TRAK

Has this ever happened to you?

You're binging a show, but the tracks you want to use are not selected by default, so you're forced to right-click and select your audio/subtitle track for each episode!?

Oh, the humanity!

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Not anymore, thanks to TRAK™!

With TRAK™, you can specify tracks per show using a handy configuration.

It's that easy**!

Compatibility

TRAK™ is using VLC 4.X.

Installation

To install the extension, go to your VLC installation directory.

OS	Path
Windows	%ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC (C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC)
Linux	/usr/lib/vlc/
Mac	/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/

Then, add the track.lua from this repository in lua > extensions.

Activation

To activate the extension on VLC, go to View > TRAK.

In doubt, you can check the logs (Using CTRL+M or Tools > Messages).

Configuration

First, you need to create/edit your TRAK configuration. It is located in VLC's userdata directory.

OS	Path
Windows	%APPDATA%\vlc (C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\vlc)
Linux	~/.local/share/vlc
Mac	/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc

You can create a file trak.xml. It should be formatted as the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <media audio="japanese" subtitle="1">Fullmetal alchemist</media>
    <media audio="english" subtitle="-1">Andor</media>
    <media audio="0">The Expanse</media>
    <!-- More medias can be added here! -->
</config>

For each media, you may select the audio and subtitle attribute. You can use plain text, and it will try to find the matching track name.

Alternatively, you can use a number (between 0 and n) and it will select the corresponding track.

If you use -1, it will mute the track completely.

File matching

The given key "Foo bar" will match the following:

../foobar.s01e01.mkv
../FOOBAR/e01.mkv
../foo-bar/s01e01.mkv
../Foo_Bar.mp4

It is case-insenstive and discard spaces, comma and underscores.

Because we use the URI given by VLC (e.g C:\Users\test\Downloads\FooBar\S01\foobar.s01e01.mkv), you can use the directory hierarchy.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <media audio="1">FooBar\S01</media>
    <media audio="2">FooBar\S02</media>
</config>

Bugs

• On media start, the track settings are not applied: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/27558

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**: Not that easy. You still have to write an XML (yeesh) configuration by hand.