which also cause me not being able to find movies because their titles are butchered beyond believe.

[ErelyesNZ 3]

Hi, ChatGPT spun me some tall tales about Emby Server having the ability to "display original title" but I can't seem to find that setting anywhere.

Has this functionality (i.e. to display the title of the show in the original language) been implemented or on a wishlist? I'm learning Spanish a second language and it'd be great to display 'La Casa de las Flores' instead of 'The House of Flowers'. And 'Las Chicas del Cable' instead of 'Cable Girls'.

Or in other words (and perhaps the ideal implementation for me) would be to pick which languages I am comfortable with titles being in, and then Emby displays native language if it's in that list, otherwise displays the preferred language. That way Spanish shows will show with a Spanish title, English shows with an English title, then if I have a French or German show on there it will display the English translated title.

[Luke 42077]

On 11/27/2025 at 2:27 PM, ErelyesNZ said:

Has this functionality (i.e. to display the title of the show in the original language) been implemented or on a wishlist?

Hi, it has not, but it is possible for future updates. Thanks.