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PART 8 - Configuring the *ARR Media Library Managers / Index Manager

Prowlarr *ARR Indexer and Search Manager: http://localhost:9696

Now that we have both the Download Clients set up on Page 1, we're going to set up Prowlarr, which is an index and search manager for all the ARR applications; it handles search requests on behalf of Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr etc.. to all the indexers, and returns the results to each ARR application that initiated the index search.

1. In "Indexers" -- "Add Indexer", to get started, add about eight indexers which are listed as public - these will mostly be Torrent indexers, as all NZB Indexers are private and you need an account to access the indexer services.

2. Make sure you select a Base URL and test the connection before saving. Some indexers have multiple URLs to choose from, and you may need to change the Base URL if any on them fail the connection test.

3. Once you have several indexers, select "Test All Indexers" to test their connectivity / status.

4. You can also test the "Search" function by typing "Big Buck Bunny" and checking that results are returned - Do not download anything yet, there is much more to set up before importing media.

NOTE: If you're using Windows as your Docker host, you may need to open up network ports in the Windows 11 firewall, before you can access the web portals from the local network:

5. "Settings" -- "Indexers" menu: Only used if you need index proxies

6. "Settings" -- "Apps" menu: Go to all the other ARR applications listed below, then navigate to "Settings" -- "General" and copy the API Key from each application. Then back in Prowlarr, click "Add Application", and use the API Key to link the other application to Prowlarr.

For example: To add Radarr

  • Name: Radarr
  • Sync Level: Full Sync
  • Prowlarr: Add "http://localhost:9696" Check the field to see if the text is actually in there.
  • Reader: Add "http://localhost:7878" Check the field to see if the text is actually in there.
  • API Key: Copied from Radarr application in "Settings" -- "General"
  • Test and Save

Repeat this step for all *ARR applications until you have Lidarr, Mylar, Radarr, Readarr, Sonarr and Whisparr listed in the Prowlarr applications - There should be six.

NOTE For Mylar: Go to "Settings" -- "Web Interface" -- Tick Enable API -- Generate API Key -- Save Changes -- Restart Mylar -- API Key can now be copied.

*ARR Application:​

Link to API Key:​

Lidarr

http://localhost:8686/settings/general

Mylar3

http://localhost:8090/config Then Select "Web Interface" Tab

Radarr

http://localhost:7878/settings/general

Readarr

http://localhost:8787/settings/general

Sonarr

http://localhost:8989/settings/general

Whisparr

http://localhost:6969/settings/general

Prowlarr

http://localhost:9696/settings/downloadclients

7. "Settings" -- "Download Clients" menu:

  • Go to all SEVEN of the ARR applications listed in the table below, then navigate to "Settings" -- "Download Clients" and add the following two download clients to each of the seven applications. Make sure you change the category for each application… the categories MUST be in lowercase.

ARR Application:​

Download Category:
(must be in lowercase)​

Prowlarr

prowlarr

Lidarr

music

Mylar3

comics

Rradarr

movies

Readarr

books

Sonarr

series

Whisparr

adult

  • Add NZBGet
    • Name: NZBGet
    • Host: localhost
    • Port: 6789
    • Username: nzbget Empty if you removed this earlier
    • Password: tegbzn6789 Empty if you removed this earlier
    • Category: < --- In "lowercase" - refer to table above, for each *ARR application category
  • Add Transmission
    • Name: Transmission
    • Enabled: Ticked
    • Host: localhost
    • Port: 9091
    • Username: empty
    • Password: empty
    • Category: < --- In "lowercase" - refer to table above, for each *ARR application category

8. Add the "Root Folder" for all of the *ARR medial managers, so they are able to access / manage the media in each library.

**NOTE: It is recommended you allow all of the Media Library Managers to totally manage your media, including the renaming and sorting of media into its own media folder structure and naming conventions. Select "Show Advanced" and follow the naming conventions in the table below, for the relevant media managers.

NOTE: Do not add your own media into your media folders yet, we will prepare all of your existing media in steps further below, before importing into each of the media libraries, to ensure they're in a format that the *ARR applications will each read be able to identify and match to Internet media lookup searches.**

Library Manager:​

Media Path:​

Media Renaming Conventions:​

Lidarr:
http://localhost:8686/settings/mediamanagement

/data/media/music

Lidarr Settings
(No guidance available - refer to other apps in wiki)

Mylar3:
http://localhost:8090/config

/data/media/comics

Folder and File formats · mylar3/mylar3 Wiki (minor guidance)

Radarr:
http://localhost:7878/settings/mediamanagement

/data/media/movies

Radarr Settings

Readarr:
http://localhost:8787/settings/mediamanagement

/data/media/books

Readarr Settings

Sonarr:
http://localhost:8989/settings/mediamanagement

/data/media/series

Sonarr Settings

Whisparr:
http://localhost:6969/settings/mediamanagement

/data/media/adult

Whisparr Settings

NOTE: Prowlarr is an index and search manager, it does not manage media libraries.

Example set up steps for Radarr to manage media renaming

  • http://localhost:7878/settings/mediamanagement

  • Turn on "Show Advanced" options

  • Rename Movies: Ticked
  • Replace Characters: Ticked
  • Colon Replace: Replace with Space Dash Space
  • Standard Movie Format: {Movie Title} ({Release Year}) - {Quality Title} {MediaInfo Simple}
  • Movie Folder Format: {Movie Title} ({Release Year}) [imdbid-{ImdbId}]
  • Create Empty Folders: Not Ticked
  • Delete Empty Folders: Ticked # Depends on your preference
  • Unmonitor Deleted Movies: Ticked
  • Propers and Repacks: Prefer and Upgrade
  • Analyze video files: Ticked
  • Rescan Movie Folder: Always
  • Change File Date: None
  • Recycle Bin: Optional
  • Set Permissions: Ticked # Depends on your preference
  • Chmod Folder: 775 # Depends on your preference
  • Chmod Group: users # Depends on your preference

Example set up steps for Sonarr to manage media renaming

  • http://localhost:8989/settings/mediamanagement

  • Turn on "Show Advanced" options

  • Rename Episodes: Ticked
  • Replace Illegal Characters: Ticked

  • Standard Episode Format:

    • {Series Title} S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {Episode Title} {Quality Title} {MediaInfo Simple}
  • Daily Episode Format:
    • {Series Title} {Air-Date} - {Episode Title} {Quality Title} {MediaInfo Simple}
  • Anime Episode Format:
    • {Series Title} S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {Episode Title} {Quality Title} {MediaInfo Simple}
  • Series Folder Format:
    • {Series Title} ({Series Year}) [imdbid-{ImdbId}]
  • Multi-Episode Style: Extend
  • Create Empty Folders: Not Ticked
  • Delete Empty Folders: Ticked # Depends on your preference
  • Unmonitor Deleted Episodes: Ticked
  • Propers and Repacks: Prefer and Upgrade
  • Analyze video files: Ticked
  • Rescan Episode Folder: Always
  • Change File Date: None
  • Recycle Bin: Optional
  • Set Permissions: Ticked # Depends on your preference
  • Chmod Folder: 775 # Depends on your preference
  • Chmod Group: users # Depends on your preference

Complete remaining Media Library Managers as per step 8 guidance and table.

Mylar3 needs extra steps to get set up properly and integrated into Prowlarr

9. Complete these additional steps to configure Mylar3, which are slightly different to the rest of the *ARR family

  • Go to Mylar3 "Settings" -- "Web Interface":
  • ComicVine API Key:
    • Go over to ComicVine at Gamespot, and register for a user account: Comic Vine When you're logged in to ComicVine, head to this page for your personal API Key: Comic Reviews, News, and Forums - Comic Vine
    • Copy your Comic Vine API Key, then goto Mylar3 "Settings" -- "Web Interface" and copy the key into the field on the top right
  • Basic HTTP Host: 0.0.0.0
  • HTTP Port: 8090
  • Authentication: None
  • HTTP Usernam: Empty
  • HTTP Password: Empty
  • Comic Path Location: /data/media/comics
  • Enforce Permissions: ticked
  • Directory CHMOD: 0777
  • File CHMOD: 0660
  • Owner: 1000 --- Change this to the numeric PUID value of the Docker user account you created earlier

  • Group: 1000 --- Change this to the numeric PGID value of the Docker user account you created earlier

  • Mylar3 "Settings" -- "Download Settings"

  • NZBget: Ticked

  • NZBGet Host: http://localhost
  • NZBGet Port: 6789
  • NZBGet Username: Empty the field
  • NZBGet Password: Empty the field
  • NZBGet Download Directory: /data/usenet
  • NZBGet Category: comics
  • Enable Completed Download Handling: Ticked

  • Usenet Retention (in days) - This depends on your Usenet service provider

  • Use Torrents: Tickered

  • Minimum # of seeders: 3
  • NOTE: Seed numbers is a personnal choice, the lower the number could result in stalled downloads
  • Transmission: Ticked
  • Transmission Host: http://localhost
  • Transmission Username: Empty the field
  • Transmission Password: Empty the field

  • Transmission Directory: /data/torrents

  • Mylar3 "Settings" -- "Search Providers"

  • Torrents: Ticked
  • Enabled Torznab: Ticked
  • Use Newznab: Ticked

NOTE: There is no need to manually update the Torrent / Usenet settings listed on this page, Prowlarr will
automatically make the relevant changes to search providers as they're added to the *ARR Index Manager.

10. Finish the basic customisation below for all of the *ARR settings:

*ARR Application:

Link to Settings Page

Prowlarr

http://localhost:9696/settings

Lidarr

http://localhost:8686/settings

Mylar3

http://localhost:8090/config Then Select "Web Interface" Tab

Radarr

http://localhost:7878/settings

Readarr

http://localhost:8787/settings

Sonarr

http://localhost:8989/settings

Whisparr

http://localhost:6969/settings

"Settings" -- "UI" menu:

  • Set up all the system locale / date and time formats for your region / liking

"Settings" -- "Indexers" menu:

  • These are a list of indexers, which are configured using Prowlarr, and replicated to each of the ARR applications. If you need to update your indexers, do this in Prowlarr.

"Settings" -- "Quality" menu:

  • This page allows you to configure all the general quality, size limits, for all the different download options.

Home Page For Each *APP Application:

  • Click "Options" icon on right hand side and select the viewable options to suit your needs.

Test Each of Your *APP Application:

  • From the application home page, select "Add New", and search title for each application's media category.
  • You should get search results for each of the media types that each application is responsible for managing.

NOTE: Whisparr - Adult Movie Industry Metadata

Whisparr will correctly locate metadata for adult movie industry content, however Jellyfin does not, for reasons we won't go into here. However, you can save the metadata for adult content from Whisparr into the movie folder on the hard drive, then Jellyfin can be set up to read and import the metadata correctly.

Go to "Whisparr" -- "Settings" -- "Metadata" -- "Edit Kodi (XBMC) / Emby Metadata" and select all options, except for "Use Movie.nfo", and save. This will create .nfo and cover art files inside the movie folder, which Jellyfin will scrape during import of the adult library.

NOTE: This technique can be used for other media types which do not work well in Jellyfin metadata look ups.

NOTE: If you have following this guide step by step, you'll probably notice the theme used across most of the applications is, or is not to your likely, you can change the theme to something that suites you suit by editing the following variable in the .ENV file, and redeploying your media stack configuration discussed on Page 1.

Code:

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TP_THEME=nord

Refer to colour these codes at: Aquamarine - theme.park Docs

PART 9 - Organising Your Media Library And Importing Into *ARR Apps

Now that we've set up the Media Library Managers and Index Manager with the correct settings, including filenames for all media content, we can commence importing any of your current media repositories into the respective Media Library Managers for each media format type.

NOTE: The success of importing media files into the media libraries and having them identified correctly by the library managers, depends heavily on the how well they are organised and named in the first place. Don't expect to load random files which have no naming conventions, or cannot identify what the content is, to be picked up and imported correctly. Do some effort first to save you importing time - otherwise: the old adage is… shit in, shit out.

My personal preference is to use Filebot with the following renaming conventions to get things organised, before I manually add anything into the *ARR media folders.

Filebot Renaming Preset String for Series / TV Shows:

D:/Storage/renaming/series/{ny.colon(' - ').ascii()} [tmdbid-{id}]/Season {s00}/{ny.colon(' - ').ascii()} {s00e00} - {t.ascii()} {" - $hd $vf $vc $ac"}

Filebot Renaming Preset String for Movies / Adult:

D:/Storage/renaming/movies/{ny.colon(' - ').ascii()} [imdbid-{imdbid}]/{ny.colon(' - ').ascii()} {" - $hd $vf $vc $ac"}

Filebot Renaming Preset String for Music / Audio:

D:/Storage/renaming/music/{artist.upperInitial().ascii()}/{album.upperInitial().ascii()} ({y})/{albumArtist.upperInitial().ascii()} - {album.upperInitial().ascii()} - {pi.pad(3)+' - '} {t.ascii()}

Change "D:/Storage" to suit your requirements. Being on the same drive / partition as the original media which is being renamed, will save considerable time moving files between partitions or across network shares. i.e. Don't use a different partition / HDD as the destination, it will take forever.

NOTE: Do all media renaming outside of *ARR folders, then slowly control the import of the renamed media into each of the Library Managers.

Once you have prepared all of your current media folders, start importing a few series / movies at a time, to ensure the *ARR Library Manager is detecting the new media, and that you're comfortable with the process.

As you start adding files in the following folders, the files will be immediately accessible in each of the *ARR apps

Host Computer Folder Location:

*ARR Library Manager

FOLDER_FOR_MEDIA/adult

Whisparr

FOLDER_FOR_MEDIA/books

Readarr

FOLDER_FOR_MEDIA/comics

Mylar3

FOLDER_FOR_MEDIA/movies

Radarr

FOLDER_FOR_MEDIA/music

Lidarr

FOLDER_FOR_MEDIA/series

Sonarr

Head over the your *ARR application to "Settings" -- "Media Management"… you'll note that the root folder "/data/media/series" etc... inside each Docker container now says there are a number of "Unmapped Folders".

To import the new media you copied into your FOLDER_FOR_MEDIA folders, open the link that says "Path: /data/media/series", it will now show the series / movies which you added, and will attempt to identify these new series / movies by looking them up via the Internet databases.

NOTE: This could take some time depending on how large the media library is.

NOTE: DO NOT IMPORT ANY MOVIE / SERIES WHICH ARE INCORRENTLY IDENTIFIED, RENAME THEM AND TRY TO IMPORT THEM AGAIN LATER

Select all of the folders / media which has been correctly identified by using the checkboxes on the left hand side, then down the bottom select whether to monitor the first season, or the entire season (this is your personal choice), then select the option "Import * Series" - This will commence the import and renaming if you opted to rename.

For any movie / series which was incorrectly identified, go to your local media directory and rename the folder, and then import the new folder after the *ARR manager correctly identifies the folder content.

Once identified, select "Import * Series". If successful, you will receive a message that says: All series in /data/media/imports have been imported.

Use the same process in all of the other *ARR applications to import your existing media library into the corresponding *ARR Media Library Manager.

NOTE:: If you do a lot of transcoding and changing the encoding types / bitrates across your library, the Filebot renaming strings can be used to update your media library as needed, however you'll need to refresh your *ARR Media Library Managers / Jellyfin to make sure they pick up the new names.

WARNING - THE BELOW INFORMATION IS STILL BEING FORMATTED FOR PRESENTATION - IT SHOULD BE ACCURATE, BUT DIFFICULT TO READ. AM CURRENTLY FORMATTING NOW.​

PART 10 - Configuring Jellyfin Media Server

Last update: March 1, 2023