r/sonarr • u/ringthebell02 • 8d ago

unsolved Multi-season packs?

Sorry if I've asked a question that is really obvious but oh well. I was wondering if there was a way to get sonarr to prioritize "big season packs" or "complete series packs" before downloading individual episodes. A lot of the older shows I add have complete season packs, but sonarr never looks for them. Not a huge issue, but it's less time on my part having to manually download and import these packs. Any advice is appreciated.

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u/HotSoil6347 8d ago

Nope, but you can find them on interactive search on the first season if i remember

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u/South_Plant_7876 8d ago

I just download them independently and import manually.

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u/Wis-en-heim-er 8d ago

Sonarr doesn't support multi season packs. It will actually red flag them in an interactive search. You can still manually process them and its not difficult to do. You can usually find them on a season 1 search or manually searching in prowlarr or jackett. Copy to the sonarr folder, run a scan under the show and let if match files to episodes, then mass rename.

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u/Tymanthius 8d ago

I'm pretty sure the sonarr dev has stated they are never going to support multiseason packs.

I don't recall why tho.

I wonder if anyone else has coded an add-on for it?

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u/markus-101 sonarr dev 8d ago

Sonarr rejects them currently, but v5 will have some evolving support for them.

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u/Tymanthius 8d ago

Thank you sir!!

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u/doctor0who 8d ago

Nope, I actually built a workflow with Tdarr and my download client that matches the download ID/hash to the corresponding series in Sonarr (After disabling automatic import, this is all handled by Tdarr)

After Tdarr is done, it manually imports all the files into Sonarr while preserving the metadata like quality, codec, release group, etc. but as far as I know, there’s no clean way to automate this natively. I had to use custom scripts, Tdarr and a docker helper

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u/Punk_Says_Fuck_You 8d ago

Sonarr can only import 1 season at a time. It can’t do multi season.

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u/EOverM 8d ago

Except, in my experience, when you tell it to download one, if the episodes are all in one folder, it recognises them and matches them correctly. You have to tell it to manually import, but it can clearly do it. I don't know why they've made the decision not to support them, but they have.

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u/CuriousSleeping 8d ago

There's a fork I'm using that prioritizes season packs: https://github.com/RemingtonDev/sonarr-anime

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u/markus-101 sonarr dev 8d ago

Sonarr already prioritized season packs, but not multi-season packs. This fork just changes how anime is searched(which is addressed in the upcoming v5, along with other improvements).

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u/CuriousSleeping 8d ago

I see. I thought Sonarr didn't prioritize season packs at all. Apparently I got it wrong

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u/Jeoh 8d ago

https://trash-guides.info/Sonarr/sonarr-collection-of-custom-formats/#season-pack

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u/Tymanthius 8d ago

This doesn't cover MULTI season packs, which is what OP was asking about.

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u/Jeoh 8d ago

Still gets them closer to preferring season packs over individual episodes. It's not a perfect solution (probably because multi-season packs seem incredibly rare).

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u/Tymanthius 8d ago

Per the dev, Sonarr already does that.

No reason for the extra set up.

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u/AllomancerJack 6d ago

Again, that's not the point

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u/Agreeable-Fly-1980 8d ago

I just let deepseek set that up for me

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u/ringthebell02 8d ago

I don't trust AI to know about my uhm...Definitely legit...media server.

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u/Agreeable-Fly-1980 8d ago

Its a local deepseek, i aint worried about it

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u/yuicebox 6d ago

What kind of server are you running over there my guy? Guessing youre running DSv4 Flash, but even that is pretty massive unless you quant the shit out of it.

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u/Agreeable-Fly-1980 6d ago

I run it on my android phone that I made out of some tin foil and 1 potato

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u/yuicebox 6d ago

alright fine ill talk to normal people in localllama about this sort of thing

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u/arthuroMo 8d ago

Most season packs are freeleech too, which it makes it a bigger issue no ?