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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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

Sonarr

After setting up your optimal volume/paths found HERE, follow the steps below to improve your setup.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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

TRaSH Guides do not have any guides related to Lidarr.
We suggest that you use Davo's Community Lidarr Guide

Bazarr

Some of these guides were started by us and are now maintained by the Bazarr team.

  • Basic-Guide - The basic set up needed to get started with Bazarr (external link to the official most up-to-date Bazarr guide).
  • After Install Configuration - Bazarr only searches for subtitles for Episodes and Movies that are added after the install, So you will need to set the preferred languages for your existing Shows and Movies. (external link to the official most up-to-date Bazarr guide).
  • Suggested Scoring - Suggested scores that would work with the most common languages, with this scoring 99% of your downloaded subtitles should be the correct ones for your release.
  • Scripts - The start of a collection of community-provided and maintained scripts for Bazarr, that only should be used if you have a specific need for it.

Downloaders

  • NZBGet Guides

    • Basic-Setup - Basic set up of the most common settings.
    • Path and Categories - How to set up the categories for NZBGet, and how you can manage and organize your downloads in groups. Starr apps can use the categories in NZBGet to keep track of downloads to monitor, rather than watching every download in your client.
    • Scripts - A collection of scripts, that only should be used if you have a specific need for it.

  • SABnzbd Guides

    • Basic-Setup - Basic set up of the most common settings.
    • Path and Categories - How to set up the categories for SABnzbd, and how you can manage and organize your downloads in groups. Starr apps can use the categories in SABnzbd to keep track of downloads to monitor, rather than watching every download in your client.
    • Scripts - A collection of scripts, that only should be used if you have a specific need for it.

  • qBittorrent Guides

    • Basic-Setup - Basic set up of the most common settings.
    • Paths - Where to set your root download location.
    • How to add Categories - How to set up the categories for qBittorrent, and how you can manage and organize your torrents in groups. Starr apps can use the categories in qBittorrent to keep track of downloads to monitor, rather than watching every torrent in your client.
    • Port forwarding - Where in your download client you should add the port you've port forwarded with your VPN Service.
    • 3rd Party tools - A collection of 3rd party tools and other related links for qBittorrent.
    • Tips - Several tips/tweaks for qBittorrent.

  • Deluge Guides

    • Installing - Installation instructions.
    • Basic-Setup - Basic set up of the most common settings.
    • Using Labels - Labels are the equivalent of categories for qBittorrent, and how you can manage and organize your torrents in groups. Starr apps can use labels in Deluge to keep track of downloads to monitor, rather than watching every torrent in your client.
    • Port forwarding - Where in your download client you should add the port you've port forwarded with your VPN Service.
    • Tips - Several tips/tweaks for Deluge.
      • Plugins - Here you will find a list of included and available plugins that may be useful.
      • Thin Client - How to set up the Thin-Client to manage Deluge.
      • unRAID Mover and Deluge - How to move your files from your cache drive to your array when torrents are still seeding.

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.

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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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