Babel

Babel monitors your media library, detects sub-only episodes, and automatically searches for English dubbed versions through Sonarr. Named after the Tower of Babel — bridging the language gap in your media library.

Features

Core

• Automatic dub detection via Plex audio track analysis and ffprobe

• Smart upgrade searches with rate limiting, cooldowns, and max attempt caps

• Upgrade tracking — monitors downloads from search through import, auto-retries failures

• Stuck import resolution — detects and force-imports stuck Sonarr queue items (including ID mismatches)

Intelligence

• Dub availability lookup via MyAnimeList/Jikan — knows if a dub even exists before searching

• Dub status change notifications — alerts when a previously unlicensed show gets a dub

• Auto-overrides MAL when actual dubbed audio is detected in files

Integrations

• Sonarr: custom format creation, tag syncing, webhook support for instant upgrade detection

• Plex: audio indexing, collection management (Dubbed Anime, Sub-Only, etc.)

• Discord: webhook notifications for scan results and dub upgrades

• Sonarr webhook endpoint for real-time import awareness

Dashboard

• Polished dark-themed web UI with poster art and live scan progress

• Series browser with filter pills, search, sort, and pagination

• Activity feed with real-time download monitoring

• Dub Intelligence page with Recently Dubbed / Dub Expected / No Dub tabs

• Scan history with drilldown detail views

• Log viewer with level filtering

• All settings configurable via web UI

This thread is for support, questions, and discussion related to the Babel Docker container.

• GitHub: https://github.com/TheRealShadoh/babel

• Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/therealshadoh/babel

*Created because the wife won't watch anime unless it's dubbed, and with little kids- dub is a life saver. Should work just as well for non anime dub searching via Sonarr, but currently it ties into Anime sites for dub searches and is hardcoded to only English- I'll look at making the language expandable, though it's all just Sonarr settings that it does for you.