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Comment on Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr

plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The .scr and .lnk is more an issue with the trackers you’re using and not with those release groups, but to answer your question: create a custom format that looks for those groups in the release group field and then score them like -10000 in your quality profile.

Sonarr also has a new setting in to fail dangerous downloads like those so they won’t stay in your activity queue, it’s in the indexer settings.

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non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You can also approach this by blocking file types at the download client.

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- Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s what I’d already done as per the OP, but it leaves Sonarr/Radarr wanting manual intervention for the ‘complete’ download that doesn’t have any files to import.
  
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  - non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh, I missed that. My bad.
    
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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This comment prompted me to look a little deeper at this. I looked at the history for each show where I’ve had failed downloads from those groups.

For SuccessfulCrab; any time a release has come from a torrent tracker (I only have free public torrent trackers) it’s been garbage. I have however had a number of perfectly fine downloads with that group label, whenever retrieved from NZBgeek. I’ve narrowed that filter to block the string ‘SuccessfulCrab’ on all torrent trackers, but allow NBZs. Perhaps there’s an impersonator trying to smear them or something, idk.

ELiTE on the other hand, I’ve only got history of grabbing their torrents and every one of them was trash. That’s going to stay blocked everywhere.

The block potentially dangerous setting is interesting, but what exactly is it looking for? The torrent client is already set to not download file types I don’t want, so will it recognize and remove torrents that are empty? (everything’s marked ‘do not download’) I’m having a hard time finding documentation for that.

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- plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The fail dangerous doesn’t work if you block it in the torrent client, so you’d have to actually download it but then sonarr would mark it as failed and not get stopped from downloading new items for that show. Neither option is perfect.
  
  See if you’re getting these bad torrent moreso from one particular tracker and then rethink about using that tracker.
  
  Best option is trying to get into some private trackers, pretty easy looking for open signups on lemmy or the dreaded reddit.
  
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