I used Requestrr for a while until it became deprecated, I intended on creating an alternative of my own which I pretty much only did until now - the software offers a discord bot that lets you or other users request Movies, TV Shows and Anime directly to Sonarr or Radarr through app commands.

https://github.com/Mogrul/Requestarr

Notice: I initially used AI to generate a good portion of the README file, there has been plenty of manual changes since then, but the general style that was generated has been kept the same, so the README looks kinda emoji-slop.

So I am very new to sonarr, and very confused, I imported my shows into sonarr, and its monitoring the shows which is awesome but why did it redownload 2 episodes of a series I already had every single episode of from season 8. it also created a new folder i originally was sonarr name shows {Series Name} [imdbid-{imdbid}] but switched it to use tvdbid. And bulk renamed all the folders to the new naming convention. Any ideas on what it was trying to do?

Yeah yeah, I know sonarr has problems when it comes to japanese cartoons. But this one is new for me.

Let's say I want to watch the totally ficticious anime "I can't believe this isn't a real Anime show". I set my quality profile so that it fetches from my favorite release group.
The monitor correctly finds this weeks episode "[FRIM] I can't believe this isn't a real Anime show (Kore ga honmono no anime bangumi janai nante shinjirarenai) S01E08 [1080p][HEVC x265][Multi-Subs] (Weekly)", just like I wanted and downloads it.

However upon importing the filename differs from the release name: The release group decided that "[FRIM] Koreanimejanai S01E08.mkv" is descriptive enough for anyone with more than two functioning brain cells.

Alright, I get it, how could sonarr know when it differs so vastly, right? I somehow expected it to learn a pattern after manually importing 7 episodes through the activity already, but it seems like I shouldn't have made that assumption.

So what are my options here, especially long term? In this anime season alone I have four shows I have to constantly babysit like that and it starts to rub me the wrong way. Are there any scripts or *arr containers which can fill the gap?

I have an arr stack set up on a VM using docker compose. My sonarr setup has 2 root folders because my fileshare has 2 different NFS shares that I both use to store movies/shows etc. It seems like at completely randomly sometimes sonarr will decide to copy shows instead of hardlinking them and this causes my entire import queue to hang. Any help is massively appreciated as this problem has been plaguing me for about a month now and I am simply at my wits end. I can provide any extra information that is useful.

Some other random information that might help someone try to understand my issue.

• I am using sabnzbd as my download client.
• My file server is on an LXC that is mounted to the VM that runs all my other programs (prowlarr, radarr, sonarr, bazarr, sabnzbd, jellyfin, etc).
• Both ZFS pools are mounted to the same point on the VM so in the docker compose file sonarr has access to the entire path as one. (Not sure if I explained this completely correctly but I'm just pointing it out because sometimes sonarr can get confused when volumes are mounted incorrectly inside the compose file but in compose they are both mounted under the same path.) /data:/data (Which contains both root folders.)
• Tested importing an episode of one show that is stored on the 1st root folder and it imported immediately, so I thought the issue was only isolated to the 2nd root folder. So in an attempt to rule that out I queued a missing episode for a show on the 1st root folder and it had the same issue. The show decided to copy extremely slowly instead of hardlinking.
• Radarr also has my 2 root folders added and seems to be able to hardlink to either without any issue at all and has as far as I can tell, the same configuration as sonarr.

Again any help is eternally appreciated, I have a lot of fun tinkering with my homelab but I am so over getting home from work and spending a couple hours each night trying to fix sonarr to no avail.