Sonarr version (exact version): 4.0.19.2979
Mono version (if Sonarr is not running on Windows): unsure
OS: Ubuntu server
Debug logs: N/A
Description of issue: I use the custom format scoring recommended by trash guides, which includes scoring x265 720p or 1080p releases as -10000. This means that they never get selected, which is what I want.
However, sometimes, sonarr is unable to find anything that meets my requirements and I have to go and manually choose suboptimal releases like x265 720p or 1080p ones. I would prefer it if sonarr could do this automatically if it is unable to find anything that meets my custom format requirements, rather than just downloading nothing.
I have considered changing the custom scoring to be less aggressive for x265 and/or changing the minimum allowable custom format score, but since sonarr prioritizes file resolution over custom format scoring, doing so might mean that sonarr ends up preferring a low quality 1080p x265 file over a higher quality 720p x264 file if both are available, because the 1080p one is higher resolution.
I was wondering if there is a way for sonarr to first try using my custom formats, and then if it is not able to find what I’m asking using those custom formats, if I can have it subsequently look again using a different profile/set of custom formats. Or if someone knows of another workaround to get the behavior I want, that would be helpful too.
If you want Sonarr to treat different qualities as equal you’ll want to group them together, that way decisions on which releases to grab fall to Custom Formats.
Thanks for the reply. That makes sense. I don’t think I want that either, though. In general, I do want to prefer 1080p over 720p. The only situation where I would want it to prefer 720p is if the custom format score is negative for the 1080p and non-negative for the 720p release.
To put it more simply:
In general, for most releases, I do want to prioritize the highest resolution over custom format score.
However, if a release is “low quality,” meaning it has a negative custom format score, I don’t want it, even if the resolution is higher than another file. This is how trash guides is set up as well.
With this setup though, sonarr sometimes won’t choose any file at all because every available release has a negative CF score. In this case only, I would rather it automatically ignore the cutoff score, so that I can still download something rather than nothing.
Does that make sense?
Either quality wins or Custom Formats win, if quality wins then it’s always going to win you can’t have if this then that, except this. If you treat the qualities you’ll accept as equal then you can include the quality in Custom Formats to improve that though, using those to increase the value when it’s a quality you want more than another.
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Ok, I think I understand. I will try that out. Thank you!