Frustrating subtitle settings

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I’m having a really frustrating time with my subtitle settings and can’t seem to get them to work correctly. I watch a lot of stuff in English and a fair amount of foreign language stuff too. What I want is for my media to play in its original language (so English for most stuff but say, Japanese for manga, etc). If it’s going to be playing in a foreign language, I want subtitles in English; if it’s in English, I don’t want subtitles at all.

The trouble is that I can’t seem to make the settings do that. If I set it to prefer audio tracks in English, then I end up with dubbed instead of subbed manga and world cinema. If I tell it to prefer audio tracks in “none”, I tend to get the right audio but, if I then set subtitles to “English”, I get subtitles for everything, not just the foreign language stuff. I really don’t want to have to toggle the subtitles off for every English show or movie I watch.

Can anyone help me get this right? Cheers.

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The sad answer is you cannot do this.
Neither with Plex nor other players (at least none that I’m aware of).
It’s just too many if-thens for the automatic audio and subtitle track selection. Your best shot might actually be to manually set the language in Plex for those when you add new media.

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Ah, nevermind. Thanks for the swift reply.

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