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

EDIT: Apologies, should have specified, I did get this working before posting here. Ran a bash script to create subfolders for each *.mkv in the parent folder, and cleaned up the names with regex. Then went to Wanted -> Manual Import and Radarr could successfully identify the movies. But the name cleanup was the most important I think.

So a tool would have to rely on something other than the name to identify the movie like a fingerprint or somesuch

  • Smurfi@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    And do I only do this for manually added torrents? Arr added torrents should still go to the normal “completed” folder?

    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 hours 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.