Radarr Settings

Radarr Settings

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Media Management

Note: Some of these settings are only visible through 'show advanced' settings which is on the top bar under the search bar

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Movie Naming

• Rename Movies - If this is toggled off (no check in the box) Radarr will use the existing file name if renaming is disabled
• Replace Illegal Characters - If this is toggled off (no check in the box) Radarr will replace illegal characters.

Example: \ # / $ * < > just to name a few

• Colon Replacement - This setting will dictate how Radarr handles colons within the movie file.
  This is only available when Replace Illegal Characters is toggled on (check in the box)
  • Delete - Self explanatory
    • Example: Movie,The.mkv -> MovieThe.mkv
  • Replace with Dash - Removes the colon and adds a dash in its place
    • Example: Movie,The.mkv -> Movie-The.mkv
  • Replace with Space - Removes the colon and adds a space in its place
    • Example: Movie,The.mkv -> Movie The.mkv
  • Replace with Space Dash Space - self explanatory
    • Example: Movie,The.mkv -> Movie - The.mkv

Standard Movie Format

Here you will select the naming convention for the actual movie files

• Dropdown Box (upper right corner)
  • Left hand one - Replaces all spaces with selected variable
  • Right hand one - Sets to default upper and lower case, all lowercase or all uppercase

Movie Naming

Input	Result
{Movie Title}	Movie Name!
{Movie TitleThe}	Movie Name, The
{Movie Collection}	The Movie Collection
{Release Year}	2020
{Movie CleanTitle}	Movie Name
{Movie TitleFirstCharacter}	M
{Movie Certification}	PG-13

Movie IDs

Input	Result
{ImdbId}	tt12345
{Tmdbid}	123456

Quality

Input	Result
{Quality Full}	HDTV 720p Proper
{Quality Title}	HDTV 720p

Media Info

Input	Result
{MediaInfo Simple}	x264 DTS
{MediaInfo VideoCodec}	x264
{MediaInfo AudioChannels}	5.1
{MediaInfo SubtitleLanguages}	[EN]
{MediaInfo VideoBitDepth}	8
{MediaInfo Full}	x264 DTS [EN+DE]
{MediaInfo AudioCodec}	DTS
{MediaInfo AudioLanguages}	[EN+DE]
{MediaInfo VideoCodec}	x264
{MediaInfo VideoDynamicRange}	HDR

Edition

Input	Result
{Edition Tags}	IMAX

Custom Formats

Input	Result
{Custom Formats}	Surround Sound x264

Original

Input	Result
{Original Title}	Movie.Title.HDTV.x264.EVOLVE
{Original Filename}	Movie.title.hdtv.x264.EVOLVE

Standard Movie Folder Format

This is where you will set the naming convention for the folder that contains the video file

Movie Naming

Input	Result
{Movie Title}	Movie Name!
{Movie TitleThe}	Movie Name, The
{Movie Collection}	The Movie Collection
{Release Year}	2020
{Movie CleanTitle}	Movie Name
{Movie TitleFirstCharacter}	M
{Movie Certification}	PG-13

Movie IDs

Input	Result
{ImdbId}	tt12345
{Tmdbid}	123456

• Create Empty Media folders - This will create an empty folder during disk scan
• Delete Empty Folders - This will remove any empty folders during disk scan

Importing

• Skip Free Space Check - Use when Radarr is unable to detect free space from your movies root folder

Only visible with advanced toggled

• Minimum Free Space - Toggling this will prevent import if it would leave less than this amount of disk space available

Only visible with advanced toggled

• Use Hardlinks instead of Copy - Use Hardlinks when trying to copy files from torrents that are still being seeded (for more information on this click HERE)

Only visible with advanced toggled

• Import Extra Files - Import matching extra files (subtitles, nfo, etc) after importing a file

File Management

• Ignore Deleted Movies - Movies deleted from disk are automatically unmonitored in Radarr
• Download Proper & Repacks - Should Radarr automatically upgrade to propers when available? (see link for explanation on Proper and Repack)
• Analyse video files - Extract file information such as resolution, runtime and codec information from files. This requires Radarr to read parts of the file which may cause high disk or network activity during scans.

• Rescan Movie Folder after Refresh
  • Always - This will rescan the movies folder based upon Tasks Schedule
  • After Manual Refresh - You will have to manually rescanning the disk
  • Never - Just as it says, NEVER

• Change File Date
  • None - Radarr will not change the date that shows in your given file browser
  • In Cinimas - The date the video was in cinemas
  • Physical release date - The date the video was released on disc/streaming

• Recycling Bin - Designate a location for deleted files to go to (just in case you want to retrieve them before the bin is taken out)

• Recycling Bin Cleanup - This is how old a given file can be before it is deleted permanently

• Set Permissions - This will allow Radarr to set the given file permission when a given file is imported or renamed
• chmod folder - This is the permission level that Radarr will set for a given file on import or rename (more information HERE)
  • The drop down box has a preset list of very commonly used permissions that can be used. However, you can manually enter a folder octal if you wish.
• chmod Group - This only works if the user running Radarr is the owner of the file. It's better to ensure the download client uses the same group as Radarr.

Root Folders

• Path - This shows the path to your media
• Free Space - This is the free space being reported to Radarr from the system
• Unmapped Folders - ??
• The X at the end - This will remove this given root path

• Add folder - This allows you to select a root path for a place to either place new downloads into this folder or to allow Radarr to scan existing media

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Metadata

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This section will require its own page

Write Metadata to Audio Files

Lidarr & Readarr only

Metadata Provider Source

Lidarr & Readarr only

Options

Radarr only

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