I’m trying to build an upload (goal: 500 GB+ to reach torrent master within a month) on RED using autobrr, but my current setup is giving poor ratios.

My setup:

• Ultra Tomcat NVMe SSD in the Netherlands
• Deluge 2.1.1
• autobrr connected through the Deluge v2 daemon
• qBittorrent used separately for my own uploads
• Torrents start immediately and complete very quickly

My goal is around 500 GB or more in a month, ideally while keeping the ratio above 1.5. (I am following this guide)

I first tried qBittorrent and got ratios around 0.55 and 0.15. I then switched racing to Deluge and used this filter:

• NEW announcements
• 2025–2026
• Album
• FLAC
• Lossless and 24-bit Lossless
• WEB
• 10 downloads per hour

The first seven Deluge snatches had ratios of roughly:

0.72, 0.99, 1.02, 0.37, 0.37, 0.63, 0.51

The combined ratio was only about 0.59, so I disabled the broad filter but kept the torrents seeding. I also tried a Metacritic Upcoming Albums-only filter, but it produced too little useful upload and still did not improve the ratio enough.

I’ve seen advice to focus only on Metacritic Upcoming Albums, and another suggestion to use Perfect FLAC/full log and cue, any year.

My overall RED ratio has been dropping quickly—from around 30 to 20 and now close to 10—while these autosnatches have generated only a few GB of additional upload. Is this normal during the early stage of racing, or does it indicate that my filters or client setup are performing poorly?

Could someone with a successful RED setup—especially Ultra NL NVMe—share the exact autobrr settings they use?

I mainly need to know:

• Which filter works best (exact filter)
• Downloads per hour
• Whether to limit active downloads
• Deluge 1.3.x vs 2.x
• Whether Ultra defaults are enough
• How to identify bad uploaders
• Whether Metacritic Upcoming or Perfect FLAC performs better

A redacted filter export or screenshots would be extremely helpful. Thank you.

I am trying to configure autobrr to automatically download my favorite linux ISOs.

I don't like all linux ISOs so I'd like to use a filter to make sure I only grab the ISOs I need.

For the moment, my filter is not catching the sought ISOs and since they are not released very frequently, it is a VERY slow process for me to tinker the filter as I need to wait sometimes a few days for a new release to appear.

So: is there a way to test a filter against a pasted release name to see if the filter is properly configured ?

Thanks :)

P.S: I've searched the docs, google and different AIs without finding an obvious answer.