useful for commentary tracksWith Mike Nelson's [Rifftrax](http://www.rifftrax.com/) becoming more popular, and the lack of commentaries on most rips of movies, the ability to sync with an external mp3 would be really useful, I think. essentially you could have a format such as: VideoName.avi …

@cayars said: BTW, does anyone know of any streaming software similar to Plex that does anything like this? VLC does that perfectly. Well, maybe it’s not very similar to Plex, but it can stream

LinkSatonaka It really sounds like you need to upgrade your “hunk of junk” more than anything else. :slight_smile: If you did this your problems would go away for the most part. With any decent CPU running on a PC you should be able to have several audio transcodes at the same time since they don’…

@cayars said: So don’t let me or anyone else talk you out of a feature request just because we don’t agree with the idea! I’ll second that one.

I’d like to list a few use cases that may demonstrate why external audio tracks are useful and why remuxing might not always be practical. Consider a rip of BD that has no commentary track. I also have a DVD of the same movie with a commentary track. I don’t wan to keep two rips. I’d rather have …

Looking to see if Plex had added this 8 years later, glad to see discussion is going well. To answer the question of So again, I’m asking what is the purpose of doing this? What do you possibly gain from doing it vs pre processing your files automatically and added the track so it can direct play …

So we still dont have a solution for this problem? Geez, plex is really catching on slow.

+1 on requesting this feature in Plex. Atleast be able to play external files that are already in sync, adding resyncing options would just be a bonus! Remuxing the track into the vide file isn’t an elegant solution for many situations. For my example, I have a number of movies which I’d like to k…

+1 in 2018 I especially want the feature in Plex Cloud because the remuxing solution is a huge pain there as opposed to just uploading an additional audio track.

Just want to link to the feature request and encourage people to click “Like” to vote for it: forums.plex.tv/discussion/46122/alternate-external-audio-tracks

Play external audio files in sync with video

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Saoneth March 22, 2019, 1:16pm 87

You can try this: https://forums.plex.tv/t/release-external-audio-track-support/390714

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