# Foreign audio smart collection bug

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/foreign-audio-smart-collection-bug/856024>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-docker\
**Created:** [October 7, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/foreign-audio-smart-collection-bug/856024 "2023-10-07T23:19:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dopeytree](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/dopeytree/32/19965_2.png) [@dopeytree](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dopeytree)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/foreign-audio-smart-collection-bug/856024/1 "2023-10-07T23:19:54Z")

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Server Version#: 1.32.7.7571  
Player Version#: 4.116.1

Ok tried to create a smart collection to show foreign films (i.e no english audio available) however what happens is this just collects any film with a foreign audio including films that also have more than one language and on is english.

I have tried adding another rule of ‘audio language is not :undermined audio’ but no film has that as an option some have ‘Unknown audio’ and plex doesn’t seem to know that ‘undermined audio’ should = ‘Unknown audio’.

Basically can you fix this ■■■■ so we can make a smart collection for foreign audio.  
Or you could allow us some more options for smart collections.  
So like if this do this. Plus remove any of this.  
So I could say if more than 1 audio track must not be english audio language

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/foreign-audio-smart-collection-bug/856024/2 "2023-10-07T23:26:39Z")

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advanced filter:  
`Audio Language` – `Is not` – `English`

works perfectly fine for me…

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As for filtering undetermined / unknown audio tracks – Plex basically just offers options of available audio tracks to be included/excluded with that filter. If you’ve got a movie with an `undetermined` audio track, you should get that option to filter – if you have a movie with an `unknown` audio track, you should get that option to filter… if none of those are present in your library, you cannot filter for that.

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**Author:** ![dopeytree](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/dopeytree/32/19965_2.png) [@dopeytree](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dopeytree)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/foreign-audio-smart-collection-bug/856024/3 "2023-10-07T23:38:17Z")

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sorry what are you talking about…

Plex should be capable of knowing that an audio track ‘Unknown audio’ should be picked up by the `undetermined audio track’ plex advanced filter. They literally mean the same thing. Otherwise why is it even in advanced filters if it has no advanced logic…

Perhaps you’ve not seen the list of languages ‘undetermined` audio track’ is literally an option someone has programmed into plex…

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**Author:** ![dopeytree](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/dopeytree/32/19965_2.png) [@dopeytree](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dopeytree)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/foreign-audio-smart-collection-bug/856024/4 "2023-10-07T23:43:13Z")

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Have found a workaround here:

 ![Screenshot 2023-10-08 at 00.41.01](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/6/a/6/6a6990fa5ae105eb5676f4a81f28eee585e9452d.jpeg)

However it then brings up another issue of why doesn’t plex let you correct audio language tags.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/foreign-audio-smart-collection-bug/856024/5 "2024-01-05T23:43:46Z")

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