Readarr 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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Naming

• Rename Tracks - 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

Author Folder Format

Here you will select the naming convention for the Author Folder

• 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

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

Naming

• Rename Tracks - 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

Author Folder Format

Here you will select the naming convention for the Author Folder

• 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

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

Folders

• 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 Readarr is unable to detect free space from your author 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 Books - Books deleted from disk are automatically unmonitored in Readarr
• Download Proper & Repacks - Should Radarr 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.
  • Do not prefer - Use 'Do not Prefer' to sort by preferred word score over propers/repacks, essentially putting the proper/repack lower on the list
• Watch Root Folders for file changes - Rescan automatically when files change in a root folder

• Rescan Author Folder after Refresh
  • Always - This will rescan author 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 - Readarr will not change the date that shows in your given file browser
  • Book Release Date - The date the book 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

Permissions =

• Set Permissions - This will allow Readarr to set the given file permission when a given file is imported or renamed
• chmod folder - This is the permission level that Readarr 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 Readarr is the owner of the file. It's better to ensure the download client uses the same group as Readarr.

Root Folders

Readarr is unique in that it can integrate with an outside application known as Calibre to further manage, tag and even serv up your media to various readers

• Name - This is a unique name for the given path
• Path - This is where your media is going to be stored (do not have your downloads going here)
• Calibre Library - Toggle if you're going to use Calibre to further manage your library
• Calibre Host - The IP address for your Calibre instance
• Calibre Port - The port number associated to your Calibre instance
• Calibre Url Base - Adds a prefix to the calibre url, e.g. http://[host]:[port]/[urlBase]
• Calibre User Name - The username in order to access your Calibre server
• Calibre Password - The password in order to access your Calibre server
• Convert to format - Calibre has the ability to covert any incoming format to a specific format (eg. epub or mobi just to name a few)
• Calibre Output Profile - ????
• Use SSL - Toggle if you'd like Readarr to connect to Calibre using SSL encryption
• Monitor
  • All books - Readarr will monitor all books in your library
  • Future Books - Readarr will only monitor future books, Readarr will not monitor any current or older books
  • Missing - Readarr will only monitor any books that are missing
  • Existing - Readarr will monitor only existing books in order to meet your given cutoff
  • First - Readarr will only monitior the given author's first book
  • Last - Readarr will only monitor the given author's last book
  • None - Readarr will not monitor any authors books
• Quality Profile - These can be changed within the Profiles section and will dictate what quality is acceptable
• Metadata Profile - This can be changed within the Metadata section and will dictate what metadata source
  • Standard is set by default
  • Select 'None' to only include items manually added via search or that match files on disk
• Default Readarr Tags - Select what tag you'd like to set for this content (more information on Tags can be found HERE

Profiles

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Quality Profiles

{{{{{ARRNAME}}} Settings Profiles Quality Profiles}}

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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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