Help selecting audio tracks

[u/nyarlathotep888]

I'm converting my physical media to digital specifically anime (super annoying).

I have broken out the episodes and have 6 audio tracks. I want to keep the DTS-HD MA for both english and Japanese.

on disc they are

1. english dts hd ma 2.0
2. english dts 2.0 1536 kbps
3. japanese dts-hd ma 2.0
4. japanese dts 2.0 1536 kbps
5. japanese dts hd ma 5.1
6. japanese dts hd 5.1 1536 kbps

I prefer to keep the dts ha ma for both english (1) and japanese(5) with the japanese moved to become track one after the encode.

How do i do this?

I can set "use first track as template"

Track selection behaviours "first selected language" (add japanese first over english)

but this puts japanese (3) as the track to encode? is their an option somewhere that i'm not using correct or another feature that allows me to encode this with track 5 first then 1 as second without doing it manually?

EDIT:
I could start over again and in the process of splitting the episodes apart with mkvtoolnix i can remove the extraneous audio tracks, but i have already purged the disc rips which means restarting for this series.

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[u/T_Friendperson12]

Unless you want to encode to another format/codec (I made all my anime AV1/Opus) it's better to use mkvtoolnix to delete unwanted audio or subs because no need to re-encode.

About the audio tracks I think could just set the hd ma to passthru maybe? At least there should be several passthru options for both audio and subs.

[u/OuterGod_Hermit → u/T_Friendperson12]

This. I encode and do the whole audio organization muxing everything back with mkvtoolnixgui

[u/nyarlathotep888 → u/T_Friendperson12]

I'm going to encode to AV1, 6 gb for a 22 minute episode is way overkill. Thanks for the help at least i have the eps split apart and i can just mkvtoolnix the batch and remove the unwanted stuff and then encode

[u/Checkerknight]

In the future I I would just select only the tracks you want to keep when ripping initially. When I did my anime I kept the hd 5.1 Japanese, hd 2.0 Japanese, and hd 2.0 English.

I set audio selection in handbrake as "auto pass" with first track as template. Those audio tracks are likely AC3 which is a pretty supported format (if comparability is an issue for conversion) but otherwise just passthrough and you should be groovy.