2025-04-11, 12:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 2025-04-11, 01:00 AM by malebron. Edited 1 time in total.)
Thanks TheDreadPirate. I hadn't thought to look into user settings, but that was the clue I needed.
The answer is in Profile under Playback/Advanced here:
[Sorry. I can't figure out how to paste in a screenshot]
"Set Audio track based on Previous Item" and "Set Subtitle track based on Previous Item" must be UNCHECKED.
If these are checked, the "default" settings for audio or subtitle track will be overridden to match the setting of the last thing you watched. So, if I play the English dubbed version first with subtitles off, and then start the Japanese version, the subtitles will be set to OFF, even though English subs are set as "default" for this version. Very confusing. Unchecking these boxes fixes that behavior.
There must be use case where this makes sense, but I can't think of one.
I just hope these settings work on a per-user basis (which I can access, as admin), not per client, which I can't control. I guess I'll find out.
(There's no way to change a setting globally for all users, is there?)
The answer is in Profile under Playback/Advanced here:
[Sorry. I can't figure out how to paste in a screenshot]
"Set Audio track based on Previous Item" and "Set Subtitle track based on Previous Item" must be UNCHECKED.
If these are checked, the "default" settings for audio or subtitle track will be overridden to match the setting of the last thing you watched. So, if I play the English dubbed version first with subtitles off, and then start the Japanese version, the subtitles will be set to OFF, even though English subs are set as "default" for this version. Very confusing. Unchecking these boxes fixes that behavior.
There must be use case where this makes sense, but I can't think of one.
I just hope these settings work on a per-user basis (which I can access, as admin), not per client, which I can't control. I guess I'll find out.
(There's no way to change a setting globally for all users, is there?)