AKA Movie Titles

[kbeck 78]

How's the best way to handle movies with multiple names? A lot of the Godzilla movies have the Original name and another name for the US release. Godzilla vs Monster Zero (1965) is also known as Invasion Of Astro-Monster. I've been using the Original Title field to add AKA and the extra title. It does show up in searches that way but you have to edit the Metadata to verify. The Primary view doesn't have the option to display the Original Name.

[bkettering 0]

One thing that saved me a ton of headaches with remakes and multi-title movies: put the release year in the folder and file name, like Scary Movie (2026). Emby stops guessing and grabs the exact one every time, and with Godzilla having like 30 movies that matters a lot. You can do it by hand no problem.

Full disclosure, I built a Mac app that does this part automatically (Media Renamer Pro). Its default naming is Title (Year) for both the file and the folder, it looks the year up for you, and shows every rename before anything moves. Details are in my thread in Tools and Utilities if you're curious: https://emby.media/community/topic/149924-media-renamer-pro-rename-movies-and-tv-from-metadata-with-preview-and-undo-dev-here-mod-approved/

For showing the US title though, the year won't help since you've already got the right match. Original Title is still the right place for search. If you want it visible without opening the editor, putting "Also known as Invasion of Astro-Monster" as the first line of the Overview works, just lock the field so a refresh doesn't wipe it.