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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**.

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===== 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.

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===== 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

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===== 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

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===== 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.

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===== Quality Profile =====

**Create ONE profile only. Remove all others.**

**Profile Name:**  
  * All Acceptable

**Upgrades:**  
  * Enabled  
  * Upgrade Until: Bluray-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 | 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**.

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===== 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**

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===== 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.

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===== 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

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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.
  * 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.

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This page documents a **real-world, production Radarr configuration**, aligned with the same philosophy as Sonarr.