Store all episodes of all series in one "completed" folder

[IMSEVIMSE]

Sonarr version (exact version): 2.0.0.4753
OS: Windows 8.1 x64

Description of issue: I would like a rather simple setup of Sonarr but cannot get it to work as I want it. What I would like is to have Sonarr automatically download episodes that match my quality settings (I have managed to do that), then add it to my folder “C:/Users/User/Videos/Completed” without any subfolders. I just want every episode to be added to the same folder without any organization or renaming (If the torrent itself contains a folder, that is fine. I just don’t want Sonarr to create its own folders) when they’ve finished downloading.

The reason for this is that I want to be able to just open that folder, watch whatever is in it and know that it has finished downloading and I have the entire file (which is why I want Sonarr/qBittorrent to move the files once the download is complete). Then I want to be able to delete the file and not have Sonarr try to redownload that file because it’s missing.

I tried setting up Sonarr in such a way that it downloads (new episodes, once they are released and match my quality requirements) from a torrent indexer using qBittorrent as a client. Then in qBittorrent, I set it up to use a temp folder when it’s downloading the files and then move the files to a folder called complete once the torrent reaches 100%. This seems to work fairly well but Sonarr seems to be downloading the same episode again because it cannot find it on the disk (as Sonarr can only set the path of a series once and not use the same path for all series?).

I’m sorry if this was long and hard to understand but I hope there is something simple I can do to make this work. Please ask if something is unclear.

Thank you!

[markus101]

This is not something Sonarr supports. You could turn off completed download handling in Sonarr, but then it will treat every file as missing once it downloads.

[bobbintb]

That sounds more like you want something like an RSS feed instead of Sonarr.

[IMSEVIMSE]

Yeah maybe, but I really liked the control you get for the quality that will be downloaded (like file sizes and I can choose to only download Web-DL for example). Do you know of any other methods besides Sonarr (as it seems it doesn’t work in Sonarr) that could download episodes that follows certain quality requirements (similar to how Sonarr works)?

[bobbintb]

There is sickbeard but I doubt it’s any better. I switched to Sonarr years ago because it was lacking. You might be able to do something with custom scripts. I dunno. It’s kind of a step backwards though and I’m still not sure why you would want it. If you just want to watch it and delete it there are better, less roundabout ways of doing that.