Hi all, I’m been researching for a while, and just hoping to get some help with this. I have been hearing about radarr setups and indexers for a while, but never fully committed to a plan for building a server dedicated to it. I am really wanting to build something now that I have the money for it, but all I’ve ever done is gaming PCs so I’m really confused on what you actually need for a server like this. Some sources online say something older like a 10-series Intel i3 is fine, others say you should get an older Xeon….then some say you need a GPU, and others say it’s optional. I understand storage is needed, but how much would you all recommend?

I’m hoping someone can help me figure out what parts to buy, and if I should even do a rack mounted PC, or just have a tower that does it all? I literally know nothing about building a server, or if it’s even that much different than a gaming PC. Or maybe I need something like a prebuilt mini-pc like a Beelink or Minisforum style PC.

Also, if anyone could help me figure out what software and OS I need, that would be awesome too. As I said, I’m completely new to this, so I don’t even know what to use

Thanks!

Ok so I have a weird issue today and it seems that while the download client and indexers all work fine I get this message when trying to manually download (searching and autodownload also doesnt work) - Radarr was unable to determine which movie this release was for. Radarr may be unable to automatically import this release.
I have upgraded TrueNAS to latest release, and reinstalled SBNZBD and RADARR and still I get this issue...
Any pointers would be super helpful!

Thanks in advance!

Hello,

I'm really struggling to get Radarr to work with qBittorrent on a Unraid 7.0 server. I'm very new to both of these.

I have qBittorrent (lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent) installed from the app store in a docker container. I can access the webui, I have changed the password, and can download torrents which go to a downloads share that I created.

I downloaded Radarr (lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr), set up a user name and pass word, directed it to my movies folder.

I then added www.nzbgeek.info as an indexer with api key which goes green.

I then set up qBittorrent as a download client. Typed in the Host address which is 192.168.0.207 and the Port which is 8080, admin as the username, and the password that I set. I click test, and I get a green tick.

I then go to discover and find some random movie, in this case, Alien Romulus and pressed download. In activity, under Queue, the movie appears which an orange click on the right and side.

When I hover of it, it says Pending - Download client is unavailable. If I click the download button on the right, it goes red but nothing happens.

Everything seems to be working correctly! I have no clue what I am doing wrong. It is driving me up the wall.

Any help would be much appreciated. Perhaps this is an Unraid issue.

Hi folks, I've been using radarr for 3-4 months now and i'm lovin it ! I tried various things to automate the grab of movies and now i'm in a position where i use multiple methods to ask for a film. My family members are using trakt list, my brother is using the discord bot requesterr, and i'm using radarr.

I've come across the option to delete movies when they were not detected in import list (clean library level), but i wonder if the movies that will be deleted are going to be only the movies that were added via hte import lists or all movies (included movie asked via requesterr and radarr, in which case they will be immediately deleted).

Thanks for you help !

As the title says. I upgraded a bunch of movies in my collection via Radarr. Radarr then deletes the old copy. Plex showed the old file as unavailable, but had the new file available. So, I did an empty trash in Plex to remove the old records, but now Plex has lost the movies entirely. The new versions still exist in the file system, but Plex doesn't see them. Any ideas?

I'm geting this error Couldn't import movie /data/downloads/usenet/complete/xyz_folder/ZZZZZZ.mkv: I/O error
At the same time when I'm inside the container movies root folder I can create folder without problem
root@b77aea88c77b:/data/media1/movies# mkdir test

root@b77aea88c77b:/data/media1/movies# ls -la /data/media1/movies/test/

total 0

drwxrwxr-x 1 abc users 0 Feb 2 13:02 .

drwxrwxr-x 1 abc users 0 Feb 2 13:02 ..

Here is my downloads folder inside the container
ls -la

total 50

drwxr-xr-x 3 abc users 3 Feb 2 12:10 .

drwxr-xr-x 4 abc users 4 Feb 1 10:40 ..

drwxr-xr-x 2 abc users 4 Feb 2 12:10 xyz_folder
Please help.

Let's say there is a TheMovieDB list of the top 100 movies, and I want only to add movies (to be monitored) released after a certain date. Is there a way to do this? Currently, each time the list is imported (or refreshed), it adds all 100 movies. I prefer not to "clutter" the main screen with older movies that I may not want or already have. Thank.

I'm using Radarr with Transmission as my download client. My folder structure looks like this:

servercontent/
├─ torrents/
│  ├─ incomplete/
│  ├─ movies/
│  ├─ tv/
media/
├─ movies/
├─ tv/

In Radarr's download client config, I set the directory as /data/torrents/movies. When I searched for a single movie, it sent it there correctly.

However I then tried searching for all my missing movies, i.e. filtering to missing and then clicking "Search Filtered". In the Transmission UI I see that they're downloading, but I don't see anything in servercontent/torrents/incomplete. In this thread you'll see my docker compose, and the mapping for tranmission is /servercontent/torrents:/data/torrents. And in the tranmission settings I have the download path as /data/torrents and the incomplete path as /data/torrents/incomplete.

But when I exec into the Transmission container, I see that the incomplete files are in /data/incomplete, so they're not going to be visible to Radarr. Is this a bug with Search Filtered?

Yes yes I have setup my docker compose to have only a single volume mount, however beforehand they used to have multiple (e.g. one for downloads, one for media). But this is what my docker compose looks like now:

version: "2.1"
services:
  plex:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    ports:
      - 32400:32400
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - VERSION=docker
      - DOCKER_MODS=ghcr.io/gilbn/theme.park:plex
      - TP_THEME=dracula
    volumes:
      - /home/plex:/config
      - /servercontent/media:/data/media
      - /tmp/plex:/transcode
    restart: unless-stopped
  transmission-openvpn:
    container_name: transmission
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    dns:
      - 1.1.1.1
      - 1.0.0.1
    devices:
      - /dev/net/tun
    sysctls:
      - net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0
    volumes:
      - /servercontent/torrents:/data/torrents
      - /home/transmission:/config
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TRANSMISSION_RPC_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED=true
      - TRANSMISSION_WEB_UI=combustion
      - OPENVPN_PROVIDER=custom
      - OPENVPN_CONFIG=AirVPN_US-Atlanta-Georgia_Hercules_UDP-443-Entry3
      - OPENVPN_USERNAME=user
      - OPENVPN_PASSWORD=pass
      - LOCAL_NETWORK=192.168.1.0/24
    logging:
      driver: json-file
      options:
        max-size: 11m
    ports:
      - '9091:9091'
    image: haugene/transmission-openvpn
    restart: unless-stopped
  bazarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/bazarr:development
    container_name: bazarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/New_York
    volumes:
      - /home/bazarr:/config
      - /servercontent/media:/data/media
    ports:
      - 6767:6767
    restart: unless-stopped
  radarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr:latest
    container_name: radarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/New_York
      - DOCKER_MODS=ghcr.io/gilbn/theme.park:radarr
      - TP_THEME=dracula
    volumes:
      - /home/radarr:/config
      - /servercontent:/data
    ports:
      - 7878:7878
    restart: unless-stopped
  sonarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr:latest
    container_name: sonarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/New_York
      - DOCKER_MODS=ghcr.io/gilbn/theme.park:sonarr
      - TP_THEME=dracula
    volumes:
      - /home/sonarr:/config
      - /servercontent:/data
    ports:
      - 8989:8989
    restart: unless-stopped

However I just tried downloading a movie with radarr and the ls output is this:

❯ ls -l torrents/movies/The.Big.Lebowski.1998.REMASTERED.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG
total 2343872
drwxrwxr-x 3 wimoweh wimoweh       4096 Feb  1 16:22 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 wimoweh wimoweh       4096 Feb  1 16:22 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 wimoweh wimoweh       4096 Feb  1 16:22 Subs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wimoweh wimoweh         30 Feb  1 16:10 RARBG.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wimoweh wimoweh 2399905027 Feb  1 16:22 The.Big.Lebowski.1998.REMASTERED.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG.mp4

So it seems it did not use the hardlink (even though I have the setting checked). Any ideas?

EDIT: Verified that this isn't a mergerfs issue, as using jdupes let me create the hardlinks:

❯ jdupes -rLX onlyext:mp4,mkv,avi -y "/servercontent/media_hash.db" "/servercontent/torrents/movies/" "/servercontent/media/movies"

WARNING: THE HASH DATABASE FEATURE IS UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT! It functions
         but there are LOTS OF QUIRKS. The behavior is not fully documented
         yet and basic 'smarts' have not been implemented. USE THIS FEATURE
         AT YOUR OWN RISK. Report hashdb issues to jody@jodybruchon.com

Loading hash database...2 entries loaded.
Scanning: 917 files, 932 items (in 3 specified)
[SRC] /servercontent/media/movies/The Big Lebowski/The Big Lebowski (1998) {imdb-tt0118715} {edition-Remastered} [Bluray-1080p][AAC 5.1][8bit][x264]-RARBG.mp4
----> /servercontent/torrents/movies/The.Big.Lebowski.1998.REMASTERED.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG/The.Big.Lebowski.1998.REMASTERED.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG.mp4

Wrote 3 entries to the hash database
❯ ls -l torrents/movies/The.Big.Lebowski.1998.REMASTERED.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG/
total 2343680
drwxrwxr-x 3 wimoweh wimoweh       4096 Feb  1 18:19 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 wimoweh wimoweh       4096 Feb  1 16:22 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 wimoweh wimoweh       4096 Feb  1 16:22 Subs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wimoweh wimoweh         30 Feb  1 16:10 RARBG.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 2 wimoweh wimoweh 2399905027 Feb  1 16:22 The.Big.Lebowski.1998.REMASTERED.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG.mp4

Now the number of hardlinks is 2 instead of 1, not sure why it didn't do this to begin with

My Radarr installation (currently at 5.10.2.9164) won't update on it's supposed restart when doing a update.

It downloads the update, extracts, backups etc, but doesn't seem to restart to finish the actual update (looking in Activity Monitor in MacOS it never seems like Radarr is shutdown and restarted).

How much of the trace log is needed here to be able to figure out what is (or isn't) happening with the update?

Hello,

When using Autobrr, I would like Radarr to accept and add the brand new movie found even if it was not waiting for it; is there a way to do that ? I may miss something but in my understanding the normal Radarr behavior is to accept only if it's a sought content.

Does anyone have a 2025 Academy Award RSS feed ?

I found this, but I don’t have a paid account, so I can’t get the rss feed: https://trakt.tv/users/lac21/lists/97th-academy-awards-oscars-2025?sort=rank,asc

Hi Team,

This question has probably been asked a fair few times, and I have tried searching, but I'm quite confused.

I'm downloading movies and TV shows via Radarr / Sonarr, but they are just ending up in my NAS/docker/downloads/completed folder and not being moved to my NAS/Movies or NAS/TV Shows folder?

It was working well for years, but I think recently I tried to fix the 'you should not download to a root folder' issue in Sonarr and Radarr, and I've messed something up on the way through. One thing I did have set up when following the original guide like 5 years ago was the 'categories' in SABnzbd, for 'TV Shows' and 'Movies' which someone told me to remove when fixing the 'root folder' issue. I'm not sure if this has broken things, but I read on these subreddits not to use those, as Sonarr/Radarr would tell SAB to move the files when it's completed without setting up the categories?

Anyway, I'm really confused and would love some troubleshooting of obvious things that I could try?

Thanks in advance.

Should be easy I’m not seeing where to fix. I have a movie that is a romance and it found the same name as a horror movie ten years different. I didn’t catch until after I imported it improperly matched. I thought the delete button would work but it wants to delete the file as well. Editing doesn’t offer an option. I’m sure this is super common what am I missing how can I fix please….??

Hey r/Radarr,

I am very excited to announce v20 of nzb360!

v20 includes the new Dashboard 2.0, allowing you to fully customize the media Dashboard of your dreams, giving you full integration to all of nzb360's services (full *arrs, universal search, disk space, server issues, full discovery of media, etc.)

Check out some screenshots of Dashboard 2 here: https://imgur.com/a/cEi0CYy

As always, DB2 is just the beginning, and I'd love to hear your thoughts about how I've done with this and future functionality you'd like to see added to DB2.

Thank you so much for everyone's continued support over the past 12 years of nzb360 development. Here is to the next 12 :)

Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kevinforeman.nzb360&hl=en_US

Hi,

My external hard drive died. I bought and hooked up a new one. Is there a way to bulk change all the movies to missing so Radarr grabs them all again? I changed the root folder BTW.

Thanks in advance.

Hi, I've recently set up my radarr/sonarr server and came across TMDb keyword lists. Does anyone use them?

If so, how well do they work? And do you have to create a separate list per keyword?

The function to add IMDB lists to Radarr seems to be broken. I saw there was a GitHub issue about this, with a workaround to use the user url instead of the list url to add watchlist, with no other solution for the moment.

However, this is not what I want to do. I have separate lists - full feature movies, short movies and documentaries. I have the same separate directories on my drive. I would like to import each of these IMDb lists so that Radarr can automatically download the titles from these lists and send them in the appropriate directories.

I saw that some users imported their watchlist to Trakt, but this does not work for me, because, once again, it's not my watchlist that I want to import but three separate lists.

I did export CSV files from my IMDB account, but I'm not sure now what to do with them. Any ideas?

I had a lot of trouble with this and eventually solved it so I thought I would put together a small post on how I did it, as it wasn't a permissions/naming issue as is commonly suggested.

First of all, I'm running Radarr and qBittorrent with docker compose in an Ubuntu VM. Two volumes were passed to Radarr: an SSD for downloads and a ZFS array with my media library. qBittorrent downloads to the SSD, and I assumed that Radarr would be able to move from here to the array. I was wrong. Even though I confirmed that the Radarr container had access to both the SSD and the array using docker exec , Radarr just would not move and import the files.

How I ended up solving it was having qBittorrent move completed downloads to the array, then having Radarr read this directory for imports. I had to add the new volume to both docker compose files.

If anyone has a working setup similar to my original config I'd be interested to hear how you did it. It could be that this config is impossible and maybe I missed this in the Servarr docs/trash guides.

So, I’ve looked around for a while now, and I can’t find an answer to this question. When you enable hard links, does it move the data from the dl location to the media location and link it back to the dl location, or does it just put the link in the media location back to the dl location? Like, so I want to clean up my trnt client, and I delete an old trnt, will it delete the media or just the link to the media.

Ideally I’d want the media to be stored, renamed, categorized for long term and have the dl location just be a reference to the long term storage location. And when deleted out of the client, it only deletes the link, not the actual data.

Does anyone have any guidance in this regard?

Going through trash guides, it addresses the locations, but doesn’t state where is what.

I'm new to Docker but I'm trying to have a Radarr instance run in one. I keep running into problems with folder mapping. The host running Docker is Ubuntu, which has a mounted share /media/movies/. SAB's "complete" folder is in /media/SABComplete. I cannot get the volumes correct in my docker-compose.yml file (I think). Here is what I have:

services:

radarr:

image: lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr:latest

container_name: radarr

environment:

- PUID=0

- PGID=0

- TZ=Etc/UTC

volumes:

- /path/to/radarr/data:/config

- /media/movies

external: true

- /media/SABComplete

external: true

ports:

- 7878:7878

restart: unless-stopped

In Radarr, I have the following settings, however, once a movie is fully downloaded and moved over the network NAS, Plex will not be notified and will not scan for changes...

Windows PC -> the Arrs + Plex Media Server (database)

NAS -> Connected through network, holds Plex medias

Any clue?

https://preview.redd.it/2kz6231t46ge1.png?width=712&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4a4e2ed85038d6cf762da4cdbaa009b79448a98

https://preview.redd.it/wpji69yt46ge1.png?width=727&format=png&auto=webp&s=2bfa3bc02e56ec460a27abf027011e09e469fd8a

When I drop a movie torrent into qbit and go in and categorize it to Radarr the torrent shows up in the activity list, but it doesn't ID what movie it is even though there is always plenty of identification details in the torrent name to do so (I would get it happening randomly but it never gets them). I always end up adding the movie in Radarr manually and then as soon as I go back to Activity it's instantly associated it and everything else proceeds fine.

Long story short, is there any way to get Radarr to make an attempt at identifying movies that have been added to the Radarr category and show up in Activity?

I'm using radarr connected to prowlarr and in prowlarr I've set my private tracker to seed until 3 days or 3.0 ratio and I have qbit seeding times off as prowlarr handles all my indexers.

The issue is I am new to home server set up and I've been learning as I go and I had some issues along the way first with figuring out how to properly set different seeding goals per tracker, which caused torrents from the private tracker to only seed for 1 minute while I was troubleshooting, then I had some other technical issues with the server and binhex qbittorrentvpn that caused me to have to reconfigure qbit a few times and lose the seeding torrents.

Now if I stop the torrents then radarr is going to want to rename and move them which realistically is what I wanted to do at some point, but while it is seeding they are hard linked so I can use them anyway.

In the process of getting everything set up to almost fully functional my ratio on my private tracker has dropped slightly below the minimum and I can no longer download new torrents from them. I get bonus upload tokens for every hour seeded of a maximum of 15. I'm not sure if I'm going to get back into the safe zone with the current ones that have a little over 2 days left and I'm wondering if I can override them to seed indefinitely. My qbit deletes the .torrent file and I can't get to the magnet links while I'm below the ratio threshold of the tracker. Once I get above I can start just manually importing torrents from the top 15 and start building my ratio up but in the meantime I need to figure something out in the next two days.

If this function that I wish for is quite easy to find I apologize I am out of the house and I don't want to dig around too much remotely on my phone for this one as it isn't the ideal way to browse for functionalities, but I'm trying to figure something out for when I get home.

I've set up using the trashguides including custom formats and profiles. I then combined the profiles (I think) into one profile. Granted I'm not sure if creating profiles for the formats prior to combining had much affect but I'll screenshot the profile.

The issue I'm having, which is likely working as intended but I am wondering if there is a setting I missed or a way to easily override this;

File I already have;

Ubuntu-Starters-Guide[Bluray-2160p][DV HDR10][EAC3 5.1][h265]-BEN THE MEN.mp4

Formats;

DD+. DV HDR10, LQ (Release Title)

Custom Formats Score;

-6750

So I do an interactive search and come up with this better scored version;

File I'd like to replace existing with;

Ubuntu.Starter.Guide.UHD.BluRay.2160p.TrueHD.Atmos.7.1.DV.HEVC.REMUX-FraMeSToR

Formats;

DV, Remux Tier 1, TrueHD Atmos

Custom Formats Score;

+6500

Issue;

Release Rejected; Existing file on disk meets quality cutoff: WEB 2160p (WEBRip-1080p, WEBDL-2160p, WEBRip-2160p)

Solution I'm seeking;

I'd like to easily tell it to grab the latter release and replace the former as it fits my custom scoring better and overall sounds like a better version. Bluray 2160p is also above WEB 2160p in my profile, so I'd think it would want to upgrade it to the higher priority format?

Currently what I've been doing to have it download, rename, move, and refresh my media server without complaint is to Delete Selected Movie Files on the current version and then tell it to grab.

I'll mention I'm new to this and really only got everything working properly yesterday after a few days of troubleshooting and re-configuring after changing server hardware and having issues causing me to "reinstall" Unraid

Here is my quality profile;

UHD Bluray + WEB - Combined

any and all recommendations for my profile/setup/issue are welcome and very much appreciated, thank you!

I have an ASRock Z690 Extreme motherboard and just picked up two Samsung 990 Pros w/ Heatsink for a cache pool to replace my existing single outdated SSD in one of my Hyper M.2 slots.

However, I’ve noticed that during downloads/unpacking/mover operations, my system gets bottlenecked with high IOWAIT. Even with my CPU pinned to dedicate resources to my more important Dockers, it impacts my overall Docker performance. I’m not sure if upgrading to these new NVMe drives will fully resolve the issue...

I got some advice to create a second cache pool using a dedicated SSD strictly for downloads to help mitigate this. I'm looking for additional feedback—would it be better to use an NVMe SSD in my Ultra M.2 slot, or would a 2.5” SATA III SSD be sufficient? Do you think this would help isolate the high IOWAIT to that single SSD dedicated to downloads? I've already adjusted my Mover schedule to run outside of peak hours AND adjusted Plex to scan once a day rather than when a change to a library folder is detected.

Would love to hear from anyone who has dealt with similar issues...

Longtime Sonarr user but new Radarr user. I’m wondering how to dial in and get the most out of Radarr. I have everything setup just fine. So I’m not looking for basics. I’m wondering about finding movies and list of movies to search for and automate filling in gaps or other tricks..??

I see the calendar but that appears to have only existing movies or I’m assuming any future unreleased movie I manually add. Is there a way to get a list of all of the theatrical movie releases for 2025…?? To then go in and select which interest me..? Is there a source for lists like action movies or Jennifer Aniston movies etc…?

I have over 1600 movies that I’ve just manually selected one at a time. But, I’m looking for a better way to fill in the holes and automate searching..?

I feel like this should be simple but I am struggling.

To keep it somewhat simple.

Docker on my Synology NAS.

radarr download folder is set to: \\NAS\docker\radarr\downloads

qbittorrent download folder is set to \\NAS\docker\qbittorrent\downloads

When I download a movie with automatic torrent management enabled it places the movie in:
\\NAS\docker\qbittorrent\downloads\radarr

Then i get failures for the moving step in radarr due to it unable to find the file in \downloads\radarr. This seems obvious because its looking in \\NAS\docker\radarr\downloads\radarr NOT \\NAS\docker\qbittorrent\downloads\radarr.

(If I move the movie manually, it works of course)

I guess in short, how do i fix this? I assume the error is path related? I thought maybe i should change the "download" path in radarr, but I can't seem to figure out how to do this.

Side note: I have yet to install sonarr but will be once I figure this out. If it makes any difference.

I’m going through and updating/upgrading my library. I have upgrade until 2160p remux set.

Per the attached. I had Jackie brown at 2160p and a score of 1955. It “upgraded” to 1080p and a score of 1080p. I then manually got back the original file. How do I prevent these types of upgrades ?

https://i.imgur.com/ccAeaNa.png

When adding a root folder, I follow the path through my C drive and user, however no more folders show up after selecting user such as Desktop, Documents etc. Anyone know a solution?