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How to setup Quality Profiles Anime

aka How to set up Custom Formats (Anime)

Warning

You must be running Sonarr V4 to be able to use this setup.

V4

Note

This guide is created and maintained by FonduemangVI and rg9400

It's recommended to run two Sonarr instances. One for Anime and one for normal TV shows, or you can make use of Quality Profiles and score different Custom Formats (CFs) as required.

This guide aims to grab the best release overall (as per SeaDex) and not necessarily just dual audio. The vast majority of releases can be found on Nyaa or AB

Nyaa is a public tracker while AB is an invite-only tracker.


Media Management

Series Type

When adding a new series make sure you set the series type to Anime

example - [Click to show/hide]

!cfa-seriestype

{Series TitleYear} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {absolute:000} - {Episode CleanTitle} [{Custom Formats }{Quality Full}]{[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRangeType]}[{MediaInfo VideoBitDepth}bit]{[MediaInfo VideoCodec]}[{Mediainfo AudioCodec} { Mediainfo AudioChannels}]{MediaInfo AudioLanguages}{-Release Group}
Results: - [Click to show/hide]

Single Episode:

The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01 - 001 - Episode Title 1 [Surround Sound x264 HDTV-720p v2][10bit][AVC][DTS 5.1][JA]-RlsGrp

Multi Episode:

The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01-E03 - 001-003 - Episode Title [Surround Sound x264 HDTV-720p v2][10bit][AVC][DTS 5.1][JA]-RlsGrp

Series Folder Format

{Series TitleYear}

Result:

The Series Title! (2010)

Season Folder Format

Season {season:00}

Result:

Season 01

Multi-Episode Style

Prefixed Range

Result:

result


Quality Settings

For quality settings please refer to Sonarr Quality Definitions - Anime

If you are only running a single instance of Sonarr you can instead use Sonarr Quality Definitions


Quality Profile

We need to create a new profile called Remux-1080p - Anime due to the way anime can be named we will need to merge a few qualities - see here for an example.

We need to add Bluray-1080p Remux and Bluray-1080p into a group together, HDTV-1080p into the same group as WEBDL-1080p and WEBRip-1080p, and HDTV-720p into the same group as WEBDL-720p and WEBRip-720p so that the scoring will work correctly.

Go to Settings => Profiles

!cf-settings-profiles

!cfa-mergedqualities

We then need to select and organize the qualities as seen below.

!cfa-qualityorder


Anime CF/Scoring

Note

We're going to make use of the below custom formats. See How to import Custom Formats for how to import them.

Default Scoring

Anime CF/Scoring - [Click to show/hide]
Custom Format Score Trash ID
Anime BD Tier 01 (Top SeaDex Muxers) 1400 949c16fe0a8147f50ba82cc2df9411c9
Anime BD Tier 02 (SeaDex Muxers) 1300 ed7f1e315e000aef424a58517fa48727
Anime BD Tier 03 (SeaDex Muxers) 1200 096e406c92baa713da4a72d88030b815
Anime BD Tier 04 (SeaDex Muxers) 1100 30feba9da3030c5ed1e0f7d610bcadc4
Anime BD Tier 05 (Remuxes) 1000 545a76b14ddc349b8b185a6344e28b04
Anime BD Tier 06 (FanSubs) 900 25d2afecab632b1582eaf03b63055f72
Anime BD Tier 07 (P2P/Scene) 800 0329044e3d9137b08502a9f84a7e58db
Anime BD Tier 08 (Mini Encodes) 700 c81bbfb47fed3d5a3ad027d077f889de
Anime Web Tier 01 (Muxers) 600 e0014372773c8f0e1bef8824f00c7dc4
Anime Web Tier 02 (Top FanSubs) 500 19180499de5ef2b84b6ec59aae444696
WEB Tier 01 ⚠ 350 ⚠ e6258996055b9fbab7e9cb2f75819294
WEB Tier 02 ⚠ 150 ⚠ 58790d4e2fdcd9733aa7ae68ba2bb503
Anime Web Tier 03 (Official Subs) 400 c27f2ae6a4e82373b0f1da094e2489ad
WEB Tier 03 ⚠ 150 ⚠ d84935abd3f8556dcd51d4f27e22d0a6
Remux Tier 01 ⚠ 1050 ⚠ 9965a052eb87b0d10313b1cea89eb451
Remux Tier 02 ⚠ 1000 ⚠ 8a1d0c3d7497e741736761a1da866a2e
Anime Web Tier 04 (Official Subs) 300 4fd5528a3a8024e6b49f9c67053ea5f3
Anime Web Tier 05 (FanSubs) 200 29c2a13d091144f63307e4a8ce963a39
Anime Web Tier 06 (FanSubs) 100 dc262f88d74c651b12e9d90b39f6c753
Anime Raws -10000 b4a1b3d705159cdca36d71e57ca86871
Anime LQ Groups -10000 e3515e519f3b1360cbfc17651944354c
AV1 -10000 15a05bc7c1a36e2b57fd628f8977e2fc
Uncensored 0 026d5aadd1a6b4e550b134cb6c72b3ca
v0 -51 d2d7b8a9d39413da5f44054080e028a3
v1 1 273bd326df95955e1b6c26527d1df89b
v2 2 228b8ee9aa0a609463efca874524a6b8
v3 3 0e5833d3af2cc5fa96a0c29cd4477feb
v4 4 4fc15eeb8f2f9a749f918217d4234ad8
10bit 0 b2550eb333d27b75833e25b8c2557b38
Anime Dual Audio 0 418f50b10f1907201b6cfdf881f467b7
Dubs Only -10000 9c14d194486c4014d422adc64092d794
VOSTFR -10000 07a32f77690263bb9fda1842db7e273f

Scores marked with a ⚠ warning ⚠ are different to those used in the main guide

Anime Streaming Services - [Click to show/hide]
Custom Format Score Trash ID
CR 6 3e0b26604165f463f3e8e192261e7284
DSNP 5 89358767a60cc28783cdc3d0be9388a4
NF 4 d34870697c9db575f17700212167be23
AMZN 3 d660701077794679fd59e8bdf4ce3a29
VRV 3 44a8ee6403071dd7b8a3a8dd3fe8cb20
FUNi 2 1284d18e693de8efe0fe7d6b3e0b9170
ABEMA 1 a370d974bc7b80374de1d9ba7519760b
ADN 1 d54cd2bf1326287275b56bccedb72ee2
B-Global 0 7dd31f3dee6d2ef8eeaa156e23c3857e
Bilibili 0 4c67ff059210182b59cdd41697b8cb08
HIDIVE 0 570b03b3145a25011bf073274a407259

The scoring that has been set is the recommended scoring, however, some of the CFs are optional depending on what you prefer. Anime Dual Audio, Uncensored and 10bit can be given positive scores if you want to prefer content with these attributes.

Anime Raws and Dubs Only are negatively scored, however, if you prefer these attributes you can give them a positive score.

Once the custom formats have been imported you can set the scores as above. To do this go to Settings => Profiles and select the Remux-1080p - Anime profile that was set up before.

!cf-settings-profiles

In the profile enter the scores as per the above table in this section.

!cfa-default-scoring

After you are done it should look similar to the image above, but using the current Guide Scores from the above tables.

Dual Audio Scoring

If you prefer Dual Audio releases you have a few options depending on your preference.

If you want to prefer Dual Audio within the same tier give the CF a score of 10, if you want it to be preferred a tier above give the CF a score of 101, and if you want to prefer it over any tiers give the CF a score of 2000.

If you must have Dual Audio releases set the Minimum Custom Format Score to 2000 in the Remux-1080p - Anime profile that you setup earlier.

Using this scoring you will still benefit from the tiers if a better release group does a Dual Audio release.

Below is an example of the scoring set to prefer Dual Audio over any tier.

!cfa-da-scoring

Uncensored Scoring

Note

Most BDs are uncensored by default, so most groups do not include that in the name.

If you prefer Uncensored releases you have a few options depending on your preference.

If you want to prefer Uncensored within the same tier give the CF a score of 10, if you want it to be preferred a tier above give the CF a score of 101.

Using this scoring you will still benefit from the tiers if a better release group does an Uncensored release.

Below is an example of the scoring set to prefer Uncensored a tier above.

!cfa-uncensored-scoring

Finishing up

Once you have set your preferred scoring you will need to make one more change to your Remux-1080p - Anime profile.

Make sure Upgrades Allowed is ticked then set the Upgrade Until section to Bluray-1080p and the Upgrade Until Custom Format Score to 10000

After this has been done your profile should look as seen below. This is an example of the Default Scoring setup.

!cfa-complete

Acknowledgements

Most of my information and knowledge came from:

  • rg9400 (Building the Custom Formats, Guidance on anime groups and sharing general knowledge.)

  • V01 from SeaDex (Guidance on anime groups and sharing general knowledge.)

  • Drazzilb (Guidance on anime groups, testing and sharing general knowledge.)

  • TRaSH (For allowing me to utilize his website for our guide and sharing general knowledge.)


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