add random subtitle key

src/assets/locales/en.json

@@ -265,6 +265,7 @@
         "changeSpeed": "Increase/decrease playback speed",
         "toggleFullscreen": "Toggle fullscreen",
         "toggleCaptions": "Toggle captions",
+        "randomCaption": "Select random caption from last used language",
         "syncSubtitlesEarlier": "Sync subtitles earlier (-0.5s)",
         "syncSubtitlesLater": "Sync subtitles later (+0.5s)",
         "barrelRoll": "Do a barrel roll! 🌀",

src/components/overlays/KeyboardCommandsModal.tsx

@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ const getShortcutGroups = (t: (key: string) => string): ShortcutGroup[] => [
         key: "C",
         description: t("global.keyboardShortcuts.shortcuts.toggleCaptions"),
       },
+      {
+        key: "Shift+C",
+        description: t("global.keyboardShortcuts.shortcuts.randomCaption"),
+      },
       {
         key: "[",
         description: t(

src/components/player/hooks/useCaptions.ts

@@ -148,6 +148,34 @@ export function useCaptions() {
     if (enabled) await selectLastUsedLanguage();
   }, [selectLastUsedLanguage, enabled]);
 
+  const selectRandomCaptionFromLastUsedLanguage = useCallback(async () => {
+    const language = lastSelectedLanguage ?? "en";
+
+    // Filter captions by language
+    const languageCaptions = captions.filter(
+      (caption) => caption.language === language,
+    );
+
+    // If no captions exist for that language, return early
+    if (languageCaptions.length === 0) return;
+
+    // Filter out the currently selected caption if possible
+    const availableCaptions = languageCaptions.filter(
+      (caption) => caption.id !== selectedCaption?.id,
+    );
+
+    // If we filtered out all captions (only one caption available), use all captions
+    const captionsToChooseFrom =
+      availableCaptions.length > 0 ? availableCaptions : languageCaptions;
+
+    // Pick a random caption
+    const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * captionsToChooseFrom.length);
+    const randomCaption = captionsToChooseFrom[randomIndex];
+
+    // Select the random caption
+    await selectCaptionById(randomCaption.id);
+  }, [lastSelectedLanguage, captions, selectedCaption, selectCaptionById]);
+
   return {
     selectLanguage,
     disable,
@@ -155,5 +183,6 @@ export function useCaptions() {
     toggleLastUsed,
     selectLastUsedLanguageIfEnabled,
     selectCaptionById,
+    selectRandomCaptionFromLastUsedLanguage,
   };
 }

src/components/player/internals/KeyboardEvents.tsx

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ export function KeyboardEvents() {
     (s) => s.setLastSuccessfulSource,
   );
 
-  const { toggleLastUsed } = useCaptions();
+  const { toggleLastUsed, selectRandomCaptionFromLastUsedLanguage } =
+    useCaptions();
   const setShowVolume = useEmpheralVolumeStore((s) => s.setShowVolume);
   const setDelay = useSubtitleStore((s) => s.setDelay);
   const delay = useSubtitleStore((s) => s.delay);
@@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ export function KeyboardEvents() {
     toggleMute,
     setIsRolling,
     toggleLastUsed,
+    selectRandomCaptionFromLastUsedLanguage,
     display,
     mediaPlaying,
     mediaProgress,
@@ -295,6 +297,7 @@ export function KeyboardEvents() {
       toggleMute,
       setIsRolling,
       toggleLastUsed,
+      selectRandomCaptionFromLastUsedLanguage,
       display,
       mediaPlaying,
       mediaProgress,
@@ -325,6 +328,7 @@ export function KeyboardEvents() {
     toggleMute,
     setIsRolling,
     toggleLastUsed,
+    selectRandomCaptionFromLastUsedLanguage,
     display,
     mediaPlaying,
     mediaProgress,
@@ -525,7 +529,14 @@ export function KeyboardEvents() {
       if (keyL === "o") dataRef.current.navigateToPreviousEpisode();
 
       // captions
-      if (keyL === "c") dataRef.current.toggleLastUsed().catch(() => {}); // ignore errors
+      if (keyL === "c" && !evt.shiftKey)
+        dataRef.current.toggleLastUsed().catch(() => {}); // ignore errors
+      // Random caption selection (Shift+C)
+      if (k === "C" && evt.shiftKey) {
+        dataRef.current
+          .selectRandomCaptionFromLastUsedLanguage()
+          .catch(() => {}); // ignore errors
+      }
 
       // Do a barrell roll!
       if (keyL === "r") {