Ability to choose the language for movies and series titles

[kakesinfo (Axel)]

Are there plans to add to settings the ability to select a main language we would like the titles of movies and series to be shown in?

I don’t think it will be hard to implement since TMDB has the ability to provide all the translations. Having to store them in cache, or wherever you want, would not take that much space since it is just text. Moreover, many of those who are using Trakt - including me - are not native english speakers, and don’t know all the movies and series titles in english…

Some other apps like TV Time provide this ability, and I think it should be in Trakt.
It should be a top-of-the-list feature.

[bkoto (hildebread)]

They won’t.
It’s easier to use a third-party client which offers exactly that. I’m using seriesguide, but there are more apps out there offering trakt + localized titles and summary.

[subcentral]

I would like that option too. It is really strange for me to see a German, French or Italian movie with its English title I never heard of. Maybe not the same request, because I would like to have the original title name only.

[kakesinfo (Axel)]

Yeah, having only the orignal title could be perhaps a good middle-choice. Because when a saw a french movie with an English title, it is really weird

[kakesinfo (Axel)]

But they could easly do it ! Almost all titles are avalaible in multiple languages on TMDB, IMDB, etc

[bkoto (hildebread)]

I would think so too

[kakesinfo (Axel)]

Yes, exactly, they “just have to” use those translations and display them

[subcentral]

Can somebody from Trakt-Team comment? Tks.

Regards

[subcentral]

No comment from Trakt?

[kakesinfo (Axel)]

No reply from trakt team yet…

[lifeiscrazy (꧁『marr』)]

Well this is not the first topic about it. Maybe search the forums for older threads and see if there’s a reply from Justin.

Episode Names

I think we pull through the title from the data source (TMDB or TVDB), so if it’s numbers it should stay numbers. I’m guessing you’re meaning source in a different way. Also, TMDB uses episode numbers when there isn’t an official English title. I think the reason why we require English is because the accents and different characters can throw things off. If we took any language, we could end up with Greek or Arabic or Japanese characters. Also, since the developers primary language is Engli…

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Hi Sopherian. I understand your dissatisfaction. At this time we’re a small staff and primarily English speakers. In order for us to moderate and provide a quality product, we need to be able to understand what’s being posted both in comments and in the show or movie data. Another reason we want the titles to be in English is that many foreign languages have other characters that can make the searches even more difficult. Hopefully one day we’ll grow enough to be able to support multiple la…

Related;
http://forums.trakt.tv/t/feature-request-french-version-app-internationalisation/11294/3?u=lifeiscrazy

Spanish language implementation

Maybe one day down the line we’ll translate parts of the sites to other languages, but for now it’s in English. As of now, we’re a small team of 5 and are native English speakers.

Language support in Comments

Hi AP_CHIN! Glad to hear you’re liking Trakt. At this time we’re a small staff and primarily English speakers. In order for us to moderate and provide a quality product, we need to be able to understand what’s being posted both in comments and in the show or movie data. Hopefully one day we’ll grow enough to be able to support multiple languages.

[subcentral]

We only need movie title in other languages, nothing more. And this as a an option. First is English for all and if I as the user like original titles it will change on my profile only to the second title if any - which is original title.

[giolarochelle]

Same issue from my end.
I was looking for one of my favourite movie, “inquilino del terzo piano”, which is named in a title totally unknown to me in english.

The funny fact is that, as far as i know, trakt is mirroring TMDB site, whose implementation lists the movie title in local languages (italian in this example).

Would be great to fix this

[CanePlayz (Jacob P.)]

Good point! I’d love to be able to see either all titles in German or all original titles and not be forced to see all titles in English.

[subcentral]

Can Trakt team please consider this request again. Thank you. Again had a Swiss German movie with its Englis title which is really terrible.
Thanks.

[subcentral]

Rotten Tomatoes btw shows original title.

Bon Schuur Ticino | Rotten Tomatoes

[subcentral]

And Trakt a title nowbody knows.

Bonjour Switzerland (2023)

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[Lucastricker]

This option would be great. To be able to display titles in foreign languages, nothing more.
Because most of the time, foreign titles are very different with the translation of english titles.

I don’t suppose it would require any translation work on the part of the Trakt team, because it works when I search a movie or TV show with a French title. But as the results are only in English, I have to rely on the poster (when I know it) to find the right one.

[CanePlayz (Jacob P.)]

@Lucastricker

I don’t suppose it would require any translation work on the part of the Trakt team, because it works when I search a movie or TV show with a French title.

Yeah, TMDB has foreign titles