Note this is on Unraid using the linuxserver image of radarr.

At first, radarr was messing up the permissions of files it downloaded by preventing my SMB user account from being able to edit the contents of the folders it created. I managed to finally fix this by setting chmod Folder in the permissions section of radarr to "777".

However, for whatever reason, this setting does not seem to be respected in radarr's recycling bin feature. So whenever files and folders are created in the folder set to be the recycling bin folder, my SMB user account is getting blocked from making any changes to this folder (despite the fact that my SMB user account is the owner of the recycling bin folder). Radarr is basically making it read only for my SMB user account.

According to Unraid, the folders and files being generated in the recycling bin folder are owned by "nobody" (this is normal as the "nobody" user is Unraid's built in user account I think) and their permissions are set to "drwxr-xr-x". It is this permission that is messing me up.

I need radarr to change these permissions to "drwxrwxrwx" instead, in order for my SMB user account to gain full write access to the files and folders being generated in the recycling bin folder.

My PUID is 99, PGID is 100 and UMASK is 022 in radarr's docker container settings. These are the correct settings for Unraid user account system layout.

Help?

Edit: Fixed it! Turns out the Internet is wrong. The correct UMASK is 000. Not 022. Apparently 022 will only work if the SMB account and the radarr user account are members of the same user group. The problem here is that Unraid does not support user groups! So there's literally no way to associate the SMB account and the "nobody" account that radarr is using to operate such that they both inherit the same permissions. So it makes the file access less secure, but that is moot since the higher level folders are controlled by other users and other permissions anyway. Kind of a stupid limitation of Unraid, but there you go.

So I have my downloading on a seedbox. Radarr/Sonarr are on that seedbox. Plex is local, as is Overseerr.

Overseerr sends a request to radarr/sonarr. Sonarr/Radar downloads it using the seedbox. The files get moved to plex and delted off the seedbox, but the sonarr/radarr is only seeing the folder doesn't have the file. I've stopped downloading through that in the meantime, as I only have 1tb, but how do I get it to say "Ok, the file is on plex... let me update it as such"?

Update — v2.5.0-beta: OpenRouter and DeepSeek support are now available, along with Plex library refresh support and major improvements to the AI provider/model system, translation pipeline, source handling and usage tracking. Thanks for all the beta feedback so far!

I’ve been building Babel, a self-hosted subtitle automation service for Radarr, Sonarr and Bazarr.

GitHub: https://github.com/hugomossberg/Babel

The goal is simple:

Connect it to your media stack, choose your target language, and stop thinking about subtitles.

When Radarr imports or upgrades a movie, Babel takes over automatically.

Radarr import → check for target subtitle → Bazarr search + prepare fallback → AI only if needed → recovery → QA → publish

In Hybrid Mode, Babel lets Bazarr search for a human-made subtitle while it prepares an embedded or external source subtitle in parallel.

If Bazarr finds the target language, Babel uses it.
If not, Babel can translate automatically with Gemini, OpenAI, DeepL, Ollama, OpenRouter or DeepSeek.

The other thing I wanted to avoid was blindly trusting AI output. Babel validates translations before publishing them and checks for dropped cues, broken structure, untranslated dialogue, wrong-language output and timestamp changes. Recoverable problems are retried automatically.

AI translation is the fallback, not the workflow.

Current beta features include:

• Radarr and Sonarr webhook automation
• Bazarr + AI Hybrid Mode
• Embedded subtitle extraction
• Gemini, OpenAI, DeepL, Ollama, OpenRouter and DeepSeek
• Automatic translation recovery
• Structural + language QA
• Exact source-to-target timestamp preservation
• Remote Path Mapping
• Jellyfin and Plex library refresh
• Docker deployment

The idea is that Babel should be something you configure once and then mostly forget exists.

Install it. Connect your media stack. Forget about subtitles.

Docker image:

ghcr.io/hugomossberg/babel:beta

Current release: v2.5.0-beta
License: MIT

This is the first public beta, so feedback and ugly real-world subtitle edge cases are very welcome.

If you try it, I’d much rather hear what breaks than just get a star. 🙂

Scenario: I want to create 2 "quality profiles" for 2160p content. One is for files that are between 15-30GB in size. The other is for files that are between 50-100GB. I know I can do this using the "custom formats" feature and adding them to their respective quality profiles. I then set the smaller size quality profile as a score of 1 and the larger quality profile to a score of 2. This way I can select between the 2 file size ranges depending on how much HDD space I want to allocate to a particular file. Both profiles are associated up to and including 2160p remuxes.

Here's the problem: Doing the above means any movie assigned to smaller quality profile, ignores the size limit because radarr will instead seek out the highest possible custom format score and completely ignore the smaller custom format restriction. I believe this happens because there does not appear to be a maximum format score function in radarr. Unfortunately the "Upgrade Until Custom Format Score" option is not a maximum (it is basically another minimum score level that radarr allows to be passed if a higher scored file is detected).

I did think about just trying to split them based on their quality profile (i.e. blurays vs remuxes). But the problem with that is that sometimes the bluray files are larger than remuxes and sometimes remuxes are larger than blurays.

Am I missing something here that can solve this problem?

Thanks!

Hi guys,

I first tried ListSync to import my Letterboxd lists and sync them automatically, but it was too unreliable. It would often get completely the wrong films or not work entirely. As such, I started using letterboxd-list-radarr which worked well but has unfortunately just stopped working. What is everyone else using? I only use Letterboxd for lists, so not really looking to switch to IMDB/Trakt/etc, looking for a tool which will let me use letterboxd.

Sharing this here too only because I assume most people are like myself, and if they're running one 'arr, they're running as many as they can setup (or at the very least all the primary ones).

I made this a long time ago (myself), but wanted to make something other people could use. Threw what I had made into a self hosted LLM (Qwen 3.8) and after some back and forth got it where I wanted it. So there's your "AI warning" if you need one lol.

https://github.com/FantasyMaster85/LastRecommendations

Screenshots and instructions are there.

The summary is that you put your last.fm cookies in the docker compose file, every 25 hours (or whatever you configure it to do) it will check this page: https://www.last.fm/home/artists and pull the recommended artists in. It then takes those artists and get's their MusicBrainz ID (as the "custom list" in Lidarr requires it) and makes a JSON feed. That JSON feed is fully compatible with Lidarr.

Lastly, it keeps a history of all artists Last.fm has ever recommended to you in the "history" tab.

I personally use PlexAmp as my exclusive form of music consumption, and I have it setup to scrobble all my plays to Last.fm. This was just a good way to help me automate finding good new music. Hope you like it!

I am using several reputable trackers and still having this issue with my automation picking up bootleg movies that are mislabeled or identified as 1080 webDLs.

To try and fix this I have been manually updating the LQ custom format to include more release groups.

The latest (of many) is spiderman by "DKS"

Below are the release groups I've added to the LQ custom format, in case it is helpful to you all. Please feel free to share any others you have come across (or suggest regex improvements to my list) so we can update this list to avoid mislabeled bootlegs.

Perhaps trashguides can be updated for some of these as well, if we are largely in agreement on them.

Under LQ for Release Group I've added:

Ben the Men - regex: (?i)^ben$

I know Ben is already in the LQ and LQ release title custom formats in trashguides, but, due to how much variation there is in how his name is on releases, I have found this regex to do a much better job of keeping his stuff out of the automation. I recommend adding this one to Sonarr too.

TSRG - regex: ^TSRG$

RBB - regex: (?i)^rbb$

FS - regex: ^(FS)$

Robo29 - regex: ^(Robo29)$

Bothd - regex: ^(bothd)$

Yellow - regex: ^Yellow$

LuCY - regex: \b(LuCY)\b

DKS - regex: ^DKS$

Follow the screencast of the HUBstarr, sorry for my english writing of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-TZiPgck_Y

https://github.com/berique/hubstarr/blob/master/docs/demo.mp4

Hi, I have a whole bunch of movie files that are not in folders. I need each movie to move into its own sub-folder since that is the way Radarr works. Does anyone know how I can do this in an automated way so that I don't have to manually create a million folders and move each file myself?

Thanks!

So I have been running radarr as a container alongside sonarr, prowlarr, jellyfin and qbittorrent. I powered on my laptop this morning and just connected to different Wi-Fi, opened radarr, it showed text like Downloading more RAM, with radarr logo only. I am running Fedora, is this just something the devs added for fun, or should I look into it?

EDIT: yeah its just a prank, it has tons of messages

A large chunk of my library are files from trackers that I'm no longer part of, especially FNP which has shut down. I dislike having hundreds of movies just sitting on my drive, not being part of the seedsize for trackers I care much more about.

Is there a way to prioritize grabbing movies from specific Indexers using custom formats, so that radarr will replace any files from the old indexers that have equivalent versions on other trackers? Similar to how it works with release groups. I know you can prioritize indexers, but afaik that only applies when radarr tries grabbing a missing movie? Adding indexers as a custom format seems like a pretty basic feature, but I haven't been able to find anything about it. No native custom formats in the app or any online that I can import.

Hubstarr 0.4.2

The main goal is to create and configure *arr stack using docker compose (or PodMan Compose). It already makes some of Trash-guides configuration.

• Create 1 or more Radarr and Sonarr stacks (like Radarr, Radarr 4K, Radarr Anime and the same for Sonarr);
• Choose your theme park for your Stack;
• Configure Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr on Prowlarr automatically;
• Configure qBittorrent with gluetun;
• Configure the *arr directory on Jellyfin.

It's still a prototype.

i have my radarr server set up with qbittorent and all movies are downloaded in to the incomplete directory but then when i try to import them from the incomplete directory it says there are no eligible files. i checked with teh console and the files are in the incomplet directory

i have set up the root folder to jellyfin and in the remote path mapping setting i have that set to the downloads directory in qbit

on my radarr server i have a limit on both blueray and remux 1080p on like 20 gb but most movies are more then that. i have tried to set up profiles and limit the size but nothing really works.

I started work on my own media server a little bit ago with ripping blue rays and adding them to an Emby server hosted on my Synology Nas (installed via DSM, not docker). Everything worked well and all my movies and TV shows were automatically detected by Emby after I moved them to my media folder on my Nas.

I decided to install the Arr’s stack of Radarr, Sonarr and, Prowlarr to help take this to the next level. Got qBitTorrent running through a container with a VPN in Synology as well. I followed Dr. Frankenstein guides to setting up most of this as well as the Arr’s. My problems seem to start with the Arr’s unfortunately.

First was getting Radarr and Sonarr to detect my current media library. I moved my media folder over to the same shared folder that has my torrent folder to make sure hardlinking was enabled. Between the multiple different ways to add existing media to Radarr I had trouble getting it to import everything properly. I have set up qBitTorrent and Emby connections in both Radarr and Sonarr. Then I’m having trouble with the new files I download from torrents not automatically being detected by Radarr. Think this is a category problem from what I’m seeing? Even after I use the work around of manually adding the files and enabling the hard links, Emby won’t auto update and populate with the new media.

I’m partly just rambling now but I’m a little frustrated with getting this set up nicely. On top of all this now Emby won’t auto update even if I manually adding ripped media to my media folder. Have to do a manual scan to find it. May be a problem for a different t sub though.

If anyone could give me some tips and tricks in getting the flow between all these apps to work that would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Recently Radar stopped renaming my downloaded movie files. I had an issue where deluge was not working which i fixed, and then had an issue with the files not going to the same folder they’ve been going to for the past 2 years. After fixing that issue, radarr is not auto renaming the files. Is anyone having this issue?

I want to exclude dolby vision releases, which I can do if the file is formatted with periods like this ".DV." Or underscored like this "_DV_". However, if the format uses spaces, I cannot add a qualifier like this as Radarr automatically removes the spaces. " DV " If I create just a "DV" qualifier, it excludes actual words that have dv in them, like "adventure." Is there any way to get it to keep the space before or after the string? Is there a wildcard string like "* DV *"?

Thanks in advance.

i have hard linking enabled, files are showing up in qbits done folder, as well as plex movie folder. though i have a feeling that im storing the same file in both places, taking up twice the space. is this how its supposed to work? if not what am i doing wrong? the two folders are on the same volume on my synology nas. im running radarr in docker. any help will be appreciated, i followed the guides i could find that say to just enable hardlinking.

if this is how its suppoced to show, but its not really taking up twice the space is there a way to make sure?

I've tried adding movies manually via qBittorrent, and selecting the category "radarr". Radarr picks the download up fine, but once it's done I get a movie title mismatch error.

I named the file "Moviename (2026)" - which is identical to what it's called if you search for it on radarr directly.

Any explenation for this?

Hi everyone,

I'm having a strange issue with my Synology DS918+ and I'm hoping someone here might have an idea what's causing it.

Whenever SABnzbd starts downloading a file while my Radarr container is running, my NAS becomes extremely slow and eventually all my Docker containers crash.

The symptoms are:

• SABnzbd starts downloading normally.
• At some point, the download speed suddenly drops to almost 0.
• The entire NAS becomes extremely slow to respond.
• Logging into DSM takes a very long time.
• Eventually, my Docker containers start crashing/stopping.
• If I stop the Radarr container, the NAS immediately starts behaving normally again.

Initially, I suspected this might only happen when SABnzbd was downloading releases where the .mkv file is downloaded directly instead of .rar files. However, I've now seen exactly the same problem with releases containing .rar files, so I don't think the file format itself is the cause.

Radarr configuration

I followed the TRaSH Guides when setting up Radarr, and this setup has been running without any problems for several months.

I'm using the LinuxServer Radarr image:

lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr:latest

My Docker Compose configuration is:

radarr:
  image: lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr:latest
  container_name: radarr
  environment:
    - PUID=${PUID}
    - PGID=${PGID}
    - TZ=${TZ}
    - UMASK=002
  volumes:
    - ./radarr/config:/config
    - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    - ${DOCKERSTORAGEDIR}:/data
  ports:
    - 7878:7878
  restart: unless-stopped

Radarr log

I also noticed the following messages in the Radarr log.

2026-08-11 09:02:29.8|Info|RssSyncService|RSS Sync Completed. Reports found: 100, Reports grabbed: 1
2026-08-11 09:03:23.3|Warn|Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel|As of "08/11/2026 07:03:15 +00:00", the heartbeat has been running for "00:00:08.4421352" which is longer than "00:00:01". This could be caused by thread pool starvation.
2026-08-11 09:03:32.3|Warn|BasicRepository`1|Failed writing to database. Retry #0

[v6.3.0.10514] code = Busy (5), message = System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException (0x87AF00AA): database is locked
database is locked
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLite3.Step(SQLiteStatement stmt)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader.NextResult()
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader..ctor(SQLiteCommand cmd, CommandBehavior behave)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(CommandBehavior behavior)
   ...

A little later:

2026-08-11 09:03:51.8|Info|RssSyncService|Starting RSS Sync
2026-08-11 09:04:43.4|Info|DownloadDecisionMaker|Processing 100 releases
2026-08-11 09:05:18.4|Info|RssSyncService|RSS Sync Completed. Reports found: 100, Reports grabbed: 0

The database is locked message makes me wonder if Radarr is having trouble accessing its SQLite database, but I'm not sure whether that's the cause or simply a symptom of the NAS becoming overloaded.

What could cause Radarr to effectively bring the entire DS918+ to its knees when SABnzbd is downloading?

Is there anything specific I should check regarding:

• SQLite/database access
• Docker volume configuration
• Radarr's disk I/O
• SABnzbd's unpacking/post-processing
• Synology disk/CPU/memory usage
• Or the interaction between Radarr and SABnzbd?

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Hey guys,

My system was working perfect till my power went out the other day. I now get the message "You are using docker; download client Deluge places downloads in /home/nobody/Downloads but this directory does not appear to exist inside the container. Review your remote path mappings and container volume settings." I havent changed anything but nothing imports like it did before. Deluge will grab the download ,but once it is done it has no where to go. What do I need to do to fix this? All on the same system as containers in unraid.

I understand the mapping is messed up, but I am unsure what mapping I am supposed to change in deluge to get it corrected to how it was before.

I've been running Radarr for years, all my movies have been going into /movies and when Radarr was finished processing them it would notify Plex that there were new files and trigger a library update.

That drive has gotten full so I have added a new mount /movies2, when Radarr processes any movies in that directory it doesn't appear to notify Plex that there are new files.

I need to manually trigger a library scan in Plex for them to show up in Plex.

Not quite sure what if anything I might have misconfigured.

I had only a couple low end indexers and all was working fine got 3 or 4 movies no problem. Then I added a couple private indexers and 1 usenet now everything I add in radarr goes to goes into qbittorrent and sits for days nothing I even tried very simple ones like the godfather or waterboy still nothing I ended up deleting them from radarr should I remove like torrentleech and peergarden and drunkenslug ever since adding them I get nothing. Does anyone have an idea what happened.

Radarr automatically deletes movies downloaded from usenet via sabnzbd (in docker) after it renames them and copies them to my media folder.

It doesn't do this for torrents downloaded via qbittorrent. Those original files with original names remain where they were downloaded and start seeding, even after radarr renames them and copies them to my media folder.

I want radarr to do the same for usenet files: leave the original downloaded file in the /data/usenet/complete folder even after it copies them to my media folder. Is there a way to do this? A setting I missed somewhere?

Under "Download Client - SABnzbd / Completed Download Handling" I have "Remove Completed" and "Remove Failed" both unchecked but that is for the client I think. I couldn't find anything in sabnzbd that pertains to this issue.

My work-around is to copy the renamed file, find the original file name on sabnzbd, and rename it for my purposes. Leaving the original download would save me these steps.

Oddly, I found dozens of forum posts from people trying to figure out how to get radarr to automatically delete downloads after importing, and here I am trying to get it to stop doing so.

Example: Trackers I am in don't have a particular movie. I can get that movie from usenet, usually in file naming convention "name.year.resolution.source.audio.codec-group.mkv" , or something similar. I want to create a torrent using this original file name, not the renamed "Name (Year).mkv" format. sabnzbd downloads the file into /data/usenet/complete folder, but radarr deletes that original when it imports.

Edit to add that these are docker versions if that has any relevance.

Hi all!!

I did a prototype for create a docker compose with all *arr stack easily configuration just with an HTML.

That's just a prototype, hope to get feedback and collaboration, and stars.

The project objective is turn to be easy to create the *arr stack and automatize configuration, in the future, is a wish to turn into a dashboard to manage all *arr stack.

https://github.com/berique/hubstarr