• AdmiralShat@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    The one thing I hate about sonarr is how difficult it is to get series that are already finished.

    Omni with Radarr is braindead easy, but sonarr requires I go ask it to download each season, and sometimes it’ll just download individual episodes, and then many of those are dead torrents because most people are seeding the whole season

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        9 months ago

        It actually grabs old seasons and finished shows?

        I think I looked into it once but it wasn’t a clear instal for windows or something? I havnt moved to Linux yet

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          9 months ago

          Yes, it’s pretty amazing. Bought a NUC like 2 weeks ago after getting my first Prime videos ad, already downloaded about 1.5TB of stuff, both just released and from a few decades ago.

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      9 months ago

      Just switch series monitoring to “All Episodes” and then do “Search Monitored”, or use Jellyseerr.

      Both handle old seasons perfectly, I’ve not had any individual episode downloads.

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      9 months ago

      Aren’t these *arr software using public trackers? If that is the case I recommend private trackers. A lot more reliable with a better database. Also some allow you to create re-seed requests for dead torrents.

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        9 months ago

        You have to give them trackers and set their parameters

        But they still don’t automatically grab finished shows or released episodes, it’s just for keeping a series up to date episode by episode. You have to manually find the show in sonarr and tell ot to grab each season