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This is less of an issue with movies and much more of a problem with TV shows. It seems many of the shows I watch aren't encoded with subs included.

I've got the Open Subtitles plugin installed in Jellyfin.

If I set my library to only download perfect matches, it gets almost none.

If I set it to grab any, they're more-often-than-not mistimed, and then I have to take the manual shotgun approach. Doing this for each episode creates massive admin overhead.

Is there a better way?

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 20 minutes ago

Bazarr, literally built to get subtitles.

[–] dcooksta26@lemmy.world 43 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

You can run Bazarr alongside Sonarr to automatically search for subs if they aren't encoded in the file.

https://www.bazarr.media/

I use Bazarr alongside sonarr and radarr and it works pretty darn well

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Came here to bring up Bazarr. Its the only *arr I haven't opened up since initial deployment and setup. It's only failed me on a couple of media items so far so that's like...99.9997% success without me even touching anything

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

My suggestion is to identify a release group that works for you (I.e with sub for the language you need) and setup the arr for those rather than using