Smurfi@lemmy.zip
Morning all,
Quick question, how do y’all handle big “unofficial” collection torrents with weird folder/file names that were manually added to the download client?
Is there a nice tool to use or are manual scripts the only way?
Also, how can I tell my *arr stack to look for files inside collection torrents too? Say I want Iron Man 1, but the only torrent with sufficient seeds is e.g. Phase-1.MCU.1080x720p or some weird ass name like that, that contains Iron Man 1 along with all the other files. How can I tell Radarr to use that torrent?
Thanks! Have a good one
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What you are looking for is under Settings > Download Clients > Torrent Blackhole
This helps create a “blackhole” folder that monitored for any completed files. Radar or Sonarr will then try and import these files if the naming matches anything in your library that’s missing.
And do I only do this for manually added torrents? Arr added torrents should still go to the normal “completed” folder?
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Correct. Your manual added torrents only.
But to be clear your downloads folder should ideally have subdirectories in it, or at least that’s what I have.
*Completed Downloads", with subdirectories for movies, series, audio, books, blackhole_movies, blackhole_series, and any other category you have.
In your download client you then make sure to set it up that all downloads get a category that then dumps the completed download into the corresponding folder.
So when a movie gets added by radarr its assigned a category of movies in your download client, and when it finishes downloading it goes to the completed/movies folder. And similar if a series gets added by sonarr a category of series gets assigned and moved to the completed/series folder.
Any torrent you add manually you would then assign either blackhole movies or series and your download client would then move it to that completed folder. Radarr would then see new files appear and try and import them as it regularly will now scan that blackhole folder.