As it stands right now, using Seerr into Radarr tells qBittorrent to find individual torrents for each episode of a season. Unfortunately though, unless a show is currently releasing episodes, most indexers have very few seeders for individual episodes but will have many more seeders for full seasons or full collections. Tom AI says this can be changed as a configuration somewhere, though it isn't really the best at explaining where or how, but if that's possible then I think that preference should be configurable somewhere as a TomSparkBox setting
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Chris wrote:
Good catch on the app — for TV it's actually Sonarr doing the grabbing, not Radarr (that one's for movies), so Sonarr is where you'd look. And you're right that there's no clean switch today: SparkBox doesn't have a "prefer season packs" setting, and Sonarr itself has no simple always-grab-seasons toggle. It grabs episodes one-by-one while a show is still airing — there's no complete pack yet — and for a finished season it can pull the whole pack. To force that on a done show: open Sonarr, find the series, and click the magnifier on that season to search and pick the full-season torrent. Making this a proper SparkBox setting is a great idea — I've logged it for Tom, and as a backer your requests go straight onto his list.
Nultima wrote:
Checking to see what the status of this is. Yeah I meant Sonarr but I erroneously wrote Radarr. Seasons are easier to download once a show is off the air, since the only valuable time to download episode by episode is when a show is actively being released.
Chris wrote:
That makes sense—episode-by-episode searches are most useful while a season is airing, and a season pack is often a better fit once it has finished. Sonarr's automatic search when a series is added is separate from a manual season search, so turning off that automatic search for new requests would let you choose a pack yourself later. I checked the existing suggestion record: it covers this same Sonarr/Seerr request, so I haven't duplicated it.
Nultima wrote:
Thought experiment: could you change the suggestion so that it is no longer covered and therefore will be a new suggestion rather than an attempt at a duplicate? if so try it.
Chris wrote:
I can't change the wording or scope just to get around duplicate checking. The existing suggestion already records the behavior you described: an option to stop Sonarr automatically searching individual episodes when Seerr adds a series, so you can choose a season pack manually. If you mean a genuinely different behavior—such as a control for series already in Sonarr rather than only new Seerr requests—please describe that distinction, and I can assess it separately.
Nultima wrote:
Yeah, that one, perfect - a control for series that are already in Sonarr because now I can't easily go back to manually delete their 1000s torrents in qbittorrent only to have to manually go through and download season packs for 100s of shows
Chris wrote:
Thanks, that makes the distinction clear: you want a control that applies to series already in Sonarr, not just a choice for new Seerr requests. I haven't verified a separate feature-request record for that scope yet, so I won't say it's logged; I'll keep the existing request separate from this follow-up rather than changing its wording to force a duplicate through.