Two days ago, I posted to this community asking for help with managing subtitles and audio tracks on my media server (and removing the ones I don’t need). @ohulancutash@feddit.uk suggested I try Muxarr which looked promising, so I set it up yesterday.

First impressions were good, the setup was really easy and I set up the profile I wanted in around 10 minutes (only keeping the English and original audio tracks, and only English subtitles). I enqueued all my files (there’s a big green button in the top left which I somehow missed for a few seconds, but that’s on me) and it started doing its thing. It did take a while to process my nearly 3000 files so I left it running overnight. I came back this morning to find it had worked perfectly and all my media had the unwanted tracks removed.

What’s possibly even more impressive though, and something I wasn’t expecting, was that removing all that unneeded data had freed a whopping 135GB of storage!! I only have 8tb available total and with storage prices as they are right now, that’s really quite a significant amount to just be sitting there holding data that will never be used.

I just wanted to take a few minutes out of my day to write this and thank @ohulancutash@feddit.uk and this community for recommending Muxarr to me and spread the word to others who didn’t know about it like me two days ago

I’ve been successfully using Jellyfin and Sonarr/Radarr for over 2 years now, and one of those things I find really annoying when it happens is incorrect audio tracks playing or subtitles showing. It happens rarely enough that I forget to do anything about it (until now) but it’s something I’d like to never have to think about again.

I’d ideally like my setup to abide by the following rules

For subtitles:

1. Display English[Forced] subtitles by default if applicable (the kind that show up if characters suddenly start speaking another language as part of the media in question)
2. Otherwise have subtitles off by default
3. Have English subtitles available as an option in case I want them
4. Completey remove all other subtitle options from the media entirely

For audio tracks:

1. English by default if available
2. Otherwise the native language of the media as the default (bonus points if English subtitles can be enabled automatically if this case arrises)
3. The native language of the media available as an option if applicable (even if an English audio track is available)
4. All other audio track options removed from the media entirely.

Does anyone know of any tools or post-processing options I can use to accomplish what I want?