Ideas for Bazarr as submitted to our Feature Upvote board. Ideas are ordered by 'new' and the 50 top matches are included. pr_yf4ggguammvwxiw 2025-05-18T12:19:03Z sug_yiddlcrbo1yid7y 2026-05-28T21:21:05Z 2026-05-28T22:05:11Z First, thanks for all the work on Bazarr, it saved me a lot of hours organizing my library and trying to find the correct subtitles for some shows. There are some shows for which I cannot find the correct subtitles on the subtitle providers. This is particularly true for some obscure languages. However, some torrent releases pack with them subtitles in a lot of languages. For instance, I found Spanish SRT subtitles for a show in a torrent that weren't on any provider. So, I semi-manually included them in my library. Thing is, I would love to be able to share these subtitles with the community, so that they don't have to go through the pain of downloading a torrent just for the subtitles. I'm more than happy to upload one or two files to OpenSubtitles, but when it's a show with 100+ episodes, that quickly becomes a chore - especially since it doesn't seem like you can batch upload subtitles to OpenSubtitles before reaching a certain amount of uploads. Hence my idea: to be able to automatically upload subtitles to OpenSubtitles by adding an option in the contextual menu when hovering a subtitle language. It can just be one by one at first to comply with OpenSubtitles' API - also the interface makes it perfect before each show is already related to its IMDB ID, and through the release all of the required fields (release name, FPS, etc.) can be automatically filled. I'm aware that what I'm offering here is definitely not a core feature - but I'm convinced this could help the overall community in the long run. sug_v5ma6e6yoduarr5 2026-05-16T23:28:52Z 2026-05-17T02:20:09Z I would like to add animetosho.xyz as a subtitle provider. It is the successor to the old animetosho and now supports an API. sug_zhvl8z7ikegxosw 2026-05-15T10:22:09Z 2026-05-15T10:26:28Z Anime Overdose is a Serbian subtitle provider for anime shows and movies. Could support for Anime Overdose be added to Bazarr? Website: https://www.anime-overdose.com/ API: No public API available Subtitles are provided through HTML pages and downloaded as ZIP files. Downloads can be for a single episode or for an entire season. This would be useful for Serbian / Balkan anime subtitle support, since Anime Overdose has many anime subtitles that are not always available on the existing Bazarr providers. sug_aihnml1zuooateo 2026-05-13T19:45:56Z 2026-05-13T20:30:55Z https://www.slo-podnapisi.net/ can this be added? sug_m1w0qyg9ebxxrct 2026-05-08T04:57:13Z 2026-05-08T10:45:30Z Some time there are more than 1 subtitle with the same name, so it's hard to choose which one to download without read the subtitle's description. In many case subtitle uploader will mention the video runtime and framerate in the description. So I think display subtitle description and video file runtime + framerate in manual search dialog is not a bad idea. Then user don't have to click to each subtitle to see which one is the right one. sug_qkr3j0womje6ker 2026-04-30T12:49:24Z 2026-04-30T12:57:59Z Ability to download more than one subtitles for a single language, because some have problem with delay... so it would be good to select how many subtitles can be downloaded, so while I'm watching a movie\episode I can select between let's say 5 subtitles, and maybe one or two of them end up being the good one in terms of timing. sug_4r1nffbophiekvw 2026-04-29T08:35:52Z 2026-04-29T11:32:20Z Could you add an option to select by language on top of selecting/unselecting all? For example, I want to select srt subtitles in Turkish. Only having select/unselect all makes it a little harder especially for series with a long list of episodes. sug_fieiveutpwotqns 2026-04-28T20:16:52Z 2026-04-28T20:18:59Z I can't seem to find quite a few of anime subtitles in existing subtitle providers, AniSub seems to have for example "The Apothecary Diaries" in Turkish. It would be nice addition. sug_ovlahrhgva8dwvt 2026-04-17T00:54:11Z 2026-04-17T01:05:23Z Right now if I have a TV show with many episodes all needing subtitles downloaded, Bazarr will queue and download them for each episode one by one, and after each episode is processed a sync call is made to Sonarr which results in Sonarr running a refresh/disk scan on the entire series. This is a ton of extra overhead. If a task would result in multiple episodes of a series to be processed, it would be better to batch them all and only make a single sync call to Sonarr once all subtitles are processed. I imagine a lot of provider calls could also be made more efficient by doing single searches for an entire series name and parsing the results for individual episodes rather than running the full query pipeline on a per-episode basis. sug_5eqbbblymxvylb9 2026-03-27T11:21:35Z 2026-03-27T11:24:45Z Currently, you can set notification in option however for HA integration it works only when bazarr downloaded subtitles - it would be beneficial to receive notification also when download didn't take place eg. due to integrated subtitles so the video is ready. sug_vwzosxlvmldaszl 2026-03-16T18:13:38Z 2026-03-16T18:14:24Z I would like to request that AnimeZ, formerly AnimeTorrents, be added as a subtitle provider for anime content. AvistaZ and CinemaZ are already currently available as providers for Bazarr, so I would like to add AnimeZ to the list. sug_bzuhxeuitmzg5fy 2026-03-14T14:49:23Z 2026-03-14T14:53:33Z Hi. I'm currently using a script to do this. The subtitle synchronization simply doesn't work well very often. This forces me to tweak the subtitle timing, or worse, delete the synchronized subtitle and redownload it by making other API calls! My idea (which I've implemented in my own scripts) is to add an option in bazaar that allows you to keep the original file at the same time, so you have two versions and if one doesn't work, you can try the other and vice versa. sug_amcnns5qjgxwkco 2026-03-13T10:13:08Z 2026-03-13T10:38:49Z Description: Currently, the table in the "Wanted" section (specifically the Episodes and Movies sub-tabs) does not support column sorting. Clicking on headers like "Name", "Episode", or "Language" does nothing, leaving the list in a fixed order. Why is this needed: As the library grows, the "Wanted" list can easily contain dozens or hundreds of missing subtitles. Without sorting functionality, it is difficult to: Group series together: Users cannot visually aggregate all missing episodes from the same show without using the search bar every time. Prioritize management: It’s hard to quickly see which shows have the most backlog or sort by episode numbers to check for chronological gaps. UI Consistency: Most other tables in Bazarr (like the Series list) already support sorting. Adding this to the "Wanted" view would provide a much more consistent and professional user experience. sug_21hiftvkkfnmjmw 2026-03-10T21:04:48Z 2026-03-10T21:05:16Z Currently the provider search in Bazarr only matches the provider name. It would be useful if the search also matched the provider description. Example: Typing BG or Bulgarian should show providers that mention Bulgarian subtitles in their description, even if the provider name itself does not contain those words. Suggested behavior: Search should look for both provider name and provider description Case-insensitive partial matching is sufficient. This would make it easier to find language-specific subtitle providers in the long provider list. Example attached. sug_eq3swddnzhruqdd 2026-02-23T22:17:51Z 2026-02-24T02:06:08Z If a media file changes or is upgraded, I want my subtitles for that media file to get automatically deleted Then subsequent runs can figure out how to get me the best subtitles for my new file sug_minjteksq0kux0n 2026-02-23T21:40:53Z 2026-02-24T02:05:48Z As someone who hates bad subtitles what I want to do is something like: - Download from OpenSubtitles if score is >= 95% (Even a 92% match can be off by ~30 seconds even after syncing) - Fallback to Whisper for AI generated, perfectly timed subtitles if nothing else matches This is impossible because for whatever reason Whisper is scored as a static 69% score so having a sane threshold just blocks whisper outright. One low effort solution is to allow the user to provide Whisper a custom, static score for all whisper generated subtitles so users can set whisper to the lowest acceptable score for them. This way one could define both OpenSubtitles and Whisper as providers, set the threshold to whatever suits their tolerance And whisper can be a proper fallback option In my case I would do this: - Minimum score is 94% - Configure both OpenSubtitles and Whisper as providers - Set Whisper to static 94% score, so anything > 94% from OpenSubtitles is preferred - Whisper generates the rest sug_6eufyxjmpzb6jjm 2026-02-22T16:47:00Z 2026-02-22T16:56:34Z When attempting to synchronize a subtitle using the Audio Track as a reference, Bazarr currently defaults to extracting and using the first audio track (Track 1). This completely breaks the synchronization process for dual-audio files where Track 1 is a dubbed language (e.g., German) and Track 2 is the original language (e.g., English). When trying to sync an English subtitle, Bazarr maps the English text to the German audio track, resulting in a failed or wildly inaccurate sync. Since Bazarr already correctly identifies the languages of the audio streams (via Sonarr/Radarr metadata or Deep Analysis), it would be incredibly helpful if the synchronization logic could automatically pass the audio track that matches the target subtitle language to ffsubsync. Alternatively, adding a setting under Settings -> Subtitles -> Synchronization that allows users to define a "Preferred Audio Sync Language" (similar to preferred subtitle languages) would solve this. sug_nloeu2zmy1y9ymt 2026-02-17T16:16:58Z 2026-04-25T10:22:40Z Allow Bazarr to connect directly with Jellyfin in order to trigger an automatic library scan whenever new subtitles are downloaded. This integration would ensure that Jellyfin immediately recognizes and indexes the updated subtitle files without requiring manual intervention, improving workflow efficiency and keeping the media library consistently up to date. sug_n9ogpdzjbwwihge 2026-02-14T02:51:03Z 2026-02-14T02:54:51Z Please add english russian ukrainian TV Show subtitles http://www.tvsubtitles.net/ Name - Moviesubtitles.org Web - https://mail.tvsubtitles.net/ Thank you. sug_ttjrm9cvgicgab1 2026-02-12T23:24:39Z 2026-02-13T01:43:22Z Some players play nice with .ass subs, while others only work properly with .srt. It would be nice to be able to keep the two formats, so that the user may choose the nicer looking .ass subs if the player supports them, and switch over to .srt if it does not. sug_jcjzwf9euwq8ddp 2026-02-05T16:08:24Z 2026-02-05T16:18:08Z A great alternative to Sonarr and Radarr has been made, MediaManager. It is a neat program, but many including me that have transitioned to MediaManager miss the Bazarr integration! MediaManager has a comprehensive API, so I think this is very doable! Issues might occur when a movie or show that is added to MM, already exists in Sonarr or Radarr. sug_j7jrg7kj7xxb1du 2026-01-22T10:18:16Z 2026-01-22T11:04:34Z I reached out to the bazarr team in discord because my bazarr container was using tons of cpu. It basically maxed out a single core 24 hours a day. The team explained cpu usage could be mitigated by slowing tasks down by running them less frequently. Everyone with large libraries will know they have large libraries and will know to tick a box or consult docs if they are experiencing high usage. I didnt realize I could turn down tasks without having detrimental effects as the defaults are sane for people with normal sized libraries. Basically what I am suggesting is either add a section on the docs with the title "High CPU usage mitigation" or a tickbox in settings (or tooltip with a link to the wiki) because as a user I didnt know what was critical to keep running frequently or not. It would be a better way to explain to the user than what is current. sug_sbnf0xdtcqsnkbs 2026-01-19T06:59:50Z 2026-01-19T11:13:45Z I'd like to Mass Edit my shows to remove the language profile since at this point if they have 0 subtitles, it's unlikely they will ever get them. I can do this one at a time but would like to be able to go into Mass Edit mode and easily see the count like on most other table views. sug_ayl10fxsntheyzz 2026-01-18T12:56:26Z 2026-01-18T13:05:52Z Automatic Replacement: Allow an upgrade to trigger even if the numerical score is lower, provided the source changes from AI to Human. Tiered Scoring: Implement a significant negative weight for the ai_translated flag provided by APIs, ensuring human subs always rank higher. Fallback Logic: Keep AI subs as a temporary fallback, but keep the status as "Wanted" or "Upgrade Available" until a human version is found. Goal: To ensure that "Retail" or human-made quality always wins over machine-generated text without requiring manual visual checks by the user. sug_yfarjcqzyglf9cu 2026-01-15T18:04:38Z 2026-01-15T18:16:51Z Hello Bazarr team, I would like to request official support for Windows package managers to facilitate the installation and maintenance of Bazarr. Specifically, it would be great to have packages available for: - **Scoop** - **Winget** - **Chocolatey** **Context:** I tried searching for existing packages, but I only found an old, unofficial repository for Winget from 2022. It appears to be abandoned and does not correspond to the current version of Bazarr. **Benefits & Examples:** Having official support for these services (especially Scoop) would streamline the user experience significantly. Instead of manually downloading installers, users could install and **update** Bazarr with a single command line. For example, installation would be as easy as running: ```powershell # Scoop scoop install bazarr # Winget winget install Bazarr # Chocolatey choco install bazarr ``` sug_xc6xgsnk9r2lzgm 2026-01-14T11:01:41Z 2026-01-14T11:03:59Z Hi. I was wondering if it was possible to add a field to the history of downloaded subtitles that would indicate the specific URL path where the subtitle was taken. sug_f4zvnw9fqkstjoe 2026-01-14T08:56:22Z 2026-01-14T11:03:06Z Hi morpheus. The latest update hasn't caused any problems so far. However, I've encountered a small issue. First of all, if I want to manually search for a subtitle, unfortunately, it's sometimes impossible because the Running processes are executed first. Let's say there's a particularly long series with many episodes/seasons. I have to wait for that before proceeding with the manual search I performed. I think it's best to set everything manually to take priority. Secondly, it would be great if Pending operations could be cancelled, perhaps even via the new notification system you've created. sug_pcjroxdvbtkhsig 2026-01-14T08:38:37Z 2026-01-14T11:02:10Z Hello, romanian provider subs.ro added new API implementation that requires an API key and has new search functionality and the current subs.ro that is implemented in bazarr doesn't support that. Here is the link to their API page documentation: https://subs.ro/api sug_gsjcgcrwf1k5al1 2026-01-03T14:25:36Z 2026-01-03T14:59:19Z Just allow using the normal apprise notifications with discord:// and with this formatting the messages as an embed would be possible sug_ntz1nyfmgeymntl 2025-12-31T22:28:46Z 2025-12-31T22:35:13Z you should allow bazarr to extract srt subtitles and save as .ass as .ass is more feature rich but also keet the option for SRT so that we can choose between the 2 formats. Also a setting to prefer .ass when downloading aslong as it meets the score. sug_ffn8ny1dcqwj9qb 2025-12-31T12:13:56Z 2025-12-31T14:25:53Z An option to include/exclude files from being detected as subtitles would be nice. This could be done by e.g. setting RegEx patterns. Example Include RegEx: (?i).*srt$ Setting this pattern would configure Bazarr to only read files that end in ".srt" from filesystem when scanning for existing subtitles on disk (e.g. when task "Index All Episode Subtitles from Disk" is run). A file ending in ".ass" however would not count / be ignored. Use Case I use 2 Bazarr instances. One is used to extract subtitles in original format if it is ".ass" or ".ssa" ("Use Original Format" toggle enabled in language profile). The second instance always extracts as ".srt" (toggle disabled). I do this to have subtitles in different formats for compatibility of different clients. Some can display ".ass" or ".ssa" just fine, but some can only display ".srt" correctly. Problem The above currently does not work reliably because the instances also scan and count subtitles of one another. sug_gqdcw4w54npnfmi 2025-12-09T20:19:47Z 2025-12-10T04:18:22Z Gemini is alright for translating subtitles but it'd be great to have the possibility of using other models using the OpenRouter API. sug_bqm5w9vviblr39j 2025-12-07T00:16:37Z 2025-12-07T00:35:19Z Specifically when using whisper, subtitles are not immediately available while transcribing is done. With Plex > Search on Play Webhook enabled, present an option to also automatically search the next episode such that it can be transcribed (or downloaded) ahead of time. sug_gvbp3htu8rz0d9s 2025-12-06T15:42:30Z 2025-12-06T15:48:43Z It's much easier to find or to manage a subset of movies. The most obvious filter should be a band with A-Z buttons plus one for numbers/others. sug_02jy7u1ttcvh8zs 2025-11-10T11:47:40Z 2025-11-10T12:02:50Z Configure Bazarr with environnent variables instead of editing config.yaml file. Objective is to have the app configured on startup when using docker and .env file, without going through the webui. Example: SONARR_ENABLE=true SONARR_APIKEY=XXXX ... sug_zrukljhc7tdkvud 2025-11-04T12:40:46Z 2025-11-06T01:28:18Z When using some kind of SSO in front of bazarr, it would be nice to have it so that you can set the auth to be "external" like the other *arr apps have. At the moment, if you set your authentication method to "none", your API key is exposed in the HTML. It would be nice to have some kind of feature where this doesn't happen, as I like to use SSO in front of bazarr and then have my backend apps still able to talk with bazarr to do health checks with other monitoring software without having an API key exposed in the HTML. sug_ucv7g4xs2kaiwc9 2025-11-02T12:47:20Z 2025-11-02T13:39:43Z For information purposes, I discovered subtitlecat.com, and it's an excellent provider with many subtitles, some of which are already translated. Maybe if they implemented it, it would be fantastic. sug_1hywcgcy88nlzgn 2025-10-25T17:00:12Z 2025-10-25T17:02:10Z Publicly available ones should be selected automatically At least an interface like Jackett can be created. sug_mw0rdraqrjg6ksv 2025-10-19T10:44:48Z 2025-10-19T14:07:12Z My use is that I have content with a mixture of normal SRT subtitles and ones with HI tags. And currently I can only set whether I want embedded subtitles to get extracted at the Bazarr instance level. If I have i.e. a series where the first season has embedded normal subtitles and the second with only ones with HI tags, my only option is to extract all of them, which is waste of resources and time in case of the normal subitles. It would be nice if there would be an option to extract embedded subtitles with HI tags and get the HI tags removed only if there is no normal one for that language and skip the ones that are normal if there is any. sug_wl5cw0tpoqszhp6 2025-10-18T08:58:30Z 2025-10-18T11:42:49Z Would be good to have a test button for providers to understand if the configuration is working properly or not. sug_l5p2hk2nymkdxql 2025-10-18T02:36:48Z 2025-10-18T02:37:41Z if its possible would be good to add a source redirect button or any information about the uploader information in history like a icon like info icon, that shows "[uploader name] or [the subtitle source link]" sug_s8oajlgv37dyez0 2025-10-11T19:46:04Z 2025-10-12T16:13:47Z Right now, the subtitle sync feature replaces the downloaded subtitle file. Ideally, both versions should be kept — the original and the synced one. Most of the time, the synced subtitle is correct, but sometimes it’s slightly off while the original works fine. Keeping both would solve that problem completely. sug_qndjn3pgwtaibur 2025-10-09T01:47:24Z 2025-10-09T03:48:48Z Standalone version of Bazar that syncs and manages subtitles across media servers like Jellyfin without requiring the ARR stack. It automatically downloads, updates, and organizes subtitles to keep your library synchronized and well maintained. sug_8maywynmuy7jw1j 2025-10-05T13:11:35Z 2025-10-05T14:16:23Z Bazarr is amazing, and it allows for manual editing of subtitles. Unfortunately, no matter how perfect we edit these subtitles to fit our videos, it comes to nothing when Bazarr "Upgrades" that now perfect subtitle. Please allow users to lock a subtitle, preventing further downloads of that specific "slot" of you will. If locking the file is not good for you, then maybe an option to ignore individual subs instead? sug_7hju4z77d0zxvgh 2025-09-26T00:34:44Z 2026-04-25T10:22:02Z Ability to use jellyfin without sonarr or radarr sug_5bm6elncqi2e5pt 2025-09-12T11:19:01Z 2025-09-12T11:38:55Z As the title says. Currently for media where the language is unknown, the whisper endpoint sends repeatedly a sound sample for detecting audio before prompting for translation/transciption. That process is repeated on every scan and slows down the periodic the search for subtitles. This feature would store the detected language and use it in subsequent scans. sug_hva8pgedtyy8n6x 2025-09-07T12:55:31Z 2025-09-07T13:12:08Z Kitsuneko is a great Japanese and English subtitle provider for anime, please consider adding as a source for Bazarr https://kitsunekko.net/ sug_1vz1t9363qcqt08 2025-09-07T12:15:22Z 2025-09-07T12:31:26Z It is only available in English, which is inconvenient for Chinese users. Although web translation is available, the translation is not accurate. sug_sxxnyz89djie6go 2025-09-07T00:44:19Z 2025-09-07T17:57:49Z Description Bazarr currently shows snackbar notifications at the bottom of the UI for actions like syncing, downloading subtitles, or updates. While useful, they can be disruptive: they overlap movie/series lists, do not stack properly, and block key elements until dismissed. A settings option would greatly improve usability, allowing users to: - Disable snackbars completely, - Make them less intrusive (smaller, auto-dismiss, or stack correctly), or - Ability to change the width of the menu bar so notifications don’t hide important content. This would give users a cleaner, less obstructive UI while still keeping access to logs for detailed feedback. sug_rg2cetuzyt5cko9 2025-08-28T23:06:09Z 2025-08-29T00:19:08Z The ability to change provider reset cooldown times. for example, whisperai gets a ConnectionError which put its cooldown to 24hours, i wish to be able to change this to say 10minutes please.