What this is¶
moansubs is a shared subtitle database for Stash libraries. Someone subtitles a scene once; everyone else who has that scene gets the subtitle too — even though their copy is a different encode with a completely different filename.
That works because subtitles here are matched to the video itself, not
its name. Stash already computes a fingerprint for every scene — a cheap
file-identity hash (oshash) and, once you turn it on, a perceptual hash
(phash) that survives re-encoding. moansubs keys subtitles on those
fingerprints, so a re-rip, a different container, or a renamed file still
finds the same subtitles.
Every subtitle in the catalogue is released under CC0 — public domain, no attribution required, do what you like with it. Using the site to search or download costs nothing and needs no account.
Two doors, one catalogue¶
- The Stash plugin adds a Subtitles panel to every scene page, plus a badge on scene cards that already have something. This is the easiest way in if you use Stash — see Installing the plugin.
- The website lets you browse, search, upload, and vote without Stash open at all — useful from a phone, or for a file Stash hasn't scanned yet. See Browsing and registering.
Download something through one and it's there through the other too — both are windows onto the same server.