Currently if you have a movie with multiple audio tracks or multiple subtitles that are the same language there’s no way to differentiate between them, as Plex doesn’t display the embedded information, just the language.
For example for a movie you might have the standard audio track, a commentary track, and an alternate commentary track. Currently you would just see 3 audio tracks with no way to tell which is which without playing the movie and switching between them until you find the one you want.
This also applies to subtitles. You might have a standard English subtitle, a fansub subtitle, a written text only subtitle, and a SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing) subtitle. But again, you’d only see 4 English subtitles and it would be difficult to tell which one you’ve picked without viewing for a while.
TL;DR Please expose the audio track and subtitle names in Plex clients.
Related : https://forums.plex.tv/topic/76236-add-support-for-indicating-if-subtitle-is-hisdh-and-forced/
IMO for embedded tracks, there might be similar solutions here.
Thanks for that link, I didn’t see that in my searching. It’s a simple request but would save us so much headache
Make this switchable.
So the average user who cannot be arsed to edit and who got all his movies from TPB is not forced to see all subtitle tracks named like
- [!!awesome release group!!] english subbed by AWESOME R3L345R!!
- [!!awesome release group!!] dutch subbed by AWESOME R3L345R!!
- [!!awesome release group!!] suaheli subbed by AWESOME R3L345R!!
;-)
An option to turn this on or off makes sense, for users who don’t need that extra information.
This already works in XBMC, for what it's worth. I wouldn't think this would be massively difficult to bring over.
This already works in XBMC, for what it's worth. I wouldn't think this would be massively difficult to bring over.
XBMC / PHT isn't the problem -- it's the server side implementation and the other clients that would need the work.
This is very annoying, My rips are in MKV format and many of the bluerays come with commentary tracks and there is no way to tell which one is which.
If you display the XML for the movie you will see that the audio part has a "title" which is empty, but of course there is noway to modify the generated XML AFAIK.
This would be useful. Example I've encountered. Watching Game of Thrones. I don't want to entire show with the subtitles, only the Valyrian speaking parts but there is no way to tell which is which since both subtitle will simply show "English"
This would be useful. Example I've encountered. Watching Game of Thrones. I don't want to entire show with the subtitles, only the Valyrian speaking parts but there is no way to tell which is which since both subtitle will simply show "English"
Strictly speaking, the 'valyrian' translation sub stream should be marked as 'forced' then. The forced flag though can only be present in mkvs...
But if your files are indeed mkv's you can set the forced flag with the mkvmerge header editor. The 'forced' flag is shown by plex. This way you can select the right subtitle stream for now.
I'd most definitely like to see this. I have movies with multiple subtitles, including some that are automatically downloaded for me, and sometimes it takes several attempts to find the right one when starting a movie.
Same here, this feature should be a must. I hope the Plex devs are reading this thread.
+1
This feat is much needed, indeed!
I was going to start a thread on this subject... turns out you all beat me to it.
I was a naming convention for srt files that is free-form. If I put it in something like moviename.[aaabbbccc].srt then everything in the square brackets should transfer to the interface, no modifications. Doesn't have to be square brackets, could be anything. But I may have multiple english subs, named (if I could name them) like "Non-English into English", "All into English", and even "All into English w/audio details".
The subtitles websites really should have came up with some sort of classification scheme themselves years ago, but they didn't and never will. Plex shouldn't have to come up with that either. Just give me the power to name them, and I'll do the work myself.
+1
I would love to see this also
+1 would love to see this feature added.
I've been using mkvmerge to give descriptive names to the audio/subtitle tracks for my MKVs, and these are easily read by VLC, but as mentioned in this thread plex does not read the name. This would be a great add to the user experience of plex
Has there been any update on this request?
I have hundreds of movies with multiple audio tracks, it would be really helpful to be able to see the audio names of the tracks. I am able to include the names via Handbrake and they show up in VLC.
Is there maybe another trick to get the audio track names in there?
Thanks!
Cmon Plex devs! This would be such an improvement to the user experience! On a movie with multiple audio tracks, how can a viewer tell which is which? Alternate language audio, discriptive audio tracks for sight-impaired, multiple commentary tracks, film score tracks, subtitles for hearing impaired non-native or alien languages and even sing-along! There are so many special features that are clearly described in the MKV attributes, but currently hidden behind the generic and undescriptive track names in Plex.
As someone who routinely has 4-6 Audio tracks for every movie in my Library I would really appreciate it if Plex would support, read and display the Track names I have set in my media.
In a typical Library file I have the following Audio.
DHT-HD
AC3
AAC Surround
AAC Stereo
Plus any commentary tracks which can be as many as 3 or four more tracks.
I use the following naming conventions and most every movie has these where available or applicable and AACs created from Originally available tracks.
DHT-HD Main
AC3 Main
AAC 5.1 Main
AAC 2.0 Main
Commentary - Title (Director or Actor) w/ Names (these are all AAC tracks)
As it stands I have to Count Audios to find the Commentary Tracks and hope I don't have an Extra Main Audio in there.
The data is in the track it should not be so difficult to read this info and just let the Server use the Track ID to know what to do with it.
