About a few weeks ago I noticed that someone has been posting exe and zipx as normal shows in nyaa. For example Slow horses and Reacher. They post it a day before the release date so Sonarr picks it up.

it's happened always, though not sure about its frequency. just filter it on your torrent client

Using the arrs on (what I assume is) a public tracker takes bigger balls than I have. Or maybe I'm just too dumb lol. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to knuckle down and dive into the the trash guides to really understand how quality profiles work. I still don't get it.

Slow Horses on nyaa?

You don't really need to mess with the quality profiles, the defaults are fine.

All they do is filter the resolution/bitrate. You set a download to look for HDTV-1080p and it'll look for something up to or including that resolution.

Each quality profile also has a size picker with min/preferred/max setpoints, like 3.5GiB/h, so a one-hour video would be 3.5GiB. This is to filter something labeled as 1080p, but if it's an hour long and only 20 MB it's almost certainly a fake, which you want it to skip.

Maybe quality profiles isn't the right way to describe what I was trying to monkey with. I can't for the life of me get the arrs to consistently download season packs instead of individual episodes. It feels like half the time I add something I'll get episodes 1-3,6,7-10 on shows that have already aired the whole season.

Oh yeah that's different. Apparently it's possible. Under custom formats, click the plus, name "season pack", click the plus, click release type, name "season pack", release type season pack, check required, save, save. Then go to quality profiles, open the one you use, and under custom formats, set the score for the one you created to 10. Done in two minutes.

https://trash-guides.info/Sonarr/sonarr-collection-of-custom-formats/#season-pack

https://trash-guides.info/Sonarr/sonarr-import-custom-formats/

Hell yeah, thanks for the knowledge, friend! I'll have to give that a shot. Much appreciated!

They post it a day before the release date so Sonarr picks it up.

That's kinda funny actually. Sonarr is like "here you go!" and Jellyfin is like "wtf is this"

Been happening across many public trackers, and I've even seen it happen in Funfile. Best to filter out .lnk, .exe, and .zipx filetypes from your download client.

And Reacher? On Nyaa? That's just sloppy. No wonder I haven't noticed.

Even sonarr import would fail if its not a mkv file or something wont it?

The import fails, but the files has to be manually removed from Sonarr, it stops the download of the actual episodes.

https://redlib.catsarch.com//r/sonarr/comments/1ut8ubp/sonarr_grabbing_exe_and_scr_spam_files_despite/

Probably hacked accounts. Nyaa isnt that easy to register for uploading.

Report them for everyone please.

Right, the files downloaded by qbit has to be manually deleted but if import fails (doesn't move or create link in library folder) then jellyfin will not see it. It does show manual input required so at least it notifies you but yeah, can't automate deletion within sonarr itself. I had this issue only twice on ext and the exe does nothing on linux with good permissions anyway so didn't see a need to handle it but would be a nice security feature for microslop users.

Edit: I do see a comment mentioning enabling the fail option in indexer can delete the files after it is fully downloaded. But others say it can't so test it yourself.

All my applications are on linux lxc, so yeah it doesn't cause issues other than annoyance.