TurkeyMan 17 Posted September 28, 2023 Posted September 28, 2023 (edited) I mean, Emby's not particularly cheap! There are just some really basic QoL stuff that would really make it worth it's price-point. The small detail polish should be what we're paying for... otherwise we might as well use Jellyfin. Edited September 28, 2023 by TurkeyMan
ebr 16169 Posted September 28, 2023 Posted September 28, 2023 Hi. We already have user defaults for these things. That covers 90% of cases (when taking into account all users). This type of feature - where your default preferred language is different for a subset of items) is really an edge case. I understand for those of you that want this, it isn't an edge case, but in the global scheme of things it is. That's not to say that we won't get to this eventually, but it definitely figures into our priorities as we try to implement features that will benefit a very wide audience and use-case. Especially for something like this that actually has a high cost of implementation (complexity from all sides - development, maintenance and usability). Thanks.
TurkeyMan 17 Posted September 28, 2023 Posted September 28, 2023 You speak as if weeb's that watch anime (or actual people that speak more than one language) are a rare 'edge case' What new features access a wide audience? I haven't seen anything new in Emby that I care about for a year or so... and there are so many really basic QoL things outstanding.
ebr 16169 Posted September 28, 2023 Posted September 28, 2023 2 hours ago, TurkeyMan said: What new features access a wide audience? Hi. I believe most of these do along with all performance and playback-related improvements - especially in a cost-benefit analysis. Remember, the cost of this feature is relatively high. https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/tag/4.8.0.47 In the end, we have to try and balance resources against workload and benefits for the largest audience and, again, none of that means this won't happen. In fact, I imagine, it probably will at some point.
Luke 42077 Posted December 18, 2023 Posted December 18, 2023 This will be in Emby Server 4.8. How it Works: This requires that you enable remembering audio and subtitle track selections. this is enabled by default. The server will first check if you've previously played the video file, just like before, and if it has then it will use your previous track selections If not, then it will look at your last played episode of the same series and attempt to use the same audio and subtitle selections. Essentially it will take the languages of the tracks and put these languages at the front of the language priority list. 2 8
YKEmbyMedia 3 Posted January 2, 2024 Posted January 2, 2024 Was about to request such feature and surprised it wasn't implemented since 2018 Looking forward for server 4.8
Luke 42077 Posted January 21, 2024 Posted January 21, 2024 13 hours ago, Mkilbride said: I'm on 4.8 and do not see this feature. Hi, all you have do is enable the option to remember selected tracks and it will be incorporated into that. 1
invader 17 Posted March 14, 2024 Posted March 14, 2024 On 18/12/2023 at 17:18, Luke said: This will be in Emby Server 4.8. How it Works: This requires that you enable remembering audio and subtitle track selections. this is enabled by default. The server will first check if you've previously played the video file, just like before, and if it has then it will use your previous track selections If not, then it will look at your last played episode of the same series and attempt to use the same audio and subtitle selections. Essentially it will take the languages of the tracks and put these languages at the front of the language priority list. A few questions about this please. I have my iPhone and Apple TV set to Always Play subtitles in the app settings. Some TV shows I want to turn subtitles off for. I thought if I turned it off on one episode, the next episode would then also be turned off. It doesn’t seem to work though. Maybe subtitles being off isn’t a setting carried to the next episode? I noted that you have to enable remembering audio and subtitle track selections. This is enabled on iPhone but doesn’t appear to be an option to turn on, on Apple TV. How does this relate to subtitle mode in app settings? The options seem to be platform dependant too: iPhone has Default, smart, only forced subtitles, hearing impaired, always play subtitles, no subtitles. Apple TV has Default, smart, only forced subtitles, always play subtitles, no subtitles. thanks.
ebr 16169 Posted March 14, 2024 Posted March 14, 2024 2 hours ago, invader said: I noted that you have to enable remembering audio and subtitle track selections. This is enabled on iPhone but doesn’t appear to be an option to turn on, on Apple TV. ... The options seem to be platform dependant too: iPhone has Default, smart, only forced subtitles, hearing impaired, always play subtitles, no subtitles. Apple TV has Default, smart, only forced subtitles, always play subtitles, no subtitles. This preference is a user one so it carries to all devices that user uses. You only need to set it once. The discrepancy in the app choices are just a UI issue that needs to be addressed.
invader 17 Posted March 14, 2024 Posted March 14, 2024 Thanks. I have noticed that on Apple TV it doesn’t remember the subtitles that you chose but in iPhone it does. So I suppose the fact it’s not in the UI as you say, that it won’t work yet for that platform.
happytonakai 9 Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 Hi. Can you make playback speed obey the same logic? Switching to 1.25x every time is a little annoying... 1
nospotify 184 Posted December 26, 2024 Posted December 26, 2024 (edited) On 10/29/2019 at 5:27 PM, ebr said: I guess my question is, why don't the default subtitle settings take care of that for you? How often is it that these selections cannot be governed by these settings? [Please delete - posting glitch] Edited December 26, 2024 by wordlover
nospotify 184 Posted December 26, 2024 Posted December 26, 2024 (edited) On 1/21/2024 at 1:41 PM, Luke said: Hi, all you have do is enable the option to remember selected tracks and it will be incorporated into that. This isn't working for me, and I can't seem to find the settings you refer to. Where are those? None of the subtitle settings seem to refer to persistent behavior for multiple episodes of a series. Am I missing something, or is this a continuing request from many many years ago? Edited December 26, 2024 by wordlover
Luke 42077 Posted January 16, 2025 Posted January 16, 2025 On 12/26/2024 at 10:48 AM, nospotify said: This isn't working for me, and I can't seem to find the settings you refer to. Where are those? None of the subtitle settings seem to refer to persistent behavior for multiple episodes of a series. Am I missing something, or is this a continuing request from many many years ago? Hi, how have you configured your emby user subtitle options?
nospotify 184 Posted January 16, 2025 Posted January 16, 2025 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Luke said: Hi, how have you configured your emby user subtitle options? Have same problem whether Default or Smart subtitle behavior is selected. What setting(s) do you think should be set, to correctly remember subtitle choice (especially 'off') when playing subsequent episodes of a TV series? Edited January 16, 2025 by nospotify
Luke 42077 Posted January 17, 2025 Posted January 17, 2025 17 hours ago, nospotify said: Have same problem whether Default or Smart subtitle behavior is selected. What setting(s) do you think should be set, to correctly remember subtitle choice (especially 'off') when playing subsequent episodes of a TV series? OK we're looking into improving this. Thanks.
nospotify 184 Posted January 17, 2025 Posted January 17, 2025 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Luke said: OK we're looking into improving this. Thanks. Can you remove "Completed" from this thread, since the original request from 2018 is still unfulfilled: "I’d love that audio and subtitles choice would be saved per show, according to what you select on the last episode you watched." Edited January 17, 2025 by nospotify 1
chstoll 2 Posted October 21, 2025 Posted October 21, 2025 Hi, I recently updated to the latest Emby-Version (4.9.1.80) and now I have to switch audio-languages again per Episode. Somehow this worked before. The default language ist german, but I changed the language in the metadata-manager to english for some shows. And before the update each Episode used the english audiotrack as default, but after the update it always plays the german track for every episode (I can change the language and it's been remembered for the particular episode, but not for the next episode). I'm a bit puzzled if this is even possible to set per show, or if it was a lucky glitch before the latest update.
GrimReaper 4739 Posted October 21, 2025 Posted October 21, 2025 6 minutes ago, chstoll said: but I changed the language in the metadata-manager to english for some shows What do you mean by this? 7 minutes ago, chstoll said: before the update each Episode used the english audiotrack as default, but after the update it always plays the german track for every episode (I can change the language and it's been remembered for the particular episode, but not for the next episode). What is your preferred language and subtitle mode selected?
chstoll 2 Posted October 21, 2025 Posted October 21, 2025 I changed this setting (but I guess that has nothing to do with the default audio language, only with the metadata itself) What do you mean by preferred language and subtitle mode ? Where can I find the settings?
seanbuff 1313 Posted October 21, 2025 Posted October 21, 2025 5 minutes ago, chstoll said: What do you mean by preferred language and subtitle mode ? Where can I find the settings? Each user has the ability to set their preferred audio and subtitle language under their User Preferences (see Playback and Subtitles) 1
GrimReaper 4739 Posted October 21, 2025 Posted October 21, 2025 6 minutes ago, chstoll said: I changed this setting (but I guess that has nothing to do with the default audio language, only with the metadata itself) It has nothing to do with your audio or subtitle settings, just metadata download. 7 minutes ago, chstoll said: What do you mean by preferred language and subtitle mode ? Where can I find the settings? User preferences, Subtitles tab in the sidebar.
chstoll 2 Posted October 21, 2025 Posted October 21, 2025 Ok, but I don't want to set this globally, only for some shows. Default audio-language is set to "all"
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