r/sonarr

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

If so, what have you found that works well?

For adding TV series from the app and downloading them automatically for Plex viewing?

Is it Helmarr, Rudarr, or Overseerr via web? What are your thoughts?

Just a question really. I partially download shows because im working with limited storage and im not looking to down the entirety of the dragon ball Z show in one swoop.

My question comes in with sonarr just automatically downloading any missing shows that i have in my little library (where that dragon ball reference came in) i came home from work to find out that sonarr tried downloading all 9 seasons of dragon ball z just automatically. i'm sure some people appreciate the feature.. i do not have the storage to house all that media lol thankfully i was able to cancel most of the seasons before they started but one managed to slip through. regardless is there anyway to disable this feature?

for people that dont feel like reading all of that
is there a way to disable the feature where sonarr automatically downloads any undownloaded/uncompleted shows from your library?

I'm hoping someone might know why I have 6 strikes for hit and runs and I don't think they even downloaded.

I have a seedbox, and for the last few months I've used Sonarr, along with Radarr, Prowlarr and Seerr to manage my downloads.

My snatchlist shows downloads for 1 movie and five TV episodes, and they were all released between the 6th and the 8th of May . I've got versions of them all, in Deluge, but different releases to the 6 HnRs.

The weird thing is that some of them show as having seeded for days, but I'm fairly sure they didn't show up in Deluge, even though they all give Deluge as the client. They're not in my data folder where downloads go, and when torrents get loaded into Deluge, the .torrent files get backed up to another hidden folder. The torrent files for these releases are not there.

Another weird thing is how similar the lengths of time they seeded for.

It was only one movie: 3 days, 15 hrs, 23 mins, 55 secs.

But then with the TV:

2 days, 22 hrs, 3 mins, 15 secs;

2 days, 22 hrs, 2 mins, 56 secs;

2 days, 22 hrs, 4 mins, 51 secs;

2 days, 22 hrs, 3 mins, 54 secs;

2 days, 22 hrs, 3 mins, 18 secs.

This is a strangely regular pattern for phantom downloads, isn't it. It's all on the same private tracker, and I have sent them a message about it, but I'm hoping someone might have a clue as to what's going on here.

Anyone ever have something like this happen?

Hey, running into a weird Sonarr issue.

Downloads complete fine in SAB but Sonarr never imports them after. The files just stay in the completed downloads folder.

Setup:

• Sonarr + SAB in Docker
• Downloads on NAS
• Using mapped volumes between containers

No obvious errors in Sonarr that I’m seeing…

Anyone run into this before?

I use a private tracker and I can select the box for free leech only but I dont want that since it would lock me out of everything else.

Is there a way to filter and give a high score like in custom formats so I can grab the free leech ones but also go to the normal files if they are not available under that flag?

Wondering if Sonarr will ever support any sources that aren't run by bitter incels powertripping over their shitty TV site. 99% of my issues with Sonarr have come down to being restricted by what the insecure virgin TVDB admins have decided are worthy of being on their special site and it's just frustrating.

After getting a few too many the_pitt_sXeX_totally_real.exe files, even with a delay built in, I added a Release Profile to screen out anything that isn't a video file. Apparently, though, the ".com" filter is blocking full seasons that are written like LOST.S03**.COM**PLETE.

Is there any way I can only apply that release profile to individual file downloads and not full seasons? Or is there another fix that would work here?

Anyone know where I can find the all of one piece with dual audio? Maybe just full arcs, trying to use nyaa with sonarr and it’s too spotty to be worth my time. If there’s any good public or private indexers besides nyaa, anything anyone’s got for me I’d really appreciate it. Also trying to find the full original full metal alchemist but it’s nowhere to be found any tips help or indexers would be huge!!!

Hey,

I'm the developer of Conductarr — a native Android app that manages the whole *arr stack from one place. I've been lurking and running the same kind of setup as most of you for years; after watching LunaSea slide into maintenance mode I built the thing I wished existed. It's in closed beta on Google Play right now and I'd love some testers plus honest feature feedback.

What it connects to:

• Sonarr (TV)
• Radarr (movies)
• Prowlarr (indexer manager + manual search across every indexer at once)
• Lidarr (music)
• Readarr (books)
• Bazarr (subtitles)
• qBittorrent
• SABnzbd
• Overseerr / Jellyseerr

All in one app, multi-instance per service (run two Sonarrs, a 1080p Radarr and a 4K Radarr, two qBittorrents on different VPNs — Conductarr just keeps them straight via an instance switcher in every header).

What it actually does:

• Browse and add to your libraries with full metadata-source search
• Manual indexer search through Prowlarr, push the result straight to Sonarr or Radarr in one tap (killer feature for me)
• Approve / decline Overseerr / Jellyseerr requests
• Watch the SAB queue and qBittorrent torrents live, with per-row pause / resume / delete
• Push notifications via FCM (zero-config) or ntfy (zero-data-through-us — point it at your own server), both at once if you want, with per-event-type routing rules
• Encrypted config backup (AES-GCM + passphrase) so switching phones isn't a setup-from-scratch ritual

Privacy by design (the bit you care about):

• API keys live in Android Keystore on your device only — never on a server I control
• The app talks directly to your *arr instances. No proxy, no relay
• No account system, no analytics SDK, no ads
• The only third-party data flow is opt-in Sentry for crash reports, which only fires on actual crashes
• Reverse-proxy aware (set urlBase if your Sonarr is at /sonarr behind Caddy / nginx / Traefik)
• Self-signed cert toggle for instances on homelab-only TLS, and it works with Tailscale / Cloudflare Tunnel / WireGuard out of the box

How it compares to what's out there:

• LunaSea — comprehensive but in maintenance. Conductarr aims to pick up where it left off.
• nzb360 — Android-only, dated UX, pretty aggressive paywall.
• Helmarr — iOS only.

Free vs Pro:

Free covers Sonarr + Radarr + Prowlarr + qBit/SAB with one instance per service. Pro (£4.99 lifetime, one-time) adds Lidarr / Readarr / Bazarr / Overseerr / Jellyseerr screens, unlimited instances, manual indexer search, encrypted backup, home-screen widgets, a Wear OS companion (full watch app + tiles + complications), automation hooks (broadcast intents for Tasker / Macrodroid / Llama) and custom themes / launcher icons. No subscription, no telemetry tier, no "10-instance gate" once you've paid. The first 50 testers will get a free lifetime redemption key.

Join the closed beta:

Join the Google Group (no information is public to other members) https://groups.google.com/g/conductarrtesters/ and once you've joined this group, you will then get access to the closed beta to install. Link for the beta is here:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.conductarr.conductarr

One-tap opt-in with your Google account; the app installs straight from Play and auto-updates as new versions ship.

Looking for:

• Multi-instance users — I want to break the instance switcher under load (Pro is unlimited; please push it)
• Anyone running Sonarr / Radarr behind Tailscale or a Cloudflare Tunnel — cert handling is the bit I'm least confident about
• People who use ntfy push — I want event-routing edge cases
• qBit users with category / tag setups
• Feature ideas. I have a roadmap but it's mine; I'd rather build what people actually want. If there's a thing nzb360 / LunaSea / the *arr web UIs do that you wish a mobile app did better — say so in the comments. Same goes for things none of them do that you've always wanted. Upvotes on suggestions are a real signal I'll use to decide what lands in v0.2.

Happy to take bug reports, feedback and pushback on anything — the app is in pre-launch shape, things will break, I'd rather solve the breaks now than after the public release.

Specifically for feature requests / pain points, dropping them as top-level comments here is the cleanest way — others can upvote and I can reply with "yes, that's planned" / "interesting, never thought of it" / "here's why that's harder than it looks." Or email hello@conductarr.app if you'd rather keep it off-Reddit.

The official dev account is u/Conductarr — I'll be replying from there in the thread for anything support-shaped, so future searchers can find a clear answer trail.

Cheers.

EDIT: changed instructions for sign up to the closed beta.

i'm having trouble with a series. when i do an advanced search, i pulls up results, but it shows rejections for every episode because it matches an alias for another series. is there a way to override this for the entire series or do i just have to go in and manually do every episode?

I ask because for almost every movie/show you could possibly want to watch, there are a bunch of different files you can grab... But they're not all equal. I know you can set filters but that really doesn't guarantee anything because a 1.5gb 1080p bluray x265 is NOT the same quality as a 15gb 1080p bluray. Sonarr doesn't have the ability to check exactly what settings were used for encoding so it really is a gamble as the what you'll get if you leave it to the automatic search. Now obviously this isn't as much of a problem if you have your own r/HomeDataCenter and only grab straight remuxes because that's an easy metric to filter by, but for most of us that isn't possible in today's economy.

So yeah, do any of you actually let Sonarr handle it all automatically? Personally I always use interactive search and open the link to the source to check whether the files match up with TVDB. As for quality I generally don't examine the posted settings used for the encode, but rather I sort of just eyeball the file size and decide whether it is realistic for, say, a 2 hour long 1080p or 4k bluray. For example, a 1080p bluray movie tends to be 8-15gb while a 4k bluray would be more like 20-30gb. This is what I consider to be an acceptable range between potato quality and "can I really afford to have a single movie take up 100gb"?

So how can I automate cleanup and get some shows with season folders and others without to have Sonarr see the files exist..? Is there also a way to automate the moving of files now that I’ve already created new season folder requirement ..?

It looks like my windows install has taken a crap and wants me to reinstall, the repair option isn't working, recovery not working, looks like my only option is a clean install.

So... Before I do that, is it possible to connect my current drive to a second PC and copy an the Sonarr settings, reload Windows on original PC, reinstall Sonarr, copy settings back over and ideally not lost anything?

Need to do the same with SAB and Plex, but being able to do so with Sonarr is the biggest time saver. I know there is a back up option within sonarr, but I can't get Windows to load so I can't get to it.

Hard links are telling Sonarr that the files are there, but I can't find them in my downloads folder. Is there a way to refresh or verify my hard links so Sonarr can tell what files I actually have?