TRaSH-Guides
TRaSH Guides, Guides that aren't trash.
The following guides are available
Radarr
After setting up your optimal volume/paths found HERE, follow the steps below to improve your setup.
- Quality Settings (File Size) - Some recommendations to prevent low-quality or fake releases. These quality file size settings have been created and tested with information gathered from release comparisons from various sources and information provided by the community.
- Recommended naming scheme - Recommended naming scheme provided with the help of the Sonarr/Radarr (Support) Team and information provided by the community to prevent download loops.
- How to set up Quality Profiles - How to make the most use of the Custom Formats and shows some specifics of our recommended configuration. You can use these examples to understand how to set up your preferences.
- How to setup Quality Profiles Anime - Same as above but specific for anime.
- How to set up Quality Profiles (French) - Same as above but specific for French and English Audio.
- How to set up Quality Profiles (German) - Same as above but specific for German and English Audio.
- How to import Custom Formats - How to manually import the Custom Formats from the Guide.
- How to update Custom Formats - How to manually upgrade your existing Custom Formats.
- Collection of Custom Formats - A collection of the most needed and commonly used Custom Formats. These Custom Formats have been collected from discussions on Discord or created with help from others.
- Tips - Several other guides for Radarr.
- How to Merge Quality - How to merge quality sources if you prefer to not have Quality Trump All, and let it be handled via Custom Formats.
- How to Order Quality Sources - In some cases, it might be preferred to have the option to create a Quality Profile to downgrade your existing library/releases.
- How to rename your folders - How to rename or change your root folder.
- How to set up Language Custom Formats - A few examples of how to set up your preferred language Custom Format.
- How to Sync 2 Radarr or Sonarr with each other - How you can sync two (or more) Radarr/Sonarr instances with each other.
- Remote Path Mappings - How to set up remote path mapping.
- Show Unknown Movie Items - Show items without a movie in the queue.
Sonarr
After setting up your optimal volume/paths found HERE, follow the steps below to improve your setup.
- Quality Settings (File Size) - Some recommendations to prevent low-quality or fake releases. These quality file size settings have been created and tested with information gathered from release comparisons from various sources and information provided by the community.
- Recommended naming scheme - Recommended naming scheme provided with the help of the Sonarr/Radarr (Support) Team and information provided by the community to prevent download loops.
- How to set up Quality Profiles - How to make the most use of the Custom Formats and shows some specifics of our recommended configuration. You can use these examples to understand how to set up your preferences.
- How to setup Quality Profiles Anime - Same as above but specific for anime.
- How to set up Quality Profiles (French) - Same as above but specific for French and English Audio.
- How to set up Quality Profiles (German) - Same as above but specific for German and English Audio.
- How to import Custom Formats - How to manually import the Custom Formats from the Guide.
- How to update Custom Formats - How to manually upgrade your existing Custom Formats.
- Collection of Custom Formats - A collection of the most needed and commonly used Custom Formats. These Custom Formats have been collected from discussions on Discord or created with help from others.
- Tips - Several other guides for Sonarr.
- How to set up Language Custom Formats - A few examples of how to set up your preferred language Custom Format.
- How to Merge Quality - How to merge quality sources if you prefer to not have Quality Trump All, and let it be handled via Custom Formats.
- How to Order Quality Sources - In some cases, it might be preferred to have the option to create a Quality Profile to downgrade your existing library/releases.
- Remote Path Mappings - How to set up remote path mapping.
- How to rename your folders - How to rename or change your root folder.
- How to Sync 2 Radarr or Sonarr with each other - How you can sync two (or more) Radarr/Sonarr instances with each other.
Prowlarr
- How to set up proxy for certain indexers - The correct way to set up a VPN/Proxy with Prowlarr.
- How to set up FlareSolverr - How to set up FlareSolverr that might help to bypass Cloudflare and DDoS-GUARD protection.
- How to set up indexers with limited API - You have access to a few (unpaid) Usenet indexers with limited API calls and you still want to add them as a backup for failed downloads, but you're always hitting the API limits in the first hour and can't make full use of them, In this Guide, we will show you a trick on how you can make more use of them without hitting the API limit in the first hour.
Lidarr
Bazarr
File and Folder Structure
Downloaders
Plex
- Suggested Plex Media Server Settings - So, what are the best Plex Media Server settings? Here you find recommendations on how to set up your Plex Media Server
- Optimal Plex Client Settings - So, what are the best Plex Client settings? Here you will find a link to a 3rd party site that will provide Optimal settings for all the possible clients that can be used to stream content. While these settings won't be optimal for everyone's setup, they will be for the majority of you.
- What does my media player support - We've created an Excel sheet with several tested Media Player devices with info that our community has provided. We hope this Excel sheet will be helpful for everyone looking for a reliable Media Player device.
- Stop 4k Video Transcoding - This guide will walk you through getting started with Tautulli and JBOPS. By the end of this guide you'll be able to stop all 4K video transcodes on your server. Note that this does require a Plex Pass to work.
Guide Sync
Here you will find officially supported third-party party Guide Sync Tools. These tools follow the Guide guidelines.
Misc
- How to provide a docker compose - When requested this will show you how to create and provide a docker-compose of your running docker containers.
- Setup TorGuard for port forwarding - Guide on how to set up port forwarding when you use Torguard as a VPN Service.
- x265-4k and Golden Rule - Explanation of how 1080p x265 should be used correctly and how it's used often wrongly, and why the guide in general doesn't prefer 1080p x265 releases.
Glossary
This glossary provides definitions and explanations of commonly used terms, abbreviations, and phrases.
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