SolEol is a great app for users who download subtitles. If you have ever downloaded a subtitle, you probably know how frustrating it can be when you can't find the right subtitle or when the subtitle that you downloaded doesn't work for your movie. It is also a time-consuming task. Lets say you download your subtitles from Open Subtitles. Then you have to launch your browser, head to Open Subtitles, start a search, find the right result, download the file, unpack it and rename it for your movie or TV show. Well, with SolEol, you don't have to do any of that. You can simply drag and drop your video file to the application, and SolEol will find the subtitle for you. It will show you all the relevant results and you can download any of them. The downloaded subtitle will be unpacked, placed in the same folders as your video folder and renamed to match the movie file name. But things get better. From the Preferences window, you can configure the application to do this automatically (with no user input) when you drag a file. It can even rename movie files, assign a name to the subtitle based on the language of the subtitle, and more.
In my testing, I was able to quickly download subtitles for different movies and TV shows. Everything worked like a charm.
SolEol is a great free application. You can and should donate to the developer for making your life easier with this app.
v1.4 [Feb 8, 2012]
- NEW in 1.4.0.0.0: Fixed bug from 1.3.5 with naming of subs.
- NEW in 1.4.0.0.0: Result groups (by link, by name, unmatched) will always show in results, even empty).
- PPC version 1.4.0.0.0. Please note PPC version will soon be de-phased.
- Carried over from 1.3.5, released one day before:
- NEW: Shortcut: Shift-Alt/Option upon app start: Reset preferences to default values
- NEW: Shortcut: Control upon app start: Help us help you! In case of recurring problems you can use Debug mode to log extra information visible in the console.
- NEW: Preferences: Name subs as the movie or leave original.
- NEW: Preferences: Include 3-letter language identifier in subtitles or not.
- NEW: Preferences: Save subs locally if video directory is not writeable.
- NEW: Preferences: Rename Video file too, while at it. Use at your own risk.
- Format for movies is "Movie Title ([YEAR])"
- Format for TVEpisodes is "ShowName [1]x[02] - [Title]"
- where [1] is the season, [02] (or [02-03]) is the episode number(s) and [Title] is the episode title
- NEW: Search by Name: If no results are found based on the file hash, a search by name will be made.
- NEW: Video File Contextual Menu: Search TV Series subtitles in PodNapisy by Name/Season/Episode.
- NEW: Video File Contextual Menu: Search TV Series subtitles in OpenSubtitles by Name/Season/Episode.
- NEW: If video file folder has no write permissions a padlock will be shown in search list.
- NEW: Subtitle Contextual Menu: Report feedback about the subtitle to main database.
- NEW: Subtitle Contextual Menu: Preview subtitle with local video file.
- NEW: You get to donate so we can keep working on this application! :) Links throughout.
- FIXED: weird bug when dragging and dropping multiple files for searching.
- FIXED: Long-standing bug where video files larger than 2GB wouldn't give any subtitle results.
- FIXED: Instability uploading subtitles and selecting languages.
