Disable blacklisting

Sonarr version (exact version): 2.0.0.5338-1
Mono version (if Sonarr is not running on Windows): 6.0.0.334-1
OS: Arch Linux
Download client: NZBGet latest stable
Description of issue:

Hi, I am facing the exact same problem as described here: https://forums.sonarr.tv/t/what-process-is-determing-blacklisted-releases/758 where tons of working episodes gets blacklisted without ever being tried to download. They all work fine with manual downloads except a few.

I am guessing that Sonarr fails with one of the releases and for some strange reason blacklists every other release. Whatever the reason, the blacklist has tons of negative matches where it shouldn’t.

Is it not possible to disable the blacklist feature and have Sonarr actually try each episode until it gets a positive download?

They’re blacklisted because they failed. Sonarr blacklists the same release, not every other release with the same name. Matching the same release across multiple indexers is a bit fuzzy.

If you’re seeing failures when things are first posted use a minimum age to account for propagation delays.

Sonarr won’t try what appear to be identical releases from multiple indexers.

Then there is something wrong with how Sonarr does this. You say they are blacklisted because they failed, but NZBGet shows only one failed download, yet Sonarr has then blacklisted more than ten different releases that are not the same.

I’m not talking about propagation problems, these are older shows.

What “appear” to be identical is not working, to many non-identical releases gets blacklisted.

By default Sonarr removes failed downloads from the download client.

Two things that lead to them being the same.

  • Exact same publishing time

or

  • Not the same indexer
  • Published +/- 2 minutes from the blacklisted release
  • Within 2 MBs of the blacklisted release
    (all these conditions must be met)

You can see the releases Sonarr is basing the blacklist in History (episode or global), anything Failed is contributing to the blacklist.

So takedowns, not propagation, but unless an indexer has a unique to them group they’re using for releases the difference between them is negligible.

I have disabled that.

None of the above mentioned criteria has been met, but the history shows that all but the first two are failing due to being blacklist.

  • Very different posting date (many days apart)
  • The same indexer (only one)
  • Not published within +/- 2 min from the blacklisted release
  • Not within 2 MBs of blacklisted release. Some are 720p, 1080p, x264, x265, with different sizes going from about 400MB to 4GB per release.

No, the manual download works without issues.

As an example, without mentioning the indexer, the release “the flash 2014 s04e22”, gets 37 different results with very varying dates and sizes. The very first hit is attempted to be downloaded, but fails due to missing articles. Then one more is tried, it also fails, and then all the other 35 gets blacklisted.

I have then tested downloading every single one manually, and about 50% works without issues.

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