Submitted 2 months ago by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Hello! I have a problem: sometimes I instinctively refer to a movie by the English name (for example, Star Wars), but if I search for it in jellyfin it is not found, as the italian translated name is “Guerre Stellari”. I’d like to be able to search for it with both the original name and the translated name. The original name is present in the metadata, it just isn’t used as a search parameter. Is there a way?
Try disabling the metadata downloaders.
But the metadata is handy on so many levels.
I agree with OP, there needs to be an option to search both original title, translated title and maybe even descriptions.
I’m not saying this is the fix. This is a debugging step to see what the issue is if it’s not sourcing the local metadata.
I could be wrong, but I think Jellyfin has an option to give something a sort name. So while it would display the Italian name it would be sorted alphabetically by the name you type in.
This is so movies will be sorted in order. I’m not sure if it will work, but please give it a try and let us know.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It works for me. But only for some movies.
For instance “terroríficamente muertos” is the spanish name for “evil dead”. And I can search both titles and jellyfin finds the movie.
I have jellyfin and metadata download set to spanish. It doesn’t seem to work with all movies though. Maybe some movies do include a secondary title in the metadata and that’s what’s being used?
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Completelt off topic but that seems like a long title for two relatively simple short words in english, does it mean something else?
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s also just two words. Spanish worlds tend to be longer than english ones.
“Muertos” is a direct translation of “dead”.
“Evil” would be “maligno”, but “terroríficamente” was used "which would be like “terrifying”.
Anyway spanish translations used to change a lot the titles of the movies back in the day, most famously “die hard” is “la jungla de cristal” here.
I’ve heard that they did this because direct translations or english titles didn’t work as well here, and a change in the title made more people want to watch the movie.
Nowadays this happens way less, most titles are direct translations or use their english title directly.