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Metadata in English, not in selected language #2632
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Originally created by @fl0wfr on GitHub (Feb 14, 2021).
Describe the bug
I noticed that metadata is in English in my library instead of French. If I manually identify each video I get metadata in French. But when automatic metadata refresh runs, it overwrite metadata to English. I'm using TMDB and TVDB as sources. Any idea why?
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@BaronGreenback commented on GitHub (Feb 21, 2021):
Shot in the dark, but you aren't running dual languages on the same libraries are you?
@fl0wfr commented on GitHub (Feb 21, 2021):
No, only French
@asbachb commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2021):
I'm facing the same issue. Set preferred language to german/germany. Ui is set to English (UK).
The posters are the german ones, but the movie titles and description are english.
@cvium commented on GitHub (Mar 15, 2021):
Please include
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@gnouts commented on GitHub (Oct 10, 2022):
Not stale !
some example : Lost Illusion title and description are in english, while it is a french film
Other example : everything everywhere all at once doesn't have a translated title officially in France (only in Quebec), but at least description should be in french. It is not.
Same happens for series
FTR, I've tried adding removing metadata providers in both libraries but the result is the same, default to english.
I only managed to get French description when I manually identify the movie. Sometimes.
Thing are hard to understand and debug, as you can see below : Main title is in english, but jellyfin also display the original title, main poster is english one, background image is french one, while my file is named in french...
@rkorn86 commented on GitHub (Aug 26, 2023):
Same problem here. I have everything set to german / germany. Manually updating metadata loads everything correctly. But after a while newly added movies/series are getting english metadata and I dont know where the heck these wrong metadata come from.
@facundobatista commented on GitHub (Nov 22, 2023):
Same problem here.
I have a movie (Source Code, imdb, themoviedb )currently with all information in Spanish. I go to edit its metadata, select "download preferred language" to English, click on the three buttons, "refresh metadata", "replace all metadata"... and after that, everything is still in Spanish :/
@PhilAllmighty commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2024):
Same. Trying to replace all metadata for some tv series with download prefered language to French or French Canada but it's still in English. Working fine with movie folder...
Jellyfin version 10.8.13 and also on 10.9.
@perdakovich commented on GitHub (May 29, 2024):
Same with Russian language on 10.9.3
@wisukind commented on GitHub (Jun 24, 2024):
Same here with French language. Films added seems to always prefer english metadata over localized (french) data. It seems the problem doesn't exist when films were not translated to other languages.
Using Jellyfin 10.9.6
@PhilAllmighty commented on GitHub (Aug 8, 2024):
Issue is still there on 10.9.9
@PhilAllmighty commented on GitHub (Sep 2, 2024):
Still there on 10.9.10. Don't know for you guys, but I have no issue with my movie folder... just with the TV Series one. If I can help you with something don't hesitate
@felix920506 commented on GitHub (Sep 3, 2024):
was this fixed by #12028 ?
@PhilAllmighty commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2024):
Not sure how I can test this... It's not in the latest image?
Tried this morning with 10.9.11 and no go
@felix920506 commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2024):
Please screenshot the order of metadata providers set for the library
@PhilAllmighty commented on GitHub (Sep 9, 2024):
@felix920506 commented on GitHub (Sep 9, 2024):
@PhilAllmighty does TheTVDB have metadata in your desired language for your media?
@PhilAllmighty commented on GitHub (Sep 9, 2024):
Yes
@jellyfin-bot commented on GitHub (Jan 8, 2025):
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@perdakovich commented on GitHub (Jan 8, 2025):
Personally my problem was that metadata provider was not available from my country (tmdb i'm looking at you) and I had to setup a proxy
@jayme-github commented on GitHub (Jan 15, 2025):
I had a similar case that was caused by metadata from
.nfofiles (from a Kodi export) taking precedence over whatever is configured in Jellyfin. Removing the.nfofiles and rescanning with "Replace all metadata" did the trick for me.@jellyfin-bot commented on GitHub (May 16, 2025):
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@gnouts commented on GitHub (May 16, 2025):
Not stale, jellyfin v10.10.7
@fazadaoc commented on GitHub (Jun 13, 2025):
following :)
I have some users with ui / language preferences set to other than English but they still see all titles and descriptions in English only
@felix920506 commented on GitHub (Jun 14, 2025):
@fazadaoc your problem is #2520 not this one
@Damien2417 commented on GitHub (Jun 19, 2025):
EDIT: ok I got it, just delete the existing NFO and poster in my film folder
Same issue here.
Jellyfin seem to just pick the most voted picture, whatever its language (it took the one with 8 vote here which is in english but the correct one in french have 0 vote), even if my preferred language in metadata is french
Jellyfin 10.10.7
@alexdufoi commented on GitHub (Aug 6, 2025):
Thank's for your comments.
Same root cause here, but the nfo where generated by Radarr with English parameter
Nfo deleted and regenerated corectly fixed it !
@gnouts commented on GitHub (Aug 6, 2025):
I can confirm using
{Movie.Title:FR}in Radarr media-management helps. (I had to manually move the folder for existing movies as Radarr only rename files, not folders). This is a nice workaround but sounds like a bug to me ? Jellyfin should search online before using the nfo.And Sonarr doesn't have that naming options ( 👀 https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/issues/269 ).
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@gnouts commented on GitHub (Dec 5, 2025):
My last comment still stand. Sonarr still doesn't provide the Radarr's workaround, and I believe it should be a fix on Jellyfin, no matter the file name.