Prevent downloading multiple versions

Help & Support
1

I’m currently monitoring a show, a new episode just aired and sonarr picked it up and sent it to download. all good.

A little while later (about 30mins), sonarr picked up a different version of the episode and sent it for download.

I checked the activity log and it turns out it originally found an SDTV quality of the episode, then 30minutes later found a 720p version and tried to download it. I looked in my profile settings (currently using “all”) and it seems to me the default behaviour is sonarr will search for an episode to download at any quality in the profile list, send it to the downloader, but then if it finds a higher quality version it will send it over for download as well

Is there a way to completely prevent this behaviour? It sucks up a lot of bandwidth unexpectedly, which isnt desirable when I have a monthly quota

Ideally what I’d like it to do is find the highest quality version that is currently available, then start downloading and leave it at that. I don’t want sonarr to grab further versions of the file, even if it is of higher quality. This possible at all?

2

Set the cutoff to SDTV and it won’t upgrade, but that will also require the download to complete and Sonarr to see it as complete (and import it).

3

the cutoff is already set to SDTV.

I think what happened was the second version was grabbed while the first was still downloading, so there was nothing imported into sonarr. Is there no way to set it so once it has found and sent a file to the downloader it will stop looking for anything else?

4

Taking a quick look at the code it looks like it won’t stop once its been grabbed.

We’ll have to see if this is the behavior that we want or if it should respect the cutoff.

5

ok thanks. Its a shame it cant currently prevent this behaviour because its such a waste of (limited) bandwidth for those that dont want to keep improving the quality of the file that gets downloaded

maybe a toggle in the settings to turn this on or off is enough, or to stop searching for others versions once one has been sent for download (rather than once a file has been imported)

6

Has there been any more thought on this subject?

I am assuming that this Trello entry summarizes the same issue… It is not that I don’t have the bandwidth on my current account to support multiple (unneeded…) downloads, but there are those who don’t.

7

Its not high on our priority list at the moment and only affects a smaller percentage of users that wouldn’t want Sonarr to import downloads for them.