Finally Canceled Plex Pass

General Discussions
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Finally happened, I got to my wits end with Plex Subtitles. The Mrs is ESL and really likes to have subtitles when we watch shows together, I don’t care so much on the go.

The only reason I had the Plex Pass was to consolidate all my systems down to one but with the atrocious accuracy in the downloaded subs (I think one in ten we try is actually the right show and in sync, often outright the wrong show for older shows).

Kodi just does it better, for free, I can see what is out there for subs and choose one. If the exact rip does not exist you can atleast get a DVD Rip for your DVD Rip etc they usually line up 99% at least.

I would LOVE to get Plex Pass again if they improve the subtitle system but it is USELESS in it’s current iteration. The only thing I might miss is running the app natively on my phone but I can still just open a browser and get basically the same performance from my phone for half a step more.

PLEASE make the Subtitle system useable, you have automated it so much that when the system invariably makes a mistake it is way too much of a headache to fix. I am a Sys Admin and I find it a pain in the ass…

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Ok so Kodi you manually pick a subtitle and Plex does it automatically!
Is that’s how you have it working ??

I am interested as I like english subtitles for my english shows.

If I d/l an MKV and the subtitle (srt) is in the container I can extract it while remuxing to mp4. and works well as it is obviously the corect sub.

But if the d/l does not have subs on board it is guess work getting the right one.

I use sublight and filebot trying to get 3 versions - .srt, .eng.srt, .en.srt

I understand why subs are outta sync but would love a easier way to get the right one.

Downloaded title like myfavshow.S03E06.720p.SRTsubs.WEB-DL.DD.5.1.H.264-QOQ-blablabla would be great!!

Or is there something like this in place?

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Spike,

Yeah Kodi just queries the search and returns the results and lets you choose which one you want then stores a single external sub so if you choose a new one it replaces the old one. It has a set folder it looks in for physical sub files that it matches with the show name or you can have them in the same folder with the same name and it will find it.

It is just so much easier to manage and if you don’t need the remote viewing options then your good to go with Kodi.

I use Plex for my music when I am on the go and some shows when it’s slow at work (like now!) but I don’t need the pass to do it as I can just open a browser.

With Plex when it auto-downloads it is damn near impossible to even find which file it is without having to break out file utilities such as Windows GREP and I do that all day at work. I do not want to do that for the Mrs when I get home because the subtitle on the show we’re watching is out of sync.

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FYI, a PlexPass subscription is not required for any subtitle feature/automation

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So it isn’t, I must have been confused with the Lyrics.

Was it always not a part of PlexPass or did they change it part way?

So really the only loss of disabling it is I can’t watch it on my phone natively and some friends who leech with their Roku won’t be able to or can remote devices still hook in now without the Pass?

If they were to fix the Subtitles and it all worked I would still happily resub and use it exclusively.

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Answering my own question, Native Devices can still connect but there is a one time fee for the end user who is using it if they don’t have a PlexPass

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My biggest issue is a lack of subtitle offset. In Kodi you can pull any sub. If it matches, great. If it doesn’t you can set an audio time offset till it matches ±120 seconds I believe.

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@DeusBlu said:
Spike,

Yeah Kodi just queries the search and returns the results and lets you choose which one you want then stores a single external sub so if you choose a new one it replaces the old one. It has a set folder it looks in for physical sub files that it matches with the show name or you can have them in the same folder with the same name and it will find it.

It is just so much easier to manage and if you don’t need the remote viewing options then your good to go with Kodi.

I use Plex for my music when I am on the go and some shows when it’s slow at work (like now!) but I don’t need the pass to do it as I can just open a browser.

With Plex when it auto-downloads it is damn near impossible to even find which file it is without having to break out file utilities such as Windows GREP and I do that all day at work. I do not want to do that for the Mrs when I get home because the subtitle on the show we’re watching is out of sync.

Ok then if i setup kodi it will get me the right srt files to watch on plex??

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I use Subzero for my subtitles, works great and I never mess with anything. Any reason why you haven’t tried it?

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@DeusBlu said:
Was it always not a part of PlexPass or did they change it part way?

Subtitles have always been in the public Plex Server releases - never required any payment.

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@kegobeer-plex I just don’t want to be using a bunch of different systems when I don’t need to but I can check it out. After running systems all day at work when I get home I oft want to just relax and watch something rather than meddle with more systems

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@DeusBlu said:
@kegobeer-plex I just don’t want to be using a bunch of different systems when I don’t need to but I can check it out. After running systems all day at work when I get home I oft want to just relax and watch something rather than meddle with more systems

This isn’t a different system. It’s a Plex Channel. You add it, configure it, then leave it alone. Search the forum for subzero and you’ll find it.

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@kegobeer-plex thanks I will check it out!