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by akersten 23 days ago
My favorite feature of Plex is that it resets the subtitle track to `None` when the next episode in a series starts. I love manually switching on the same named subtitle track every 30 minutes! $749 is actually too cheap for such an amazing feature.
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anotherevan 23 days ago
Well Kodi will do that for you for free!

Even better, if your subtitle is labelled "English SDH" instead of just "English", when you enable subtitles it helpfully picks the first foreign language subtitle track instead — so you get the bonus feature of having the pause the show and manually changing it before continuing!

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m-s-y 23 days ago
Set your caption prefs globally at the account level in the web interface.

It’s not a server or session level setting for some reason.

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compsciphd 23 days ago
it is annoying that it can't remember it by series. Perhaps for a normal series I don't want captions but for a foreign language one I do. Perhaps for a foreign language that I'm good at I don't want it, but for others I do. Perhaps for a foreign language that I'm learning, I want it in that foreign language (ala english for english content) but dont want it for others.

Global "works", but remembering by series would be so much better.

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archi42 23 days ago
It's dumb the apps don't remember that, but I think it's not nice that you're being downvoted for neutrally pointing out a workaround.
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jonathanlydall 23 days ago
Yes, this annoys me too.

It was actually worse until about 6 months ago on tvOS, as the next episode started it wouldn’t be showing subtitles, but the selection menu would show the previous episode’s subtitle selection as still selected. You’d need to select none and then what you’d want. Fixed finally.

Overall I’m happy with Plex, been using it for over 15 years and got a lifetime PlexPass some years back which was worth it for skipping intros.

I have been occasionally annoyed when they’ve introduced some kind of “clutter” to my Home Screen, fortunately it’s all been removable and I can still make it show only my content. I just hope they don’t put something in that I can’t turn off.

I used to use Plex for all TV shows, but these days I have 3 online streaming subs so only use it for the few shows I watch that aren’t on one of those.

I don’t feel it’s reasonable that every content distributor wants to silo their content behind a different subscription just so they can avoid “sharing” revenue.

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