Currently one can say if they want subtitles to be enabled or disabled for a specified language. This isn’t great usability if a) one doesn’t want subtitles on for that series (say when I watch jeopardy, dont want spoilers as I play along) b) it has multiple subtitles for said language (forced, r…

Try editing the show at its highest level. Go to the Advanced tab. Scroll down.

ok, that seems to help for disabling subtitles in jeopardy, but unsure it helps when I want english subtitles by default, but it always picks the wrong one and it should be able to learn that I always select a different one at a common index.

If this is local or embedded subtitles, make sure they’re properly tagged. Plex supports/reads tags from embedded subtitles for forced and SDH subtitles (same for local subtitles if the files are named properly). In that case Plex should pick up the regular or forced subtitles according to your ac…

hmm, never paid close to attention to mkvtoolnix but I do it see it has “hearing impaired flag” (presume for SDH) “visually impaired flag” (presumambly for audio description tracks), unsure what “test description” is (probably another possibility for SDH?). How does plex distinguish between SDH and…

Give SDH tracks the title “SDH”. If you want, you can also enable the “Hearing impaired” flag. But as of now, Plex only sees the track title. [grafik]

so I can see plex identifying things as SDH, but dont see how to automatically select them (or not select them)

Per series subtitle configurations

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