# Plex will not recognize embedded audio language **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [February 21, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-will-not-recognize-embedded-audio-language/693166 "2021-02-21T10:27:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunshine852](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sunshine852](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sunshine852)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-will-not-recognize-embedded-audio-language/693166/1 "2021-02-21T10:27:58Z")
I have gone through and manually added the correct language tag to the audio stream of a series. Plex refuses to recognize it. VLC recognizes it just fine. This series has over 100 episodes and manually turning on subs in the web player (im using linux so i dont have other options), is a terrible terrible user experience. So far the more i have used Plex the less i have liked it. How on earth is it that Plex is still missing so many basic features? Like say turning on subs on a series by series basis, or even for a whole library? ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine852](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sunshine852](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sunshine852)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-will-not-recognize-embedded-audio-language/693166/2 "2021-02-21T10:31:59Z")
And yes i tried to dance already. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-will-not-recognize-embedded-audio-language/693166/3 "2021-02-21T12:01:25Z")
If you changed the language tags of your files, clicking `⋮` \> `Analyze` inside Plex (for the episode, season, show or library), this will re-load those parameters. For most users, the auto-selection of audio/subtitle tracks based on the track’s language covers all their use cases. There’s a feature suggestion to allow manually changing the default audio/subtitle tracks for an entire show or to remember the manually set audio/subtitle tracks from the previous episode (if manually changed). > [@\[Implemented\] Control subtitles on a per-series basis](https://forums.plex.tv/t/control-subtitles-on-a-per-series-basis/181400): > > I would love for a way to change all the default subtitles in a TV series at once. In the language settings, I have it to automatically enable subtitles if foreign audio is detected, however it sometimes displays subtitles for my purely-english shows anyways. The only way I have found to turn off subtitles is by manually going into each episode, of each season, of each TV series and selecting the drop-down subtitle box to “None”. If a TV show has 90 episodes… I have to select “None” 90 individu… > [@Select audio and subtitle tracks based on last episode watched of a TV Show in a Library](https://forums.plex.tv/t/select-audio-and-subtitle-tracks-based-on-last-episode-watched-of-a-tv-show-in-a-library/190566): > > Altough you can select a default audio and video for your whole account, would not make sense if plex would automatically select the audio and subtitle tracks based on last episode watched of a TV Show in a Library if the user have changed it from their default to a different one? Example: My default audio is English, but I prefer to watch some TV Shows from my Spanish Library in Spanish (most files are in Dual English and Spanish). Now I have to manually change the language of those TV shows … ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine852](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sunshine852](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sunshine852)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-will-not-recognize-embedded-audio-language/693166/4 "2021-02-21T12:11:33Z")
Tried that and the Plex Dance. No dice. However when i do use the analyze button it looks and feels like nothing happens. I already voted on the first of those feature suggestions. I would not mind so much if this was a newer service but Plex has been around for over a decade. Its not news that building a perfect solution for everyone is hard. What i dont understand is why when Plex fails to deal with sub or language configuration on a show it takes 4 clicks to fix manually!? FOR EVERY EPISODE! once every 20 minutes!!! ---
**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:** [February 21, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-will-not-recognize-embedded-audio-language/693166/5 "2021-02-21T12:51:42Z")
> [@Sunshine852](#): > > … when i do use the analyze button it looks and feels like nothing happens. Do you mean Plex is not picking up the corrected subtitle languages or it’s not changing the selected subtitle? Auto-selection for audio/subtitle tracks will only apply for items for which you have not yet manually selected an audio/subtitle track. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine852](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sunshine852](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sunshine852)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-will-not-recognize-embedded-audio-language/693166/6 "2021-02-21T12:59:34Z")
Plex is not pickup up the corrected _audio_ language. The subs are working fine and Plex seems to have picked up the corrected subs fine, since i had to correct those too. Actually it looks like about 25 episodes in Plex starts correctly reading the audio language and accordingly assigning the subs. I have setup auto-selection and it works fine. Except when Plex cant tell what the audio language is. (i have plex setup to have subs on non english content) ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine852](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sunshine852](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Sunshine852)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-will-not-recognize-embedded-audio-language/693166/7 "2021-02-21T13:24:54Z")
I have good news and bad news Good news is i figured out my problem. I had put the remake of my favourite series in to a folder within the directory where my favourite series is stored. Because the two have practically the same name, or because i had manually matched it in Plex, Plex thought that the remake was in fact the first 12 episodes of the series. Which is why when i corrected the name of the series the problem did not go away, since Plex was looking at a different set of files than the ones i was manipulating, this is also why from episode 13 onward everything is fine, because then its looking at the right files. The bad news is that i have wasted your time Tom80H and for that i am sorry ☹ What would be best practice for this situation? Ill mark this as solved but should i replace my initial post with an explanation or just edit it and add one? Im really sorry, i was having a bad day and really wanted to relax with my favourite series, and after wrestling with the tools to fix my underlying issue in my video files having Plex not reflect these changes no matter what i did was very frustrating. There are still a lot of things about Plex that really get my goose but i can live with having to make sure my audio streams are correctly labeled (though i still want a hotkey for changing subs in web player and to be able to define language settings by series and library). Thank you for all your help and patience! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-will-not-recognize-embedded-audio-language/693166/8 "2021-05-22T13:25:17Z")
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