Is it worth digging through downloader and Couchpotato logs to get back “unrecoverable” filename information?

I’m at least 7 years late migrating to Radarr and for a long time I used “Title [year].mkv” naming convention. Every time I consider the move, I debate scouring old logs for original filenames prior to initial import then I get caught up in other tasks before forgetting about it and starting the cycle over again.

Most importantly, I want to move to a management tool that’s still supported, and ideally I’d like to clean up the qualities/encoding (and possibly shrink the overall size without losing more quality or spending the time/electricty to re-encode)

Edit: Mostly looking for source info, I don’t care about release group tags. Mediainfo can get a ton of data but there are quality pieces that I’m not sure are important.

Hey all,

I am currently running a Plex setup on TrueNAS. When I initially set everything up, I configured my datasets wrong. I have a main "Media Folder" dataset, and then within it I accidentally made TV/Movie/Anime datasets instead of just regular folders. Now I cannot hardlink anything because they are separate datasets. What is the best way to fix this? I don't really have the storage room to copy everything over to new folders. I have about 24TB used with 13TB free.

Hi all.

I'm 1 week in with Linux (Ubuntu Resolute). I've setup Plex Media Server, mounted my Synology nas share via nfs by editing the fstab file, and set up the Plex library. I've installed Docker with an *arr container - radarr, sonarr, prowlarr. However, radarr can't see my media folder on the nas to set it as a root folder. On the Synology, NFS permissions are set to my Ubuntu PC IP address, with the mount path set to my media folder (volume1/video files). Mounting was set on the Ubuntu PC thru the fstab & autonfs files. My docker-compose.yml file is below - only showing the radarr entry.

my docker-compose.yml file: (radarr entry only)

radarr:

<<: *common-keys

container_name: radarr

image: ghcr.io/hotio/radarr:latest

ports:

- 7878:7878

volumes:

- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

- /docker/appdata/radarr:/config

- /data:/data

- /mnt/nas:/data

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When I enter the command to see the user permission of the mounted nas folder, I get the following:

ls -ld /mnt/nas

drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 0 Jul 18 18:04 /mnt/nas

ls -ld /mnt

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 15 21:30 /mnt

ls -ld /mnt/nas/movies

drwxrwxrwx 1425 1026 users 184320 Jul 19 15:09 /mnt/nas/movies

ls -ld /mnt/nas/tv

drwxrwxrwx 312 1026 users 20480 Jul 19 10:05 /mnt/nas/tv

ls -ld /mnt/nas/docs

drwxrwxrwx 132 1026 users 20480 Jul 17 13:24 /mnt/nas/docs

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When I enter the ‘id’ command, I get the following:

uid=1000 gid=1000 groups=1000,4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),100(users),111(lpadmin),114(lxd)

I've done what I can thru other reddit posts, Google searches, trash guides and YouTube videos. Any guidance will be appreciated.

Hello Everyone

My team and I have spent the last two months working on Atrium, a central courtyard for your self-hosted media stack.

Since LunaSea was archived earlier this year, we decided to pick up where it left off with a brand new, Material 3 Flutter codebase built entirely around multi instance setups.

What is Atrium?
Atrium is a single Android application that acts as a unified frontend for all the media stack services. It is designed purely as a controller and management surface, so you can manage your services and leave playback to the official apps.

How does it support Radarr? For Radarr, we didn't just stop at a basic list view. Atrium features a deep 7-tab layout that gives you a complete overview of your series, including full advanced sorting and filtering, a built-in calendar view to track upcoming releases, and a comprehensive settings editor so you can tweak your configuration directly from your phone.

All Supported Services:

• Sonarr
• Radarr
• Prowlarr
• Bazarr
• Seerr
• Tautulli
• JellyFin
• Emby
• Plex
• qBittorrent
• SABnzbd
• Glances

The app is vibe-coded, but with brutal and rigorous user testing to ensure a bug free experience (Yes, we do use this app ourselves everyday).

You can grab the latest release here: https://github.com/retransmit/Atrium/releases/tag/v1.0.7

We’re currently in the middle of getting Atrium officially listed on F-Droid, but since it's a completely open-source, reproducible build with zero proprietary blobs, we want to make sure everything is flawless. We could really use some extra eyes on the project right now. If you're down to help out, check out our F-Droid merge request here: gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/43077

Hey everyone,

I created scripting for moving movies (and TV shows) in and out of rotation on my Plex server. I only have so much storage, and wanted to make room for newer media.

Looking for feedback (please be nice!) and if this is something others can use, feel free.

Project Name: NAS Media Automation — cold storage & rotation

Repo/Website Link: https://github.com/chapdad031167/NAS-Media-Server-cold-storage-and-rotation

Description:

My 22 TB pool hit 83% and manual cleanup stopped scaling. This is the set of scripts I built to fix it, cleaned up and documented for anyone running the same Plex + Radarr + Sonarr + qBittorrent stack.

Three jobs:

Duplicate cleanup — finds movies with multiple files for the same title and year (including a .mkv/.mp4 pair), keeps the largest, flags the rest.

Torrent cleanup — removes finished torrents whose payload is already imported, gated on seeding goals (ratio/seed-time) and confirmed import. Filesystem version, plus a safer qBittorrent-API version that removes the torrent properly so you don't break seeds.

Cold storage rotation — the main event. A read-only scanner queries Radarr/Sonarr and writes a reviewable candidate list of aged media; a second script moves each item to a USB archive drive (rsync copy → checksum verify → delete source), records it in a manifest, and unmonitors it so it isn't re-downloaded. A restore script brings anything back the same way. Optional Tautulli guard skips anything you've actually watched recently.

A hard-won lesson baked in: v1 aged media by filesystem mtime. Then I migrated the library to a new volume, every mtime reset to "today," and the scanner found zero candidates forever. It now ages by TMDB release date (via Radarr/Sonarr) instead, which survives migrations.

Safety design (this stuff deletes/moves terabytes, so it's paranoid by default):

Everything defaults to a dry run; destructive actions require an explicit --run.

Kids-content hard exclusion — anything under /kids/ /kidstv/ is never archived, checked before any other rule.

Checksum-verified moves; a failed verify keeps the source untouched.

Protected-franchise list, free-space preflight, lock files, staleness guards.

Deployment:

Released under MIT (tagged release + CHANGELOG). Not a Docker app — these run directly on the NAS via cron / Synology Task Scheduler. A guided install.sh handles prerequisites, config, and a --doctor health check that live-tests Radarr/Sonarr connectivity; INSTALL.md is a full Synology (DSM) walkthrough. Python is stdlib-only; the shell scripts need common coreutils + rsync. Tested on Synology DSM with Radarr/Sonarr/qBittorrent/Plex. CI runs shellcheck + a pytest/shell suite + a secret scan on every push.

AI Involvement:

Transparent: the scripts started as my own working production scripts. I used an AI to help sanitize secrets out, refactor them for testability, build the test suite, write the docs, and run a couple of rounds of security-review hardening. Everything was reviewed by me and runs on my own hardware — the AI helped me clean it up for sharing.

Anyone know how to fix the link to trakt? I’m pretty sure it’s because radarr is still linking to trakt v2 which they got rid of.

Running radarr (and sonarr) as docker containers on a pi 5. I have a synology NAS that I have NFS mounted across so the pi can see it. When radarr finishes processing a file and starts the import I can see over on the synology nas resource monitor that data is transferring. Eventually it stops. Radarr reports it is done "Assigning file xxx to movie xxx" is reported in the events and the file is removed from the activity queue. But the file never shows up over on the NAS. I get no permission errors. Sonarr imports fine but those are much smaller files. I'm at a loss as to what to look at.

When running radarr on the NAS itself (also as a container) it worked fine but it also wasn't copying across a NFS mount. There are no errors that I can find in dmesg or journalctl.

If I simply create a 70GB file with

fallocate -l 70G testfile.img

And move it across the mount it shows up fine (I can see resource monitor on the NAS pulling the data across).

This makes me think there is some timeout or something firing in radarr that I can't see?

Since the NAS is obviously receiving data that means it is sending across the mount but I have no visibility into what is happening on radarr side of things.

So, I was configuring my Jellyfin stuff on my home server, and I stumbled across this issue when messing around with Radarr:

Não foi possível adicionar a pasta raiz
- Folder '/movies/' is not writable by user 'abc'

But I managed to solve it. For context, I am using Docker compose files from linuxserver.io and my operating system is OpenMediaVault.

If you don't understand something of the following step-by-step, asking ChatGPT for explanations can be useful. I used him to help elaborate this solution. My tip is just try to learn from him, not only take the solution and leave. That way, you'll understand what you're doing and become more capable with time.

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Step by step:

1 - SSH into my home server to acess its terminal.

2 - Once on the terminal, I entered on my container's terminal by using the following command:

docker exec -it radarr bash

In this command, "radarr" is the name of my container. After using it, you should be not on your home server terminal, but on the container's one.

3 - Then, I checked who was the owner of the directory I wanted to use in radarr with the following command:

ls -ld /movies

With this command, I discovered that the owner of the directory, in my case, "/movies", was the root.

4 - So I changed the owner of the folder to "abc" with the following command:

chown abc /movies

5 - Finally, I checked if the owner was sucessfully changed with:

ls -ld /movies

Which confirmed that everything worked and the owner was now "abc". After doing that, I managed to add the folder as a root folder on Radarr.

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If this post didn't help you, there's this other one that may be useful to you.

I decided to make a post about this just in case someone passes through the same problem in the future.

I am a noob in this world by the way, so it's probable that there's some more efficient way of doing this. If you know about it, you can share it in the comments and then everyone learns how to do stuff right.

See ya :D

Hey everyone, very happy to announce that I've just released v24 of nzb360, which now includes a complete re-write of the Radarr implementation to bring a brand new design, tons of new functionality, and so much more!

Screenshots or Radarr 2.0: https://imgur.com/a/mp54Ogg

Would love all of your thoughts on this new Radarr approach. It's quite a departure from the previous design, and I will eventually have other services go into this same design direction, so as always, please let me know your feedback!

Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kevinforeman.nzb360&hl=en_US

Full changelog:

New

• Radarr 2.0! Supported by Feature Bounties, Radarr has been completely re-written in Compose to provide a much more modern and feature-rich experience. You can go back to Radarr 1.0 in settings if you prefer (this will eventually go away).
• Radarr 2 now supports cached libraries, custom filters, grid views, filtered search results, auto matched manual imports, more review/ratings sources, similar movie recommendations, improved tag management, and much, much more!
• Dashboard 2 Movie Detail pages have been completely re-written to match Radarr 2's new design, with much of the same benefits that Radarr 2 brings.
• You can now "Check Docker containers for updates" within the Docker Unraid card.
• Added support for qBittorrent’s Alternative Speed Limit, including viewing and toggling it from the Torrents 3‑dot menu.

Improvements

• You can now choose whether temperatures in Unraid are displayed in Celsius or Fahrenheit.
• You can now choose to delete the underlying media file in Sonarr or Radarr when deleting a request in Seerr.
• Major performance improvements in all Radarr 2 redesigned views.
• Radarr 2's networking, image loading, caching, and error handling have all been rewritten and improved.
• Updated various libraries.

Fixed

• Fixed issue were Dashboard 2 would not switch to the correct profile when using deeplinks.
• Stability improvements.

Hey everyone,

I’m working on ArrControl, an open-source, self-hosted dashboard for managing multiple Radarr instances through one interface.

I originally built it because I run separate Radarr instances for regular and 4K movies. Checking missing movies, download queues, health warnings, and search activity meant constantly switching between different Radarr interfaces.

ArrControl aims to bring those workflows together in one place:

• Multiple Radarr instances
• Missing movies
• Download queues and recent activity
• Instance health and connection status
• Searches across multiple Radarr instances
• Preview and dry-run options for larger search operations
• Local user accounts
• Role-based access control
• English and German interfaces

Other *Arr services are supported as well, but multiple Radarr instances were one of the main use cases behind the project.

ArrControl runs using Docker Compose and PostgreSQL and is licensed under the MIT License.

The project is still at an early stage, so I’m looking for Radarr users who are interested in testing it and suggesting improvements.

Some things I’d really like feedback on:

• Would this be useful for your Radarr setup?
• Which Radarr actions should be available centrally?
• What should be included on the main dashboard?
• Is anything important missing for regular and 4K setups?
• Is the setup process clear enough?
• What would stop you from using it?
• Are there any bugs, usability problems, or security concerns?

Bug reports, feature requests, contributions, and honest criticism are all welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/nbt4/ArrControl

My goal is to make ArrControl useful for actual Radarr users, so feedback from the community would be greatly appreciated.

I was So I am planning to upgrade my 720p movie library to 1080p (i have like less than 75) this will be used as a main copy for my Plex server in the future and before I was recommender to use radarr with profilarr and prowler to download my libray . I was installing things and profilarr is asking for a database
So,

1)Is there a good Database?

2)Am i doing anything wrong?
3)Any recommendation

For example the consensus is that for 4k remux Framestor and Cinephiles are some of the best, so I want to prioritize those groups over others (and if there's no release from those 2 it falls back to other groups). Right now I have a basic radarr/prowlarr/profilarr setup but don't know how to achieve this. Thanks.

Hy everyone

So I’ve got my plex server up and running but I just notices a big discrepancy in the show count in my folder (on my harddrive), plex and sonarr/radarr. For example:
TV Shows: Folder count: 111, plex: 112
Movies: folder count: 275, plex 274

I can’t really use sonarr/radarr as a refrence because i habe different folders for movies and shows in different languages. I know this might not be the way to go but it has been working fine. I just want to know: how can I find out which movie or show is missing without checking the list one by one? It’ll take forever to go through all lists and folders. It’s quite frustrating 🙈

Thanks for everyones help!

Bit of a milestone hit, QM got featured in selfh.st's Self Hosted Apps Worth Running Right Now, which for a solo project felt unreal. Figured this sub would want a proper look, since Radarr is right at the heart of it.

For anyone new, Quartermaster is a native iOS app for controlling your selfhosted stack from your phone. On the Radarr side specifically, the film's page is the one place for everything. It pulls installed quality and upgrade target, lets you change the quality profile and monitoring, shows the actual release date, and merges in IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores read from your Radarr, no third party. Request something and it moves through Radarr into your downloader with live progress, speed and ETA that mirror the downloader directly instead of lagging behind the queue. Manual search when you want it, "find a different release" blocklists the current one instead of grabbing it again, and you can cancel a stuck one from any state. A downloaded film reads as In library, not a stale Requested. Tap a poster anywhere and you land on it in Radarr.

I want to be upfront about one thing, because the App Store is full of it right now. QM is not vibe coded, and it is not a thin wrapper around the Radarr API with a coat of paint. It is hand built, native Swift and SwiftUI, designed screen by screen, and I have spent a serious amount of time in TestFlight hammering every integration on real, varied stacks before it goes anywhere near the stable build. I cannot post screenshots here since this sub is text only.

It goes well beyond Radarr too. 41 services now across two sides, your other arr apps, downloaders, indexers, media servers, and the infrastructure underneath, from containers and VMs to DNS and smart home, all in one app.

It is a pure client. It talks straight to the services you already run on your own hardware, your credentials stay encrypted on device, and there is no account, no relay server, and nothing in the cloud in between. Nothing phones home.

It is going alright so far. Past 3,400 downloads, and the Discord has grown to over 300 people who are actively submitting features and shaping where it goes next. A huge amount of the app came straight from that feedback.

iOS only for now, App Store link below. If you give it a go and it clicks for you, an App Store review would genuinely mean the world for a brand new app.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/quartermaster-homelab-stack/id6779994284

Discord: https://discord.gg/jKrfa4TRD

I was tired of the Broken Radarr & Sonarr Auto-Update on Apple Silicon Macs, so I had Claude Code create a script and native SwiftUI app to do the update process automatically (mostly).

It has worked well for me on a few Macs I maintain. Feedback is welcome, as I am not a developer. Here is the Github link:

https://github.com/sumocomputers/sonarr-radarr-updater

I've noticed that some indexers return garbage results for certain foreign films on radarr search. I've noticed this on south Indian movies. It returns a very long list of mismatched other films.

Indexer's I've experienced this, geek, and abNZB. Which I believe are reputed ones.

The ones that work are scenenzbs and finder-ws.

Is this a known problem?

What is causing this? Does anyone have a list of the non violating ones?

Thanks.

Before I create a script to tie everything together, I figured i'd ask if there's a tool already. There's going to be auth needed, API calls, etc, etc. McConaughey: "It'd be a lot cooler if..." there was a tool already.

My movies Library has 2 distinct media locations, local disk '/mnt/media/movies' and an S3 '/mnt/s3/movies' archival location. My work flow is that I'll have movies added, downloaded, etc. When I identify something that I want to keep i'll move that to the S3 storage location. I then update the location in Radarr, and mark it as unmonitored. Followed by a rescan in plex, and empty trash.

• Bash: sudo s3cmd sync "/mnt/media/movies/Tremors (1990)" s3://movies/
• Radarr: Update path /mnt/s3/movies/Tremors (1990)
• Radarr: Set monitored = false
• Radarr: Rescan and make sure it sees the media in the new location.
• Bash: Delete local media rm -r /mnt/s3/movies/Tremors (1990) Sometimes I make sure that everything copies before I delete, usually i'm lazy and just send it.
• Plex: Rescan library
• Plex: Empty trash

I'm lazy so usually that happens in the afternoon sitting on the couch. Building all of the S3cmd commands is fairly easy. Finding each individual movie and updating it is really annoying.

Some quick bits. Standard copy process often creates a file and then renames it. With S3 that causes multiple writes, put, delete, put. Combined with the minimum (90 day) retention causes some billing issues. My S3 is all mounted in FUSE as read only with goofys. Both of those prevent me from using the built in "move the media for me" button.

I’m using Seerr/Jellyseerr with Jellyfin, but Discover/Home shows too many low-quality or irrelevant movies/shows.

Is there any way to globally filter Discover/Home and Similar/Recommended by rating, year, or popularity? Example: only show IMDB 7/10+, 2000+, enough votes.

I know about tag blocklists, but I want rating/year filters. Has anyone solved this with a plugin, fork, API proxy, MDBList/Trakt, or another Jellyfin integration?

Radarr is not moving files once the download is complete

Jellyfin, qBit and the Arr stack are setup with Docker Compose on Ubuntu. The downloads end up in the right spot and Radarr seems to be able to see them once I manually move them (they show up on the site). I'm also initiating all downloads from Radarr/seer

All my apps are in the same .yml (how thomaswildtech has things setup)

qBit

volumes:

-${DATA_LOCATION}:/downloads

radarr

volumes:

- {MEDIA_LOCATION}:/data:rw

.env

MEDIA_LOCATION=/run/media/user/externalhdd/jellyfin/data

DATA_LOCATION=/run/media/user/externalhdd/jellyfin/data/downloads 

Media file path:

/run/media/user/externalhdd/jellyfin/data/media/movies

For media would I need to update either the env or yml to show data/media or data/media/movies. Even without this, shouldnt it be moving to the wrong location or does it not do this b/c of the drive path mapped on radarr. I I know I could test this, but I'm getting close to my limit of 40 minutes for a downloads to find out it didn't work 

At the end of the day jellyfin works when manually moving the files, but it would be nice (for other people in the Network) to browse seerr from a phone and not have to touch my computer to watch a movie once it's downloaded 

I have a bunch of movies that are 720p, I upgraded to a larger storage NAS and want to go back through and redownload them in a HD format. I imported the library in radarr and have some questions.

1- They all imported as UHD even though they aren't. All my research says to re-analyze them and it should fix it as they have ".720p" in the title, but that didn't work. I can manually do it, but I wanted to see if I was missing something.

2- If I redownload them, will they automatically delete the old version? I would like that, and was wondering if that is a setting in radarr or if it is a folder permission. My thought is that it is in radarr because the folder title will probably be a little different.

Thanks! I haven't used radarr before so im just learning it, i apologize if this is an obvious or super simple question.

I am new to radar. I am trying to download O.J.: Made in America. It is a five part series--not really a movie. But when I tried to get it through Sonarr I couldn't find it. Only available through Radarr. And when I try to download it, I just get one part (part 3) rather than the full documentary series. I am not sure how (or if) Radarr can handle a multipart movies. Any guidance would be great.

I've been using radarr/sonarr for almost a year now. I have a decent *arr stack running on TrueNAS. I tried using cleanuparr because there were several cases of a movie release that got superseded continuing to be torrenting/saved on my drive. Long story short, I found out my radarr hard links were not working. Why? Here is my current file tree:

Current:

Plex_Media_Pool_v1 (Pool)
├── downloads (dataset 1)
│ └── qbittorrent
└── Plex_Media_Data (dataset 2)
│ └──Movies
│ └── TV_Series
│ └── Anime
│ └── Anime_Films

Proposed:

Plex_Media_Pool_v1
└── Plex_Media_Data (dataset 1)
│ └── downloads
│ └── └── qbittorrent
│ └──Movies
│ └──TV_Series
│ └──Anime
│ └── Anime_Films

My understanding now is that the issue is ZFS dataset. I guess "downloads" and "Plex_Media_Data" are separate filesystems, so Radarr cannot create hardlinks between them.

downloads/qbittorrent = 7.6TB

Plex_Media_Data = 24.36TB

So I could be saving around 7TB in storage, because everything (mostly) in downloads/qbittorrent copied into one of the Plex_Media_Data folders. Is moving downloads/qbittorrent inside the Plex_Media_Data dataset the correct solution?

Hi all, a few hours ago I started getting email notifications of movies completed downloading which have been downloaded successfully at the correct quality profile for years. I went in to Radarr (version 5.28.0.10274) and it seems like almost every movie in my list (most of them unmonitored) are downloading. Sabnzbd shows 3 pages of movies queued for download. I have paused them in sabnzbd until I can figure out what is going on.

This seemed to coincide with a family member adding a new movie, but I can't figure out how they have triggered others to download, given almost all of them are unmonitored? I have been using radarr for years and have never seen this happen.

I did a google search and the AI suggested that it could be an external program causing the issue. I do have Seerr connected, but only 1 user adds movies this way and they said they have not been on there since last week. The Requested list in seerr does not show all these movies and I am not getting errant downloads via sonarr (also connected to seerr).

Any ideas on what has happened here? I can stop all the downloads, but just concerned that it will keep happening.

P.s. I do see that I am many versions behind, I might update this tomorrow. But as I said, I haven't seen this before on this (or previous) version.

I'm new, but after searching I see similar issues listed, but the fix doesn't see to apply so maybe y'all can give some insight.

Setup is I have all my movies & torrent seeds I'm putting in a downloads folder, then trying to import them into radarr and have radarr use a root folder of Movies where it places a hardlink copy that is nicely renamed and reformatted for jellyfin.

This issue is with manual import or import library you go to select what you want to import. Ok that is my downloads folder! the moment you do that it now adds it as a root folder which is what I don't want. The auto add there appears to just be in the code. I've found a workaround to get what I want, but it won't work for bulk import.

The workaround is to go to Wanted and search up something you have, it of course is missing at first, but then you go to the manual import in Wanted and there are options to import with hardlinks from there and it absolutely will take it from downloads and put the hardlink into movies. The problem is having to add everything to wanted one by one.

Is there any way to work around this or is the auto adding of new root folders going to just screw me over?

Note Ideally I'll have all my completed torrents/seeds sitting in that download folder with their horrendous naming and then radarr do all the nice formatting of those and hardlink to movies folder.

Hello all,

I've been using radarr/sonarr for about a year now with some great success. However, I just started to notice an issue. Any movie/show that I "upgraded" to another file, the original does not delete off my qBittorrrent instance. So now I have a bunch of files in qBittorrent that aren't actually being used. How do I go through and delete those easily? I have to go through 1-by-1 to check currently and it'll take a while with over 1k torrents.