For some movies I have multiple external english .srt subtitle files. One may be an SDH type. Which includes the name of the person speaking or/and can include background sounds. One may be a non-hearing impaired english sub file. When playing a movie I can choose between the subtitle files but t…

I realize you are just pointing the OP to a feature request but as of now that is only for internal tracks (as far as I can tell) and it is actually currently being implemented. It’s currently implemented in the hosted web app. You can see it if the file has been analyzed and the information is in…

Thanks! I will give this a shot. Yes, all the subtitles are external as shown in the attached picture.

[image] shark2k: The other option is they give us admins some way to modify the text in the database for at least external subtitles. Even easier would be if like extras we used -forced, -SDH, and display that instead of the SRT External, would show (SRT-Forced) or (SRT-SDH) so a file name…

Yeah, I mentioned that in my original post as they already support that in the current naming convention (which you can see in my original post). I can’t remember if I tried to put sdh in the filename for external SDH subs, but I know that hi.eng.srt (like I show in my first post) works to be picke…

Your Hi works most likely because that is a language code.

But the language is coming up properly as English and I believe if I did it the opposite way (movie.eng.hi.srt) it comes up unknown language. So either Plex just doesn’t recognize HI as a language code or I don’t know. -Shark2k

I tried renaming using movie date.hi.eng.srt I am not seeing any change in plex. They still remain English (SRT External) I opened the movie in: The plex.app https://app.plex.tv/desktop#!/server/ http://127.0.0.1:32400/web/index.html#

I did cast a vote for that feature. I have to say that the length of time it takes for apparently simply additions (6 years) dissuades my investment.

How to distinguish between multiple external eng.srt files

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

beckfield August 10, 2020, 5:05pm 2

Unfortunately not. There is a feature request that you might want to consider voting for.

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How to distinguish between multiple external eng.srt files

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