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This may be a dumb question, but is there a way to tell if a title has forced sub-titles before you do a rip? It's not a huge deal, but when I am ripping a UHD disc I'll select the English subtitles just in case there's any forced subtitles. I can only tell at the very end of the rip when it says that forced subtitles was empty. I'd love to be able to know ahead of time so that I know not to select them.

Until the disk is read, there is no way to tell what the contents of tracks within a title contain, so... no.

But, my experience with several thousand disks says the chance of subtitles flagged as forced within a track is just SLIGHTLY above "nil". I personally have encountered only one disk that uses the flag on individual subtitles within a track, but I've heard of two others.