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diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index c88d02d35..bd8d62572 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -6599,6 +6599,51 @@ class require(ExtractorError):
         return value
 
 
+@partial_application
+# typing: (subs: list[dict], /, *, lang='und', ext=None) -> dict[str, list[dict]
+def subs_list_to_dict(subs, lang='und', ext=None):
+    """
+    Convert subtitles from a traversal into a subtitle dict.
+    The path should have an `all` immediately before this function.
+
+    Arguments:
+    `lang`     The default language tag for subtitle dicts with no
+               `lang` (`und`: undefined)
+    `ext`      The default value for `ext` in the subtitle dicts
+
+    In the dict you can set the following additional items:
+    `id`       The language tag to which the subtitle dict should be added
+    `quality`  The sort order for each subtitle dict
+    """
+
+    result = collections.defaultdict(list)
+
+    for sub in subs:
+        tn_url = url_or_none(sub.pop('url', None))
+        if tn_url:
+            sub['url'] = tn_url
+        elif not sub.get('data'):
+            continue
+        sub_lang = sub.pop('id', None)
+        if not isinstance(sub_lang, compat_str):
+            if not lang:
+                continue
+            sub_lang = lang
+        sub_ext = sub.get('ext')
+        if not isinstance(sub_ext, compat_str):
+            if not ext:
+                sub.pop('ext', None)
+            else:
+                sub['ext'] = ext
+        result[sub_lang].append(sub)
+    result = dict(result)
+
+    for subs in result.values():
+        subs.sort(key=lambda x: x.pop('quality', 0) or 0)
+
+    return result
+
+
 def unpack(func, **kwargs):
     """Make a function that applies `partial(func, **kwargs)` to its argument as *args"""
     @functools.wraps(func)