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Quality Profiles

Radarr Quality Profiles

• Here you'll be allowed to set profiles for which you can have for the quality of movie 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 blue 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 Radarr to download a Web 1080p as it is the first release of a specific movie then later somebody is able to upload a Bluray-1080p then with this selected Radarr will automatically upgrade to the better quality
    Note: This is only if you have Bluray-1080p higher than Web 1080p w/in the Qualities section and both are selected
  • Upgrade until Quality - Here you'll set the cut-off to which Radarr says to its self, "This is as high of quality that you want. I won't be looking anymore for better quality releases."
  • Minimum Custom Format Score - The minimum sum of custom format(s) for a release to be downloaded. Note this does not outrank qualities, but is ranked after qualities.
  • Upgrade Until Custom Format Score - Similar to Upgrade until Quality; the minimum score to be reached within a quality to upgrade to. Once this is reached, there will be no upgrades within that quality due to custom formats.
  • Language - Select your preferred language
  • Custom Format - Radarr scores each release using the sum of scores for matching custom formats. If a new release would improve the score, at the same or better quality, then Radarr will grab it.
    • For more details on Custom Formats click HERE
  • 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 WebDL and WebRip 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)

Sonarr 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 blue 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 Sonarr to download a Web 1080p as it is the first release of a specific episode then later somebody is able to upload a Bluray-1080p then with this selected Sonarr will automatically upgrade to the better quality
    Note: This is only if you have Bluray-1080p higher than Web 1080p 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 WebDL and WebRip 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)

Lidarr 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)

Readarr 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
  • Name - Here you'll select a UNIQUE name for the profile to which you are creating
  • Upgrades allowed -
    • Audio Books - If you tell Readarr to download a MP3-320 file as it is the first release of a specific episode then later somebody is able to upload a FLAC then with this selected Readarr will automatically upgrade to the better quality
      Note: This is only if you have FLAC higher than MP3-320 w/in the Qualities section
    • E-Books - Quality settings are based upon preferences, if you want an ePub over Mobi file format
  • 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.
    • Qualities higher in the list are more preferred. Qualities within the same group are equal. Only checked qualities are wanted
    • Audio Book Qualities are set higher than ebook qualities however this does not mean an audio book will be downloaded before an ebook

Delay Profiles <----- Template

Uses Template with ARRNAME, MEDIA, QUALITY1, QUALITY2, QUALITY 3 variables

• Delay profiles allow you to reduce the number of releases that will be downloaded for an {{{MEDIA}}}, by adding a delay while {{{ARRNAME}}} 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 {{{MEDIA}}} 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 {{{ARRNAME}}} might try to download all of them. With delay profiles, {{{ARRNAME}}} 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 {{{ARRNAME}}} detects an {{{MEDIA}}} 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 {{{ARRNAME}}} sees it.

During the delay period, any new releases that become available will be noted by {{{ARRNAME}}}. When the delay timer expires, {{{ARRNAME}}} 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: {{{QUALITY1}}} and above are allowed {{{QUALITY2}}} is the quality cutoff * {{{QUALITY3}}} 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 {{{MEDIA}}} is detected by {{{ARRNAME}}} and it was uploaded at 10:50pm and the 120 minute clock begins. At 12:50am, {{{ARRNAME}}} will evaluate any releases it has found in the past two hours, and download the best one, which is {{{QUALITY2}}}.

At 3:00am another release is found, which is {{{QUALITY2}}} 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 {{{MEDIA}}} no longer is upgradable and {{{ARRNAME}}} will stop looking for new releases.

At any point, if a {{{QUALITY3}}} 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 {{{MEDIA}}} is detected by {{{ARRNAME}}} and both timers begin. The release was added to the indexer at 10:15pm At 12:15am, {{{ARRNAME}}} 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, {{{ARRNAME}}} 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, {{{ARRNAME}}} will download it immediately.

If the first release is from BitTorrent, {{{ARRNAME}}} 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.

Language Profiles

SONARR ONLY

• Here you'll be allowed to set profiles for which you can have for the language of series you're looking to download.
  • Name - Select a unique name for this given profile
  • Upgrades allowed - If you tell Sonarr download a Chinese version as it is the first release of a specific series then later somebody is able to upload an English version then with this selected Sonarr will automatically upgrade to the better quality
    Note: This is only valid if English is higher in the language list than Chinese and both are selected
  • Languages - Languages higher in the list are more preferred. Only checked languages are wanted

Release Profiles

Sonarr, Lidarr & Readarr only

Sonarr 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.
  • Example: Let's say you're looking for releases with a specific grouping of words. Let's say you want to tell Sonarr that you want Repacks or Propers over regular releases. Here you'll put the word Repack in one of the fields and give it a value (say 100) but, you're also looking for DTS-HD audio so you'll put that in there and also give it a score (say 100 again). When Sonarr goes through and looks at all the releases from the RSS feed and it comes across a release that has both Repack and DTS-HD that will give it a score of 200. Which is much higher than all the others that don't have either of those words. This tells Sonarr that this has a higher score and it will be the first file picked for download.
• Include Preferred when Renaming - When utilizing the {Preferred Words} tag in the naming scheme
• Indexer - Specify what indexer the profile applies to.
  This is useful if you only want specific releases from a given indexer/tracker
• 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

Lidarr 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

Readarr 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

Metadata Profiles

Lidarr & Readarr ONLY

Lidarr 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

Readarr Metadata Profiles

• Here you'll be allowed to set profiles for which you can have for the releases of a given author
• 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
  • Minimum Popularity - Popularity is average rating * number of votes
  • Skip books with missing release date - Readarr will skip any books that do not have a release date to them
  • Skip books with no ISBN or ASIN
  • Skip part books and sets - Readarr will skip books that are broken into parts or sets
  • Skip secondary series books - ???
  • Allowed Languages - Set which languages Readarr will look for