r/radarr

for Usenet only users...are you hiding your radarr > indexer > downloader > to media server traffic?

If so, what have you found that works well?

🚨 New app alert!

I found it a real pain to keep track of comedy specials from stand-up comedians so created Chucklarr - initially for my own use but then I told a mate who told a mate...

It basically maintains a list of comedians then finds any specials and sends them to Radarr to handle the downloads. It’s pretty simple but looks ok and does the job. Scans in the background every night to find any new releases.

If anyone wants to give it a go, it’s now available at my GitHub. It runs in Docker and full setup instructions are in the readme.

Should be now fully responsive and can be translated into other languages if needed.

https://github.com/mscodemonkey/Chucklarr

Let me know how it goes - any issues or feature requests add them on GitHub.

Hi all,

I use Radarr and have just noticed some p*rn downloaded. Luckily it only made it onto my server not parsed through to anywhere my kids can see it.

I do have a few RSS feeds but they.."normal" and IMDB lists.

2026-05-09 01:28:41.4|Info|DownloadService|Report for Killer Whale (2026) sent to SABNZDB from indexer . Monster.Curves.55.(Reality.Kings).2026.WEB-DL.720p

This is what i could see in a log:

Anyway, I've just noticed in my unmatched folder I have about 4 files in the last 8 weeks.

Any ideas on this or how can I stop this??

I find a lot of releases with "Banned Groups" and since "banned groups" has -999999 point rate, movies always get stuck on Radarr after Seerr.

Can I make its value 0?

or does it protect me from downloading viruses or something?

I am sorry I couldn't find anything on the internet that covers this format.

I added a movie with the "movie and collection" accidentally selected. I don't want the collection, just the single movie. I did not have "start search" checked so thankfully no movies were ever downloaded.

I unmonitored the collection and its movies, then deleted them all. If I re-add the movie with "movie only" selected it ignores my request and adds the collection again. I've tried a few things, eventually deleting the collection again, manually running every single task available, then restart the container and try to add the movie with "movie only" selected. It ignores this setting and adds the collection again.

How do you even delete collections? Is it possible?

Please dont suggest unpackarr, i dont want to deal with setting up and configuring another program. There has to be some way to prevent it from downloading these files.

Hi All,

I need help identifying an issue. I have Radarr setup with Qbit and SabNZBD. I have also been ripping my own physical media and uploading to my NAS, putting in the folder where all my downloaded/ripped media is, and also started adding to Radarr manually so it knows I have these movies so it Seer will be able to recommend media that I don't already have. I have included an image but it appears that Radarr went out and downloaded a inferior copy of Back to the Future Part 2 and replaced my 4k blu ray ripped copy. I recognize that Radarr did not believe my original copy was better based on the custom format score. I guess my question is 2 questions. How do I get Radarr to recognize my 4k rips as top tier and secondly, how do I ensure it is not going to go out and start replacing my media that I have spent time ripping? Also of note is that this title was marked to not monitor.

EDIT: Not sure how to post an image

Ideally one that has a ton of them, just not top 50

I am having a hard time with dodgy releases .

I set some custom profiles but get lots still come through, fake DV, Fake 2160 old movies, with fake 7.1 atmos , ai upscales, special editions , dc cuts, producer cuts, extended versions, hdr+ getting through still, I prefer dv or hdr not + where available. intention was upgrade x264 to x265, reduce massive remuxes, , space saving, aside from older releases and mp4 to x264 for those , but not working out well, trash guides is more geared at high quality large files . but used some info. blocked groups getting through still. I don't want to transcode, system not capable efficiently Ugreen Dxp2800.

I have Indexers setup, rdt and sabnzb, wanted sab for older harder to find releases. set English but some nordic releases coming through. Ai has me going round in circles , I am not tech minded, autism doesn't help lol.

I have seer, trailarr, maintainerr , radarr, sonarr, ofelia, recyclarr, rdt client, plex, sabnzb, flaresolverr, prowlarr, portainer on my stack. everything seems to work except the wrong stuff downloading .

I have identified a lot of release groups to block but not blocking well.

I managed to set up max file size fine and set avoid remuxes completely.

library is about 900 movies, any help appreciated , go easy please

Hi all,

I’ve imported all my media, and a large portion of it consists of direct rips from DVDs and Blu-rays.

I used the following naming convention: Movie Title (Year).

The problem is that almost all of these movies are now marked with the release group set to “banned”.

How can I change this in bulk? I don’t want Radarr to automatically re-download everything.

I have recently setup a Truenas server and have the a few arrs running on a separate nuc through proxmox VM and docker. I have managed to mount the required storage folder to the nuc VM and can see the folder structure but when I try set the root folder, I get the error:

Folder 'folder location' is not writable by user 'abc'. This occurs on both Sonar and Radar.

I have the containers running PGID and PUID as 1000 and tried setting the owner of the folders in truenas to be root, wheel, app and even creating a new user (called abc) with the PUID of 1000 but all give me this error.

All have been given full access (through ACL) or read/write/execute via the mapall user/group and user settings.

How can I resolve this? Any help would be appreciated. I might need to reset all access as I may have mismatching security now from trying multiple combinations.

Hi everyone!

I’m fairly new to the world of self-hosting, and I’m hoping to find someone who might be willing to help me get certain things running smoothly on my Synology DS425+. I have Volume1 for my SSD NVMe running my PlexMediaServer database, as well as Container Manager (Docker). Volume2 is where my actual movie files live. I've used Synology and Plex since 2019 and want to get into the arr-apps and automated things.

I learn much better through hands-on guidance than by reading through text-heavy guides with my 'tism (people have directed me to the Trash Guides). Unfortunately, Discord groups weren't a big help as they wanted to do web based chat for support, and since I'm starting from scratch, I don't think that's very productive (spending hours chatting back and forth instead of live assistance, getting it done quickly and efficiently). I’ve had a bit of a rough time recently—I had an issue with another tool, Agregarr, that ended up forcing me redo my Plex library, and I’m really hoping to avoid repeating that experience. I spent 7 hours reading over things and still managed to almost ruin my basic setup, frustrating to say the least!

I want to set things up the right way the first time, specifically for my folder structure (given I have 2 volumes) Radarr, a VPN, and qBittorrent, along with any other best practices you might suggest. 🥹

I know how much work goes into maintaining these systems, and I’m more than happy to pay for your time and expertise to walk me through the initial setup. If you have the bandwidth for a screen-share session, I’d love to learn the ropes from someone experienced so I can feel confident managing and troubleshooting things on my own moving forward. 🙏

I’m based in the US (CST time zone). If you’re open to helping, please feel free to send me a message directly!

Hey guys n girls,
I know I can do this with a script, but my coding skills suck and it’d take me longer than needed to do, so I wanted to see if this already exists out of the box.

I have my setup so that it gets 1080p movies by default (disk space concerns), but I wanted to know if there is a way to maybe upgrade movies I mark as loved in JellyFin so that Radarr would pull them in 4k.

I know… I could just have a 4k profile and manually trigger a pull instead of marking loved…

This is a vibe coded script which align and rename via qBittorrent API the file names in order to keep custom format score reliable with the source / indexer custom format.

Radarr

sourceTitle = Release.Name.2024.MULTI.1080p.WEBRip.x265-GROUP
file        = movie.mkv
result      = Release.Name.2024.MULTI.1080p.WEBRip.x265-GROUP.mkv

Simple copy-paste of the source title

Sonarr (Single episode)

sourceTitle = Nom.Release.S01E22.MULTI.1080p.WEBRip.AC3.5.1.x265-GROUP
file        = Serie.Name.Episode22.mkv
result      = Nom.Release.S01E22.MULTI.1080p.WEBRip.AC3.5.1.x265-GROUP.mkv

Simple copy-paste of the source title

Sonarr (Season pack)

sourceTitle = Release.Name.S01.MULTI.1080p.WEBRip.AC3.5.1.x265-GROUP
file        = Serie.Name S01E01 Pilot.mkv
result      = Release.Name.S01E01.MULTI.1080p.WEBRip.AC3.5.1.x265-GROUP.mkv

Use cases handled :

• Episodes in a single folder named with S01E01
• Episodes in a single folder named with 1x01
• Episodes in one folder per episode

I recommend to use MODE = dry-run to begin and avoid bad renaming, don't hesitate to give feedback and report bug or badly handled use cases.

PS : If you dislike AI coded tools / script just don't use it, I did it to solve an issue well know and difficult to solve on *arr stack about custom format score.

Hi everyone. I'm new on this sub, friend of mine set everything up. I used everything for a year without issue but now when I start radarr it asks for login. New for me so I also do not have a username or password. When I do the workaround by changing the authentication in the config file nothing happens. I have it on none and added the line <AuthenticationType>DisabledForLocalAddresses</AuthenticationType>.

It is still asking for a login. Anybody that can help? If more information is needed I am happy to provide. Thanks in advance!