Radarr 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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Movie Naming

• Rename Movies - If this is toggled off (no check in the box) Radarr will use the existing file name if renaming is disabled
• Replace Illegal Characters - If this is toggled off (no check in the box) Radarr will replace illegal characters.

Example: \ # / $ * < > just to name a few

• Colon (:) Replacement - This setting will dictate how Radarr handles colons within the movie file.
  This is only available when Replace Illegal Characters is toggled on (check in the box)
  • Delete - Self explanatory
    • Example: Movie,The.mkv -> MovieThe.mkv
  • Replace with Dash - Removes the colon and adds a dash in its place
    • Example: Movie,The.mkv -> Movie-The.mkv
  • Replace with Space - Removes the colon and adds a space in its place
    • Example: Movie,The.mkv -> Movie The.mkv
  • Replace with Space Dash Space - self explanatory
    • Example: Movie,The.mkv -> Movie - The.mkv

Standard Movie Format

Here you will select the naming convention for the actual movie 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

Movie Naming

Input	Result
{Movie Title}	Movie Name!
{Movie TitleThe}	Movie Name, The
{Movie Collection}	The Movie Collection
{Release Year}	2020
{Movie CleanTitle}	Movie Name
{Movie TitleFirstCharacter}	M
{Movie Certification}	PG-13

Movie IDs

Input	Result
{ImdbId}	tt12345
{Tmdbid}	123456

Quality

Input	Result
{Quality Full}	HDTV 720p Proper
{Quality Title}	HDTV 720p

Media Info

Input	Result
{MediaInfo Simple}	x264 DTS
{MediaInfo VideoCodec}	x264
{MediaInfo AudioChannels}	5.1
{MediaInfo SubtitleLanguages}	[EN]
{MediaInfo VideoBitDepth}	8
{MediaInfo Full}	x264 DTS [EN+DE]
{MediaInfo AudioCodec}	DTS
{MediaInfo AudioLanguages}	[EN+DE]
{MediaInfo VideoCodec}	x264
{MediaInfo VideoDynamicRange}	HDR

Edition

Input	Result
{Edition Tags}	IMAX

Custom Formats

Input	Result
{Custom Formats}	Surround Sound x264

Original

Input	Result
{Original Title}	Movie.Title.HDTV.x264.EVOLVE
{Original Filename}	Movie.title.hdtv.x264.EVOLVE

Standard Movie Folder Format

This is where you will set the naming convention for the folder that contains the video file

Movie Naming

Input	Result
{Movie Title}	Movie Name!
{Movie TitleThe}	Movie Name, The
{Movie Collection}	The Movie Collection
{Release Year}	2020
{Movie CleanTitle}	Movie Name
{Movie TitleFirstCharacter}	M
{Movie Certification}	PG-13

Movie IDs

Input	Result
{ImdbId}	tt12345
{Tmdbid}	123456

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 Radarr is unable to detect free space from your movies 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 Movies - Movies deleted from disk are automatically unmonitored in Radarr
• Download Proper & Repacks - Should Radarr automatically upgrade to propers when available? (see link for explanation on Proper and Repack)
• Analyse video files - Extract file information such as resolution, runtime and codec information from files. This requires Radarr to read parts of the file which may cause high disk or network activity during scans.

• Rescan Movie Folder after Refresh
  • Always - This will rescan the movies 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 - Radarr will not change the date that shows in your given file browser
  • In Cinimas - The date the video was in cinemas
  • Physical release date - The date the video was released on disc/streaming

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

Root Folders

• Path - This shows the path to your media
• Free Space - This is the free space being reported to Radarr 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 Radarr 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 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 - ???
  • Upgrade Until Custom Format Score - ???
  • 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)

Delay Profiles

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

During the delay period, any new releases that become available will be noted by Radarr. When the delay timer expires, Radarr 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 Radarr and it was uploaded at 10:50pm and the 120 minute clock begins. At 12:50am, Radarr 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 Radarr 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 Radarr and both timers begin. The release was added to the indexer at 10:15pm At 12:15am, Radarr 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, Radarr 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, Radarr will download it immediately.

If the first release is from BitTorrent, Radarr 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.

Quality

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Quality Table Meanings

• Title
• Max
• Megabytes Per Minute
• Min
• Preferred
• Quality
• Size Limit

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