diff --git a/src/hooks/useMetadata.ts b/src/hooks/useMetadata.ts
index 291c8293..fa6c0707 100644
--- a/src/hooks/useMetadata.ts
+++ b/src/hooks/useMetadata.ts
@@ -125,9 +125,15 @@ export const useMetadata = ({ id, type, addonId }: UseMetadataProps): UseMetadat
 
   // Normalize anime subtypes to their base types for all internal logic.
   // anime.series behaves like series; anime.movie behaves like movie.
-  const normalizedType = type === 'anime.series' ? 'series'
-    : type === 'anime.movie' ? 'movie'
-    : type;
+  // Lowercase first — some addons use capitalized types (e.g. "Movie", "Series", "Other")
+  // which would break all type comparisons downstream.
+  const lowercasedType = type ? type.toLowerCase() : type;
+
+  // Normalize anime subtypes to their base types for all internal logic.
+  // anime.series behaves like series; anime.movie behaves like movie.
+  const normalizedType = lowercasedType === 'anime.series' ? 'series'
+    : lowercasedType === 'anime.movie' ? 'movie'
+    : lowercasedType;
 
   const [metadata, setMetadata] = useState<StreamingContent | null>(null);
   const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
diff --git a/src/services/catalog/search.ts b/src/services/catalog/search.ts
index b20a3af0..08ca0cac 100644
--- a/src/services/catalog/search.ts
+++ b/src/services/catalog/search.ts
@@ -321,9 +321,19 @@ async function searchAddonCatalog(
 
     const items = metas.map(meta => {
       const content = convertMetaToStreamingContent(meta, library);
-      content.addonId = manifest.id;
-      if (type && content.type !== type) {
-        content.type = type;
+      const addonSupportsMeta = Array.isArray(manifest.resources) && manifest.resources.some((resource: any) =>
+        resource === 'meta' || (typeof resource === 'object' && resource?.name === 'meta')
+      );
+
+      if (addonSupportsMeta) {
+        content.addonId = manifest.id;
+      }
+
+      const normalizedCatalogType = type ? type.toLowerCase() : type;
+      if (normalizedCatalogType && content.type !== normalizedCatalogType) {
+        content.type = normalizedCatalogType;
+      } else if (content.type) {
+        content.type = content.type.toLowerCase();
       }
       return content;
     });
diff --git a/src/services/catalogService.ts b/src/services/catalogService.ts
index 2cfce314..4e194767 100644
--- a/src/services/catalogService.ts
+++ b/src/services/catalogService.ts
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ class CatalogService implements CatalogLibraryState {
     return getCatalogByType(this.library, dataSourcePreference, type, genreFilter);
   }
 
-  async getDataSourcePreference() {
+  async getDataSourcePreference(): Promise<DataSource> {
     return getDataSourcePreference();
   }