#607 Automaticly load external audio file

[swamp-fish]

Its a very useful option and is present in MPC-HC.
Currently autloading is working for subtitles.

Linux users unlike Windows ones can't switch to MPC-HC for TV series watch.

There can be 2 options just like right now there is for adding file in playlist:
1) Automaticly load external audio file
2) -- recursively

Also recursive part can be added to subtitles as well. At this point we have a need either to copy them or make links to the same folder as video.

Even without recursive part it will save lots of actions. Thank you.

[Ertan Küçükoglu]

I am not quite sure how frequently that will be used. However, considering tons of options and things SMPlayer can do, I also vote for that option to be available.

I am not quite sure what "recursive" loading means above. If auto loading of external audio is introduced, it will be something similar to current subtitle loading options, I assume. Which will be more than enough, in my opinion.

[swamp-fish]

Recursive might be a strong word. I was already told that. Just 2 directories in depth would cover the use cases. Fox example:
case 1)
folder contains (video.mp4, dirAudio, dirSubs)
dirAudio contains (sound1.mp3, sound2.mka)
dirSubs contains (sub1.srt, sub2.ass)

case 2)
folder contains (video.mp4, dirAudio, dirSubs)
dirAudio contains (sound1, sound2)
------ sound1 contains (sound.mp3)
------ sound2 contains (sound.mka)
dirSubs contains (sub1, sub2)
------ sub1 contains (sub.srt)
------ sub2 contains (sub.ass)

An option should be easy for a programmer to add and very wellcome on the user side.

An option to some extent was already implemented in mpv(works only for files in the same directory) and bomi(case 1 implemented for both sound and subtitles files).

I was already told that its not that common in a world. But in my country majority torrents use folder structure like this and being able to simply click once and watch it with toggling audio/subs if needed is a much more user-friendly way.

[Renat Sharipov]

I'll raise the ticket, I really miss this function, when you watch the series where 90 series for 15 minutes, it's annoying to connect the audio track for each series.

[CopyPasteMaster]

Im checked code and here already this feature in stable release 19.1.0, only working with mp4 videofiles + m4a audiofile. I have mkv and mka files, but its working even if rename them to mp4/m4a xd I thought stable release mean here no hidden features and i can turn on/off all features in GUI settings x_x