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Defiantly something to consider. We currently only capture the primary title. This is the one IMDB uses when you view a given movie title.

I agree that I would like to see this in future fixes.

But, a temporary work around, that I just today figured out, is: 1. create XML metadata files for the foreign movies that just specify the correct language title. 2. Clear the existing metadata from the movie (using the mark to clear menu). 3. Run a Populate File Data 4. Run a Fetch Movie Data

Since Sapphire uses XML data over anything else when available, this changes the title of the show, but still keeps all the nice stuff like IMDB Top 250 Sorting.

The main problem with this is now you have XML files all over the place in your movie folder -- unless there is a way to put them all in their own folder, like the cover art from Sapphire 1.0b3, that I don't know about.

Step 2 shouldn't be necessary, and step 3 and 4 should be able to be done in a single import all data.

Alternatively, if you dislike XML files, you can exit Sapphire, and edit Library/Application Support/Sapphire/metadata.plist in Property List Editor (it is a binary file, so don't try a hex editor unless you really know what you are doing).

I put all those steps in because in my case many of my files are listed twice in the metadata (perhaps because my AFP mounts are in the movie folder?) and if you try to import without clearing all the data first it only modifies one record in that metadata.plist

to the same extent when I tried to modify the metadata.plist I only modified one so it actually made two separate listings in my virtual folder one with the foreign name,a nd one with the English name. Then when I went back and tried to edit both records it never cleared the foreign title record.

So the instructions I gave were excessive, but guarantee success.

Another option could be storing the AKA's as part of the film metadata and allowing the user to choose the film title via a right-click menu

Sapphire > Movies > Seven Samurai > AKA > Shichinin no samurai
                                          Seven Samurai
                                          Shichi-nin no samurai
                                          The Seven Samurai

I favour keeping things as much in the main Sapphire interface as much as possible and using XML files as little as possible.

Sapphire is a UI driven application and in terms of user centered design there is little point in having two points of entry, as this can lead to complications, both for the user and also for developers who need to keep track of the two.

Unfortunately there is only so much that can be done with the limited number of buttons on the apple remote, and also, of course, its use must be as intuitive as possible, but I think maximising it's use makes more sense than expecting non-power users to fiddle with the XML.