Sonarr Settings

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

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

Standard Episode Format

Here you will select the naming convention for your episodes

• 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

Series Naming

Input	Result
{Series Title}	Series Name!
{Series CleanTitleYear}	Series Title 2020
{Series TitleFirstCharacter}	S
{Series CleanTitle}	Series Title
{Series TitleThe}	Series Title, The
{Series TitleYear}	Series Title (2020)

Series IDs

Input	Result
{ImdbId}	tt12345
{Tmdbid}	123456
{TvMazeId}	54321

Seasons

Input	Result
{season:0}	1
{season:00}	01

Episode

Input	Result
{episode:0}	1
{episode:00}	01

Air Date

Input	Result
{Air-Date}	2020-09-03
{Air Date}	2020 09 03

Episode Title

Input	Result
{Episode Title}	Episode Title
{Episode CleanTitle}	Episode Title

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

* MediaInfo Full/AudioLanguages/SubtitleLanguages support a :EN+DE suffix allowing you to filter the languages included in the filename. Use -DE to exclude specific languages. Appending + (eg :EN+) will output [EN]/[EN+--]/[--] depending on excluded languages. For example {MediaInfo Full:EN+DE}.

Other

Input	Result
{Release Group}	Rls Grp
{Preferred Words}	iNTERNAL

Original

Input	Result
{Original Title}	Series.Title.S01E01.HDTV.x264.EVOLVE
{Original Filename}	Movie.title.s01e01hdtv.x264.EVOLVE

Daily Episode Format

Here you will select the naming convention for episodes that air daily

See Standard Episode Format

Anime Episode Format

Here you will select the naming convention for Anime series
Note: Typically anime is aired in an absolute order or also known as production order. Usually this is shown as e001, e002...e104, e105 ect. When a series is set to use Anime this setting will pull the absolute order from TheTVDB which is usually one season. an example of this can be seen HERE

All other settings are as above in the Standard Episode Format section

Absolute Episode Number

Input	Result
{absolute:0}	1
{absolute:00}	01
{absolute:000}	001

Anime naming scheme

Renaming your files, of course, depends on your personal preference. Many users though wonder about how they can make their anime work with Kodi or Plex. While usual tv gets released by the scene in a perfectly parsable way for your htpc, anime does not. The solution is simple though, just rename your anime to tvdb-style.

{Series.CleanTitle}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{absolute:000}.{Quality.Full}-{Release.Group}

The above renaming scheme is an example that will let your anime have almost the same style as episodes of regular tv. Let’s analyze and see why this naming scheme is good for you.

{Series.CleanTitle}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{absolute:000}.{Quality.Full}-{Release.Group}

This is the part that the Kodi/Plex scraper is interested in. It will be able to parse it like any regular tv show.

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{Series.CleanTitle}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{absolute:000}.{Quality.Full}-{Release.Group}

This part isn’t really obvious. Why would you need the absolute number in there? It’s for forward compatibility. If you ever want to rename your anime to another style or if tvdb changes seasons and you want to fix the resulting wrong season/episode number, you would do it based on this absolute number. Having this will save you many headaches in the future.

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{Series.CleanTitle}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{absolute:000}.{Quality.Full}-{Release.Group}

This part is for forward compatibility also. If something goes wrong with your library or you lose your database, you want Sonarr to be able to rescrape the quality of your files.

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{Series.CleanTitle}.S{season:00}E{episode:00}.{absolute:000}.{Quality.Full}-{Release.Group}

The same goes for group. If you have a file, with the group in the end like this, Sonarr will be able to detect the group (not through the dronefactory. The dronefactory expects anime scene style) when this show is in your library.

Feel free to modify this naming scheme to your personal preference or take comfort on knowing that the scheme, as described here, is well tested.

One more note. If you ever want to rename your files to exactly their original state, you can use AniDB O’Matic for that. It’s a tool that hooks directly into the info on anidb and parses your files by hash. It can then rename to the original name as stored at anidb. Be warned though. The hashing may take a very long time.

Anime Manual Import Issue

Per the forum post here , Sonarr currently has trouble parsing absolute episode numbers over 100, since it then treats the first digit as a season with the following two digits as the episode number. The current workaround for this issue is to add any release group name in brackets at the beginning of the file name.

Example: * Bad absolute file name: Show.234.Episode.Name.mkv * Modified file name: [DND] Show.234.Episode.Name.mkv

• 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 Sonarr is unable to detect free space from your series 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 Episodes - Episodes deleted from disk are automatically unmonitored in Sonarr
• Download Proper & Repacks - Should Sonrra 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
• Analyse video files - Extract file information such as resolution, runtime and codec information from files. This requires Sonarr to read parts of the file which may cause high disk or network activity during scans.

• Rescan Series Folder after Refresh
  • Always - This will rescan series 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 - Sonarr will not change the date that shows in your given file browser
  • Sonarr - Local Release - The date the video was aired locally
  • Sonarr - UTC Release date - The date the video was released based upon the UTC

• 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

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

Root Folders

• Path - This shows the path to your media
• Free Space - This is the free space being reported to Sonarr 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 Sonarr to scan existing media

Profiles

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Quality Profiles

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Metadata

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