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 +====== Radarr – General Configuration Guide ======
 +
 +**Purpose:**  
 +Radarr manages automated movie acquisition and lifecycle management in this environment. Much like Sonarr, the focus is not on cinephile-grade archival content, but on **efficient, high-quality, highly usable media** that scales cleanly and plays reliably across devices.
 +
 +This environment prioritizes:
 +  * Reasonable file sizes
 +  * Broad playback compatibility
 +  * Predictable automation behavior
 +  * Minimal ongoing maintenance
 +
 +High quality is important — **excess is not**.
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Installation Overview =====
 +
 +Radarr is installed **natively on the Automation / Acquisition VM**.
 +
 +  * Installed from official Radarr repositories
 +  * Runs as a dedicated service user
 +  * Integrated with Prowlarr for indexers
 +  * Integrated with qBittorrent for downloads
 +
 +As with the rest of the stack, containerization is intentionally avoided to keep filesystem paths simple and transparent.
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Media Management =====
 +
 +**Enable:**
 +  * Rename Movies
 +  * Replace Illegal Characters
 +  * Analyse Video Files
 +  * Use Hardlinks Instead of Copy
 +  * Propers and Repacks: Prefer and Upgrade
 +  * Rescan Movie Folder After Refresh: Always
 +
 +**Disable:**
 +  * Create Empty Movie Folders
 +  * Delete Empty Folders
 +  * Import Extra Files
 +  * Skip Free Space Check
 +
 +**Minimum Free Space:**  
 +  * 100 MB
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Naming Configuration =====
 +
 +All naming formats are intentionally simple, readable, and Plex-safe.
 +
 +==== File Naming Convention ====
 +
 +**Movie Naming:**  
 +%%{Movie Title} ({Release Year}) {Quality Full}%%
 +
 +==== Folder Naming Convention ====
 +
 +**Movie Folder:**  
 +%%{Movie Title} ({Release Year})%%
 +
 +This structure ensures:
 +  * Plex compatibility
 +  * Easy human readability
 +  * Safe upgrades and replacements
 +  * Clean coexistence with Unmanic post-processing
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Quality Philosophy =====
 +
 +This environment explicitly avoids:
 +  * Remuxes
 +  * Disc images
 +  * Full UHD pipelines
 +  * Excessively large encodes with marginal gains
 +
 +A clean 1080p WEB or Bluray encode represents the **best balance point** between quality, size, and playback compatibility.
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Quality Profile =====
 +
 +**Create ONE profile only. Remove all others.**
 +
 +**Profile Name:**  
 +  * All Acceptable
 +
 +**Upgrades:**  
 +  * Enabled  
 +  * Upgrade Until: Bluray-1080p
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Enabled Qualities =====
 +
 +^ Quality ^ Enabled ^
 +| Bluray-1080p | Yes |
 +| WEB 1080p | Yes |
 +| HDTV-1080p | Yes |
 +| Bluray-720p | Yes |
 +| WEB 720p | Yes |
 +| HDTV-720p | Yes |
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== 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 |
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Quality Size Limits =====
 +
 +These limits are **critical** to enforcing efficiency.
 +
 +^ Quality ^ Max Size ^
 +| 720p HDTV / WEB | 5.0 GiB |
 +| 1080p HDTV / WEB | 10.0 GiB |
 +| 1080p Bluray | 10.0 GiB |
 +
 +All 4K and Remux qualities are effectively blocked through both **quality disablement** and **custom format penalties**.
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Custom Format Scoring =====
 +
 +Scoring is based on information from TRaSH Guides, but intentionally adjusted to avoid archive-grade bloat.
 +
 +**Positive Scores:**
 +  * **WEB Tier 01:** 1500
 +  * **WEB Tier 02:** 1000
 +  * **WEB Tier 03:** 750
 +  * **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**
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Release Profile =====
 +
 +**Single hard-block release profile:**
 +
 +  * Name: Hard Block
 +  * Enabled: Yes
 +  * Must Not Contain: MeGusta
 +  * Indexer: Any
 +
 +This serves as a final guardrail against consistently poor encodes.
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Indexers =====
 +
 +Radarr does **not** manage indexers directly.
 +
 +  * All indexers are supplied via **Prowlarr**
 +  * Jackett supplements unsupported edge cases
 +  * Radarr remains intentionally minimal in indexer logic
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Download Client =====
 +
 +qBittorrent is recommended.
 +
 +**Completed Download Handling:**
 +  * Enable: Yes
 +  * Redownload Failed: Yes
 +  * Redownload Failed (Interactive): Yes
 +
 +---
 +
 +===== Operational Notes =====
 +
 +  * Unmanic is responsible for post-download optimization.
 +  * File size and scoring constraints are deliberate.
 +  * This configuration is designed to operate unattended.
 +
 +If Radarr requires frequent manual correction, the issue is almost always upstream.
 +
 +---
 +
 +This page documents a **real-world, production Radarr configuration**, aligned with the same philosophy as Sonarr.
  
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