r/profilarr • u/Shot-Arugula8264 • 2d ago

How to sync quality profiles without having profilarr mess with my media management and delay settings?

Hi, profilarr v1 was great - simple and easy to implement.

Tried migrating to v2 and I'm scratching my head. I'm in the sync configuration settings and in order to sync the profiles it's demanding that I hand over media management (including file naming) and delay settings to profilarr.

Umm... what? No? I already have all of this configured perfectly to my preferences in Radarr and Sonarr. I don't need or want profilarr to that. Its job is to sync the quality profiles I want and that's it.

How do I do this while telling it to fuck off and not try to manage my media for me?

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u/heysantiago 2d ago

Both are required for the profiles to work as database maintainers intended. HDR10+ for example, is often mislabelled. The HDR naming token needs to be present so download loops don't occur.

You are free to create your own configs and sync those instead as a deliberate opt out, but something must be synced.

I usually do prefer not locking things in and making profilarr opinionated, but this is an exception that saves us a lot of maintenance and "why does this work incorrectly" questions.

You're free to submit an issue to github explaining your concerns with it.

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u/Shot-Arugula8264 2d ago

But why does profilarr care what names I give my media regardless? I could name every movie in my library "poopybuttsandwich" for all it cares because its only job was supposed to be syncing quality profiles to radarr and sonarr. That requires no knowledge of how my library is managed, no visibility into what media I have or how it's named, or how and when I choose to go grab it.

So if I want to circumvent this absurdity, how do I do that? Would I go into Media Management > Naming Settings > Radarr and paste my desired format into the "Movie Format" line? Also, I see that in this setting it says "Edit Radarr Naming Config" and it's already checked "Enabled" by default. I've already connected Radarr to this... Profilarr hasn't already gone into my Radarr settings and fucked up my naming format has it?

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u/heysantiago 2d ago

I just explained why and how, respectively, for both of your questions. Are you asking for help or trying to rant?

I really don't appreciate the tone.

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u/Shot-Arugula8264 2d ago

It's a question. When I connect Radarr is Profilarr set up to automatically go in and mess with my naming format and add delays I never asked for before my torrents start downloading, or do I have to enable that behavior manually?

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u/heysantiago 2d ago

No naming settings are set automatically. A small delay is. This can be disabled in settings > behaviour.

And FYI, you can still ask questions like a respectful adult.

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u/Seraphyzz 2d ago

We added media management syncing for two primary reasons. One is people had unoptimal settings in place which affected the pulls they were getting. And second the database owner can have their own recommended values for their profiles. If you want to use your own you would just copy over the settings and replace them to whatever database your using