Usenet oldster considers utilizing torrent supplementally

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Wow, so I turned away for a second and next thing I see torrent support is included in my auto upgrading sonarr setup. Awesome :smile:

My question is - how does this coexist. I donā€™t see any options so far for prioritizing torrents or usenet over one another, or setting a particular show to prefer torrents or any other method I can think of to make these work together. Is that kind of functionality not included yet?

As always, great work Sonarr team :slight_smile:
thx

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Everything you describe is included, itā€™s in the delay profiles (settings > profiles). Click the plus sign to add a new rule :smile:

The first delay profile you create applies to all series that have no delay profile tags. Set it up so it applies to most of your series. Example:

  • prefer usenet
  • usenet delay = 0 (start immediately if a release is found)
  • torrent delay = 360 (if a torrent is available, but still no usenet download, this will cause the torrent to be ā€œheldā€ by sonarr for 6 hours. if those 6 hours elapse and thereā€™s still no usenet download, sonarr will release the torrent to your downloader anyway)

If you do have a show that you know is only available on either torrents or usenet, you can create another delay profile with different options (e.g. prefer torrent, or even torrent only if you are sure) and add a tag. Then tag those series with the same tag, and they will use that delay profile instead.

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Some things not included:

Stalled detection
Sonarr wonā€™t detect whether the download is stalled due to lack of seeds and grab another release.
Itā€™s also a tricky one btw, coz normally sonarr would remove ā€˜failedā€™ releases, but with torrents that isnā€™t always safe due to dl/seed requirements.

Seed configuration
You canā€™t yet configure the seedratio/timelimit from sonarr per indexer. youā€™re stuck with whatever you can configure in download client.

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Thanks for this. Iā€™m very impressed with the functionality so far but itā€™s good to understand the limitations.

I know this may not be the correct place for it, but ā€¦ Iā€™ll throw this out there because I havenā€™t gotten a good answer elsewhere -

Can anyone recommend the best windows torrent client, that has either a guaranteed leakproof proxy setup inside the client, or vpn client functionality built into it?

The whole run a vpn either on the box or on the router and try to govern what goes through it, detect if it dies, etc, seems just like a very inelegant way of managing this.

Any thoughts?