# Selective subtitles

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-subtitles/30119>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [March 3, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-subtitles/30119 "2013-03-03T18:02:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Seyedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Seyedo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Seyedo)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-subtitles/30119/1 "2013-03-03T18:02:57Z")

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I am not sure if this has been mentioned before in this forum or not so I thought I give it a try and mention it.

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I would like plex to have the feature to download subtitles for a particular video on the spot, something like what XBMC does.

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Currently Plex's subtitles agens either don't download anything or download everything and get you banned from the subtitles website.

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I prefer Plex over XMBC any day of the week but one feature from XMBC which I think would improve Plex is the ability of XBMC to download subtitles on the spot for the movie or&nbsp;episode&nbsp;you choose.

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I always use subtitles so because looking for every subtitle on the web could be&nbsp;exhausting I open my videos with XBMC first and download the subtitles then use Plex to watch the movie with the subtitle.&nbsp;

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**Author:** ![tipex](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tipex/32/125_2.png) [@tipex](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tipex)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-subtitles/30119/2 "2013-03-03T19:02:33Z")

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This is the primairy reason why i still use xbmc, i need to be able to download subtitles from within the client.

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**Author:** ![atrus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/atrus/32/31_2.png) [@atrus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/atrus)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-subtitles/30119/3 "2013-03-07T10:17:15Z")

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A thread/feature request for this already exists, so please vote there.&nbsp;[http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/46215-very-popular-subtitle-plugin-in-pmc/](http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/46215-very-popular-subtitle-plugin-in-pmc/)

Closing this one.

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**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:** [January 10, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-subtitles/30119/4 "2021-01-10T19:09:21Z")

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Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate/implemented (via plugin, subtitles on-demand)

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**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:** [June 10, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-subtitles/30119/5 "2021-06-10T00:47:19Z")

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