Preferred metadata language and Country

[Keylonta 0]

When setting up a library, how important is it to set the "Preferred metadata language" and "Country"?

 

What happens if those settings are not set?

[Luke 42083]

I will answer this by adding help text underneath the field for the next release. Thanks !

[FredrikT 24]

Did you forget this? I'm wondering what the Country setting actually does.

[Luke 42083]

3 hours ago, FredrikT said:

Did you forget this? I'm wondering what the Country setting actually does.

It's only used to determine the rating system to pull from moviedb.

[FredrikT 24]

On 09/03/2022 at 14:19, Luke said:

It's only used to determine the rating system to pull from moviedb.

Thanks. I'm having some problems with parental rating. So I'll try to play around with the country settings as well.

But for parental control / max allowed parental rating I would need to set the Country setting of all libraries to the same for it to work?

Ie - I have two American libraries, and two Norwegian libraries, and the parental rating doesn't work well between them 

[Luke 42083]

What do you mean by "doesn't work well between them"?

[FredrikT 24]

14 hours ago, Luke said:

What do you mean by "doesn't work well between them"?

It seems that different countries have different parental rating (naming conviction). I have small kids (less then 3 year old) so I want their Emby profile to only show movies and series with the lowest parental rating. It seems I can't use one universal one for US and others (Norwegian) as they're different. I need to investigate some more though.

At least I now found the "Block items with no or unrecognized rating information" settings, which had eluded me in the past. That might help a bit along the way (large libraries).

[Luke 42083]

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It seems I can't use one universal one for US and others (Norwegian) as they're different.

Hi, you can actually. We try to normalize the ratings between countries. Try it out by setting a max parental rating on a user.

[Mibok 158]

It works as intended, at least for me it blocks content with the Mexican rating system according their equivalent to the US rating, although i remember having problems with some titles that in the end resulted to be a problem with the metadata on TMDB that had slight variations on the rating. I.E some movies had "MX-B-15" and others had "MX-B15" notice the extra "-" on the first one.

 So emby had the equivalency to "PG13 = MX-B-15" and when "MX-B15" was found it was unrecognized what it meant that it wasn't filtered with the according rating. That might explain why if you set to filter unrecognized worked. The only solution that i found is to edit every title on TMDB with the normalized version, you can do that in Emby too, but keep in mind that if you do it in TMDB you are helping others with that same problem plus it works like a cloud backup for your metadata.