Lidarr Settings

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Lidarr Settings

Media Management

Note: Some of these settings are only visible through 'show advanced' settings which is on the top bar under the search bar

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
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 uppercase and lowercase (~camelcase) (Default)
      • Uppercase - Make title all uppercase
      • Lowercase - Make title all lowercase
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} Album 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
  • Preferred words will be the word or words that were the literal matches of any preferred words you have. The above example would be a preferred word of iNTERNAL or similarly a preferred word of /\b(amzn|amazon)\b(?=[ ._-]web[ ._-]?(dl|rip)\b)/i would return AMZN or Amazon
Original
Input Result
{Original Title} Artist.Name.Album.Name.2020.FLAC.EVOLVE
{Original Filename} 01-track name
  • Original Filename is not recommended. It is the literal original filename and may be obfuscated t1i0p3s7i8yuti.
  • Original Title is the release name is is what is suggested to be used.
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 Hard links instead of Copy - Use Hard links when trying to copy files from torrents that are still being seeded (for more information on this click here)
  • Import Extra Files - Import matching extra files (subtitles, nfo, etc) after importing a file


File Management

  • Ignore Deleted Tracks - Tracks deleted from disk, detected by a scheduled or manual rescan, 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 Artist Folder after Refresh
    • Always - This will rescan artist folder based upon Tasks Schedule
    • After Manual Refresh - You will have to manually rescan the disk
    • Never - Just as it says, never rescan the artist folder.
  • 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 fingerprint the track
  • 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

Profiles

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) within 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

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

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


Indexers

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Options

  • Minimum Age - Usenet only: Minimum age in minutes of NZBs before they are grabbed. Use this to give new releases time to propagate to your usenet provider.
  • Maximum Size - Maximum size for a release to be grabbed in MB. Set to zero to set to unlimited
  • Retention - Usenet only: Set to zero to set for unlimited retention
  • RSS Sync interval - Interval in minutes. Set to zero to disable (this will stop all automatic release grabbing) Minimum: 10 minutes Maximum: 120 minutes
    • Please see How does Lidarr work? for a better understanding of how RSS Sync will help you
    • Note: If Lidarr has been offline for an extended period of time, Lidarr will attempt to page back to find the last release it processed in an attempt to avoid missing a release. As long as your indexer supports paging and it hasn’t been too long will be able to process the releases it would have missed and avoid you needing to perform a search for the missed releases.

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Download Clients

Download Clients

Completed Download Handling

Completed Download Handling is how Lidarr imports media from your download client to your series folders. Many common issues are related to bad Docker paths and/or other Docker permissions issues.

  • Enable - Automatically import completed downloads from the download client
  • Remove - Remove completed downloads when finished (usenet) or stopped/complete (torrents)

Remove Completed Downloads

  1. Lidarr will send a download request to your client, and associate it with a label or category name that you have configured in the download client settings.
  2. Lidarr will monitor your download clients active downloads that use that category name. It monitors this via your download client's API.
  3. When the download is completed, Lidarr will know the final file location as reported by your download client. This file location can be almost anywhere, as long as it is somewhere separate from your media folder.
  4. Lidarr will scan that completed file location for audio files. It will parse the file name to match it to a track. If it can do that, it will rename the file according to your specifications, and move it to the assigned library folder.
  5. Leftover files from the download will be sent to your trash or recycling.

If you download using a BitTorrent client, the process is slightly different:

  • Completed files are left in their original location to allow you to seed. When files are imported to your assigned library folder Lidarr will attempt to hardlink the file or fall back to copy (use double space) if hard links are not supported.
  • If the "Completed Download Handling - Remove" option is enabled in settings, Lidarr will delete the original file and torrent from your client, but only if the client reports that seeding is complete and torrent is stopped.


Failed Download Handling

Remote Path Mappings

Remote Path Mapping acts as a dumb find Remote Path and replace with Local Path This is primarily used for either merged local/remote setups using mergerfs or similar or is used for when the application and download client are not on the same server.

One of our amazing community members have created an excellent guide to help you out if you think remotte path mapping is what will work for you here The guide is for Radarr but all concepts are exactly the same for Lidarr

Import Lists

Import Lists

Lists

Import Lists are a part of Lidarr that allow you to follow a given list creator. Let's say that you follow a given list creator on Trakt/TMDb and really like their R&B list section and want to listen every song on their list. You look in your Lidarr and realize that you don't have those artists. Well instead of searching one by one and adding those items and then searching your indexers for those artists. You can do this all at once with a List. The Lists can be set to import all the artists on that curator's list as well as be set to automatically assign a quality profile, automatically add, and automatically monitor that artist.

CAUTION: If lists are done improperly they will absolutely wreck your library with a bunch of trash you have no intention of listening to. So make sure of what you're importing before you click save. ie. physically look at the list before you even go to Lidarr.

  • Here you can select the + button to open a new pop up window
    • From this new window you are presented with many different options to set up your list from many different list providers. As stated before be careful when doing lists. It is highly recommended to not select the Search on add button before you're absolutely sure the list you select/setup is adding the Artists that you're looking for.
    • Once you've selected the list provider that you're looking to pull from (such as Spotify or Last.fm) You'll be presented with a new window.
      • Most of the lists settings are fairly self explanatory, some lists require you to authenticate with the provider such as Spotify (requiring you to have an account with Spotify.com


List Exclusions

  • Import List Exclusion - This allows you to prune your list of movies you don't want to see again. An example of this is if your list just so happens to contain a movie that is in a foreign language and it is not likely for you to ever find this movie in your native language and do not want to watch it with subtitles. You can exclude a movie from being added in the future. However, in the list exclusion section you can add it back to the list so that when the list runs again it will be readded to your library.


Connect

Connections

Connections are how you want Lidarr to communicate with the outside world.

  • By pressing the + button you'll be presented with a new window which will allow you to configure many different endpoints
    • There are many different endpoints
      • Boxcar
      • Custom scripts - This allows you to make a custom script for when a particular action happens this script will run
      • Discord - By far one of the most common ways to push notifications of actions happening on your Lidarr
      • Notifiarr - The brainchild of one of the Lidarr developers allowing you to have beautiful discord notifications with very fine tuned control. Constantly being updated and a favorite amongst many of the Lidarr team.
      • Email - Simply send yourself or somebody you want to annoy with email. If you're using Gmail, you need to enable less secure apps. If you're using Gmail and have 2-factor authentication enabled you need to use an App Specific password.
        • You can use a "pretty address" like SomePrettyName <email@example.org
      • Emby
      • Gotify
      • Join
      • Kodi - Kodi spawned from the love of media. It is an entertainment hub that brings all your digital media together into a beautiful and user friendly package. It is 100% free and open source, very customisable and runs on a wide variety of devices. It is supported by a dedicated team of volunteers and a huge community.
        • By adding Kodi as a connection you can update Kodi's library when a new movie has been added to Lidarr
      • Plex Media Server - The server for your self hosted Plex system, Enabling this is much like Kodi will allow you to push an update to your plex server notifying it that a new/upgraded movie is available
      • Prowl
      • Pushbullet
      • Pushover
      • Sendgrid
      • Slack
      • Subsonic
      • Synology Indexer
      • Telegram
      • Twitter
  • Connection Triggers
    • On Grab - Be notified when episodes are available for download and has been sent to a download client
    • On Import - Be notified when episodes are successfully imported
    • On Upgrade - Be notified when episodes are upgraded to a better quality
    • On Rename - Be notified when episodes are renamed
    • On Health Issue - Be notified on health check failures
    • Include Health Warnings - Be notified on health warnings in addition to errors.


Metadata

Metadata Provider Source

Write Metadata to Audio Files

    • Tag Audio Files with Metadata - Here you can actually write metadata directly into the audio file. This can be useful for audio players as all the pertinent information to tell you will be hardcoded to the file.
    • Scrub Existing Tags - This will remove all existing metadata tags, this may be recommended as some people like to tag their name all over files and this will sanitize the files before being rewritten by Lidarr.

Metadata Consumers

  • Metadata Consumers - Kodi will be one of the most commonly used options here if that is the software that is being used. This will allow Lidarr to create a NFO file as well as associated movie posters to be scraped into your player


Tags

General

Host

Security

Proxy

Logging

Analytics

Updates

Backups

UI

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