Sonarr on Unraid.. how did I live without this? (Install Tutorial)

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[massgravex]

Been using Sonarr/Radarr for about 2 years now and it's been great.

The only issues I've ran into with Sonarr is with some series that have inconsistent season/episode numbering. American Dad is a good example, where there is no general consensus on if the first season consists of the first 7 episodes or the first 23 episodes, which throws the whole series numbering out of whack and requires some manual finagling to rectify.

Another tip: If you have a full series built from releases with your preferred quality/audiotracks/subtitles/etc, set "Monitored" to "No" for that series so that Sonarr doesn't try to automatically replace any episodes with different releases that it deems superior to the existing ones for whatever reason. (*EDIT* just now saw that Jason mentioned this toward the end of the video)

[mingleman]

Given Jason's reluctance to talk about what an 'indexer' is, his Prowlarr video should be even more of a laugh - The 'arr universe is a wonderful rabbit hole that leads to an unhealthy amount of time perfecting media - guilty as charged

[guardianali]

ProTip:

This is why you have two TV directories.
TV - Completed
TV - In Progress.

Completed are the shows that are done. Final season and no further downloading.
In progress are the shows that are still releasing new seasons and episodes.

Your not using Sonarr as your media player. Your probably using Plex or Jellyfin or Emby. you just want it to download and rename and organize. So giving it access to shows that are already organized and complete makes a TON of useless work to identify shows properly you dont actually need too.

This way, Sonarr only sees and imports the shows you need it to care about...the ones it needs to download. Period. Makes that first import screen way quicker as you only have to fix identify options for a much smaller pool.
And once a show is done and final season complete, drag the folder over to the Completed folder.

[rileyxbell]

My brother introduced me to sonnar and radarr a couple months ago. Such an amazing piece of software. Takes a little setting up but once it's done it's a million times better than using a ton of different streaming services which is pretty ironic. With all the new streaming services these days it costs a fortune to keep subscriptions with them all and then it's a pain to track new shows/episodes.

[peterg]

awesome video ! looking forward to the Loki upgrade video !!!

[TechD]

@ByteMyBits Great video! I'm personally glad that your back to making content on Plex and Unraid again, not saying your other content isn't helpful/amusing...

So now that your going down the Arr rabbithole, one thing for those that are new to Unraid is that you can add additional "Paths" in the container. So for those that just don't have a single TV folder and have separate categories (ex Anime), then you can go in and have several paths connected and have it monitored...

[ProTLZZ]

I'm surprised you weren't using this already!

Anyway with regards to the hard link thing basically it reduces disk IO by using the same folder directories across the containers

[thedevhow]

As someone who had a Siamese cat and Australian Cattle Dog, and is interested in this super niche topic, I still can't believe the coincidence I see here. Are you me :D Anyway, nice channel and really great video, thanks for laying out the details so well.

[thatshow]

Please please update with the hard link, soft link episode, that is a real unraid mystery which gets me every time.

[danielhh]

I've followed your guide but I'm still having issues. Deluge and NzbGet are downloading the shows, but they fail to import into my plex library.

They get stuck at "downloaded - waiting to import" and "no files are eligible to import in /downloads/completed/tv...."

[bergatrolle]

Yes, bobs pencil sharpener extreme a classic free show, yes yes that's a good one :D

[jkirk]

i mainly use sonarr to rename/structure dvd rips for use with my plex and kodi installs.

[andrewgarcia]

You should look into LunaSea since you use an iPhone. Really neat app if you care about automation!

[ChrisThompsonthetechguy]

Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Sanzbd, Plex! Nothing else I need.

[Zavala-zg]

Dude you pets stoled the show haha that was very funny.

[MrFearman]

I am corrently using Medusa, but actually like the interface of Sonarr better, have to give it a try ;)

[MomCallsMeJimmy]

Hello. I know what is the most asked about issue with sonarr. Adding is to oveeseerr. Are you using that? Well for the better of 6 months I can't add it to sonarr services. Radarr adds with no issues. I'm bimegging you to tell me if you have any issues adding it to services tab in overseerr

[WoodUCreate]

If a file has been watched in a series, and is then deleted, will Sonarr redownload it again? Would I then just need to stop monitoring these series? Sounds like a bit of work in that regard. Or can I have Sonarr just download newly released versions of those programs?

[nadtz]

I need this so bad. Hope freenas has this in its app library.

[johnmarkzimm]

I hope you do an install and set up video for Prowlarr.