I run into issues with setting the correct quality/downloading scheme. I can work around it by manually editing the seasons/episodes but be honest, that should not be the target for a download automation app.
100 users and you have probably 102 quality control schemes requests. I’ve been going through some posts and I think most requests are captured by the way Couchpotato is handling the quality download scheme. I really don’t want to be rude by comparing you. I think Sonarr is great but it can be better at this point.
Here is an example for those who haven’t seen CP yet. Maybe Sonarr can have a similar way.
Can you elaborate on why you think these changes would be beneficial?
Sonarr can wait before downloading a release (Delay profiles), but they are intentionally in a separate location from Quality so you don’t need to configure a bunch of different quality profiles because you want different delay rules for different series.
I don’t think the “keep searching for x days” idea would work well for Sonarr, again it doesn’t really belong in a quality profile (same as delay) and there is less consistency in when different qualities are released.
If I wanted Bluray releases and told Sonarr not to upgrade after 180 days, but the Bluray releases weren’t released for 200 days I’d miss out on them and thats a bad experience, if its because you don’t want old episodes of a series, unmonitor the old episodes, thats what monitoring is for.
I am not always interested in which quality I am downloading. But if I have the choice, I would prefer the best quality, eventually. I personally do not make a difference between the different 720 or 1080 versions (WEB or HDTV). Either will do. Sonarr will keep searching for that “one and only”.
In my Couchpotato profile I choose Best when I just added a movie that I would like to see “one” day. I really don’t care much weather I download 720 or 1080, which ever is available. If I have 720, don’t bother to download 1080. It will save bandwidth and it might break my matching subtitles if it does find a “better” quality x days/months later.
I choose NOW! when I am very impatience in watching a particular movie. Because this probably result in a low quality download, I would like to keep searching for a better quality. Even though I probably already have watched the lower quality movie. Again I do not mind where the search stops. 720 or 1080.
If you set the cutoff at HDTV 720p it won’t upgrade to anything higher, it will grab what ever is available at the time of search (past episodes) or the fist available quality. If you want other shows to stop at 1080p set the cutoff to a 1080p resolution.
Yes, I think I understand how the cutoff works. At least your example was already clear to me. But this is not the behaviour that I described in my post before. Your cutoff simply only allows me to choose 1 “good enough” quality. I don’t want that. I want to be able to choose a “set” of good enough qualities.
If the cutoff is met or exceeded then nothing else would be grabbed, maybe I’m missing something, but doesn’t that meet the need to specify multiple cutoffs?
In the profile that I attached; What if I’m fine with any of the three qualities? The way I understand it, Sonarr will keep on searching until HDTV-720p has been found.
It will only grab HDTV-720p, WEBDL-720p and Bluray-720p releases, if it grabs any of them it will stop looking for other releases since the cutoff is the lowest wanted quality.
If the cutoff was Bluray-720p it would keep looking for releases until it imported a Bluray-720p release.
