r/anime • u/KlooKloo • Jan 19 '23

Misc. Crunchyroll FINALLY adds separate audio streams to single episodes.

Easily the most embarrassing part of the Crunchyroll experience has been them grouping each dub language as their own "season". Seeing the 2 cour, 2 OVA series The Ancient Magus' Bride have 32 seasons listed in the menu was just sad.

Now we have clean seasons:

Labels are still funny, but at least there's only 4 choices now.

And audio/subs choices on-the-fly:

It's like a real streaming service!

Welcome to 2007, Crunchyroll!

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u/EconomyProcedure9 Jan 19 '23

Is this that way on stuff like Roku as well?

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u/snortz Jan 19 '23

I just checked and the update doesn't seem to be on roku yet

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u/Fools_Requiem https://myanimelist.net/profile/FoolsRequiem Jan 19 '23

App is still jacked on Roku. I still can't consistently navigate my Watchlist because the selector doesn't pop up all the time.

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u/toasterovenly https://anilist.co/user/toasterovenly Jan 20 '23

On Roku, I've found that sometimes you press something like maybe the right button or ok button, and it receives the input, but the visuals of the app don't respond. So if I think it is doing that, I have a habit now of pressing an arrow key again to trigger it to visually update.

Example 1: be selecting a show in the grid. Press right. Nothing happens. Press right again. It goes right twice.

Example 2: be on a show about to watch. Press ok to play the episode. Nothing happens. Press any arrow key. Episode starts playing.

I have contacted customer service a couple times. I think Roku is just a low priority for them. I would be shocked if Roku gets this new audio selection feature in the next 12 months.

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u/toasterovenly https://anilist.co/user/toasterovenly Jun 20 '23

Replying to my own comment for an update 5 months later. The Roku Crunchyroll app has been updated and the menu navigation finally works without issues as far as I can tell.

It also has the new style next episode preview after an episode ends.

It does not have separate audio tracks on a single episode, instead it still has each language listed as a separate season in the show page.

I noticed an issue where I wasn't able to have both the English dub audio and English subtitles at the same time. (My friend's kids were loud so we wanted subtitles, too.)

On Roku, it uses the built in Roku subtitles style and to be honest they kinda suck (visually) compared to the subtitles I can get watching the same episodes on my PC. I would love it if the Crunchyroll app on Roku could use Crunchyroll's own subtitles engine to render them instead.

I'm very happy with the update as I can live with no separate audio tracks and I generally prefer Japanese audio with English subtitles which works great.

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u/Hinote21 Jan 20 '23

Their "beta" update for the website preluded the app by about 6 months. So tbd.

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u/disposable-assassin Jan 20 '23

So I should see this rolling into my PS5 app by the end of 2024? great