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 EP 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 an example of this is if you select everything for Metallica over 600 album releases are pulled as possible downloads

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