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 Box - Space Handling
    • Space ( ) - Use spaces in naming (Default)
    • Period (.) - Use periods in lieu of spaces in naming
    • Underscore (_) - Use underscores in lieu of spaces in naming
    • Dash (-) - Use dashes in lieu of spaces in naming
  • Right Box - Case Handling
    • Default Case - Make title upper and lower Case (~camelcase) (Default)
    • Upper Case - Make title all upper case
    • Lower Case - Make title all lower case

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

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 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

Permissions

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

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

Delay Profiles

• Delay profiles allow you to reduce the number of releases that will be downloaded for an Track, by adding a delay while Lidarr will continue to watch for releases that better match your preferences.
  • Protocol - This will either be Usenet or Torrent depending on which download protocol you're using
  • Usenet Delay - Set by the number of minutes you'll want to wait before the download to start
  • Torrent Delay - Set by the number of minutes you'll want to wait before the download to start
  • Bypass if Highest Quality - Bypass the delay profile if the highest quality for that Track is found and grab once the first instance of the highest ranked quality is found. Otherwise wait for the best quality release until the end of the delay period.
  • Tags - This is where you'll select any relevant tags that you'll be using for this scheme
• Wrench icon - This will allow you to edit the delay profile
• Plus icon - Create a new profile

Example: Some media will receive half a dozen different releases of varying quality in the hours after a release, and without delay profiles Lidarr might try to download all of them. With delay profiles, Lidarr can be configured to ignore the first few hours of releases.

Delay profiles are also helpful if you want to emphasize one protocol (Usenet or BitTorrent) over the other. (See Example 3)

How Delay Profiles Work

The timer begins as soon as Lidarr detects an Track has a release available. This release will show up in your Queue with a clock icon to indicate that it is under a delay. Please note that the clock starts from the releases uploaded time and not from the time Lidarr sees it.

During the delay period, any new releases that become available will be noted by Lidarr. When the delay timer expires, Lidarr will download the single release which best matches your quality preferences.

The timer period can be different for Usenet and Torrents. Each profile can be associated with one or more tags to allow you to customize which shows have which profiles. A delay profile with no tag is considered the default and applies to all shows that do not have a specific tag.

NOTE: Delay profiles start from the timestamp that the indexer reports the release was uploaded. This means that any content older than the number of minutes you have set are not impacted in any way by your delay profile, and will be downloaded immediately. In addition, any manual searches for content (non-RSS feed searches) will ignore delay profile settings.

Examples

For each example, assume the user has the follow quality profile active: MP3-320 and above are allowed OGG Vorbis Q7 is the quality cutoff * FLAC is the highest ranked quality

Example 1:

In this simple example, the profile is set with a 120 minute (two hour) delay for both Usenet and Torrent.

At 11:00pm the first release for an Track is detected by Lidarr and it was uploaded at 10:50pm and the 120 minute clock begins. At 12:50am, Lidarr will evaluate any releases it has found in the past two hours, and download the best one, which is OGG Vorbis Q7.

At 3:00am another release is found, which is OGG Vorbis Q7 that was added to your indexer at 2:46am. Another 120 minute clock begins. At 4:46am the best-available release is downloaded. Since the quality cutoff is now reached, the Track no longer is upgradable and Lidarr will stop looking for new releases.

At any point, if a FLAC release is found, it will be downloaded immediately because it is the highest-ranking quality. If there is a delay timer currently active it will be cancelled.

Example 2:

This example has different timers for Usenet and Torrents. Assume a 120 minute timer for Usenet and a 180 minute timer for BitTorrent.

At 11:00pm the first release for an Track is detected by Lidarr and both timers begin. The release was added to the indexer at 10:15pm At 12:15am, Lidarr will evaluate any releases, and if there are any acceptable Usenet releases, the best one will be downloaded and both timers will end. If not, Lidarr will wait until 12:15am and download the best release, regardless of which source it came from.

Example 3:

A common use for delay profiles is to emphasize one protocol over another. For example, you might only want to download a BitTorrent release if nothing has been uploaded to Usenet after a certain amount of time.

You could set a 60 minute timer for BitTorrent, and a 0 minute timer for Usenet.

If the first release that is detected is from Usenet, Lidarr will download it immediately.

If the first release is from BitTorrent, Lidarr will set a 60 minute timer. If any qualifying Usenet release is detected during that timer, the BitTorrent release will be ignored and the Usenet release will be grabbed.

Release Profiles

• Not all releases are created equal, each release group has their own way of packaging and encoding their material. Here you'll be able to select the preferred releases you're looking for
• Enable Profile - Toggling this given profile on or off
• Must Contain - The release must contain at least one of these terms (case insensitive)
• Must Not Contain - The release will be rejected if it contains one or more of terms (case insensitive)
• Preferred - Here you can select a given term and give it a score.
• Include Preferred when Renaming - When utilizing the {Preferred Words} tag in the naming scheme
• Tags - With giving this release profile a tag you'll be able to tag a given series to have it play by the rules set here. If you leave this field blank these rules will apply to all series

Quality

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Quality Table Meanings

• Title - The name of the Quality in the GUI (configurable)
• Max - The maximum Kilobytes per second (KB/s) a quality can have.
• Kilobytes Per Second - Self Explanatory
• Min - The minimum Kilobytes per second (KB/s) a quality can have.
• Preferred - The preferred Kilobytes per second (KB/s) a quality can have.
• Quality - The scene quality name (hardcoded)
• Size Limit - Self Explanatory

Quality Definitions

• AAC-192 - An AAC file with a 192 kbps bitrate
• AAC-256 - An AAC file with a 256 kbps bitrate
• AAC-320 - An AAC file with a 320 kbps bitrate
• AAC-VBR - An AAC file with a variable bitrate
• ALAC - Audio file created with the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC); used for storing digital music losslessly without losing any sound quality from the original audio data; differs from lossy audio codecs such as AAC.
• APE - Audio file compressed using Monkey's Audio lossless compression algorithm; includes error detection and support for tags that store information about audio files; sometimes created with .CUE files to comprise an audio CD image.
• FLAC - A FLAC file is an audio file compressed in the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) format, which is an open source lossless audio compression format. It is similar to a .MP3 file, but is compressed without any loss in quality or loss of any original audio data.
• FLAC 24bit - A FLAC file with 24-bit encoding, allowing a much wider dynamic range than CD, and sampling rates all the way up to 192kHz
• MP3-8 - A MP3 file with a 8 kbps bitrate
• MP3-16 - A MP3 file with a 16 kbps bitrate
• MP3-24 - A MP3 file with a 24 kbps bitrate
• MP3-32 - A MP3 file with a 32 kbps bitrate
• MP3-40 - A MP3 file with a 40 kbps bitrate
• MP3-48 - A MP3 file with a 48 kbps bitrate
• MP3-56 - A MP3 file with a 56 kbps bitrate
• MP3-64 - A MP3 file with a 64 kbps bitrate
• MP3-80 - A MP3 file with a 80 kbps bitrate
• MP3-96 - A MP3 file with a 96 kbps bitrate
• MP3-112 - A MP3 file with a 112 kbps bitrate
• MP3-128 - A MP3 file with a 128 kbps bitrate
• MP3-160 - A MP3 file with a 160 kbps bitrate
• MP3-192 - A MP3 file with a 192 kbps bitrate
• MP3-224 - A MP3 file with a 224 kbps bitrate
• MP3-256 - A MP3 file with a 256 kbps bitrate
• MP3-320 - An MP3 file with a 320 kbps bitrate
• MP3-VBR-V0 - An MP3 file with a variable bitrate (version 0)
• MP3-VBR-V2 - An MP3 file with a variable bitrate (version 2)
• OGG Vorbis Q5 - An OOG file with an 160 kbps bitrate
• OGG Vorbis Q6 - An OOG file with a 192 kbps bitrate
• OGG Vorbis Q7 - An OOG file with a 224 kbps bitrate
• OGG Vorbis Q8 - An OOG file with a 256 kbps bitrate
• OGG Vorbis Q9 - An OOG file with a 320 kbps bitrate
• OGG Vorbis Q10 - An OOG file with a 500 kbps bitrate
• Unknown - Self Explanatory
• WavPack - WavPack compresses high-quality audio to between thirty and seventy percent and supports both mono and stereo audio ranging from 8 to 32 bits. Typically these are audio files in an .WV container
• WAV - A WAV file is an audio file saved in the WAVE format, which is a standard digital audio file format utilized for storing waveform data. WAV files may contain audio recordings with different sampling rates and bitrates but are often saved in a 44.1 KHz, 16-bit, stereo format, which is the standard format used for CD audio.
• WMA - A WMA file is an audio file saved in the Advanced Systems Format (ASF) proprietary format developed by Microsoft. It contains Windows Media Audio and metadata objects such as the title, artist, album, and genre of the track. WMA files are similar to .MP3 files and primarily used for streaming music from the web.

Indexers

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Once you're here you'll be adding the indexer/tracker that you'll be using to actually download any of your files. If you're curious on how Lidarr works with your indexer/tracker click HERE

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