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Here's my situation:
I have a number of MP3s in Japanese. As such, I made multiple ASS/SSA subtitle files (coloured, yay!) for each of them (Japanese Kanji, Japanese Romaji, and English), placing them in the same folder as my music with this name scheme -> [Music file name] - [Rom/Kan/Eng].

Attempting to play the music files in VLC does this:
The embedded album art from the audio files are visible, but VLC appears unable to detect the fact that there are external subtitles that can be played. Attempting to manually add subtitles in proves to be fruitless as well. Subtitle autodetection fuzziness is also turned up to '2' as to maximise detection (interestingly enough, it talks about 'subtitles containing the movie name' - what about audio?).

So given this, here is my question:
How do I make VLC play my music and recognise the fact that they have subtitles as well?

Thank-you for your help!

mp3 without album art, enabled visualizations (Audio > Visualizations > Spectrometer) => subtitles are autodetected and play fine (srt)
jpg + subtitles work, too.

mp3 without album art, enabled visualizations (Audio > Visualizations > Spectrometer) => subtitles are autodetected and play fine (srt)
jpg + subtitles work, too.

Thanks for the help! So will audio with external ASS/SSA subtitles + embedded album art work as well? That's what I use (for colour and prettiness, yay!).

Alternatively, is there a visualisation that shows an audio file's album art (I like seeing that better)? Thanks again!

Hmm, the Kanji subtitles seem to get cut off for some reason (centre part stays intact). However, the English subtitles work OK - they wrap themselves instead.

Is there a way to make the subtitles just shrink with VLC, rather than make them wrap around? Thanks.

For reference, below is an example of VLC cutting off the subtitles.


Thanks for your help!

Try to adjust some settings:
Tools > Preferences > Show settings=All >
> Audio \ Visualisations \ Visualiser: Video width
> Video \ Subtitles/OSD \ Text renderer

Try to adjust some settings:
Tools > Preferences > Show settings=All >
> Audio \ Visualisations \ Visualiser: Video width
> Video \ Subtitles/OSD \ Text renderer

Adjusting the video width worked. Thanks!

Is there a visualisation which just shows the album art? It looks prettier in my opinion. Thanks again! ^^

Probably it is not implemented. You could file a feature request ticket briefly describing the situation.
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc

Probably it is not implemented. You could file a feature request ticket briefly describing the situation.
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc

Thanks! Is there any sort of special way of writing feature requests that I should be aware of?

And the feature request is done!
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/16127