Allow multiple audio tracks for a video title in separate files

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Plex can detect external subtitle files and allow using them during playback

Similar abilities for external audio tracks would be highly appreciated

Possible use cases might be -

  1. A certain video title has an improved audio source in a different file, may a be a different surround sound mix or a remastered audio track. The feature allow their integration easily

  2. The video has a new language track or commentary track, previously not available

  3. The system is incapable of correctly decoding existing track, so a custom transcoded or downmixed track can solve many quality issue

  4. Doing a downmixing or transcoding of existing multichannel audio, then applying some effects for dialogue clarity or volume normalization is quite common for a little advanced user like me. So, being able to use these modified tracks as external audio files can actually quite handy

  5. Finally offloading transcoding job and saving files permanently will reduce redundant server processing load

I hope people still won’t consider it a too advanced feature!

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A request for the same feature exists already, and it has more votes.

Therefore this one is closed.
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