Shurly one is more used then the other as it is a Finland movie?
I would put this in the info field

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I think it's overkill to assign multiple individual languages to one audio track. Those rare cases could be solved, if we'd had a language option "Multi". With that we can not track the actual languages used. But at least we could track the fact, that it is more than one.

"Night On Earth" is an other such example.

Agreed. Or the "Haschisch" Documentary. 

agreed on multi

If I may ask what seems to me to be a pertinent question. What Language(s) does the DVD Distributor list for the Disc, that's the key to the languages. the disc, not the film. In the US one that comes to mind is The Longest Day, Lots of language in German and English in the script, but the disc is STILL English. I fear if you wish to start defining every piece of trivia related to any given film we will wind up with data lock, a system so complex and difficult for ANY user to simply make use of, or enter the data...they simply won't.

We have an adage in the U.S that i learned many years ago, KISS the customer(user); Keep It Simple, Stupid. It is all too true. Way back when I was still living in a cave    I remember a company that decided to start selling computers in specialized stores, they shall remain nameless but the computer was the old TRS-80 . They thought they were really smart and hard data analysts as salesman, the poor customers eyes would simply glaze over when the salesman did a memory dump on them, it took them a long time to figure it out. This is a road I am not sure is advisable to go down. Just a thought.

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What Language(s) does the DVD Distributor list for the Disc, that's the key to the languages.

In my opinion it's not! For example the German DVD of "Quest for Fire" lists German as language even though not a single word in German is spoken during the whole movie. It should be definitely marked  as "Other" in profiler. Also "Night On Earth" is definitely not "English". "Other" (or possibly "Multi" in the future) is the much better choice.

Quoting RHo:

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I think it's overkill to assign multiple individual languages to one audio track. Those rare cases could be solved, if we'd had a language option "Multi". With that we can not track the actual languages used. But at least we could track the fact, that it is more than one.

"Night On Earth" is an other such example.

I like the 'multi' idea.

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE is another example. Roughly one third in Polish and two thirds in French. The back cover of the Criterion disk says it's "In Polish and French with optional English subtitles". The audio track is encoded on to the disc as Polish 2.0 Surround.


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Quoting skipnet50:

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What Language(s) does the DVD Distributor list for the Disc, that's the key to the languages.

In my opinion it's not! For example the German DVD of "Quest for Fire" lists German as language even though not a single word in German is spoken during the whole movie. It should be definitely marked  as "Other" in profiler. Also "Night On Earth" is definitely not "English". "Other" (or possibly "Multi" in the future) is the much better choice.

Yes, I have seen plenty of UK discs of foreign movies where they are just lazily encoded onto the disc as English 5.1 or whatever, even though the films themselves are French, German, Danish, etc.

Babel is another recent title that uses English, Morrocan, Spanish and Japanese more or less equally throughout the movie. The main audio track for this however states English for this option. So the age old question is "as credited" vs. what's actually on the film.