For background, i have a few hundred torrented movies that I have been downloading to / seeding directly from a folder structure set up for Plex/Jellyfin. Media library is a mix of ripped and downloaded content. Till now I have been using a client on my desktop to manage the files on my media server, but now qbittorent and radarr live on the media server where they should be.

I struggled for a bit to get qbittorent and radarr set up and hardlinking properly, and am now ready to start migrating all those torrents into the proper location. What I’m doing works, but it feels like I’m doing something the long way.

Here’s what I’m currently doing:

  • Move torrent from media library to torrent folder
  • Copy/paste torrent link from desktop client to media server client and verify that it’s seen properly
  • Add movie(s) in radarr, but do not tell it to begin searching for it
  • Select Manual Import / Interactive Import
  • Check the appropriate media file(s) and allow radarr to Import them to the movies I just added.

If that’s more or less the best way to do it, I will chug through since it seems to be working. It just seems like adding the movie before importing is superfluous, since radarr has no problem matching up the media file the correct movie once it has been added.

TIA!

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Yes, there’s no need to do all that. Point radarr at your existing library and use the library import page.

    • dmention7@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Sure, that would get all the torrented content into radarr quickly, but I guess I should have stated that my intent is to continue seeding that content from the qbittorrent client on my media server.

      Unless radarr is somehow smart enough to hardlink the opposite direction (from the media library back to torrents folder) and let qbittorrent know that content is ready to seed…?

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Okay, in that case I would put all the media in the complete downloads folder and import all the torrents to qbittorrent in one go. You can tell it to watch a folder for new torrent files to import.

        At that point I think you can do the library import I mentioned above. Go through all the radarr settings first to make sure it imports how you want it to. You’ll probably want the hard link option at least.

        Then, you’ll want to disable monitoring on the existing media, because radarr will probably be unable to identify the quality, and it’ll assume it’s the worst quality tier and re-download it (assuming you have all that configured).

        • dmention7@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Thanks, that makes sense.

          I’ve been going cross-eyed staring at the Trash guides and Servarr wiki trying to get hardlinks and all the file paths working correctly (stupid simple fix in the end), so a little nudge in the right direction is appreciated.