Plex is great, but the subtitle support is really sub par compared to alternatives.
I have some suggestions on how this could be improved:
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Allow for bulk subtitle searching as a scheduled task.
Reason: Especially for TV shows, when the media is first added to library, there may not be subtitles available yet. The agent finds no subtitles and never searches again. The only way to make it search is by going to the web interface and force a refresh (not available through clients). As a scheduled task, a subtitle search could be triggered later when subtitles are indeed available. -
Allow for retrieving a different subtitle.
Reason: I don’t know why, but very frequently, the subtitle downloaded by plex is not the right one. If so, I’m stuck. No way to change it. I’m forever stuck with that wrong subtitle (unless I manually try to find it and delete it, but that’s not straightforward and a is a pain) -
In the clients, allow for initiating a subtitle search (or a refresh).
Reason: 99% of the time I’m using plex on a client (roku, android, firetv, etc.). If I try to watch a show and realize there is no subtitle for it (which is 90% of the time due to reason explained in item #1 above), I have to go find a computer, open the web interface, hit refresh and hope to god that it retrieves the right subtitle.
If the wrong subtitle is retrieved, I often fire up xbmc/kodi because it has excellent subtitle support.
Anyone who agrees with the above suggestions, please like this post, and not one of the comments below. If you +1, that’s OK, but please make sure you “like” this post as well, because that’s all that matters to the plex team.
Thanks
