Directors Commentary, Dubs, etc.I'd love the ability to load external audio tracks for directors commentaries, things like MST3K-style alternate audios, dubs, etc. Sometimes these are in MKV, but sometimes you find them as separate files. Would love to be able to play simultaneously!

Since you can do this on the fly in VLC, not having this feature makes plex an inferior product. And since currently 675 Rifftrax tracks and I have 240 DVD commentary tracks on storage, I am not going to remux 900 movies by hand.

I think it would be great for foreign language, for example, spanish or french audio instead.

Any Updates or Progress on this or its just a old dead suggestion ?

I really whish there were any news or progress on this, but I am afraid there aren’t any :slightly_frowning_face:

who ever gets external audio first, plex or emby, would get my money first. i use kodi on a raspberry pi and does fine for 1080p lossless video and allows me to get tracks that my buddies from other countries and have no issues at all playing the external .ac3 file along side the video. but some tv’…

This would be great for users that want to keep mkv’s unotuched for several reasons, but need to convert audio tracks from DTS to DD (Samsung TVs from 2018 and later do not support DTS decoding).

Some possible supportive causes, some have already been mentioned - 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 The video has a new language track or commenta…

Are we going to celebrate the seven-year anniversary of this feature request this August?

This would be very useful for plex running on low power nas devices or the Nvidia shield. We could convert the tracks to mp3 or aac for mobile as the hardware transcode works on video but the CPU can’t jero up with the audio conversion.

Alternate [external] Audio Tracks

Feature Suggestions

Saoneth March 22, 2019, 1:23pm 10

You can try this: https://forums.plex.tv/t/release-external-audio-track-support/390714

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Alternate [external] Audio Tracks

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