Lidarr Settings

Lidarr 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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Naming

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

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

Standard Track Format

Here you will select the naming convention for the actual audio 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

Artist Naming

Input	Result
{Artist Name}	Artist Name
{Artist CleanName}	Artist Name
{Artist NameThe}	Artist Name, The
{Artist Disambiguation}	Disambiguation

Album

Input	Result
{Album Title}	Album Title
{Album CleanTitle}	Album Title
{Album Disambiguation}	Disambiguation
{Album TitleThe}	Abume Title, The
{Album Type}	Album Type

Release Date

Input	Result
{Release Year}	2020

Medium

Input	Result
{medium:0}	1
{medium:00}	01

Medium Format

Input	Result
{Medium Format}	CD

Track

Input	Result
{track:0}	1
{track:00}	01

Track Title

Input	Result
{Track Title}	Track Title
{Track CleanTitle}	Track Title

Quality

Input	Result
{Quality Full}	FLAC Proper
{Quality Title}	FLAC

Media Info

Input	Result
{MediaInfo AudioCodec}	FLAC
{MediaInfo AudioBitRate}	320kbps
{MediaInfo AudioSampleRate}	44.1kHz
{MediaInfo AudioChannels}	2.0
{MediaInfo AudioBitsPerSample}	24bit

Other

Input	Result
{Release Group}	Rls Grp
{Preferred Words}	iNTERNAL

Original

Input	Result
{Original Title}	Artist.Name.Album.Name.2020.FLAC.EVOLVE
{Original Filename}	01-track name

Multi Disc Track Format

See Standard Track Format

Artist Folder Format

Input	Result
{Artist Name}	Artist Name
{Artist CleanName}	Artist Name
{Artist NameThe}	Artist Name, The
{Artist Disambiguation}	Disambiguation

Album Folder Format

Artist

Input	Result
{Artist Name}	Artist Name
{Artist CleanName}	Artist Name
{Artist NameThe}	Artist Name, The
{Artist Disambiguation}	Disambiguation

Album

Input	Result
{Album Title}	Album Title
{Album CleanTitle}	Album Title
{Artist Disambiguation}	Disambiguation
{Album TitleThe}	Album Title, The
{Album Type}	Album Type

Release Date

Input	Result
{Release Year}	2020

• 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 Lidarr is unable to detect free space from your aritist root folder
• 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 Tracks - Tracks deleted from disk are automatically unmonitored in Lidarr
• Download Proper & Repacks - Should Lidarr automatically upgrade to propers when available? (see link for explanation on Proper and Repack)
  • Prefer and Upgrade - will prefer proper/repack if one is available (gives it a higher rating)
  • Do not upgrade automatically - This will not allow it to upgrade automatically but will still be rated accordingly.
• Rescan Aritst Folder after Refresh
  • Always - This will rescan artist folder based upon Tasks Schedule
  • After Manual Refresh - You will have to manually rescanning the disk
  • Never - Just as it says, NEVER
• Allow Fingerprinting - Use fingerprinting to improve accuracy of track matching
  • Always - This will analyze the file when matching
  • For New Imports Only - This will analyze only new imports
  • Never - just as it says, NEVER

• Change File Date
  • None - Lidarr will not change the date that shows in your given file browser
  • Album Release Date - The date the album was released

• 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

Root Folders

• Path - This shows the path to your media
• Free Space - This is the free space being reported to Lidarr 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 Lidarr to scan existing media

Profiles

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Quality Profiles

• Here you'll be allowed to set profiles for which you can have for the quality of series you're looking to download.
• When selecting an existing profile or adding an additional profile a new window will appear
  Note: The quality with the green box will be the quality that is set for Upgrade Until (basically the cutoff)
  • Name - Here you'll select a UNIQUE name for the profile to which you are creating
  • Upgrades allowed - If you tell Lidarr to download a MP3-160 (Poor Quality Lossy) file as it is the first release of a specific episode then later somebody is able to upload a FLAC (Lossless) then with this selected Lidarr will automatically upgrade to the better quality
    Note: This is only if you have FLAC (Lossless) higher than MP3-160 (Poor Quality Lossy) w/in the Qualities section
  • Qualities - For definitions for qualities please click HERE
  • Edit Groups - Some qualities are grouped together to reduce the size of the list as well grouping like releases, Prime example of this is MP3-160 and MP-96 as these are very similar and typically have similar bitrates. When editing the groups you can change the preference within each of the groups.
    • Qualities higher in the list are more preferred. Qualities within the same group are equal. Only checked qualities are wanted
      Note: By default the qualities are set from lowest (bottom) to highest (top)

Metadata Profiles

• Here you'll be allowed to set profiles for which you can have for the releases of a given artist
• When selecting an existing profile or adding an additional profile a new window will appear
  • Name - Here you'll select a UNIQUE name for the profile to which you are creating
  • Primary Types - These are typically the most common types of releases from an artist
  • Secondary Types - Less common types of releases however some artists will have them
  • Release Statuses - How did the artist release their material?

Note: If you're not seeing a release from a given artist then you might then you might want to create more profiles. A prime example of this is [Metallica]. They have 10 primary Album releases that show up under the "Standard" profile, however, if you're looking for [S&M]. Then you'll need to ensure that ________ is selected in order to see it. Note: Be careful with with selecting everything long running artists or artists with a lot of different types of releases can make loading up a specific artist for the first time quite slow as Lidarr is pulling all the information down

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