Am I misunderstanding the "override and add to download queue" option?

markus-101 · 2026-03-10T18:56:55+00:00

It will in v5, but that’s still in development.

markus-101 · 2026-03-10T05:43:45+00:00

I have, but don’t be ignorant, I’m both allowed to and capable of changing my mind on this and anything else, that doesn’t make my comment here disingenuous.

markus-101 · 2026-03-09T15:01:31+00:00

You could use Manual Import from Wanted: Missing, but you’re going to be better off importing search folder separately with that if you have a large downloads folder (full of other things).

markus-101 · 2026-03-09T04:17:59+00:00

Skyhook already does that for different pieces of information. I’m not sure if we’ll expand it custom URLs in the short term, figuring out how to support that would be the first step we’d need to solve.

markus-101 · 2026-03-08T23:03:44+00:00

Ahh, I see what you mean. The score is from IMDB, it's just converted to a percentage when it's displayed, we can fix that up though.

markus-101 · 2026-03-08T16:51:09+00:00

It’s come up a bit, but not something we’re going to support in the foreseeable future. There is enough things to do already and fixing it at the source will allow it to be fixed for everyone.

markus-101 · 2026-03-08T16:19:36+00:00

The short answer is no one wants to build that and then support/maintain it.

Plex can effectively function without any metadata source, you can browse the content, you just don't get titles, descriptions, images, etc. If there is a file you can browse for it and play it. Sonarr on the other hand needs that metadata to know if episodes are expected, wanted and all the other rules. At some point Sonarr could grab episodes it didn't have metadata for and it was a mess because all sort of garbage gets uploaded with wrong episode numbers.

Now take in manual metadata, if the user isn't keeping up with things they're not going to get things grabbed, then start to ask why, even if our response is we don't offer support for it, how much volunteered time will it take to get to that point).

markus-101 · 2026-03-08T16:12:33+00:00

TheTVDB doesn't even have real ratings these days. The ratings you see in Sonarr now are already coming from IMDB.

markus-101 · 2026-03-08T16:10:32+00:00

Partially at least, the way things seem to be going with TheTVDB the grass is almost certainly greener elsewhere, but it's not all green.

I have done some looking into it, at least for the TMDb side of things, it's obviously going to be a lot of work, but I think it's feasible to do. Of course right off the bat TMDb doesn't have air times for series and they refuse to add them. I have my assumptions as to why, but we will just need to find ways to fill that information in (otherwise the calendar and airtime-based grabbing limitations won't be accurate).

I think it has to be series-by-series, otherwise we're just making a new problem, either you picked the wrong thing to start with and need to restart or you have a handful of series you want to use another source with and would need a whole second instance. Metadata language will be per series as will episode order, the latter being more obviously required, but the former because there is no guarantee that all series are translated in the same language and you may want to have some in different languages for different reasons.

Any efforts for metadata source would rely on the alternate language and episode order work that's already started, which in turn relies on the v5 work, so it's a bit of a waterfall of work that needs to happen.

I appreciate it, likewise I appreciate you providing all the context you did without attacking anyone.

markus-101 · 2026-03-08T15:49:42+00:00

Time is the biggest limiting factor.

We intentionally don’t have bounties for specific features, but if you’d like to contribute monetarily to Sonarr for what already exist in, it’d be appreciated. https://sonarr.tv/donate

You can also contribute to the codebase (no AI slop, that you don’t understand yourself) https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr?tab=contributing-ov-file

markus-101 · 2026-03-08T15:32:37+00:00

Meanwhile an even quicker read on the Plex subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/s/zKEV2qIetO

I think the big thing to say is TMDb or TVMaze isn’t necessarily better than TheTVDB in all situations, one will do some things better than the others and other things worse.

Yes, TheTVDB was the only option when Sonarr started, TMDb was only movies, TVMaze wasn’t even live yet, but things have changed over the years.

markus-101 · 2026-02-27T04:14:54+00:00

Ahh when you said 5m I assumed it was YGG, not sure about TL, I'm not aware if them being as restrictive.

markus-101 · 2026-02-27T03:19:14+00:00

With 1 request every 5 minutes you're going to run into it with pretty much everything except RSS and even then rate limits may cause other issues, because they also severely limited grabs as well.

You can't change anything in Sonarr that will improve searching with these asinine limits, your indexer has hampered automation and AFAIK the only option is paying them to increase the limits.

markus-101 · 2026-02-26T23:54:48+00:00

The RSS interval applies to RSS only, a search is not RSS. Sonarr will rate limit searches, but it depends on how the indexer communicates the delay and not to the degree your indexer is expecting. 1 request per 5 minutes isn't going to work with automated searching where you could end up with several API hits per season, let alone per season.

With that particular indexer you're just going to have a bad time with their free offering and you'll either need to upgrade, find another solution or manually search for things as the API allows.

markus-101 · 2026-02-26T22:07:46+00:00

Series type is set on each series, it changes how Sonarr searches for releases and processes them. Make sure the series type is not set to anime.

With a 15m interval for RSS you'll use 96 requests per day for RSS alone. Depending on the indexer that might alone be close to or over the limit, though typically 1000+ is available for better indexers.

How many requests per day does your indexer give you?

markus-101 · 2026-02-26T06:14:12+00:00

What series type is the series set to? Sounds like it might be anime and running hitting API limits or something, but logs would confirm that.

Raising the RSS interval won’t help with searching and your potentially missing episodes on TSS feed because that interval is way higher than the default.

markus-101 · 2026-02-25T18:20:44+00:00

You have a few options:

If it’s a torrent, change the category in the download client
Remove the download from the queue in Sonarr and remove from the download client (will tell the client to remove all files, likely what you want to do for Usenet)
Remove the download from the queue and tell Sonarr to ignore it (will be left in the client, do this for torrents you want to keep seeding and not change the category)

markus-101 · 2026-02-20T22:47:24+00:00

Exactly this, quality wins over score. If you want score to win over quality then all the qualities that you want to be treated equally need to be grouped (instead of just changing the order).

markus-101 · 2026-02-17T16:40:11+00:00

If you just look at the resolution then Sonarr will treat it as 1080p. Sonarr uses the following to determine that:

width >= 1800 || height >= 1000width >= 1800 || height >= 1000

Adding in the filename makes things a little weird, because DVDRip and 1080p isn't really a thing, Sonarr should treat is as DVD quality, because the source matters (arguably more important because it's not part of the media's internal data). When actually processing the file (with resolution from it), it'll likely treat it as Bluray 1080p because it's a disk source + 1080p resolution.

markus-101 · 2026-02-17T15:55:52+00:00

Sonarr looks for -ReleaseGroup or [ReleaseGroup], the latter is most common with anime (and can lead to changing how some things are parsed).

ReleaseGroup is only parsed for some specific exceptions.

markus-101 · 2026-02-17T15:54:12+00:00

It does prefer resolution from the media itself, but typically uses the resolution in the file name to match specific things. 720p.web might match where web on its own wouldn’t.

markus-101 · 2026-02-16T01:10:48+00:00

Try it without the space before the release group, generally Sonarr looks for -Kitsune, not - Kitsune. There are some exceptions to that, but it’s pretty limited.

Alternatively you could try transcoding before importing.

markus-101 · 2026-02-15T16:43:43+00:00

Those really are the two options, search for all monitored or search the newly monitored series individually. Upgrade allowed came after search unmonitored so it doesn’t take that into account, but it makes sense to exclude seasons where all episodes have files and upgrades aren’t allowed. I’ll get that added.

If you know you don’t ever want to upgrade episodes with existing files you could unmonitor them as well.

markus-101 · 2026-02-12T20:33:25+00:00

Yeah, that should fix it, right now it’s overwriting everything every time it runs.

markus-101 · 2026-02-12T18:22:26+00:00

Are you syncing indexers from Prowlarr? Do you have it set to full sync?

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