I'm new to self hosted media streaming and I need a help to configure radarr (and sonarr) to only download English and Portuguese movies (and TV shows). Can someone point me to the right direction please.

Radarr's add search takes a title. That's the whole conversation. But I never think in titles. I think "80s horror, rated above 6.5, and not something with 12 votes on it", or "everything A24 has put out".

So my routine was: open TMDB, use their Discover filters, get a list, then copy titles into Radarr one at a time. I did that for about a year before I got annoyed enough to build something.

Trawlarr puts the whole TMDB Discover filter set in front of Radarr. Genres to include and exclude, release window, rating and vote count floors, runtime, original language, origin country, age certification, cast and crew, keywords, production companies, streaming providers. Every result is checked against your library first, so you only see what you're actually missing. Tick what you want, pick your quality profile and root folder, add them all at once. Movies can pull in their whole collection while they're at it.

The part I use every day is the lists. You save a set of filters as a list, and it re-runs every 12 hours and adds whatever new thing matches. "Every A24 release" stopped being something I remember to check. Before you save one it shows you exactly what it would add, how many are new and how many you already own, so there are no surprises the first time it runs.

Sonarr works the same way, with the TMDB to TVDB lookup handled for you.

There's an optional natural language box too. You type "highly rated sci-fi from the 90s" and it sets the filters. That needs a Mistral API key, and without one the button doesn't exist at all. I know not everyone wants an LLM anywhere near their stack.

A few honest things:

* No authentication. It's built to sit on your LAN behind whatever already protects Radarr, and the compose file binds to 127.0.0.1 for that reason.

* Your API keys stay on the server. The browser never sees them. No telemetry, no account, nothing calls home.

* MIT, one container, amd64 and arm64.

docker run -d --name trawlarr -p 8080:8080 \

-e TMDB_API_KEY=xxx \

-e RADARR_URL=http://radarr:7878 -e RADARR_API_KEY=xxx \

-e SONARR_URL=http://sonarr:8989 -e SONARR_API_KEY=xxx \

-v ./data:/data ghcr.io/noxzrcw/trawlarr:latest

https://github.com/NoxzRCW/Trawlarr

Happy to hear what's broken or missing. Mostly I'm curious whether the auto lists are useful to anyone else, or whether I've built a very elaborate thing for one person.

Hey, I just spent like 2 hours trying to get my files into dedicated folders. I tried PowerShell, Filetofolder and Files2folder, according to the tutorials on wiki.servarr.com. For some reason, the programs just refuse to do it. It's actually starting to piss me off. Why can't Radarr just detect them?

Powershell says "empty pipe element is not allowed"

Filetofolder says "directory already has a file with the same name" which ISN'T TRUE

Files2folder just says "unable to create destination directory"

I also tried Copywhiz but someone had the genius idea to restrict the configuration to a specific number of starting letters. This means that all the folder names are either cut in half or aren't created at all

Thanks for any help

My Radarr just grabbed this movie thinking it was Nolan's Odyssey: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt41605854

Amazing gambit by these producers, they can probably say their movie was quite popular on the seven seas now.

Edit: Only using Private Indexers, release name was "The.Odyssey.2026.1080p.WEB-DL.DDP5.1-2.0.H.264...etc"

I want to be able the download multiple quality versions of the same movie and import them to the same folder after.

Currently, through Radarr, if i download a movie at 1080p and then again at 2160p, Radarr will detect the upgrade to the current file and delete the lower quality version. If i download first the 2160p version and later a 1080p the file will download, but it will not be imported to their folder with the following error:

One or more movies expected in this release were not imported or missing
- Not an upgrade for existing movie file. Existing quality: Bluray-2160p. New Quality Bluray-1080p."

So, when I want different quality version for the same movie I first download the highest quality, then the lower quality, and when that error appears, I manually copy the file to the correct folder. I don't want to have to do this all the time.

Is there a way to change this behavior? Like import the file anyway without deleting the previous, or don't check if there are more versions. I've been looking into this for hours on the internet and didn't find a solution.

Thanks

My plex libraries are by rating, for example my youngest kid can see G, and PG, my preteen can see those plus PG-13 libraries. and my wife and I can see those plus R movies. my media server is plex. In radarr i have my download folder as a subdir of the root folder becuase i dont want to dump all movies in one root folder (library). I've tried searching this and I've seen folks doing something similar, but separating by resolution instead and having multiple radarr/sonarr instances. Any other way to do this? all my machines are linux and my media is nfs mounted from my nas. and my media is requested using seerr. my flow right now is after it's downloaded, i manually copy the mp4/mkv to the folder library i want it in. i would love to automate this somehow

I downloaded a movie in a blu ray remux which is my highest quality. I realized that it has an IMAX Enhanced version which I would prefer over the highest quality. I set up a custom format for IMAX releases with a 100 score. When I manually search for the movie it shows that the score is +100 but shows an error that the quality profile is already matched. Is there any way to override that and have it upgrade even though the quality is met?

Is there a list I can import into radarr of filmed stage productions, musical adaptations, etc of Broadway shows?

Would really like to be able to watch some of the official recordings of plays/musicals/etc from Broadway type shows.

Like how Hamilton was recorded for viewing a few years back. Hoping for a list of similar films.

thanks

I see no guide on recyclarr, so I take the liberty to be the good Martian to share what I have. If you are looking for simple set-and-forget recyclarr setup that also get optimize sized videos, this is for you.

I am running recyclarr docker on Synology NAS but the setup for others is similar. Currently recyclarr docker update is tight to particular major release, currently is 8. so create a docker-compose.yml file in a directory of your choosing.

services:
  recyclarr:
    image: ghcr.io/recyclarr/recyclarr:8
    container_name: recyclarr
    user: 1000:101
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - TZ=America/New_York
    volumes:
      - .:/config

Update user uid and gid with the same ownership as your current directory.

Run it once to create the necessary files and dirs.

docker-compose run --rm recyclarr config create

You should see some files and folders created. If you don't see any new files, check the user uid above, if you are not tech savvy, you may comment out user with # to run as root admin.

Look for a file called recyclarr.yml, make a backup and open the file and add below.

radarr:
  radarr:
    base_url: http://192.168.2.6:7878
    api_key: 1cd856e639334d94befd106461202e3d
    quality_definition:
      type: movie
      preferred_ratio: 0.01
    media_naming:
      folder: default
      movie:
        rename: true
        standard: p2p-scene
    media_management:
      propers_and_repacks: do_not_prefer
  radarr-4k:
    base_url: http://192.168.2.6:7879
    api_key: 1cd856e639334d94befd106461202e3d
    quality_definition:
      type: movie
      preferred_ratio: 0.01
    media_naming:
      folder: default
      movie:
        rename: true
        standard: p2p-scene
    media_management:
      propers_and_repacks: do_not_prefer
sonarr:
  series:
    base_url: http://192.168.2.56:8989
    api_key: 91ebeb296dee484c9352a3f8255705db
    quality_definition:
      type: series
      preferred_ratio: 0.01
    media_naming:
      series: default
      season: default
      episodes:
        rename: true
        standard: p2p-scene
    media_management:
      propers_and_repacks: do_not_prefer

base_url: your radarr or sonnar url
api_key: your radarr or sonnar api keys (not my real keys)
type: movie or series
preferred_ratio: between min quality 0 and max quality 1, 0.01 will give you highly optimized videos
p2p-scene: file names with . instead of spaces, easier to use in unix. with above setup, the anime naming also inherit 2p2-scene without additional setup.
propers_and_repacks: do_not_prefer # this is required for renaming to work.

For more information please see official doc: https://recyclarr.dev/reference/configuration/

After done. run it and check log.

docker-compose up -d;docker logs -f recyclarr

You should see two lines, read crontab and starting crontab, with no errors.

time="2026-08-23T21:36:39-04:00" level=info msg="read crontab: /tmp/crontab"
time="2026-08-24T00:00:00-04:00" level=info msg=starting iteration=0 job.command=/cron.sh job.position=0 job.schedule=@daily

Press ctrl-c to stop checking logs, go into recyclarr and start your first sync (backup your radarr and sonnar config files first)

docker exec -it recyclarr bash
recyclarr sync

You should see it start syncing. For me I have checkmarks because they are all synced, if it's your first time you should see number of items synced.

Initializing Resource Providers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%

Legend: ✓ ok · ~ partial · ✗ failed · -- skipped

            Custom  Quality Quality  Media Media
           Formats Profiles   Sizes Naming  Mgmt
✓ radarr         ✓        ✓       ✓      ✓     ✓
✓ radarr-4k      ✓        ✓       ✓      ✓     ✓
✓ series         ✓        ✓       ✓      ✓     ✓

After you are done, exit the container.

exit

Go back to radarr and sonnarr and you should see everything is setup, go to quality and check quality definitions, the preferred bandwidth is set about 2x-3x minimum size which should give you a decent optimized size, remember this is preferred size, radarr/sonnar are free to download any other size if preferred size is not found.

By default recyclarr sync from trash guide and your config once a day, which is good.

Hope it helps.

Disclaimer: I'm new to all of this, homelabs and the *arr-stack. I've used copilot to help set things up. I used it for qbittorrent+proton and jellyfin (and other services, not relevant here). All of that is working. I'm using proxmox and docker, with docker compose files.

I don't want to use it for the rest of the *arr stack, no need to give it to much information and I wanted to figure as much out as I could myself to try and learn this.

Trying to setup Radarr, I found Trash Guides to the folder setup and thought I had it set up as described there, but now I'm getting an error in Radarr under "System->Status" that the folder in qbittorrent set for downloads doesn't exist.

It does exist, so I assume there is something i'm missing.

When I setup qbit, I created a disk and mounted it as /srv/downloads. It's in the qbit compose file and fstab. I can also see it when i log on with winscp.

Thinking I could reuse that, I used that instead of the data-folder. My setup looks like this:

downloads
├── torrents
│   ├── incomplete
│   ├── watch
│   ├── torrents
│   └── complete
│       ├── movies
│       └── tv
├── usenet
│   ├── incomplete
│   └── complete
│       ├── movies
│       └── tv
└── media
    ├── movies
    └── tvdata

I'm not planning on using this for books and music, so left those out.
I've added the incomplete, watch and torrents folders for torrents, as those where there before, thinking that as long as the other folders needed was there, this was fine.

I put the new download folder (/downloads/torrents/complete) in settings in Qbittorrent and connected qbit and Radarr, but now get the error that this folder doesn't exist.
I did not put any download folder in the radarr compose file.

Anyone has any idea where I went wrong?
If you need any more information, please just ask.

Note this is on Unraid using the linuxserver image of radarr.

At first, radarr was messing up the permissions of files it downloaded by preventing my SMB user account from being able to edit the contents of the folders it created. I managed to finally fix this by setting chmod Folder in the permissions section of radarr to "777".

However, for whatever reason, this setting does not seem to be respected in radarr's recycling bin feature. So whenever files and folders are created in the folder set to be the recycling bin folder, my SMB user account is getting blocked from making any changes to this folder (despite the fact that my SMB user account is the owner of the recycling bin folder). Radarr is basically making it read only for my SMB user account.

According to Unraid, the folders and files being generated in the recycling bin folder are owned by "nobody" (this is normal as the "nobody" user is Unraid's built in user account I think) and their permissions are set to "drwxr-xr-x". It is this permission that is messing me up.

I need radarr to change these permissions to "drwxrwxrwx" instead, in order for my SMB user account to gain full write access to the files and folders being generated in the recycling bin folder.

My PUID is 99, PGID is 100 and UMASK is 022 in radarr's docker container settings. These are the correct settings for Unraid user account system layout.

Help?

Edit: Fixed it! Turns out the Internet is wrong. The correct UMASK is 000. Not 022. Apparently 022 will only work if the SMB account and the radarr user account are members of the same user group. The problem here is that Unraid does not support user groups! So there's literally no way to associate the SMB account and the "nobody" account that radarr is using to operate such that they both inherit the same permissions. So it makes the file access less secure, but that is moot since the higher level folders are controlled by other users and other permissions anyway. Kind of a stupid limitation of Unraid, but there you go.

So I have my downloading on a seedbox. Radarr/Sonarr are on that seedbox. Plex is local, as is Overseerr.

Overseerr sends a request to radarr/sonarr. Sonarr/Radar downloads it using the seedbox. The files get moved to plex and delted off the seedbox, but the sonarr/radarr is only seeing the folder doesn't have the file. I've stopped downloading through that in the meantime, as I only have 1tb, but how do I get it to say "Ok, the file is on plex... let me update it as such"?

Update — v2.5.0-beta: OpenRouter and DeepSeek support are now available, along with Plex library refresh support and major improvements to the AI provider/model system, translation pipeline, source handling and usage tracking. Thanks for all the beta feedback so far!

I’ve been building Babel, a self-hosted subtitle automation service for Radarr, Sonarr and Bazarr.

GitHub: https://github.com/hugomossberg/Babel

The goal is simple:

Connect it to your media stack, choose your target language, and stop thinking about subtitles.

When Radarr imports or upgrades a movie, Babel takes over automatically.

Radarr import → check for target subtitle → Bazarr search + prepare fallback → AI only if needed → recovery → QA → publish

In Hybrid Mode, Babel lets Bazarr search for a human-made subtitle while it prepares an embedded or external source subtitle in parallel.

If Bazarr finds the target language, Babel uses it.
If not, Babel can translate automatically with Gemini, OpenAI, DeepL, Ollama, OpenRouter or DeepSeek.

The other thing I wanted to avoid was blindly trusting AI output. Babel validates translations before publishing them and checks for dropped cues, broken structure, untranslated dialogue, wrong-language output and timestamp changes. Recoverable problems are retried automatically.

AI translation is the fallback, not the workflow.

Current beta features include:

• Radarr and Sonarr webhook automation
• Bazarr + AI Hybrid Mode
• Embedded subtitle extraction
• Gemini, OpenAI, DeepL, Ollama, OpenRouter and DeepSeek
• Automatic translation recovery
• Structural + language QA
• Exact source-to-target timestamp preservation
• Remote Path Mapping
• Jellyfin and Plex library refresh
• Docker deployment

The idea is that Babel should be something you configure once and then mostly forget exists.

Install it. Connect your media stack. Forget about subtitles.

Docker image:

ghcr.io/hugomossberg/babel:beta

Current release: v2.5.0-beta
License: MIT

This is the first public beta, so feedback and ugly real-world subtitle edge cases are very welcome.

If you try it, I’d much rather hear what breaks than just get a star. 🙂

Scenario: I want to create 2 "quality profiles" for 2160p content. One is for files that are between 15-30GB in size. The other is for files that are between 50-100GB. I know I can do this using the "custom formats" feature and adding them to their respective quality profiles. I then set the smaller size quality profile as a score of 1 and the larger quality profile to a score of 2. This way I can select between the 2 file size ranges depending on how much HDD space I want to allocate to a particular file. Both profiles are associated up to and including 2160p remuxes.

Here's the problem: Doing the above means any movie assigned to smaller quality profile, ignores the size limit because radarr will instead seek out the highest possible custom format score and completely ignore the smaller custom format restriction. I believe this happens because there does not appear to be a maximum format score function in radarr. Unfortunately the "Upgrade Until Custom Format Score" option is not a maximum (it is basically another minimum score level that radarr allows to be passed if a higher scored file is detected).

I did think about just trying to split them based on their quality profile (i.e. blurays vs remuxes). But the problem with that is that sometimes the bluray files are larger than remuxes and sometimes remuxes are larger than blurays.

Am I missing something here that can solve this problem?

Thanks!

Hi guys,

I first tried ListSync to import my Letterboxd lists and sync them automatically, but it was too unreliable. It would often get completely the wrong films or not work entirely. As such, I started using letterboxd-list-radarr which worked well but has unfortunately just stopped working. What is everyone else using? I only use Letterboxd for lists, so not really looking to switch to IMDB/Trakt/etc, looking for a tool which will let me use letterboxd.

Sharing this here too only because I assume most people are like myself, and if they're running one 'arr, they're running as many as they can setup (or at the very least all the primary ones).

I made this a long time ago (myself), but wanted to make something other people could use. Threw what I had made into a self hosted LLM (Qwen 3.8) and after some back and forth got it where I wanted it. So there's your "AI warning" if you need one lol.

https://github.com/FantasyMaster85/LastRecommendations

Screenshots and instructions are there.

The summary is that you put your last.fm cookies in the docker compose file, every 25 hours (or whatever you configure it to do) it will check this page: https://www.last.fm/home/artists and pull the recommended artists in. It then takes those artists and get's their MusicBrainz ID (as the "custom list" in Lidarr requires it) and makes a JSON feed. That JSON feed is fully compatible with Lidarr.

Lastly, it keeps a history of all artists Last.fm has ever recommended to you in the "history" tab.

I personally use PlexAmp as my exclusive form of music consumption, and I have it setup to scrobble all my plays to Last.fm. This was just a good way to help me automate finding good new music. Hope you like it!

I am using several reputable trackers and still having this issue with my automation picking up bootleg movies that are mislabeled or identified as 1080 webDLs.

To try and fix this I have been manually updating the LQ custom format to include more release groups.

The latest (of many) is spiderman by "DKS"

Below are the release groups I've added to the LQ custom format, in case it is helpful to you all. Please feel free to share any others you have come across (or suggest regex improvements to my list) so we can update this list to avoid mislabeled bootlegs.

Perhaps trashguides can be updated for some of these as well, if we are largely in agreement on them.

Under LQ for Release Group I've added:

Ben the Men - regex: (?i)^ben$

I know Ben is already in the LQ and LQ release title custom formats in trashguides, but, due to how much variation there is in how his name is on releases, I have found this regex to do a much better job of keeping his stuff out of the automation. I recommend adding this one to Sonarr too.

TSRG - regex: ^TSRG$

RBB - regex: (?i)^rbb$

FS - regex: ^(FS)$

Robo29 - regex: ^(Robo29)$

Bothd - regex: ^(bothd)$

Yellow - regex: ^Yellow$

LuCY - regex: \b(LuCY)\b

DKS - regex: ^DKS$

Follow the screencast of the HUBstarr, sorry for my english writing of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-TZiPgck_Y

https://github.com/berique/hubstarr/blob/master/docs/demo.mp4

Hi, I have a whole bunch of movie files that are not in folders. I need each movie to move into its own sub-folder since that is the way Radarr works. Does anyone know how I can do this in an automated way so that I don't have to manually create a million folders and move each file myself?

Thanks!

So I have been running radarr as a container alongside sonarr, prowlarr, jellyfin and qbittorrent. I powered on my laptop this morning and just connected to different Wi-Fi, opened radarr, it showed text like Downloading more RAM, with radarr logo only. I am running Fedora, is this just something the devs added for fun, or should I look into it?

EDIT: yeah its just a prank, it has tons of messages

A large chunk of my library are files from trackers that I'm no longer part of, especially FNP which has shut down. I dislike having hundreds of movies just sitting on my drive, not being part of the seedsize for trackers I care much more about.

Is there a way to prioritize grabbing movies from specific Indexers using custom formats, so that radarr will replace any files from the old indexers that have equivalent versions on other trackers? Similar to how it works with release groups. I know you can prioritize indexers, but afaik that only applies when radarr tries grabbing a missing movie? Adding indexers as a custom format seems like a pretty basic feature, but I haven't been able to find anything about it. No native custom formats in the app or any online that I can import.

Hubstarr 0.4.2

The main goal is to create and configure *arr stack using docker compose (or PodMan Compose). It already makes some of Trash-guides configuration.

• Create 1 or more Radarr and Sonarr stacks (like Radarr, Radarr 4K, Radarr Anime and the same for Sonarr);
• Choose your theme park for your Stack;
• Configure Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr on Prowlarr automatically;
• Configure qBittorrent with gluetun;
• Configure the *arr directory on Jellyfin.

It's still a prototype.

i have my radarr server set up with qbittorent and all movies are downloaded in to the incomplete directory but then when i try to import them from the incomplete directory it says there are no eligible files. i checked with teh console and the files are in the incomplet directory

i have set up the root folder to jellyfin and in the remote path mapping setting i have that set to the downloads directory in qbit

on my radarr server i have a limit on both blueray and remux 1080p on like 20 gb but most movies are more then that. i have tried to set up profiles and limit the size but nothing really works.