Profile Settings

Each user can customize their Dubby experience through profile settings. These preferences are stored server-side and apply across all devices.

Audio preferences

Preferred audio languages

Set an ordered list of preferred audio languages. When a media item has multiple audio tracks, Dubby picks the first track matching any language in your list, walking down the list as a fallback chain.

If no track matches any preferred language, the default track from the media file is used.

Prefer original audio

When enabled, Dubby prefers the original audio track over your language preferences. This is useful if you’d rather watch a foreign film in its original language with subtitles than a dub.

Audio quality

Choose the preferred audio quality when multiple tracks are available at different bitrates or channel counts:

Highest — Prefer the highest-bitrate, most-channel track
Lossless — Prefer lossless tracks (TrueHD, DTS-HD MA, FLAC) when present

Subtitle preferences

Preferred subtitle languages

Set an ordered list of preferred subtitle languages, just like audio. Dubby walks the list to find the first matching track.

Subtitle mode

Choose when subtitles should be shown automatically:

Auto — Show subtitles based on your preferred languages
Off — Don’t show subtitles unless you enable them manually
Forced only — Only show forced subtitles (typically for foreign-language dialogue within a primarily English film)

Always show forced subtitles

When enabled, forced subtitle tracks are always displayed regardless of your subtitle mode. This ensures you don’t miss translated signs or foreign-language dialogue.

Prefer SDH (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)

When enabled, Dubby prefers SDH tracks over standard subtitle tracks when both are available for your preferred language.

Remember within session

When enabled, your manual track selection during playback is remembered for the rest of the show — so switching subtitles once on episode 1 applies through the rest of the season.

Selection priority

The full subtitle selection order is:

Manual selection in the player (overrides everything for the current track)
Session memory (last-used track within a show, if Remember within session is enabled)
Custom language rules (see below)
Your language preference list + subtitle mode
Off (if no rule or preference applies)

Language rules

For fine-grained control, you can create language rules that override your default preferences based on content attributes (e.g., “prefer Japanese audio with English subtitles for anime”). Rules are evaluated before your default language lists and can be edited from Settings > Language Preferences > Rules.

Accent color

Dubby supports 14 accent colors that customize the UI highlight color across the interface:

red, orange, amber, emerald, teal, cyan, sky, blue, indigo, violet, purple, fuchsia, pink, rose

The default accent color is sky. Your selection applies to buttons, progress bars, focus rings, and other interactive elements.

Profile

Your profile shows your display name, email, and role (owner, admin, member, or guest). Your display name appears in the navigation bar, admin session lists, and activity logs.

Managed profiles

User accounts can have managed profiles for children or other restricted viewers. Each managed profile has its own content filtering rules, PIN protection, and screen time tracking.

Managed profiles are configured under Settings > Parental Controls. See Parental Controls for full details on:

Creating and managing child profiles
Age-based content filtering with country-specific rating systems
Per-title allow/block overrides
PIN protection for profile switching
Screen time tracking and limits

Settings scope

Profile settings are per-user and stored on the server. This means:

Your preferences follow you across devices (web, TV, mobile)
Admins cannot see or modify other users’ preferences
Settings take effect immediately without restarting playback
Managed profiles inherit the parent account’s settings but have their own content restrictions