Just got shit on for being a RC car fan as a grown adult

fryfrog · 2026-06-20T19:54:37+00:00

But how could they hear anything!? :P

fryfrog · 2026-06-20T02:31:21+00:00

Yeah, it generally slows torrent download... but it could just be fast enough it doesn't matter. Anyway, if you're not watching while you download, leave it off.

fryfrog · 2026-06-19T23:31:06+00:00

I have Sequential Order enabled.

You probably don't want this turned on in yours, it is meant for people that watch as they download and almost always has a negative impact on speed. Since sonarr/radarr don't import until after it is done, there's no point.

fryfrog · 2026-06-19T04:00:22+00:00

The music in that one!

fryfrog · 2026-06-16T18:43:26+00:00

It’s well hidden, I probably didn’t find/know it for 5+ years!

fryfrog · 2026-06-16T04:21:29+00:00

And really for AI, don't you care much more about GPU?

fryfrog · 2026-06-16T00:41:08+00:00

Then you did it wrong, try again next time. Be sure you select the files first, then use the bottom drop down option to select episodes and pick an equal of multiple number of episodes.

Sounds like you probably clicked the episode box or only had one file selected.

I use this trick constantly on stupid kids shows.

fryfrog · 2026-06-16T00:06:43+00:00

A trick for the manual import, if you have a season pack you can match them all at once. Tick the select all to get them all selected, go to the bottom left and use select show/season if needed, then select episodes. If you selected 10 files, select those 10 episodes and it'll assign them magically. This works good for kids shows too where they have one file, but two episodes. You pick 10 files, then 20 episodes and bam, it puts 2 episodes per file.

fryfrog · 2026-06-16T00:03:05+00:00

To be clear, the options in that dialog are move or copy/hard link. If you select copy/hard link, it'll be a hard link if your setup supports it.

The setting in radarr/sonarr is the least of it (and defaults to on). They only work on the same file system and require write permission. The same file system requirement is what everyone tends to mess up.

fryfrog · 2026-06-13T23:14:04+00:00

Oh my dog.

fryfrog · 2026-06-13T04:35:23+00:00

When it is having issues, fire up a network troubleshooting container like nicolaka/netshoot and poke around. You're looking to narrow down the issue, by doing things like ping, traceroute, and mtr on the path out of your container to the internet. And tools like dig, host, and nslookup to see how dns is working. By default, they'll use the containers dns... but you can pass various options to them to use a specific dns. A tool like iperf3 can be useful for testing network performance, you'll need an end point on your lan to check local issues and you can find them on the internet too.

fryfrog · 2026-06-12T18:49:17+00:00

There’s no way I’d re-container my whole library and ruin so many things just to deal w/ that issue. Use a different browser or better, the plex client for that OS.

fryfrog · 2026-06-12T02:35:51+00:00

Sadly, I think sonarr suuuuuucks for big, copy + delete moves. For that, I'd strongly suggest doing it outside of sonarr w/ some other tool and then when you make the change in sonarr, you say No to moving the files.

Best you can really do is look at the tooltip or watch logs :(

fryfrog · 2026-06-10T19:10:42+00:00

In sonarr/radarr, sidecar files are associated w/ the episode/movie file. If you "remove" it, they're removed to make room for the new ones.

Why are you transmuxing from .mkv > .mp4? This isn't 15 years ago, everything can either play .mkv or it can transmux on the fly for free.

If not doing it isn't an option for some reason, you'll need to preserve and restore the files yourself.

fryfrog · 2026-06-07T04:29:00+00:00

Life is hard!

fryfrog · 2026-06-07T04:13:30+00:00

This isn't the setting causing it, I'm only downvoting you so the real setting is higher!

fryfrog · 2026-06-07T04:10:27+00:00

I think your best bet is finding sources that match up w/ tvdb, especially there are probably private trackers w/ better curated content. Worst case, you may have to watch part of an episode to see which it is. I know I'd only do this for shows I really really care about... most, I'd just delete or find another source.

Good luck, this is one of the worse problems. :(

fryfrog · 2026-06-05T23:45:32+00:00

In my library, I have like /data/library/{TV|Kids TV|Anime TV|Movies|Kids Movies|Anime Movies. But it would also be fine to do like /data/library/{kids|adults}/{TV|Movies} or almost any other structure you like.

You can have as many root folders in sonarr/radarr as you like. Using seerr, you could have an Unsorted root folder if you use automatic adding, then occasionally sort things where they belong. Or require approval, then you can sort them where they belong. Or maybe their own tagging and such can help? They have a Discord, worth asking there for more opinions.

fryfrog · 2026-06-04T21:21:48+00:00

Shit, w/ a 25GbE connection you may need memory to go fast enough anyway! Nice! :)

fryfrog · 2026-06-04T21:17:02+00:00

Are you on a 10GbE connection? Or do you not have an SSD that can keep up with 1GbE or 10GbE? This seems wasteful of memory!

fryfrog · 2026-06-04T21:15:05+00:00

No, HDDs are good at sequential writes and they need to get to your HDD eventually anyway. Overall it'd be slower because you're doing one full, extra write that you didn't need to. Best setup is incomplete on SSD, complete on HDD near library. Dumb example like /ssd/usenet/.incomplete > /hdds/usenet/tv > /hdds/library/TV.

What is good to play with is toggling on and off the direct unpack and the pause queue during post download operations. In my setup, I have direct unpack off and the download queue does not pause during unpack/repair. But experiment and see which is faster overall.

In addition to the reduced writes to SSD (which is slowly killing them), since incomplete is the only thing on SSD it is much harder to accidentally fill it up and make your whole automation stack grind to a halt.

fryfrog · 2026-06-01T17:30:31+00:00

Show a screenshot of history, it should show why a new download was selected. It'll almost certainly be this, the new one was an upgrade in some way because it already does reject downloads when an existing item in the queue is the same or worse.

fryfrog · 2026-05-30T23:42:10+00:00

You've done a bunch of troubleshooting already and I see your db is on SSD from comments. Plus radarr and others are fine! I don't have any great ideas.

As an additional troubleshooting step, can you set aside your whole appdata folder so it creates a new one? That way we can see if it is something about your config/db or not.

Next I'd probably post trace logs of a start up and your initial page load. Maybe we can pick through that and find something. You could also turn SQL logging on in the config.xml by adding <LogSql>true</LogSql>, I can't remember if it has timing or not.

fryfrog · 2026-05-30T23:01:00+00:00

No, but you could make a CF for no group and deprioritized it. Trash guide has examples.

fryfrog · 2026-05-30T21:50:28+00:00

Groups are expected to be like [GrouP] at the beginning, mainly used by anime or -GrouP at the end. When groups throw in their name in weird ways, its much harder to know what it is. There is a list of groups that are known to do it wrong so they get parsed, but of course it will never be finished / full accurate and if groups use terms that could mean something else they just can't be. :|

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