I would love for a way to change all the default subtitles in a TV series at once. In the language settings, I have it to automatically enable subtitles if foreign audio is detected, however it sometimes displays subtitles for my purely-english shows anyways. The only way I have found to turn off s…

Another vote for this feature. It would also be nice if Plex would just read the stream labels in Matroska files and display them – so I don’t have to guess which “English” option is full subs and which is only songs and signs, or which is normal captions and which is SDH captions.

Since someone else just tried to start a similar thread and it got locked, I’ll add a bit to this one. It occurred to me recently that Plex apparently already handles this with multi-part video files, since the documentation requires that both files have the same audio and subtitle tracks. The bare…

Hello, does anyone know if this feature will be added one day?

We really need this feature!! Anime is the most obvious use case, but there’s tons of situations where MKVs with subs/dubs in the same file will have the same problem. Also, displaying the label from the MKV for the audio/sub tracks is a no-brainer improvement. It would be best if the language/subs…

Plex support, could we have a reply from you please?

This is very needed. I prefer seeing the videos in their original language, but some series are very well dubbed in my native language and I would love to be able to set the settings per series.

Should be simple, any progress on this?

Same here this is REALLY needed. Any progress about that? Does the dev even consider this request? Nice day you all

[Implemented] Control subtitles on a per-series basis

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iwalton3 May 16, 2019, 3:06am 12

While not as ideal, I did make a python script to automate this for anime. It allows you to set an entire series as dubbed or subbed all at once.

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[Implemented] Control subtitles on a per-series basis

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