Default audio language

[J_P]

Hi all,

Total noob here and I'm sorry if this was asked before. I did try and search the forms but I couldn't find the answer.

When I play a movie it plays in a deferent language. I can't find the setting to change it to English, I would also like to know if there is a way to set a default for all movies/ episodes?

Thank you kindly for taking the time to read this!

[TheDreadPirate]

If the audio track was tagged as default, I think that overrides any client default language settings you have. You can use tools like MKVToolNix or ffmpeg to change which track is the default track.

[J_P]

I haven't set any default audio settings/Tags. I can't seem to find it. I'm using Synology NAS

[TheDreadPirate]

On the clients you can set a default language (see attached image).  But if the file, itself, has a default audio or subtitle track (not all files will) I believe that takes precedence over any client settings you set.

   

[Orogin]

You can actually set any language as default.
But it needs to be set per profile.

1. Click on your profile in the top right corner
2. Click on Playback
3. On the very top you will find Audio settings. Set your preferred audio language and make sure to uncheck the checkbox saying "Play default audio track regardless of language"

[mildlyjelly]

From my experience Jellyfin always plays the first audio track of an MKV regardless of the preferred language setting or the defaults within the container.

1. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and...issues/230
   
2. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/6935
   

There is a playback setting called "Set audio track based on previous item (Try to set the audio track to the closest match to the last video.)". You could try that setting and see if it makes a difference for you, but in my experience, it doesn't work and Jellyfin still just plays the first audio track. Though, again from my experience, this ends up making things worse when using the web player because the player will show the correct audio track as selected (even though it is playing the wrong audio track) which means you can't select it without first switching to the wrong audio track so you can then actually switch to the correct audio track.

I'm sure there are ways to rearrange the audio tracks if you want keep them, but I just delete the audio tracks that aren't english.

I use the following command to remove the first audio track:

Code:

ffmpeg -i "[FILENAME].mkv" -map 0 -map -0:a:0 -c copy "[FILENAME].wk.mkv"

[Rubén Navarro López]

Will be this fixed anytime? Because the checkbox "Play default audio track regardless of language" isn't working as expected, if you leave it uncheck, it takes the default language anyway

[junovicz]

for anyone struggling with choosing another language for a dual or multi audio movie or show, you can enable a hotkey on a jellyfin client on the setting (⚙ gear icon) -> Customization -> Behavior -> Audio Track Button OR Subtitle track button.

You can then click those options and a panel will show up in which you can set a hotkey for changing audio or subtitle tracks, for example, I've set the audio track button to the channel up button on my android box remote and the subtitle track button to the channel down button on my remote.

Once this change is saved, you can open a movie or show and during playback you can press the hotkey button on your remote and then a menu will show up in which you can choose tracks (audio or subtitles).

I think the solution here would be to add a client UI button for switching audio and subtitle tracks on a video. This could be a feature request I believe.