Playing a tv show from sonarr, tagged on tvdb as original language as english, and having a muli lang down loaded, audio is in a foreign language, adjust to play in English, set as default, saved, finish the show, very next video, foreign language again, rinse, repeat.
So it appears saving the setting as default does not actually work.
Using estuary, OSMC and Aeon Nox, all show the same behavior.
In setting the default language, I do see that the default language is French.
settings>player>language> check that “prefered audio language” is set to english and “prefer default audio streams” is set to off. Kodi does not use external scraped info to determine which tracks to enable so what TVDB says doesn’t actually factor in. Files themselves can have set various flags (default, forced, hearing impaired, etc.) and when they are present Kodi will use those to select tracks determined by what is set in the settings. As such you need to scrutinize the various relevant Kodi settings and this works most of the time. When it doesn’t work it is usually because the file is tagged incorrectly and the easiest way to fix it is to run the file through “MKVToolNix GUI” which lets you easily modify these tags.
This usually happens when the media file itself has multiple audio tracks and the player keeps prioritizing the first/default track in the file (often French), instead of your global preference.
Try setting language preference + “prefer audio stream selection” in your player settings, and also check the file’s audio track order in Sonarr. If needed, force English audio via a profile or per-show setting rather than global default.
Allows you to defined personal preference for audio tracks, subtitle tracks, and audio+subtitles combination rules (overiding the “default” tags when it does find a valid preference match)
So you can define static preference (audio : Eng >Fr>Ger>…) and/or conditional rules like : if audio is English, prefer English/Forced subs, otherwise if audio is Any, prefer English/full subs, etc…
And indeed a proper mkv tagged file is always a plus
