Sonarr destroyed my one piece folder by renaming things incorrectly. Also sites like the TV db and anidb mislabel season numbers on a lot of anime lately. So my beef is mostly anime based and against the databases that sonarr uses, not sonarr itself.
I have tried and was, the first time, turned down and told I was incorrect. When the next season came out for the same show, I submitted again for correction and got zero response. Similar for another show where the show’s single season that had a break had its second half called “season 2” (happens a ton lately, infuriating), I also got no response. And that’s TV db. Don’t get me started on anidb later. They fucking divided the two halves of that show as well, but not into two seasons… INTO TWO SHOWS. So now the second half of the single season of “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury” on anidb is a whole other show entry and is named “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (2023)” - fucking maddening. And applications like Plex rely on those kinds of databases for sorting things. And naming things. And similarly, sonarr uses them for renaming your files to fit the format you set up. And it’s also not 100% smart on some stuff. Sure, “one_piece_207.avi”, let me rename you as One Piece - S02E07.avi that will be fabulous.
Correct, and there were ways in place that was supposed to allow sonarr to understand absolute numbering, similar to another agent plugin I use for Plex that gives it that understanding. The file formatting for sonarr can even include {absolute} for this use case. I was numbering these files, hoping to rename them with episode titles plus the {absolute} as well as S{season00}E{episode00} (can’t recall the exact code), but anyway… Despite everyone in this thread calling me an idiot, I know I made no error other than not backing up first.
I understand you want to defend something that you enjoy. That is fine. The program completely misinterpreted the filenames as they were with absolute numbering and erroneously assigned incorrect filenames, such as making episode 201 into S02E01. I set the format and trusted it to uniformly rename. It failed at that. You can still enjoy it. I’ve found an app called Filebot that seems to do better interpretation and allow more freedom. I’ve mostly gone back to manually managing things, though. I also found some features in sonarr to be a bit obtuse. Since it’s renaming files, it has to keep the original file to seed the torrent. That’s completely understandable but I wish there was a way to have it wait until ratio/time limit before renaming. It would save hard drive space to allow that.
You can still enjoy sonarr. The databases it pulls info from are also part of the problem as I detailed in another response here. For me, it is not ideal.
Your issues with sonarr seem to entirely be based upon a lack of understanding. For one thing it seems like you probably didn’t set the show to the anime format which detects absolute numbering. And beyond that, the rename tool provides an interactive interface where you can easily verify and adjust the renaming. Not to mention, sonarr’s purpose is primarily retrieving and indexing content. Content which usually adheres to a standard naming already. Renaming existing content is a secondary function and is the wild west when the files might be in whatever nonstandard naming convention the user thought up.
Since it’s renaming files, it has to keep the original file to seed the torrent. That’s completely understandable but I wish there was a way to have it wait until ratio/time limit before renaming. It would save hard drive space to allow that.
This is where I can really tell you just don’t understand the program. One of sonarrs primary features is hardlink management. When a torrent is done downloading, sonarr creates a hardlink from the torrent file to the proper location in your media directory and then renames that hardlink. There’s no additional storage usage. It wouldn’t be helpful to wait for a torrent to finish seeding to rename it because in the mean time it wouldn’t be picked up by Plex/Jellyfin because your torrent directory is (or rather it should be) separate from your media directory that Plex/Jellyfin sees. And additionally, another primary benefit of sonarr is that it allows you to permanently seed torrents while also having nice naming. In which case your file would never be renamed if it waited until it was done seeding of course.
Sonarr destroyed my one piece folder by renaming things incorrectly. Also sites like the TV db and anidb mislabel season numbers on a lot of anime lately. So my beef is mostly anime based and against the databases that sonarr uses, not sonarr itself.
You could always create an account and contribute the correct information to these databases.
I have tried and was, the first time, turned down and told I was incorrect. When the next season came out for the same show, I submitted again for correction and got zero response. Similar for another show where the show’s single season that had a break had its second half called “season 2” (happens a ton lately, infuriating), I also got no response. And that’s TV db. Don’t get me started on anidb later. They fucking divided the two halves of that show as well, but not into two seasons… INTO TWO SHOWS. So now the second half of the single season of “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury” on anidb is a whole other show entry and is named “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (2023)” - fucking maddening. And applications like Plex rely on those kinds of databases for sorting things. And naming things. And similarly, sonarr uses them for renaming your files to fit the format you set up. And it’s also not 100% smart on some stuff. Sure, “one_piece_207.avi”, let me rename you as One Piece - S02E07.avi that will be fabulous.
Is it One Piece episode #207 or something? Because, in the realm of pirated TV, “207” literally is season 2 episode 7. Always has been.
Correct, and there were ways in place that was supposed to allow sonarr to understand absolute numbering, similar to another agent plugin I use for Plex that gives it that understanding. The file formatting for sonarr can even include {absolute} for this use case. I was numbering these files, hoping to rename them with episode titles plus the {absolute} as well as S{season00}E{episode00} (can’t recall the exact code), but anyway… Despite everyone in this thread calling me an idiot, I know I made no error other than not backing up first.
You mean you used sonarr to rename things incorrectly. Sonarr didn’t do anything other than exactly what you told it to.
I understand you want to defend something that you enjoy. That is fine. The program completely misinterpreted the filenames as they were with absolute numbering and erroneously assigned incorrect filenames, such as making episode 201 into S02E01. I set the format and trusted it to uniformly rename. It failed at that. You can still enjoy it. I’ve found an app called Filebot that seems to do better interpretation and allow more freedom. I’ve mostly gone back to manually managing things, though. I also found some features in sonarr to be a bit obtuse. Since it’s renaming files, it has to keep the original file to seed the torrent. That’s completely understandable but I wish there was a way to have it wait until ratio/time limit before renaming. It would save hard drive space to allow that.
You can still enjoy sonarr. The databases it pulls info from are also part of the problem as I detailed in another response here. For me, it is not ideal.
Your issues with sonarr seem to entirely be based upon a lack of understanding. For one thing it seems like you probably didn’t set the show to the anime format which detects absolute numbering. And beyond that, the rename tool provides an interactive interface where you can easily verify and adjust the renaming. Not to mention, sonarr’s purpose is primarily retrieving and indexing content. Content which usually adheres to a standard naming already. Renaming existing content is a secondary function and is the wild west when the files might be in whatever nonstandard naming convention the user thought up.
This is where I can really tell you just don’t understand the program. One of sonarrs primary features is hardlink management. When a torrent is done downloading, sonarr creates a hardlink from the torrent file to the proper location in your media directory and then renames that hardlink. There’s no additional storage usage. It wouldn’t be helpful to wait for a torrent to finish seeding to rename it because in the mean time it wouldn’t be picked up by Plex/Jellyfin because your torrent directory is (or rather it should be) separate from your media directory that Plex/Jellyfin sees. And additionally, another primary benefit of sonarr is that it allows you to permanently seed torrents while also having nice naming. In which case your file would never be renamed if it waited until it was done seeding of course.