"Foreign" films.

[subhappy]

Hi there! Being a cinephile, I have a bunch of "foreign" films, where the original soundtrack could be in German, French, Indonesian, Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.
Do I need to define all of these so Plexcleaner doesn't remove them, or what would happen if I run Plexcleaner with default settings?

Is there a way to do a dry-run without any destructive changes?

[ptr727]

You need to specify all languages you want to keep, or you can set RemoveUnwantedLanguageTracks: false to not remove any.

Use --testnomodify as documented an option for the process command.

I would suggest you test using a copy of your files until you are satisfied with the results before you do bulk processing.
Or if you use e.g. ZFS take a snapshot of your media volume that can easily be reverted.

[subhappy]

Thanks for the prompt reply, I see that I overlooked the testnomodify option.

But is there any way to just keep the "original" audio, the default track, and dump the rest? I.e. for a German-language film (Das Boot) I would like to keep it, but I can live without Die Hard being dubbed to German.

[ptr727]

There is no option to keep just the "default".
To my knowledge there is also no metadata to describe "original", maybe if the video track language was set, and then assume the video track language is "original", but it is very rare to see video tracks with a language set.
Also keep in mind that I have seen many instances where there is no "default" track marker, and players would then match by user language or first track.

[subhappy]

Ah, then I guess the first track would often be the correct one. Thanks for the info.

[ptr727]

I noticed there is a newish FlagOriginal tag.
I created an enhancement to track possibly adding logic to always keep the original tracks.
I don't think I've seen example media with this tag yet, if you have, do let me know please.

[ptr727]

You can try out v3 beta (develop branch), I added an option to keep the original language if it was tagged in metadata.

[sajanvox30]

By default, Plexcleaner does not remove foreign language audio tracks unless they are flagged as extras or commentary tracks. So, you should not have to define all of the languages in your media library.

However, if you have made changes to the default settings, such as checking the "Remove audio tracks in languages not listed in 'Audio Languages'" option, then you may need to ensure that all of the foreign language tracks are listed in the "Audio Languages" section of your Plex library.

To perform a dry-run without making any destructive changes, you can use the "--dry-run" option when running Plexcleaner. This will allow you to see what changes would be made without actually deleting any files. For example, to perform a dry-run on a library called "Movies", you can use the following command:

[subhappy]

Great, I'll try. It uses the flagOriginal tag? Lars Augensen 40224293

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