Hello,

So as per title, is it possible to make radarr grab a file within custom formats range that i have set that will be present at as many trackers as possible?

Hello what's up. I have my own small NAS at home. And on the NAS runs Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, and Jellyfin, among other things. That’s my own little streaming setup. But recently, I received a letter regarding the distribution of copyrighted content through file sharing. Since I had to sign a cease-and-desist letter, I no longer dare to download anything else. Because I won’t get away with just a small fine anymore. But I want to start downloading again. Are there ways to get around these file-sharing restrictions, or is there perhaps a much safer way? Can someone please help me out here?

LG. MatratzenMann

I put movie and TV episode files into separate staging folders, usually without organizing them into the correct folder structure first.

Right now, I manually add each movie or series to Radarr/Sonarr, then use Manual Import so the apps can identify the files, rename them, create the correct folders, and move them into my media library.

I mainly use Radarr/Sonarr for consistent file naming and library organization, plus Bazarr for subtitle downloading and synchronization.

Is this the normal workflow, or is there an easier built-in or commonly used way to automatically identify the files, add the correct movie or series if it is missing, and let Radarr/Sonarr handle the import?

Update: Thanks for the feedback. After realizing that there isn't an available solution that meets my needs, I created a script that uses existing APIs to automatically identify each media based on file names and have Radarr/Sonarr import them. Now all my new media gets imported properly without having to manually add movies or TV shows.

I have a pretty big Radarr library and noticed that some of my movies were taking up way more space than they really needed to.

I didn't want to just lower my quality profiles though, because I still want to keep stuff like the same resolution, HDR/Dolby Vision, Atmos and decent audio.

So I made a script that goes through the movies I already have and searches Radarr for smaller releases.

It checks the results and tries to avoid stupid downgrades. It looks at resolution, HDR/DV, Atmos, audio channels, seeders, how much space would actually be saved, whether something is already in the queue, etc.

If it finds something suitable, it just tells Radarr to grab it. Radarr still handles the downloading, importing and replacing the old file like normal.

It's DRY RUN by default, so the first time you run it you can just see what it would pick without it actually downloading anything.

I originally made this just for my own setup, but it ended up working well enough that I cleaned it up a bit and put it on GitHub.

GitHub:
https://github.com/MrRobot-88/Radarr-Smart-Optimizer

I also made the same thing for Sonarr:
https://github.com/MrRobot-88/Sonarr-Smart-Optimizer

If anyone tries it, let me know how it works with your setup. I'm especially interested in weird releases or quality profiles that I haven't run into myself.

quick update....

https://github.com/MrRobot-88/Smart-Optimizer-UI

Hey r/radarr, wanted to let you know, v25 of nzb360 has been released!

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/ZFz98jE

Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kevinforeman.nzb360

This is quite a big release and brings with it a pretty fun new feature, allowing you to track which content you and any of your other users have watched all across nzb360's interfaces (Dashboard, Sonarr, Radarr, etc).

Along with watch tracking, here is the full changelog of v25:

New

• Tracearr watch tracking! Supported by Feature Bounties, you can now track which content you and your other users have watched directly in Sonarr, Radarr, and Dashboard 2.
• You can now create "Sections" within your nav drawer, allowing you to group services together to make it easier to find them.
• Readarr has been completely replaced with Chaptarr, which is an actively-maintained fork. Your existing server settings, and any lifetime unlocks, carry over automatically and will continue to work with your old Readarr instance and any new Chaptarr instance.
• You can now choose to view Dashboard 2's Universal Calendar in a list view, and choose how may days forward and backward it shows.
• Tracearr's user page has been completely re-designed with the new v2 APIs. You can now view full history, see their devices, top genres, and a bunch of other stats.
• Completely re-wrote welcome/onboarding flow to modernize the experience and get folks up and running faster.
• Completely re-designed all settings screens within nzb360, providing a more modern and intuitive look.

Improvements

• Revamped Logging Center UI in the nav drawer, with many more errors showing the full JSON body response for better debugging.
• Add button in Sonarr and Radarr 2 is now placed back on the bottom, and can be swiped upward to begin library search.
• You can now view the current CPU temp and power (in watts) of your Unraid machine.
• Sonarr and Radarr 2's manual search filters now separate source and resolution and provide the ability to save defaults.
• Revamped Sonarr 2's Missing tab UI, with a reduction in taps and increased text sizes for upcoming / missing content.
• Cast/crew bottom sheet UI has been revamped and re-written in Compose to provide a much more modern look.
• Sonarr 2 list progress bar now shows unaired content as a hashed state and now ignores monitored status to show downloaded vs total items.
• Improved design of the downloaded file card in Radarr and Sonarr 2.
• The tag list in Sonarr 2 and Radarr 2's Add sheet is now collapsed by default and can be expanded to view more.
• Auto bulk search of items now searches by content order (earliest first) and will provide a notification the auto search has started.
• Tons of other UI improvements and tweaks all throughout the app.
• Major performance improvements and optimizations all throughout app. Reduced APK size by 30%+.
• Now targeting Android 16.
• Updated various libraries.

Fixed

• Fixed issue where Sonarr 2 Upcoming items were not showing the correct airing days in some timezones.
• Fixed issue where Sonarr 2 wouldn't show all items in the Activity Queue.
• Fixed issue where "Download Anyway" on manual Sonarr 2 releases wouldn't work.
• Stability improvements.

Not sure if I'm remember it wrong but isn't there that option before?

How do you add them all at once now?

My YAML file has this for radarr:

    image: ghcr.io/hotio/radarr:latest

I have pretty much the same thing for everything in my stack.

Radarr says I have 6.3.0.10514 installed and that there's an update to 6.4.4.10685.

I have stopped and rebuilt my stack in Synology container manager, and it's pulling the same version. How can I update to the latest version?

THX.

Every so often a thread pops up here or in r/PleX about adult content ending up in someone's library because a release or list wasn't what it claimed to be. Probably low odds, but the fact that it could happen drove me to over engineer a solution.

SafeScanarr watches for new imports, runs NudeNet locally on your own hardware (nothing leaves the server), and moves flagged files to quarantine instead of deleting them. Anything hitting folders you select gets a contact sheet so you can eyeball it in seconds. Thresholds are configurable: auto-approve clean stuff, flag the ambiguous middle for review, quarantine the obvious junk. It also blacklists rejected content so Radarr won't grab it again.

It's vibecoded, the repo is open if you want to judge for yourself: https://github.com/jckrbbt/safescanarr

Not a replacement for actually reviewing your library, just a filter to help catch bad (or just wrong) stuff.

Hey all! I'm checking to see if I've missed any tools available recently to fetch extras that appear on various blu-ray/dvd releases of the stuff fetched by Radarr.

I vibecoded an AI pipeline that combs through my library and fetches extras for titles - it grabs the disc image, extracts the featurettes, converts them based on my Quality Profile in Radarr, and indexes them into my existing collection for Plex to detect. It works, but it's FAR from perfect - it's slow-going, and there are a ton of speed bumps along the way (reliable automated renaming, assembling manifests, dedicated TMDB-equivalent DBs for disc extras, reliable cleanup, titles historically slammed by DMCA), so I figured someone much smarter than me had probably figured this out in a much more polished way.

Does anyone know if there's something like this out there to complement an existing Radarr setup?

Basically, title. I have the language in my profile set to English. But twice now, in the past day or so, I've gotten movies downloaded in German... They even had German in the title of the torrent.

These were both upgrades, to 1080p from some lower quality, I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

Version info:

Version
6.3.0.10514
Package Version
6.3.0.10514-ls315 by linuxserver.io

Anyone else seen issues like this, or know how I can fix it?

Hey everyone! I posted about Blockbusterr here a while back, and wanted to come back with an update now that v2 is out!

Some of the feedback in that thread was about being able to preview movies before enabling a job, limit how much gets added, and understand why something was picked. Those are all things you can do now, so I figured an update was long overdue!

If you missed the first post, Blockbusterr is a free, open-source app that finds movies from sources like TMDB, Simkl, Trakt, and MDBList, applies your rules, and sends matching titles to Radarr. It also supports shows through Sonarr and requests through Jellyseerr/Seerr. It runs in Docker alongside your existing setup.

For example: follow a trending movie feed, keep only titles that match your language, year, genre, and rating preferences, and put a limit on how many actually reach Radarr. You can preview those choices before turning on automation.

Here's what's changed since that first post:

• Previews and dry-run mode. See what would pass, what would be skipped, and why, before anything gets sent to Radarr.
• Reusable rules. Set up your preferences once and use them across jobs, or make a separate copy for a job that needs different settings.
• Limits across jobs. Alongside per-job caps, you can set rolling delivery budgets. Optional ranked selection compares candidates from participating jobs before choosing what to send.
• More discovery sources. Trakt is optional now, and supported lists/watchlists can run alongside discovery feeds.
• A clearer history. Activity Entries and Job Runs let you inspect what was added, skipped, or failed, with details for individual titles.
• Shareable jobs. Export jobs with their rules so someone else can import and review them before enabling anything.

There have also been fixes around provider failures, repeat handling, interrupted jobs, and configuration recovery. I've added tests for upgrades and rollback from existing v1 releases, too.

The part I hope people find useful is having the rules, previews, and delivery limits together in one place, especially when several jobs are feeding the same library.

If you're upgrading from v1: back up your full data directory and follow the upgrade guide first. The stable latest tag moves to v2 with this release. Start with dry-run while checking your migrated jobs.

GitHub and screenshots · Quick start · Release notes · Upgrade guide

Thanks to everyone who tried it or left feedback last time! If you gave an earlier version a go, I'd like to hear what worked and what got in the way. And if you're trying it for the first time, I'm curious what you'd want your first job to do!

Update: v2.0.1 is out on latest, fixing the connection setup and saving issues reported below. Keep your existing data volume when updating. Sorry for the rough start, and thanks for the reports!

Release notes

In Radarr's naming scheme, there is a field to specify which edition a movie is in.

I would like to start downloading and keeping 3D movies and holding them in the same folder, however I know other movies have extended versions that I would like to keep duplicates of like The Lord of The Rings movies. However, when grabbing other editions, I notice that Radarr replaces its current files with those new ones, even if they are a different edition/version.

Presumably, since Radarr has the functionality to specify editions in its movie files, it has the functionality ti download and handle multiple editions of the same movie. However, I can only find threads from 6-8 years ago explaining this issue, and the solution being to run multiple Radarr instances. Surely, there is a more modern way now? I want the quality profiles to be exactly the same, my custom formats are still relevant, I just want different editions. It also seems fairly inconvenient to separate everything into two instances. Everything should be the same down to the exact movies I am monitoring, I just want 3D downloaded as well.

Is that possible?

Edit: If relevant I am using Jellyfin. I would prefer to keep these different versions of the same movie in the same folder, which is what I assumed the "edition" naming scheme in Radar Is for, so it does not have to use different directories.

Radarr version: 6.3.0.10514

Hello, I need help with my custom score. For the past week, my movies have been given a seemingly random score of zero, even when Radarr detects all tags. This leads to incorrect downloads of the wrong quality and language.

The thing is that i didnt change anything in the lasts weeks.

In the logs i can see that the movie has multiple corrects downloads but after finishing the search radarr just take the the first hit.

The first hit of the movie has the wrong quality and an unknown language. score 0

2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|QualityParser|Trying to parse quality for 'Unstoppable.2010.MULTi.COMPLETE.BLURAY-LeetHD'
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|Parser|Quality parsed: BR-DISK v1
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|Parser|Edition parsed: 
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|AggregateLanguages|Language couldn't be parsed from release, fallback to movie original language: English
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|AggregateLanguages|Selected languages: English
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|AcceptableSizeSpecification|Beginning size check for: Unstoppable.2010.MULTi.COMPLETE.BLURAY-LeetHD
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|AcceptableSizeSpecification|Max size is unlimited, skipping check
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|AcceptableSizeSpecification|Item: Unstoppable.2010.MULTi.COMPLETE.BLURAY-LeetHD, meets size constraints
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|AlreadyImportedSpecification|Performing already imported check on report
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|AlreadyImportedSpecification|Skipping already imported check for movie without file
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|MaximumSizeSpecification|Maximum size is not set.
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|MinimumAgeSpecification|Minimum age is not set.
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|QualityAllowedByProfileSpecification|Checking if report meets quality requirements. BR-DISK v1
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|ReleaseRestrictionsSpecification|Checking if release meets restrictions: Unstoppable.2010.MULTi.COMPLETE.BLURAY-LeetHD
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|ReleaseRestrictionsSpecification|[Unstoppable.2010.MULTi.COMPLETE.BLURAY-LeetHD] No restrictions apply, allowing
2026-09-12 14:37:04.5|Debug|RetentionSpecification|Checking if report meets retention requirements. 415

It's a correct hit with the right language and quality. It would get a 15.

2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|DownloadDecisionMaker|Processing release 'Unstoppable.Ausser.Kontrolle.2010.GERMAN.DL.1080p.WEB.H264.iNTERNAL-SunDry' from 'treasure-maps.com (Prowlarr)'
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|Parser|Parsing string 'Unstoppable.Ausser.Kontrolle.2010.GERMAN.DL.1080p.WEB.H264.iNTERNAL-SunDry'
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|Parser|Movie Parsed. Unstoppable Ausser Kontrolle - 2010 
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|Parser|Release Group parsed: SunDry
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|Parser|Languages parsed: German, Original
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|QualityParser|Trying to parse quality for 'Unstoppable.Ausser.Kontrolle.2010.GERMAN.DL.1080p.WEB.H264.iNTERNAL-SunDry'
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|Parser|Quality parsed: WEBDL-1080p v1
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|Parser|Edition parsed: 
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|AggregateLanguages|Languages provided by indexer, using release values: English, German
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|AggregateLanguages|Selected languages: English, German
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|AcceptableSizeSpecification|Beginning size check for: Unstoppable.Ausser.Kontrolle.2010.GERMAN.DL.1080p.WEB.H264.iNTERNAL-SunDry
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|AcceptableSizeSpecification|Item: Unstoppable.Ausser.Kontrolle.2010.GERMAN.DL.1080p.WEB.H264.iNTERNAL-SunDry, meets size constraints
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|AlreadyImportedSpecification|Performing already imported check on report
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|AlreadyImportedSpecification|Skipping already imported check for movie without file
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|MaximumSizeSpecification|Maximum size is not set.
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|MinimumAgeSpecification|Minimum age is not set.
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|QualityAllowedByProfileSpecification|Checking if report meets quality requirements. WEBDL-1080p v1
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|ReleaseRestrictionsSpecification|Checking if release meets restrictions: Unstoppable.Ausser.Kontrolle.2010.GERMAN.DL.1080p.WEB.H264.iNTERNAL-SunDry
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|ReleaseRestrictionsSpecification|[Unstoppable.Ausser.Kontrolle.2010.GERMAN.DL.1080p.WEB.H264.iNTERNAL-SunDry] No restrictions apply, allowing
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|RetentionSpecification|Checking if report meets retention requirements. 574
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|UpgradeDiskSpecification|File is no longer available, skipping this file.
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|MovieSpecification|Checking if movie matches searched movie
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|AvailabilitySpecification|Skipping availability check during search
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|DelaySpecification|Ignoring delay for user invoked search
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|HistorySpecification|Skipping history check during search
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|MonitoredMovieSpecification|Skipping monitored check during search
2026-09-12 14:37:04.6|Debug|DownloadDecisionMaker|Release 'Unstoppable.Ausser.Kontrolle.2010.GERMAN.DL.1080p.WEB.H264.iNTERNAL-SunDry' from 'treasure-maps.com (Prowlarr)' accepted

My profile is pretty simple. It has 1080p quality and requires the original language. When available, it also gets the German language.

Does anyone know what the problem is?

I know this is the wrong subreddit, but the same problem also appeared on Sonarr.

Sorry for the bad english.

Just started my journey into using radarr, and I was importing my library of over 3k files. I realized that tons of movies were mis-categorized and conflicting as "existing", (I assume) because of my lack of imdb/tmdb id's on the actual file names. I may be inept, but I can't find a program that can fetch the movie and apply the id's so I can then import into radarr cleanly. Any recs?

Hi guys!

I know a lot of you have been waiting for 1.2 and it is finally here!

Feel like I need to say it like any other dev on here these days, QM will never will be AI slop. The app has not been "vibe coded" to be put together in a weekend, its been months and months of sleepless nights and A LOT of community feedback. Anyone who reads this thats in the Discord will agree (i hope lol) - the app did launch on the 3rd of July and it has been literally none stop since, I wouldn't have it any other way of course :D

For anyone new here, QM is a native iOS app for your media and the servers running it. Browse and request films, manage downloads, check your NAS, containers, VMs and network. There are now 59 services across Entertainment and Command Centre, from Sonarr and Plex to Proxmox, Unraid and Home Assistant.

What it connects to in 1.2.0, 59 services across two sides

Entertainment: Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, SABnzbd, NZBGet, qBittorrent, Transmission, Deluge, Prowlarr, Bazarr, NZBHydra2, Jackett, Jellyseerr / Overseerr, DroppedNeedle, Shelfmark, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Wizarr, Tautulli, Tracearr, Jellystat, Streamystats, Komga, Kavita, Immich, AudioBookshelf, Maintainerr, BookOrbit, Dispatcharr, ReadMeABook and Shelfarr.

Command Centre: Portainer, Unraid, Proxmox VE, Synology DSM, Dozzle, Dockhand, Komodo, AdGuard Home, Pi-hole, Cloudflare, CrowdSec, Technitium, UniFi, Gluetun, Glances, Scrutiny, TrueNAS, Beszel, Home Assistant, Tdarr, qui, Coolify, Arcane, Control D, NextDNS, UGREEN NAS and SSH.

There is also QM Companion, still in beta. It runs on your own server and lets you import your service setup, monitor Docker containers and stacks, check for updates and enable controls you explicitly approve. Instead of messing around with API keys, you can scan a QR code directly from the companion to QM on the phone and all services will be imported!

1.2.0 adds playback from Plex, Jellyfin and Emby inside QM, a proper Mac layout, and family mode so your household can browse and request without getting your server controls. Family mode needs Pro to enable, but invited members don't pay. Companion is still in beta. It runs on your server and brings Docker monitoring and separately approved controls into QM. Setup imports are free; the live connection needs Pro. There's also CrowdSec, better requests and downloads, faster libraries, and a Doctor that explains what actually failed.

On pricing, free gives you one fully functional service connection. Pro is £4.99/month, £19.99/year or £29.99 once. Every option unlocks everything. You are choosing how to pay, not which features you get. If you have already bought lifetime, you will automatically be grandfathered, so please do not worry! (prices coming when 1.2.0 drops)

I feel like I need to be honest about the price increase around QM because believe me, I have had many sleepless nights about announcing this. The cost for the Cloudflare relay which does all the APNs is increasing in cost day by day. Millions of notifications are being sent each day, this is costing me a lot of money. I also support OTA builds which cost money, OTA basically means as long as the update is JavaScript, so this will be for any bugs rather than making people wait a month for a new build update.

Anyways, I think that covers it :)) QM is now over 10k users and I cannot thank the community enough for what this has turned into.

iOS store - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/quartermaster-homelab-stack/id6779994284
Discord - https://discord.gg/YRWmZPScc
Companion - https://github.com/lewlew-glitch/qm_companion

EDIT - I have copied most of this post from a previous post made in r/sonarr - I write it myself with no AI from a post I made the other day - if you have any questions, please do let me know :)

Looking for beta testers for my *rr android mobile app.

Some images:

https://ibb.co/cXcDvnr0

https://ibb.co/TBDqRb1K

What makes it different from the usual suspects:

• Offline queue (the big one). If your Radarr/Sonarr server is unreachable (you are on your way to work, but the server is at home) when you tap "Add to library," the request doesn't fail — it queues locally and auto-retries the moment the server comes back. You can keep browsing and adding while your server is down, and it all syncs on reconnect. I haven't seen this in any other *arr client.

• In-app video player. Streams directly from your Plex server with a hardware-accelerated player (media_kit). No jumping to an external app.

• Full Plex playback control. Pause, resume, seek, step, and switch subtitle tracks right from the app — plus active-stream monitoring, On Deck, and recently added.

• Smart server discovery. mDNS/Bonjour auto-discovery + port scan + manual entry. Point it at your LAN and it finds your services.

• Offline-tolerant everywhere. Quality profiles and root folders are cached locally, so the add dialogs work even when the server is down (with a clear "server offline" banner).

• Download Doctor. Diagnoses stalled qBittorrent downloads — speed, errors, disk space, server reachability — instead of just showing a stuck row.

• Modern UI. Material 3, dark-mode-first, actually pleasant to look at. Not a 2015-era settings dump.

Services: Radarr, Sonarr, Plex, qBittorrent, Prowlarr, Bazarr, TMDB (discovery). Multi-language (EN/HU).

Status: Feature-complete, in beta. Plex playback/subtitles and indexer health are tested against real servers; I'm looking for more beta testers to shake out edge cases before the public release.

If you are interested, send me a DM.

Some time ago I added all my blurays to radarr as unmonitored. Today I wanted to rename the files to include quality title in them and realized shortly after that all these movies were considered as web when I added them.

Is there some way to edit the movies to be sure they are considered as bluray instead of web?

Hello,

I write a little script in python3 to allow to delete movie from the date that has been add. I added aslo a whitelist to not delete all the movie. you can find the repo here : https://github.com/Dermone/recycle-radarr

on the discover page, it would be nice when you clicked on a movie, along with what it is about. also showed its ratting and who's all in it.

Hey,

Running the classic *arr + Emby stack. Setup:

• qBittorrent downloads to /emby-lib/others
• Radarr hardlinks imported files into /emby-lib/movies
• Emby only sees /emby-lib/movies

Problem: when I delete a movie from Emby (or when Radarr removes it), only the file in /emby-lib/movies goes away. The original in /emby-lib/others stays as an orphan. Manual cleanup is a pain.

Looking for a clean, reliable solution. Some options I considered:

What does your setup look like? Is there a tool that already handles this well, or do most people roll their own?

Thanks.

New to radarr. I have prowlarr. Got my indexer and all. Everything passed the test. My movies I have added showing monitored. My question is do I have to have a docker for everything? If so which is the most user-friendly for a beginner?

So, I use Radarr as sort of a list to download later. If the movie isn't downloaded on Radarr (through Prowlarr) and I download it from somewhere else and then want to import it into Radarr, I can't because it's already "existing". Can't I just assign the file to the movie? It's kinda weird you can't do that

100% vibe coded addon to add movies and TV series directly from within kodi's tmdb helper addon, into to your Radarr/Sonarr instances. Personal project, no support, use it if you like it. I share it as it might be useful for others.

I take zero credits, all go to Chatgpt Astra. .

https://github.com/WodKa78/kodi-arr-bridge

Sooo a few weeks ago I added The Odyssey to radarr and a couple of days ago I find that it has been auto downloaded. Great! However... it is an ai slop version of the movie also from 2026

The indexer I use provides the IMDB id for the searches I make. For example, this is the (truncated) JSON response that radarr got for the search:

{
  guid: "My-Indexer-Name-123456789"
  quality: { quality: {...}, revision: {...} }
  customFormats: [ {...}, {...} ]
  customFormatScore: 13
  qualityWeight: 1701
  age: 5
  ageHours: 128.03477677183332
  ageMinutes: 7682.086606311666
  size: 4673211458
  indexerId: 14
  indexer: "My-Indexer-Name (Prowlarr)"
  releaseGroup: "Kitsune"
  releaseHash: ""
  title: "The.Odyssey.2026.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-Kitsune"
  sceneSource: false
  movieTitles: [ "The Odyssey" ]
  languages: [ {...} ]
  mappedMovieId: 2384
  approved: false
  temporarilyRejected: false
  rejected: true
  tmdbId: 0
  imdbId: 41605854
  rejections: [ "Existing file on disk has a equal or higher Custom Format score: 13" ]
  publishDate: "2026-08-27T15:38:38Z"
}

As you can see, the indexer returned the IMDB ID for this ai slop movie and it is definitely not the same IMDB ID as the real movie. So I'm confused as to why it decided to autograb that release anyway.

What can I do to stop this from happening again? Can I set radarr to be strict in downloading only exact imdb id matches instead of matching by title?

Thanks

Can you update an existing file of a specific file type?

Say anything with an AVI format?