Audio track name inside mkv

[Odiozzo 1]

Hello!

 

First of all, I'd like to thank you guys for a great work you're doing with Emby server! Thumbs-up!

I'm not 100% sure if this section is the right one for my post (it may be considered as a minor bug report as well, imho).

As I'm learning languages, I have in my collection movies with more than one audio track in them (like original track, different variants of dubbing, comments etc) and sometimes its really hard to tell which track to select, because Emby only displays some tech details and language in info field/track selection. And unfortunately it's not enough when you have multi-track files. Some pictures to illustrate this situation:

 

MKV tool shows this:

 

 

In Media Player Classic, when you go to audio track selection, track names are shown correctly

 

 

But in Emby server only the tech part is actually visible, and the track name seems to be a compilation of codec, profile and language fields and not the actual track name stored in the name tag:

 

 

Sometimes it could be really annoying (even enough to force me outta shadows, register on this forum and make this post   ) like in case of the file in example above, which have 8 audio tracks.  The question is: is it possible to make Emby show a liitle bit more info on audio tracks inside mkv containers or make it show content of the name tag as track title?

 

Best regards,

Denis

 

[ebr 15679]

Hi.  This feature already exists.  Please explore the advanced tab of Library setup in the dashboard.

 

Thanks.

[Mkilbride 83]

No, it really doesn't.  All it does is relabel your subtitles incorrectly.

[ebr 15679]

No, it really doesn't.  All it does is relabel your subtitles incorrectly.

 

His specific request:

 

 

The question is: is it possible to make Emby show a liitle bit more info on audio tracks inside mkv containers or make it show content of the name tag as track title?

 

Does exist...

 

[robert powell 8]

On 6/6/2020 at 8:40 AM, ebr said:

 

His specific request:

 

 

 

Does exist...

it exists in the web app, yes, but it does not exist The Roku app. i cant say if other app platforms have it or not. I would like for this to be available in the Roku app as i do not use my computer to watch movies.

 

[ebr 15679]

On 6/18/2020 at 8:39 AM, robert powell said:

it exists in the web app, yes, but it does not exist The Roku app.

Hi.  This same functionality is available in the Roku app as well.  Where specifically, are you having an issue?

[RaptorCentauri 56]

What you are looking for is on the server-side. Library -> Advanced -> Embedded Track Title Display -> Prefer Embedded Titles

[aaronsomek 13]

On 6/5/2020 at 5:55 AM, ebr said:

Hi.  This feature already exists.  Please explore the advanced tab of Library setup in the dashboard.

 

Thanks.

Thank you! I was pulling my hair out trying to sort this issue.

[BaronVonJ 12]

Was this setting moved somewhere else in the UI in recent releases?

[ebr 15679]

6 hours ago, BaronVonJ said:

Was this setting moved somewhere else in the UI in recent releases?

The setting was removed because most of the apps can show both now.  We will see if we can work some magic to make Roku do it.

[BaronVonJ 12]

I should have looked at a movie details page before asking. The track chooser is showing the custom name in all the apps I'm using (Android, Android TV, Windows desktop, and web)

[Suliamu 12]

For me the "track chooser" doesn't show special names in Webclient and the option is also gone. 
Can somebody guide me to this option or how to set it up now? 
I have a movie that has multiple dialects of a language. 
In MKVToolnix the audio-tracknames are correctly set up but emby doesn't show them. 
MKVToolnix is not allowing me to change the other value for language in something other than a ISO-639-2 language code.  

[Luke 40136]

15 hours ago, Suliamu said:

For me the "track chooser" doesn't show special names in Webclient and the option is also gone. 

Hi, does the video you're testing with have multiple audio tracks?

[Suliamu 12]

8 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, does the video you're testing with have multiple audio tracks?

Yes.
There is three German audio tracks, one for "high german", two for regional dialects, and a fourth english original audio track.
In MKVToolnix it shows as tracknames the correct descriptions. 
And the first three are all assigned with german language tag. 
Resulting in emby showing three times German, and one time English.
 

Edited January 2 by Suliamu

[Luke 40136]

14 hours ago, Suliamu said:

Yes.
There is three German audio tracks, one for "high german", two for regional dialects, and a fourth english original audio track.
In MKVToolnix it shows as tracknames the correct descriptions. 
And the first three are all assigned with german language tag. 
Resulting in emby showing three times German, and one time English.
 

If you made these changes after importing the videos into Emby Server, then try refreshing the metadata on them and see if that helps.

[Suliamu 12]

5 hours ago, Luke said:

If you made these changes after importing the videos into Emby Server, then try refreshing the metadata on them and see if that helps.

Unfortunately not. 
This is how the file was when i imported it.  
When i modify something in a library on the emby server i always delete the source file, then make a lib scan, check if it has been removed from the lib, then put the new file in place and make a lib scan again.
If the expected behaviour is indeed that it should show those Track-Titles from the mkv, then there seems to be a bug somehwere.  
I run nothing obscure: 
Stable Emby on Stable Debian.
Directly on the Host. 
No VMs, No Docker.  

If needed i can give more details of this file in question through direct message. 
But the file seems not to be damaged/borked in any way. 
It plays nicely in Emby completely. All audio-tracks work.
VLC also plays well.
And VLC shows also the Audio-Tracks with the correct Track-Title: 
 

Edited January 2 by Suliamu

[Suliamu 12]

In order to troubleshoot i went to another file that also has a lot of audiotracks and that is publicly available and crc-checked:

RotJ Despecialized.
Here the screens from MKVToolnix, VLC and the final result in emby after importing this file.  

You should be able to replicate this.

 

 

Edited January 3 by Suliamu

[Luke 40136]

[Suliamu 12]

7 minutes ago, Luke said:

Ok thanks a lot,
this helped to find the problem. 
I've had a couple css-tweaks from this board set up for a long time. 

div.dialogContainer div.listItemBody-2-lines div.listItemBodyText-secondary {display: none;}  

This one, which i have actually no idea what it did, was responsible for hiding this second line. 

Thank you again!

Edited January 3 by Suliamu