Treat forced subtitles as optional
A lot of shows and movies can have non-english parts that require forced subtitles without you even realising beforehand. A good example of this is Anchorman, where Baxter barks and it gets subtitled.
Because of this, it is almost a necessity to set Bazarr to download forced subtitles by default for everything that gets added, because no one wants to have to manually find them once you're halfway through a show or movie.
When forced subtitles are requested, that show or movie perpetually remains in the list of wanted subtitles, which makes sense a lot of the time however it's unnecessary clutter when they're just waiting for forced subtitles.
My suggestion is to treat forced subtitles as more optional. Like a best effort. Maybe in the wanted tab to have a checkbox for "forced" so you can get rid of all the clutter and see which files actually need the other subtitles you were after too.
Comments: 6
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27 Jul, '20
MichaelThis is something I was going to request. This would be fantastic.
There are also a couple ways of approaching this. I
It would be interesting if some how Bazarr is able to determine if a movie or show should have forced subtitles available. Maybe this is in a publicly available database somewhere? (E.g. imdb,etc). -
12 Nov, '21
StephenThis is such a needed feature. I can't see why anyone would not want all movies to auto download forced subs if they are available. I almost feel they should be on by default and users should have to disable them if they don't want them. But because I have forced subs enabled, I have 2500 Movies listed under "Wanted" because 99% of them are missing forced subs. It makes finding the movies you are actually missing full subtitles for very difficult.
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05 Sep, '22
KrakenBumping this, I would really like this addition.
You could also just add a toggle on the Language Profile to search for Forced subs but they are not required. -
18 Dec, '22
RossBumping, this feature would be amazing.
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19 Dec, '22
halaliI don't see this as mandatory, if you have good release forced subtitles are embedded,
if you can find any public database with info about forced subs are needed please post it, and we can easily implement it...
But I don't think that kind of database exists. -
24 Jan
mudThis isn't a foolproof way to identify movies with forced subs, but TheTVDB has data for Original Language and Spoken Languages. Example: Air Force One is a movie in English, but both English and Russian are spoken throughout. This movie benefits from forced subs.
It may be possible to refer to the movie's Original Language and, if more than that one language is present in the Spoken Languages field, treat forced subs as required. There would be some movies that have multiple languages spoken which don't use forced subs, but this solution would address many movies that hang around as Wanted in Bazarr.
One big gap is that Series don't appear to have a Spoken Languages field tied to them.