automatic refresh of metadata refreshes metatada in English instead of language set in the library

[grunt000 0]

I have a movie library which is set to Czech language. Metadata of movies are in Czech. No problem there. During last year I had automatic refresh of metadata set to 90 days. Sometimes some movies in the library started to appear in English (all metadata for some movies). I always fixed by doing full refresh of metadata for that library which reverted metadata for all affected movies back to Czech. Around a month ago, I disabled auto refresh and no problem so far.

So I think that there is some problem with the auto refresh functionality not respecting the library language.

I dont have any logs because it is a longer time since it happened last time but I guess it should not be that hard to reproduce. Because I am mostly on latest server versions, it affects all the released versions in the last year.

[Abobader 3464]

Hello grunt000,

Please wait for someone from staff support or our members to reply to you.

It's recommended to provide more info, as it explain in this thread:

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Emby Team

[Luke 42080]

Hi there, please go over an example and attach the emby server log. Thanks.

[grunt000 0]

I will enable automatic refresh again and set it to 30 days. I will provide more info and the server logs when the issue occurs again (which might take some time).

[Luke 42080]

You can just refresh the metadata manually on something to test it.

[grunt000 0]

If I refresh manually, then everything is fine (metadata language). It gets broken after long period of time without any my action with those metadata. Thats the reason why I was suspecting the automatic refresh functionality causing it.

[Luke 42080]

They're the same thing, so that leads me to believe that perhaps some other program is changing the contents of your nfo files and Emby Server is simply reading the changes.

[grunt000 0]

Ok, good to know. I dont use nfo files for storing metadata but I admit that some items contain a few years old nfo files generated by Kodi. Those nfo files are not loaded by refreshing metadata. Is it possible that those files are loaded during some other action or event? For example changing timestamp of its parent folder or something like that? I am not sure what could trigger that.

Also I am now not sure if those old nfo files could be connected to those issues. Anyway thanks for pointing me to this new direction of investigation.

[Luke 42080]

if some other program updates the contents of those nfo files, then emby server will read the changes and update based on that. If you don't want to use those files anymore, you may want to delete them.

[grunt000 0]

Those files were not touched/changed during last year so it is a bit strange. If it happens again I will know more. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Luke 42080]

Great, thanks.