Any suggestions on how to better automate subtitle fetching? (Jellyfin, Sonarr)

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?

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?

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

https://www.bazarr.media/

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

https://www.bazarr.media/

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?

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

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

https://www.bazarr.media/

Any idea how well this works for anime? The built in Jellyfin option absolutely shits the bed for anime and gives me subtitles from shows that aren’t remotely the same.

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 Bazaar

I decided to do both.

Any idea how well this works for anime? The built in Jellyfin option absolutely shits the bed for anime and gives me subtitles from shows that aren’t remotely the same.

What providers do you suggest?