New series type or similar option

It would be nice to have a new series type or other option for Netflix style releases (where all the episodes are released at once). I feel like this is mainly something for torrent users, and I may be the only one who cares about this but let me know.

Basically with most torrent trackers, they allow single episode torrents until the whole season is up and then the individual episode torrents are trumped, which affects seeding. When Sonarr grabs the episodes individually they sometimes come from different release groups or trackers, so combining them together and just seeding the season torrent doesn’t always work. Plus, I personally like having my shows (or at least seasons) having the same release group for consistency.

So what would be nice is a series type (or some other option) that only downloads once there is a whole season torrent available. I know not everyone would like that since it means waiting longer, but it would make long term seeding easier in some cases. Right now what I do is I just have my Netflix shows as un-monitored, and then manually download the season when it’s available.

If anyone is confused about what I’m requesting or why, just let me know and I’ll try to clarify. Or, if I’m the only one who finds this an issue, I can keep doing what I have been doing so far.

We’ve talked about having options to influence the grabbing of season packs or not, I don’t see this being another series type because thats more meant for how the data is used (season + episode numbers, air date or absolute episode number) not to influence how things are grabbed.

Thanks for the reply! I wasn’t sure if series type was the right option or not, thanks for clarifying.

I guess I missed that request, sorry if this is a duplicate! I do remember a similar feature when I used to use Sickrage that would allow enabling/disabling both single episode and whole season grabs for each tracker. Having that function at the show level would be much more useful though.

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