What's wrong with "by Alpha" and the checkboxes?

The only real advantage I would see in this that for some languages you have more than 1 subtitle-set (e.g. Spanish for Latin America and Spanish (Castellan)), this could then be traced correctly.

The problem with subtitles is that there can be more than one for one language.

Even for an american film with english subs I've seen 4 subtitle tracks:

The first one is for when people speak not English but the viewer is supposed to understand them. It's one of these subtitle tracks that get automatically enabled when you start the movie and you only notice them when a foreign language is spoken.

The second one is the standard subtitle track that spells out what people are saying.

The third one is the subtitle for the deaf and hard-of-hearding (SDH) where you get in addition to the text sound information such as *explosion off-screen* or *phone rings*

And the fourth is a trivia track


To properly profile them you need something more than just a "order number" dropdown to each language.

Quoting TheMadMartian:

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I know I wouldn't.

Just what I expected to hear (from an american).    In how many movies do you need subtitles (in %)?

To me this is 1000 times more useful info than who was the second Make-up Artist or if a studio name should be spelled 20th or twentieth. We are different people with different needs.

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Quoting StaNDarD:

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Do you look to Profiler to see how many times you need to click to get the audio-track you want?

No, but only because I don't have that info yet. That's why I'm suggesting it. Yes, I often look up a movie on DVD Profiler on my iphone before I watch it. What's weird about that ?

Of course you have that information! Audio-tracks are in correct order... (as per rules)

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Do you look to Profiler to see how many times you need to click to get the audio-track you want? I never understood why those have to be in correct order...

No, and I don't understand the need either, so I am not sure what you are getting at here.

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Quoting TheMadMartian:

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I know I wouldn't.

Just what I expected to hear (from an american). 

Of course because we Americans never purchase, or watch, films that use a language other than english. 

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In how many movies do you need subtitles (in %)?

You seem to be assuming that the only reason someone would use subtitles is because they don't understand the language.  I have to tell you, that isn't the case.  Since I spent most of my young life working around jet engines, I find myself using subtitles more often than I would like.  Due to various reasons...background noise, whispering, etc...I often need to select the subtitles during different parts of a film.  Each time, I will hit the sub button until I get the subtitles that I need, rewind, figure out the dialogue that I missed, then turn them back off.  Since I might do this multiple times in a single film, where you probably do it once, at the beginning, I would guess that I do it as often as you do and I still know this is a feature I would never use.

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I might be mistaken, so anyone can feel free to correct me, but I seem to recall that the audio track rule was put in place to prevent ping-ponging of the order of audio tracks. One person wanted the AC3 listed first, then next DTS, etc... This is a problem we have never had with subtitles, since they have always been checkboxes.

It does make sense, so that might be the case.