2025-07-08, 09:28 AM
Hi all - I see lots of subtitle related posts, but none seem to match my problem - hopefully this hasn't been asked before.
I have subtitle settings for my 'Action Movies' library as shown below - English, using Open Subtitles and with all the options checked.
And yet, I'm getting two (probably related) problems in the file folder for that library.
Firstly - as shown in the attachment, I'm getting multiple subtitle files for the same movie - these are dated several days apart and just keep growing - each new file has a new eng.x added into the file name each time! Why does it keep adding new files? How can I just hold one file for these movies? I'm fed up of having to go into my folder and manually clear out thousands of unwanted .srt files.
Secondly - I have dozens of movies that don't need English subs because they are in English - like Point Break - but Jellyfin insists on downloading (multiple, as above) subtitle files for them. This isn't consistent though, as I have hundreds of movies that have an English audio track but don't have subs downloaded for them. In some cases the movies that are having subs downloaded have an audio track just named Track1, so I initially thought Jellyfin must be assuming it wasn't an english audio and went off and downloaded the sub for it - however, on closer inspection I found that there are plenty of movies with an audio track named Track1 without sub files for them, so I'm doubly confused now. On the flip side, in every case I've checked, a movie with an audio track that says Track1 - English, does not have a sub file downloaded for it.
My Jellyfin server is running on a Windows 11 laptop, with an external drive attached via USB.
Thanks, Hank
I have subtitle settings for my 'Action Movies' library as shown below - English, using Open Subtitles and with all the options checked.
And yet, I'm getting two (probably related) problems in the file folder for that library.
Firstly - as shown in the attachment, I'm getting multiple subtitle files for the same movie - these are dated several days apart and just keep growing - each new file has a new eng.x added into the file name each time! Why does it keep adding new files? How can I just hold one file for these movies? I'm fed up of having to go into my folder and manually clear out thousands of unwanted .srt files.
Secondly - I have dozens of movies that don't need English subs because they are in English - like Point Break - but Jellyfin insists on downloading (multiple, as above) subtitle files for them. This isn't consistent though, as I have hundreds of movies that have an English audio track but don't have subs downloaded for them. In some cases the movies that are having subs downloaded have an audio track just named Track1, so I initially thought Jellyfin must be assuming it wasn't an english audio and went off and downloaded the sub for it - however, on closer inspection I found that there are plenty of movies with an audio track named Track1 without sub files for them, so I'm doubly confused now. On the flip side, in every case I've checked, a movie with an audio track that says Track1 - English, does not have a sub file downloaded for it.
My Jellyfin server is running on a Windows 11 laptop, with an external drive attached via USB.
Thanks, Hank