This is a big issue for me too. Most of my movies have multiple audio tracks and multiple subtitle tracks. The “names” or descriptions show up in apps like VLC, but I can’t tell what I’m selecting when I use the various Plex clients.
I would love to see this feature. This feature is what compelled me to look up how to even request a feature here on the forums. I have 4 commentary tracks for a particular movie, in addition to the standard audio, and all I see is a big list of “Unknown, unknown, unknown…” for audio selection. Having it read from the file metadata would be fantastic; I’d even settle for a freeform label created manually within the pms application if it came down to it.
Gave a “like” to the original post, because I think that’s how the voting works here. And +1, because I guess that’s a thing people do too.
This would be incredibly incredible and super duper useful! 
Posting to bring this back up so hopefully even more folks will “Like” the original post.
As someone who uses subtitles a lot that’s be incredible useful!
It’s surprising that PMS doesn’t take advantage of this free embedded metadata - especially considering that Plex otherwise goes to great (and sometimes, paid) lengths to find rich metadata to add to plain media files. It’d be really nice to select an audio or subtitle track and know in advance what to expect rather than the current roll-the-dice experience.
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Please, add this feature as one of the next.
Pleased to find others keen to have support for this. I too like to retain things like commentaries and various subtitle tracks, so to easily know which is which would be hugely beneficial.
This would definitely be useful! I love putting on the commentaries for the Lord of the Rings Movies, but each movie has 4 different commentaries. It would definitely be nice to see them listed as something other than they are in this photo
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Would be awsome.
Voting for this is the first thing I did after getting Plex Pass. Was pretty shocked that it isn’t already implemented.
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@RiptideMASTER said:
I’m not kidding. Seeing ↑ [this] ↑ when I’m trying to select a commentary audio track gets really, really old. Contrary to many forum suggestions, you can’t really standardize those.
If I wanted to play “memory” I’d go get a deck of cards.
Yes definitely being able to label various commentary tracks would be great. I’ve been waiting for such a long time to get a feature like this (and I’ve been using PLEX for quite a while).
Totally on board with this, so much of my dual-audio anime has “Signs” and “Full” subtitle tracks that it gets rather tiresome to have to rewind and switch
+1 Would really like this since certain TV shows also have commentary tracks and so on. (As well as multiple variants of the same language’s audio tracks.)
Please!!! Descriptive labeling for multiple audio tracks would be crucial!
FWIW, this is implemented in VLC (and likely many other media players) simply by reading the title metadata field from each track, both audio and subtitle. When backing up a dvd using dvdbackup on Linux, commentary tracks are often pre-populated with title=Director's Commentary in the metadata for the appropriate tracks in the VTS_0X_0.IFO file.
My backup procedure preserves this information throughout the encoding and muxing process, it’s available for use to Plex, but Plex does not use it )=
Here’s what mediainfo says about one such track from Fight Club:
Audio #3 ID : 4 Format : AAC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Format profile : LC Codec ID : 40 Duration : 2h 19mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 161 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Frame rate : 46.875 fps (1024 spf) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 161 MiB (9%) Title : Director's Commentary Language : English Default : No Alternate group : 1 Encoded date : UTC 1904-01-01 00:00:00 Tagged date : UTC 1904-01-01 00:00:00 Menus : 11
And here is how VLC presents all of the audio tracks in Fight Club:
This feature request is two years old, and still no love? smh.
I’m a big Star Wars fan, and the Star Wars Despecialized Trilogy comes with a TON of additional audio tracks, most of which are English.
Here is the list of audio tracks for just the BD25 (film-only) edition of “Star Wars”:
5.1 DTS-HD-MA [English] (1977 70mm six track mix)
2.0 DTS-HD-MA [English] (1977 35mm stereo mix)
1.0 DTS-HD-MA [English] (1977 35mm mono mix)
2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (1985 Laserdisc mix)
2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (1993 Laserdisc mix)
2.0 Dolby Digital [German] (1978 dub reconstruction)
2.0 Dolby Digital [French] (1977 dub)
2.0 Dolby Digital [Spanish] (1977 Castilian dub)
1.0 Dolby Digital [Spanish] (1980 Latino dub)
1.0 Dolby Digital [Portuguese] (1980s Brazilian dub)
2.0 Dolby Digital [Japanese] (1978 Dub)
2.0 Dolby Digital [Italian] (1977 dub)
2.0 Dolby Digital [Polish] (1995 Voiceover)
2.0 Dolby Digital [Czech] (1992 dub)
2.0 Dolby Digital [Hungarian] (1984 dub)
1.0 Dolby Digital [Russian] (recut SE dub)
1.0 Dolby Digital [Russian] (1980’s voiceover)
2.0 Dolby Digital [Ukranian] (recut SE dub)
2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (1993 LD Audio Commentary - silence filled with 1993 LD 2.0)
2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (2004 DVD Audio Commentary - recut to fit this release)
2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (2004 starwars.com Audio Commentary - recut to fit this release)
2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (2011 BD Archival Interviews Audio Commentary - recut to fit this release)
2.0 Dolby Digital [Isolated Score]
2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (Commentary For Visually Impaired)
Plex NEEDS this feature in being able to read the audio track titles if I am to make sense of which tracks are which.
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This is sorely necessary.
+1… after several years of waiting it apparently still hasn’t made the cut. Please bump this relatively simple addition to the UI up in the backlog
I’m disappointed to see that 2 years after this post, this still ISN’T a thing. This is such a needed feature.
