question about metadata language in nfo files

[horstepipe 422]

hey

Because Emby can download metadata and images only in the same language, I tried to accomplish different languages by the following "trick":

My movies have German images (posters, banners etc) and German metadata (plot..), but I want the images to be English. So, in metadata settings I changed preferred language for downloads to English.

I picked a movie and refreshed it with these settings

Search for missing metadata
Replace existing images

in the hope that my existing metadata stays German and the images are being swapped with English ones.

 

Unfortunately nothing has changed, everything stays German.

So I tried to refresh with

replace all metadata

but the plot is still German.

 

So changing the language of the scraper doesn't seem to work at all at the moment..?

 

Regards

 

[Luke 42079]

Hi, as you can see, no problem here when switching between english and german.

 

 

Please discuss a specific example, and see how to report a problem. Thanks!

[horstepipe 422]

mhh ok it's really strange, some movies work, some don't.

 

Here are three example movies

Inside Out (2015) (German title: Alles steht kopf) - doesn't work

About Schmidt (2002) - doesn't work

A perfect World (1993) - works

 

 

 

 

[Happy2Play 9781]

Not sure I follow exactly
 

 

 

[Luke 42079]

Not sure I follow exactly

 

 

 

 

 

Danke !!

[horstepipe 422]

what do you want to tell me with these screenshots?

 

Edited July 9, 2016 by horstepipe

[horstepipe 422]

Nice that it works for you, but not for me, so your screenshots are not very helpful ;-)

So I described my problem and attached a logfile of the refreshing process.

Please tell me what else you need or what I can try to find out what's going wrong.

@@Luke

[Luke 42079]

The metadata language is German so you must not have configured it to English.

[Happy2Play 9781]

Do these settings have values already set? 

 

[softworkz 5068]

What you get may also depend on the order of metadata providers.

 

Not all metadata providers have multi-language results at all and some of our provider implementations default to English in case no localized info is returned.

If one of such providers has a higher priority than another provider that would even have the localized info, still the English info would be used.

 

A while ago I have provided a fix for this situation (https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/pull/1731) but it hasn't been picked up yet.

 

To further analyze the situation you can try my MetadataViewer plugin (http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/32984-new-plugin-metadata-viewer/).

It displays metadata results from each provider in priority order from left to right and you can even compare the results for different languages. This way you'll immediately see what's happening here!

[horstepipe 422]

The metadata language is German so you must not have configured it to English.

 

to make it more clear:

From my first problem description I went on to generalize my problem, I can't change the metadata language of most movies at all.

So the shown movie is German and I can't make it English.

Do these settings have values already set? 

 

 

no they haven't. As from my understanding when they're empty the global metadata settings are being used which are set to English atm.

For test purposes I set the value here to English, too. Unfortunately, no change.

What you get may also depend on the order of metadata providers.

 

Not all metadata providers have multi-language results at all and some of our provider implementations default to English in case no localized info is returned.

If one of such providers has a higher priority than another provider that would even have the localized info, still the English info would be used.

 

A while ago I have provided a fix for this situation (https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/pull/1731) but it hasn't been picked up yet.

 

To further analyze the situation you can try my MetadataViewer plugin (http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/32984-new-plugin-metadata-viewer/).

It displays metadata results from each provider in priority order from left to right and you can even compare the results for different languages. This way you'll immediately see what's happening here!

 

But I guess all providers are able to fetch the data in English? So if not even this language works, this is most likely not the problem..?

 

Edited July 10, 2016 by horstepipe

[Luke 42079]

I can't change the metadata language of most movies at all.

 

what does this mean?

[horstepipe 422]

what does this mean?

what I wrote in post #3:

I.e. for the movie "A perfect world" the language change works.

[Luke 42079]

what are the folder and file paths for each?

[horstepipe 422]

what are the folder and file paths for each?

\\192.168.0.3\MyNAS\Filme\Alles steht Kopf (2015)\Alles steht Kopf.1080p.bluray.dtshd_ma.mkv

 

\\192.168.0.3\MyNAS\Filme\Perfect World (1993)\Perfect World.1080p.bluray.dca.mkv

[Luke 42079]

In your log About Schmidt was configured for German, not English. This means you either didn't set the global language to English, or you have already customized the language for the movie to German, or have already customized the language for a parent folder to German. So please check all three of those.

[horstepipe 422]

or you have already customized the language for the movie to German

here we have the problem.

But I definitely did not set this up, I always just changed the global metadata settings.

I randomly overlooked some movies in metadata manager, some have the language set to German, some don't.

 

At least I know what's going wrong now, thank you!

 

But how can I solve the problem?

I don't want to select thousands of movies and change the settings separately.

And removing the whole movie database and re-import it isn't the best idea either, because it would take days to recreate the coverart and chapter images in which my NAS is quite unusable because the CPU is maxed out

Edited July 10, 2016 by horstepipe

[Luke 42079]

if the language setting is inside your nfo file, then removing the database won't help. you're going to need to change it for those titles.

[horstepipe 422]

if the language setting is inside your nfo file, then removing the database won't help. you're going to need to change it for those titles.

 

ok

is it safe to simply multi-select all movies in metadata manager and change the language value?

[Luke 42079]

We don't have multi-select editing at this time, sorry. There are some people in this forum who are handy with bulk text file editing, but off the top of my head I couldn't tell you how to do that.

[horstepipe 422]

bulk editing the .nfo files wouldn't be the problem.

I already tried to remove the

  <language>de</language>

from an .nfo file, but the value in metadata manager still persists.

Edited July 10, 2016 by horstepipe

[Luke 42079]

please be patient. the next time the nfo file is read, it will change. try running a library scan.

[horstepipe 422]

please be patient. the next time the nfo file is read, it will change. try running a library scan.

Nice, thank's for support!