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• BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean yeah, but it also depends on what you want. You don’t have to use the full automation. I started just by using it as a read-only way to see what movies I had and in what qualities and keep things organized. You can use it as a manual interface to do one-off downloads - basically just as an interface to search 5 torrent sites in 1 place. You can use it only to rename files to a consistent format. So there are a lot of ways to use the various features of sonarr/radarr besides automatic downloads. You’re not forced to go all-in and out of the box it doesn’t start automatically downloading until you enable that.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That was definitely my misconception

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    • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m glad to clear it up! It’s a super powerful tool, and I still occasionally skip the automation and just use it for manual searches since it reduces that process to a single click to search all configured torrent sites and a single click to download and have the rest automatically handled.

      I used to need remote access to my torrent client and separate access to my NAS filesystem to move/rename files when downloads finish which was a really manual process. Now all I need is the reverse-proxied sonarr/radarr UI since it handles moving/copying/renaming on download completion - and while the UI isn’t mobile-first, it’s very usable and feels less error-prone than moving/renaming files remotely using a file explorer app.

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