+1 was surprised this feature wasn’t available when I ripped some of my own content today and lovingly added all the mkv metadata for commentary and so on…
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This should not be very difficult to implement. Use track name and language if available. Fallback to language only.
Hey guys, just wanted to share some background on this request. We already read the stream name/title for embedded audio and subtitle streams when it’s available (you can see them in the item XML). We just don’t yet expose them in the UI. An engineer has worked on having PMS sanitize them some before we start exposing them in clients because they’re often really poor. (Like, having an English, DTS audio stream titled with a super redundant English DTS 5.1 or having every stream title just be the filename like Avatar.2009.1080p.Bluray.h264.dts.dd.C00LK1DZ.mkv, etc.). So while it might appear to be simple, we have to take into consideration all the different types of media (and their sources) when exposing them in the UI. We have something in an internal testing build for server, but no timeline if/when it gets merged and released. Additionally, each client app would need to be updated to actually make use of this functionality. I don’t have any timelines to offer for when any of that would get done, but I agree this would be very convenient.
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I’d really like to see this feature. I’m not sure why there’s an issue with displaying it? Just use a “Language (Name/Description)” format? I don’t think that poor track metadata should be Plex’ concern - just show it. If people don’t like it, there’s plenty of tools that can edit them easily (MKVtools is excellent, for example). I’d argue that it’s far more worthwhile for this feature to be available to those who want it than to err on the side of caution and have nobody with the feature. If in doubt, just make it an option somewhere. 
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Thanks for the info, kinoCharlino.
Another related difficulty is when a title contains multiple AUDIO and SUBTITLE tracks. It becomes unnecessarily difficult to select the proper paired streams. Suppose there are three audio tracks: a FEATURE 5.1 audio track and two COMMENTARY audio tracks. But there are only two SUBTITLE tracks; one for the FEATURE and one for the SECOND COMMENTARY track but not the first. In this case and many others, there’s no way of knowing which streams are paired without frustratingly fiddling and fumbling through multiple blind combos, not to mention the already-defined issue of trying to select a desired audio track alone.
I take the time to name all audio and subtitle streams, awaiting the day my meticulously-labeled track names will be visible on clients. I understand probably not everyone does. So, devs have to account for all cases and design an elegant approach.
Until that time, perhaps you fine Plex folks could make “Reveal Track Names” an Early Access server setting for Plex Pass members with the caveat that UNDEFINED names may be messy. SOME name is better than the guessing game we must currently endure:
Thanks for such a powerful, wonderful, cost-friendly tool. 
They’ve been ‘thinking about it’ now for 4 years (in this thread, maybe more in countless others)…
Should be any day now, right?
When I received this announcement via Plex Server today, I couldn’t help but wonder “isn’t being able to see my audio and subtitle track names a more critical, foundational, and likely EASIER feature to deploy than this eye candy?”
#disappointedandfrustrated
+1 I’ve converted my workout dvds to play on plex and workout dvds often contain multiple audio tracks per video (music & talking, just cues, no music, etc.), so cycling through them makes VLC better as it just shows the names (vlc is open source, maybe take a peek at their code).
Here is an “trivial” example from VLC for Subtitles.
In Plex Web interface and with a Roku player all I see is “English” repeated twice.
Not having this information is a significant usability loss.
This information should exist for Video, Audio, and Subtitle tracks.
I was happily using Orca’s plex app for Samsung because it displayed this information. Now that I have a new Sony 4k TV which I’m using as a monitor, the actual Plex build doesn’t display this critical info because it’s not “sanitized?” This is completely ridiculous and I’m no longer going to use Plex as a result.
Just adding my voice to the many asking for this ultra basic feature.
Quality of metadata should not be Plex’s concern. That is the user’s concern.
Considering that there have been multiple requests for this (going back to 2009 based on what I can see here on the forum), the Plex team has to know that there is plenty of demand.
A request for this feature exists already in the appropriate section of the forums, and it has accumulated some votes already.
Therefore this one is closed.
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