Situation:
Currently, in Sonarr’s settings, under “Indexer” (with advanced settings shown), there is an area called “Restrictions” with “Must contain” and “Must not contain”.
Suggestion:
Add a third option for “Preferred search words”.
This should be a less strict implementation of the “Must contain” rules. If there are releases that contain either of the tags in the “Preferred” category, these should be downloaded rather than ones that don’t contain the tags, if no release contains any of the tags, go by the regular rules. The preferred search words should still follow a hirarchy, so trade-offs of one’s desired tags can be accounted for.
Use cases:
With this, one could set personal preferences for releases that are not covered in the regular quality settings, without forcing everything to adhere to said rules, examples might be:
- Preferring a certain release group over another.
- Preferring one codec over another (like x264 over xvid, or x265 over x264 over xvid when applying a hirarchy)
- Preferring one source over another (like webdl over webrip; or bdrip over dvdrip)
- Preferring WS rips instead of FS (for older shows).
Obviously none of these tags can be currently used as absolute “Must contains”, as not everything is released in x265, not every release group releases everything and with different aspect ratios being a thing of the past, the WS and FS tags have been dropped for newer releases as well. But it would be great to know that if one adds an older show, Sonarr will download a recent release, from a remastered bluray in wide screen, with an x264 file, instead of some random old xvid FS rip of a dvd that came out 15 years ago or worse, mixed results within one season.
