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This has likely been covered somewhere, but I havent yet found it, at least in enough detail that I can comprehend . If it is, please just point me in the right direction.

I've been using sabnzbd for several years now and Im overall very happy with it. Having said that, I continue to struggle with the unpacking scripts and I'm doing too much manually after the unpacking is complete.

I currently have got to the point where it's unpacking everything and naming the files correctly, but I need a few tweaks. I essentially have 3 things that I want to accomplish.

movies - unpack into the download folder in plain english (this is currently working, but it is including all of the random files within the rar, when all that I really want is the actual movie file).
music - I would like to be unpacked into a folder based on the file name. Currently they are unpacking into the download folder
TV - I would like unpacked the same as movies (ie: the video file named and placed into the download folder). These are currently unpacking into folders within the download folder.

If you need additional details or more information, just let me know.

Version: 4.2.2 [f730607]


Thanks to anyone that is able to assist.

Just updated to v 4.3.3, but that doesnt effect the sorting.

I've found that I can change the filter to use "in folder" to get music files to extract into a folder, but that also effects other files as well. But it is helpful if I just do music separate.

movies: I would suggest to use the "%title (%y)/%title (%y).%ext" sorting string.
Just make sure that all your movies are assigned to the right category!

music: I think here we cannot do much here. You could try maybe a general sorter.

TV: try "%sn/%sn - S%0sE%0e - %en.%ext"

Make sure you have nothing set in the Folder/Path settings in the Categories settings.

I would also suggest to take a look at the very specific applications that are made for this: Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr.
They also arrange the whole automatic downloading of content.

Thank you. I will test those out.