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-====== Sonarr – General Configuration Guide ======
-**Purpose:**
-Sonarr manages automated TV series acquisition and lifecycle management in this environment. The goal is not cinephile perfection or archival remuxes, but **efficient, reliable, highly watchable media** that scales cleanly across large libraries.
-This environment prioritizes:
-  * Reasonable file sizes
-  * Broad playback compatibility
-  * Minimal manual intervention
-  * Predictable automation behavior
-High quality is important — **excess is not**.
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-===== Installation Overview =====
-Sonarr is installed **natively on the Automation / Acquisition VM**.
-  * Installed from official Sonarr repositories
-  * Runs as a dedicated service user
-  * Integrated with Prowlarr for indexers
-  * Integrated with qBittorrent for downloads
-Containerization is intentionally avoided to keep filesystem paths simple and predictable.
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-===== Media Management =====
-**Enable:**
-  * Rename Episodes
-  * Replace Illegal Characters
-  * Episode Title Required: Always
-  * Analyse Video Files
-  * Use Hardlinks Instead of Copy
-  * Propers and Repacks: Prefer and Upgrade
-  * Rescan Series Folder After Refresh: Always
-  * Unmonitor Deleted Episodes
-**Disable:**
-  * Create Empty Series Folders
-  * Delete Empty Folders
-  * Import Extra Files
-  * Skip Free Space Check
-**Minimum Free Space:**
-  * 100 MB
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-===== Naming Configuration =====
-All naming formats are intentionally simple and Plex-safe.
-==== File Naming Convention ====
-**Standard Episodes:**
-%%{Series Title} - {Air-Date} - {Episode Title} {Quality Full}%%\\
-**Daily Episodes:**
-%%{Series Title} - {Air-Date} - {Episode Title} {Quality Full}%%\\
-**Anime Episodes:**
-%%{Series Title} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {Episode Title} {Quality Full}%%\\
-==== Folder Naming Convention ====
-**Series Folder:**
-%%{Series Title} ({Series Year})%%\\
-**Season Folder:**
-%%Season {season}%%\\
-**Specials Folder:**
-Specials
-\\
-\\
-**Multi-Episode Style:** Prefixed Range
-\\
-\\
-This structure ensures:
-  * Plex compatibility
-  * Easy human readability
-  * Safe upgrades and replacements
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-===== Quality Philosophy =====
-This environment explicitly avoids:
-  * Remuxes
-  * Disc images
-  * Full UHD pipelines
-  * Upscaled or padded releases
-A clean 1080p WEB or Bluray encode is the **practical upper bound**.
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-===== Quality Profile =====
-**Create ONE profile only. Remove all others.**
-**Profile Name:**
-  * All Acceptable
-**Upgrades:**
-  * Enabled
-  * Upgrade Until: HDTV-1080p
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-===== Enabled Qualities =====
-^ Quality ^ Enabled ^
-| Bluray-1080p | Yes |
-| WEB 1080p | Yes |
-| HDTV-1080p | Yes |
-| Bluray-720p | Yes |
-| WEB 720p | Yes |
-| HDTV-720p | Yes |
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-===== Disabled Qualities =====
-^ Quality ^ Enabled ^
-| Bluray-2160p Remux | No |
-| Bluray-2160p | No |
-| WEB 2160p | No |
-| HDTV-2160p | No |
-| Bluray-1080p Remux | No |
-| DVD | No |
-| SDTV | No |
-| Raw-HD | No |
-| Unknown | No |
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-===== Quality Size Limits =====
-These limits are **critical** to enforcing efficiency.
-^ Quality ^ Max Size ^
-| 720p HDTV / WEB | 600 MiB per hour |
-| 1080p HDTV / WEB | 1.4 GiB per hour |
-| 1080p Bluray | 1.4 GiB per hour |
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-All 4K and Remux qualities are effectively blocked by both **quality disablement** and **custom format penalties**.
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-===== Custom Format Scoring =====
-Scoring is based on information from TRaSH Guides, though the scores are intentionally modified to fit our use case in lieu of building archive quality libraries.
-**Positive Scores:**
-  * **WEB Tier 01:** 1000
-  * **WEB Tier 02:** 750
-  * **WEB Tier 03:** 500
-  * **WEB Scene:** 400
-  * **Repack v3:** 100
-  * **Repack v2:** 75
-  * **Repack / Proper:** 50
-**Negative / Blocked Scores:**
-  * **LQ:** -100
-  * **LQ (Release Title):** -100
-  * **BR-DISK:** -10000
-  * **Extras:** -10000
-  * **Upscaled:** -10000
-**Minimum Custom Format Score:**
-  * **500**
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-===== Release Profile =====
-**Single hard-block release profile:**
-  * Name: Hard Block
-  * Enabled: Yes
-  * Must Not Contain: MeGusta
-  * Indexer: Any
-This acts as a final safety net against known low-quality encodes.
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-===== Indexers =====
-Sonarr does **not** manage indexers directly.
-  * All indexers are provided by **Prowlarr**
-  * Jackett supplements unsupported edge cases
-  * Sonarr indexer logic remains minimal by design
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-===== Download Client =====
-qBittorrent is recommended.
-**Completed Download Handling:**
-  * Enable: Yes
-  * Redownload Failed: Yes
-  * Redownload Failed (Interactive): Yes
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-===== Operational Notes =====
-  * Unmanic is responsible for post-download optimization.
-  * Size limits and scoring are intentional, not conservative.
-  * This configuration is designed to run unattended for long periods.
-If Sonarr is drawing your attention frequently, something upstream is misconfigured.
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-This page documents a **real-world, production Sonarr configuration**, not a theoretical ideal.