Unofficial "collection" torrents

Morning all,

Quick question, how do y'all handle big "unofficial" collection torrents with weird folder/file names that were manually added to the download client?

Is there a nice tool to use or are manual scripts the only way?

Also, how can I tell my *arr stack to look for files inside collection torrents too? Say I want Iron Man 1, but the only torrent with sufficient seeds is e.g. Phase-1.MCU.1080x720p or some weird ass name like that, that contains Iron Man 1 along with all the other files. How can I tell Radarr to use that torrent?

Thanks! Have a good one

EDIT: Apologies, should have specified, I did get this working before posting here. Ran a bash script to create subfolders for each *.mkv in the parent folder, and cleaned up the names with regex. Then went to Wanted -> Manual Import and Radarr could successfully identify the movies. But the name cleanup was the most important I think.

So a tool would have to rely on something other than the name to identify the movie like a fingerprint or somesuch

MolochAlter 5 points 3 days ago

Click the little man shaped icon to the right of the download bar. That allows you to import files manually from that torrent.

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Smurfi 1 point 3 days ago

When I do that, it flags the missing "movie", so I'd have to manually add each individual movie for that to work.

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MolochAlter 3 points 3 days ago

Ah, yeah, Radarr is a library-first kind of deal. You are supposed to add to it and then find the files.

As someone else mentioned you can add collections, there is probably one for your specific interests. If not you do need to do it manually, or you have to manually copy the files then import an existing library and manually match them there.

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roofuskit 1 point 3 days ago

Add the MCU collection, and it to monitored.

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NarrativeBear 5 points 2 days ago

What you are looking for is under Settings > Download Clients > Torrent Blackhole

This helps create a "blackhole" folder that is now monitored for any completed files. Radar or Sonarr will then try and import these files if the naming matches anything in your library that's missing.

So in theory you can manually add torrents to your client which you can categorize in such a way that they move to this blackhole folder on completion.

Obviously the folder or category can be called anything, but I just call them blackhole_movies, blackhole_series.

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Smurfi 2 points 2 days ago

And do I only do this for manually added torrents? Arr added torrents should still go to the normal "completed" folder?

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NarrativeBear 1 point 2 days ago

Correct. Your manual added torrents only.

But to be clear your downloads folder should ideally have subdirectories in it, or at least that's what I have.

*Completed Downloads", with subdirectories for movies, series, audio, books, blackhole_movies, blackhole_series, and any other category you have.

In your download client you then make sure to set it up that all downloads get a category that then dumps the completed download into the corresponding folder.

So when a movie gets added by radarr its assigned a category of movies in your download client, and when it finishes downloading it goes to the completed/movies folder. And similar if a series gets added by sonarr a category of series gets assigned and moved to the completed/series folder.

Any torrent you add manually you would then assign either blackhole movies or series and your download client would then move it to that completed folder. Radarr would then see new files appear and try and import them as it regularly will now scan that blackhole folder.

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Smurfi 2 points 2 days ago

Got it. Yeah, I already have the subfolders. Will add the black hole folders and categorise them as manual_movie and manual_tv

Thanks for the help! ☺️

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NarrativeBear 1 point 2 days ago

Glad I could help!

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Mondez 1 point 2 days ago

Aren't most torrents "unofficial"?

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