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Prioritize based on peers, macOS Transmission window on startup

Is there any way to prioritize downloads based on peers? (The more the better)

Or is this something I must seek out with downloading app itself? (Settings -> Prioritize higher peers) something like that?

Also, I am using Transmission on macOS and I like the clean UI but don't like how it opens the window on startup. I currently have it in Login Items on macOS settings, but can't find any preferences for Transmission to fix this.

Would there be a solution to both of these things? Or would I be better off using a different app to address both of these things?

1 Comment
2024/11/09
21:26 UTC

0

Unable to update to v5.14.0.9383

Currently running v5.12.2.9335
on Mac Sonoma 14.5 (23F79)

This has been an issue for a while. Last month, I did a fresh install, hoping that would fix it, but it didn't. It also affects Sonarr.

It goes through the whole update process, but when it gets to the "restarting radarr" phase, nothing happens and it doesn't restart. Manually restarting doesn't force the update. Not seeing anything in the trace logs either.

1 Comment
2024/11/09
18:03 UTC

0

How to delete a movie from radarr when it falls off a list, but not the file system.

I am trying to figure out how to delete the movie from radarr, but not the file system.

example, Halloween movies will be downloaded because they show up on the lists and are popular for this time of year. After they are gone from the list, I want radarr to stop looking for them / delete them from radarr.

I don't want them deleted from the file system because utorrent will continue to seed them for 90 days from the initial download date using ratio groups.

Next year, the movies are likely going to end up on the lists again and I want radarr to automatically download them again. Which is where I am getting hung up, because if a movie is unmonitored, I think that is permanently?

edit:
FYI
Lists > Clean Library Level > Remove movies & keep files.
Does NOT work, I deleted all of my lists and all of my movies in radarr did NOT disappear.

2 Comments
2024/11/09
03:53 UTC

7

How do you guys clean up movies?

For context, I’ve followed the trash guides to setup a downloads folder and a media folder and create hard links between the folders.

My research found two options available:

  • cleanarr
  • maintainarr

Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations on how they clean up movies they no longer want. Ideally I’d like to set a rule that does something like clean up everything related to a movie for a movie that has been watched after a month.

20 Comments
2024/11/09
02:49 UTC

1

Search not completing?

Been using the *arr suite for a few months and never had this issue before.

When I search for a release in radarr (or Sonarr) it acts like it's working. The animation is going. And going. And going. If I go over to prowlarr I can see the search under history, and can see that some indexers are returning results. But the search in radarr never finishes or eventually fails. I haven't changed anything since it last worked so I'm pretty confused. I'm on the latest versions of all of the tools. Any leads on his to troubleshoot this would be appreciated.

1 Comment
2024/11/09
02:19 UTC

5

Can I make radarr use an indexer ONLY if my other indexer has NO results?

Hi!

Basically I am using custom formats to select movies on my main indexer. I'd like to use 1337 as a backup, just in case my main one has no results.

Basically, if a release on the main indexer has only 10 points from custom formats, I still want Radarr to grab it instead of a release on 1337 that would have 50 points.

Is that possible?

Thanks!

9 Comments
2024/11/08
21:01 UTC

1

Delete after import (hardlink)

Ok so I know everyone says just hardlink it and it wont take up double the space, which is great and ive been doing that. However, I now have thousands of files(pointers) in my import folder and its killing my OCD. Not to mention if I need to manually import something it takes forever and a day to load the list.

Right now I download and seed on a seedhost. I have a script that runs every 5 minutes to pull it down to my server, unpack, and place it on the NAS for radarr to import it.

How can I have it delete these leftover pointer files after import?

3 Comments
2024/11/08
03:50 UTC

0

Advice on Installing Radarr, Sonarr, and Prowlarr on a Mac Mini M4 Pro - macOS or Linux?

Hello everyone,

I’m planning to use my future Mac Mini M4 Pro primarily as a media server for Plex, adding Radarr, Sonarr, and Prowlarr to manage my movies and shows. However, I’ve seen several users mention that installing these apps on macOS could be challenging.

I’m not very tech-savvy, so I’m wondering if this setup might be complex. I’m currently considering whether it might be easier to install Linux on the Mac Mini to handle these apps. I have a few questions for those with experience in this kind of setup:

  1. Installing on macOS: Is it really difficult to set up Radarr, Sonarr, and Prowlarr on macOS? What challenges did you encounter?
  2. Linux on Mac Mini: For those who chose to use Linux, is the installation and use of these applications actually simpler and more stable? Which distribution would you recommend for multimedia use in dual boot or a VM on a Mac Mini?
  3. Performance and compatibility: Are there noticeable performance differences between macOS and Linux for a media server on the Mac Mini M4 Pro? I’m wondering if Linux might allow for a smoother, more optimized experience.

Thanks in advance for any feedback and advice! Any thoughts or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated. 😊

14 Comments
2024/11/07
18:03 UTC

1

Help with Connection Custom Script when running Radarr in a docker container

I'm on Ubuntu and I have radarr running in a docker container using the linuxserver image. I am trying to write a Connection Custom Script that triggers a simple python script. I have written a shell script that runs this python script, and it works when I run the shell script from my terminal, but when I test triggering the script through radarr it errors and exits with code 127. If I replace the the python command with a simple echo command it works fine, so it's not a problem with radarr being able to find or execute the shell script. See the shell script below with the commented out echo command that works;

#!/bin/bash
#echo 'test' > /config/test.txt
python3 /config/test.py

I think the problem is that the radarr docker image can't execute python, but I am unsure how to fix this. Can anyone running radarr in docker using Connection Custom Scripts tell me if they can get python to work, and if so did they do anything special to get it to work? I assume this must be something people do, but maybe I'm wrong.

Thanks in advance for any help.

9 Comments
2024/11/07
13:12 UTC

26

Replace all x264 with x265

Hi everyone!

I want to redownload and replace all my x264 movies with x265 movies to save disk space but I'm stuck. I set up this custom format from trash guides:

{
  "trash_id": "9170d55c319f4fe40da8711ba9d8050d",
  "name": "x265",
  "includeCustomFormatWhenRenaming": false,
  "specifications": [
    {
      "name": "x|h265",
      "implementation": "ReleaseTitleSpecification",
      "negate": false,
      "required": true,
      "fields": {
        "value": "[xh][ ._-]?265|\\bHEVC(\\b|\\d)"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Not Remux",
      "implementation": "QualityModifierSpecification",
      "negate": true,
      "required": true,
      "fields": {
        "value": 5
      }
    }
  ]
}

I can't figure out what to do next. I see I can set a score to the custom format in 'Edit Quality Profile' and set a 'Minimum Custom Format Score' and 'Upgrade Until Custom Format Score'. But I don't know how to set this up. Do I change this in the Quality Profile used for all downloaded movies or do I make a new one?

Thanks for helping me out :)

32 Comments
2024/11/07
09:39 UTC

0

Radarr not copying from deluge

Just started happening and I haven’t changed anything. The download using deluge and it seeds ,but never moved or copied by radarr to plex. I poked around not sure if logs showed anything. It is very strange. I tried using prowler manually to kick off a download and it always now shows rpc error as well but downloads anyway and that is new as well. I do have auto update dockers so it is possible a new version is behind this. Any suggestions how to pin point issue? Usenet works fine only torrents have this issue.

2 Comments
2024/11/06
01:43 UTC

3

Workflow advice - Should I use 1 or 2 instances of Radarr?

I have had everything set up with Trash guides, but I'm a bit puzzled by how I should be running this kind of workflow. I mainly download 4k movies, but some movies are not available in 4k, so I download the next best version. 

I do this all manually; I have not automated downloads set up, just the way I like to work. I am also not allowing requests, so that won't matter in this case either. 

Is it best to use 1 instance or 2 instances of Radarr for this?

  • Right now, I have Radarr 1 for 4k, then I have it sync to Radarr 2 if I select my HD profile in Radarr 1 on the specific movie. 
  • Since I do this all manually, should I be initiating the download from Radarr 1 or Radarr 2? 
  • If I do Radarr 1, it will show up, but all my movies show as missing in Radarr 2, both 4k and HD. 
    • Radarr 1 goes to /movies and Radarr 2 goes to /movies-hd
  • It only seems to import the movie to Radarr 2 when I use a specific tag I set up; is that expected?

Am I overcomplicating this setup? Should I just use one Radarr instance for both 4k and HD movies with two different profiles? Should I just use one directory like /movies for all?

Eventually, I want to upgrade those HD versions to 4k when they become available, manually. I do not want/need two copies of the movie.

8 Comments
2024/11/05
23:42 UTC

6

Any good ways to merge BluRay and WebDL?

So I've noticed something after some months of using Radarr.. If the quality profile prefers BluRay (my initial config due to BluRay being better quality in most cases) then older movies download like a dream, and newer streaming service only stuff pulls ugly ISOs with nobody sharing.

If WebDL/WebRIP are preferred, the reverse happens.

Perhaps there's some tweaking needed on my minimum seeders, but some of these indexers lie about that too (Public user 4 life).

Has anyone come up with a good way to merge these so that it simply pulls the better file?

2 Comments
2024/11/05
19:21 UTC

6

Confused about quality profiles

I am currently trying to set up 2 instances of radarr, one for 1080p and one for 4k. I am using recyclarr to sync trash recommended quality profiles to each of these instances.

For my radarr4k for instance my quality profiles looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/BK9QB2K

Where UHD Bluray + WEB is the newly added custom profile that I guess I should use for this instance.

How do I ensure that this profile is used? Do I just delete all the other profiles and thereby force it to only use that profile or what is the correct way to do this?

For my 4k version of radarr I can see how this might make sense, but what about my normal 1080p version of radarr, should I also delete all the other profiles there? Or is there somewhere else where I select the profile I want to use?

5 Comments
2024/11/05
12:09 UTC

3

Indexers forget RSS and Search settings

I am using 3 indexers in both sonarr and radarr, which work fine most of the time.

On one of them i removed RSS and automatic search and reduced priority as well, to not tank my ratio on this during automated downloads, because it should only be a fallback for interactive search.

The problem is, that the checkboxes for RSS and Automatic Search reset constantly and the indexer grabs once in a while stuff that's monitored but not new enough to be in the others RSS. The priority however stays the same since weeks. So something is actively resetting it.

Before i start setting everything else up in a way to prevent this behavior, why is it even resetting in the first place? Am i misunderstanding a feature?

I disabled sync now in prowlarr for radarr despite prowlarr not having features that would influence this settings. But lets see what happens.

SOLUTION:

After i figured out, that when fully syncing is active for an app in prowlarr (:9696/settings/applications), it always applies the Standard Sync Profile occasionally. So i went to make 2 more profiles for my needs and added them to the indexers themselves at the main page of prowlarr. Now they are set up right and still get overwritten occasionally but with the right settings directly from the source.

I think its misleading to be able to alter the Indexer settings in radarr or sonarr when they are changed back to the prowlarr settings eventually.

1 Comment
2024/11/05
07:10 UTC

4

How to allow only two ips to ascess radars?

Hello,

How can I make radars only accessible from two local machines let's say from 192.168.1.5 and 192.168.1.10? All other machines are not allowed to access radars, not even the login page.

Radars is running on debian on a Raspberry Pi 4

Kindly guide.

9 Comments
2024/11/05
06:25 UTC

1

I created my first RSS feed for updating my Plex library daily!

After a bunch of iterating, I managed to create my first RSS feed to update my library daily. It runs on a scheduler and pulls information from a list of tens of thousands of movies to give me fresh picks twice a day that I can import directly to Radarr. It takes seconds to setup, just pop in the URL and hit save! I also made a nice graphic that's dynamic, so as the RSS feed updates this image does as well so I can always see what's been added that day. :) Once movies are added they are stored in a list, so they never get picked twice.

Link to daily image - https://thatmovieguy.vercel.app/api/free-daily-discovery

Anyone else use RSS feeds for this type of thing within Radarr? How did I do?

3 Comments
2024/11/04
16:15 UTC

2

Blacklist mismatch?

Trying to find a movie that was released Sep 2024. I have it matched via its imdb number. But I keep ending up with files that are a different movie from a foreign country. When I see that it downloaded the wrong movie, is there a way to "blacklist" that one so it won't grab it again and will look for a different match?

5 Comments
2024/11/04
17:19 UTC

1

Search not picking up on custom formats, score changes

I have radarr set up to use the trash guides custom formats/scores. The problem I'm seeing is that the custom score when searching doesn't always match the custom score assigned once the download is completed. I think what is happening is sometimes the release group (specifically FGT, but maybe others) and other features are not being recognized during search but are recognized once radarr can see the final downloaded file. Besides release group, I've seen this happen with the DV HDR10 format, for example. This can be seen in several places.

  1. In interactive search, a file with FGT release group (which should fall into the LQ format), the score is +5 in this case, +5 for being a repack/proper.

  2. Once it is downloaded, the score is -8495 (-10000 from LQ for being FGT release group, +5 for being a repack/proper, +1500 for being DV HDR10). I see this score when I go to the movie's page in radarr and it shows the file info. It also says "FGT" in the "Release Group" column. This seems to be the most complete score based on the file and my custom formats.

  3. If I click on the history for this show, it shows what the search did: +5 for the same file.

  4. If I click Manage Files, it shows the -8495 score.

This makes it hard to upgrade some files, since sometimes it will download a fileit thinks has a higher score in search (like +5) but then radarr won't import the file because now it says that file is -8495, far below the score of the file I already had. Has anyone else noticed this?

8 Comments
2024/11/04
14:45 UTC

0

New setup, just got up and running. Appreciate any tips or advice!

Finally dedicated some time this weekend to getting Radarr, Sonarr and Prowlarr up and running -- and I succeeded! That's no small feat for me because I'm not super-technical and I hate complex setups and coding; luckily the installation guides are pretty good and I was able to fill in the gaps with advice from friends and posts on this sub :)

I'm running everything on an M1 Mac Mini, downloading locally. I'll eventually move the downloads over to my Plex library on a NAS after I clean up the file names. I'm mostly looking for obscure and out-of-print movies and older TV shows that aren't streaming; so far I've had luck with several mainstream movies but striking out on others I thought would be easy (like Space Battleship Yamato) and no TV shows so far (all have grey bars).

I haven't changed many of the default settings so I'd appreciate any advice on things I should change or try in order to improve my setup. And other indexers or server suggestions are most welcome!

Current indexers:

  • NZBFinder
  • NZBGeek
  • AnimeTosho

(Question: is there any way to tell which indexer found a file? I'm curious if the two free options here (Geek and AnimeT) are doing anything.)

Provider: Frugal UseNet

Downloaders:

NZBGet and SABnzbd

(Question: does it make sense to run both or do I need to pick one?)

Torrents:

I haven't installed a downloader yet, will probably go with BiglyBT if it will support the key from my VPN. If I have a torrent indexer that's all I need, right?

2 Comments
2024/11/04
06:44 UTC

0

unable to add route folder

I am currently running both radarr and sonarr on my unraid 7 box last night I started getting the error that my root folder could not be mounted. I am at a complete loss here prior to this, it always just worked. Ive tried severaly different containers to no avail. I can provide any other info needed attached is my log file.

Thanks in advance

*Edit - I know i messed up the title

radarr log

6 Comments
2024/11/04
04:03 UTC

5

IMDB/Trakt/RSS lists for new stand up comedy specials

@ mods, i'm not SURE if this fits the sub, but I'm not asking anything about content access, so I figured it's okay. i'm looking for a way to track released Standup specials, regardless of artist or platform. Any thoughts?

5 Comments
2024/11/03
22:35 UTC

3

Organizr for managing everything

Anybody using Organizr? My biggest gripe with Radarr, Sonarr and Transmission for web is always being asked for password first time I open them up in browser on localhost to view their pages.

Would Organizr be able to solve this? How demanding is it always running in Docker or would there be even lighter weight options available?

Also, for macOS is there a downloading app you would recommend? I’m currently using transmission and it’s nice but it always shows on the dock when I boot into my system. Hoping to find something that will stay hidden and maybe only show up in menu bar when it’s downloading something. Not sure if anything like that is available for macOS.

13 Comments
2024/11/03
16:23 UTC

1

Importing single files

Hi! I have installed radarr on my seedbox but it only detects a few movies. I think it's only the ones that are contained in a folder.

I have a directory called "ptp" with mkv files at the root and whenever I try to import it it says all files have already been imported.

I can't find a way to detect single files.

Is there a way to update all of the files in the directory, or change the radarr settings? I have a lot of movies and I don't want to have to manually import them all.

My torrents are downloaded in rtorrent. Can I mass change the files that are not enclosed in a folder and update them in rtorrent so they can be processed by radarr?

1 Comment
2024/11/03
14:11 UTC

3

Re-invigorating Plex movie library with up-scaled resolution and audio - Movies predominantly with Radarr

Hi, something that I have been thinking about for a while and didn't think I'd be the only one that may want a solution for something along the lines of the following? Havent found anything with some google / Reddit searches but I could be using the wrong keywords to search for something like this.

Problem statement:

So you have that plex library you have built over more than a decade or two, but your older content when you watch them are low resolution and/or low quality audio. The source media files dont have the audio or video quality tagged in the filenames like your new media does (as you didnt set this up in Radarr/Sonarr until recently). Your 7.x / 9.x ++ sound or otherwise is under utilised along with your UHD / 4K screens.

Solution:

I want to setup something that looks at all media stored in specific plex folders (ie. movies folder, all movies in sub-folders), works out quality of audio and video from the existing source files, and then goes and grabs up-scaled versions and upgrades the media using a Radarr profile set against the media.

Other:

My plex library is local, but my current installations of Radarr/Sonarr/Deluge are all cloud hosted. I use Syncthing on my NAS to pull media locally when something new is ready.

Open to ideas, thanks!

7 Comments
2024/11/03
06:39 UTC

1

How to automatically grab from Rutracker?

My setup never grabs anything from Rutracker because it always thinks the audio is Russian even though it's usually Original Audio + Russian Audio.

I have my profile with Language: Original. I could use Language: Any but that may grab stuff not in the intended language.

Wondering if some has a solution or similar issue.

1 Comment
2024/11/02
22:06 UTC

3

How to handle BR-DISK with MT2S files?

Hi,

Radarr is grabbing the largest .M2TS file in the stream folder, then moving and renaming this file.

How can I stop this?

I want to process all M2TS files and not just the largest as this often is incomplete.

What do other people do?

3 Comments
2024/11/02
13:52 UTC

2

Request shows up in Radarr but its not downloading

So I make a request with requestrr. It works great and it forwards the request to overseer which in return sends the request to radarr. I can see the movie now under the "Wanted" Tab in Radarr but its not starting the download automatically. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a setting in radarr maybe to download "Wanted"? Pretty new to this so sorry for noob question.

Additional info: When I manually click on Search it does download the movie. But I want this process to happen automaticly. So when I request a movie it gets downloaded. Is this possible or does radarr not support that?

Edit: Found the problem. Couldnt find the movie because it was not available in the quality set in quality profile. Needed to create new categories in requestrr so I could assign the right quality profile. Thanks for all replies!

1 Comment
2024/11/02
12:38 UTC

0

Grabbing the Same Version/Video

Could not find the exact scenario when searching, so any help is appreciated.

I've been trying to grab a popular movie, however every time the download/unpacking finishes it ends up being the same version (an in person pov at a theater)

Ex:

Movie.Release01.mkv - 5gb - 30 days ago

Movie.Release08.mkv - 9gb - 2 days ago

Doesn't matter if the file size, description or release tag are different it still ends up being that same video. I'm suspecting that the original file is lingering somewhere, but not sure how to verify that. I've tried so far:

  • Automatic search/monitoring
  • Manual download override
  • Turning off monitoring and manually downloading
  • Deleting the listing from radarr and trying the above steps over again
  • Updating radarr
  • Deleting the file manually via network share

As for setup

Unraid > Radarr Docker > SABnzbd > Jellyfin
I have Tdarr setup as well, but I don't have it running for any of these tests.

This is the only movie I've encountered this behavior, so I'm a little stumped. I can look through logs or any other configurations per suggestions if no known issues like this exist. (Could also very well be user error in any of these steps and pointing that out is also appreciated :)

11 Comments
2024/11/02
05:22 UTC

5

What's the point of syncing two instances?

Hi, I recently stumbled on this trash guides article about syncing two instances - most common example being one for 4k, another one for fhd. I already have a setup like this, but they aren't synced per se. I just choose 'request in 4k'on jellyseer if I want the 4k version. Is there any benefit to syncing these two instances like how it's explained in the 'option 2' section of the article?

14 Comments
2024/11/01
19:18 UTC

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