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Recommended naming scheme⧫

On the Sonarr Discord people often ask, “What’s the recommended/best way to
name your files?” First off, it’s personal preference, but it’s often recommended to add non-recoverable info.

Why?

If, for what ever reason, you ever need to do a re-install or re-import in
the Starr Apps or Plex/Emby/Jellyfin it’s nice to have all that info in the filename so
it gets imported correctly and isn’t incorrectly matched as HDTV or WEB-DL etc.

The Tokens not available in the release won’t be used/shown.

Preparation⧫

Go to Settings => Media Management and make sure that Show Advanced at the top is enabled.

Enable Advanced

Once you clicked on the button it should look like this and you should see all the advanced options.

Unhide Advanced

Standard Episode Format⧫

{{ sonarr['naming']['sonarr-naming']['episodes']['standard']['default:4'] }}
RESULTS: - [Click to show/hide]

Single Episode:

The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01 - Episode Title 1 [AMZN WEBDL-1080p Proper][DV HDR10][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp

Multi Episode:

The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01-E03 - Episode Title [AMZN WEBDL-1080p Proper][DV HDR10][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp

Daily Episode Format⧫

{{ sonarr['naming']['sonarr-naming']['episodes']['daily']['default:4'] }}
RESULTS: - [Click to show/hide]

The Series Title! (2010) - 2013-10-30 - Episode Title 1 [AMZN WEBDL-1080p Proper][DV HDR10][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp

Anime Episode Format⧫

{{ sonarr['naming']['sonarr-naming']['episodes']['anime']['default:4'] }}
RESULTS: - [Click to show/hide]

Single Episode:

The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01 - 001 - Episode Title 1 [iNTERNAL HDTV-720p v2][HDR10][10bit][x264][DTS 5.1][JA]-RlsGrp

Multi Episode:

The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01-E03 - 001-003 - Episode Title [iNTERNAL HDTV-720p v2][HDR10][10bit][x264][DTS 5.1][JA]-RlsGrp

Series Folder Format⧫

{{ sonarr['naming']['sonarr-naming']['series']['default'] }}

RESULT: The Series Title! (2010)

Optional Series Folder Format⧫

This naming scheme is made to be compatible with the new Plex TV Series Scanner that now support IMDB and TVDB IDs in file names.

Optional Plex⧫
{{ sonarr['naming']['sonarr-naming']['series']['plex'] }}

RESULT: The Series Title! (2010) {imdb-tt1520211}

Optional Emby⧫
{{ sonarr['naming']['sonarr-naming']['series']['emby'] }}

RESULT: The Series Title! (2010)

Optional Jellyfin⧫
{{ sonarr['naming']['sonarr-naming']['series']['jellyfin'] }}

RESULT: The Series Title! (2010) [tvdbid-tt1520211]

Tip

IMDb IDs are going to be very accurate and rarely change, TVDB/TMDB IDs, on the other hand, do change or are removed more frequently.

Season Folder Format⧫

For this there’s only one real option to use in my opinion.

Season {season:00}

RESULT: Season 01

Multi-Episode Style⧫

Prefixed Range

RESULTS:

results

Original Title vs Original Filename⧫

Original Title⧫

Another option is to use {Original Title} rather than the recommended naming scheme outlined above. {Original Title} will use the title of the release which will contain all of the information included in the release itself. The benefit of this naming scheme is to prevent download loops which can occur on import when there is a discrepancy in the release title compared to the contents of the file itself (for example, if the release title says DTS-ES but the contents are actually DTS). The downside is less flexibility with how the files are named.

If using this alternate naming scheme I suggest using {Original Title} over {Original Filename}

Why?

The filename can be Obscured where the Release naming isn’t, especially when you use Usenet.

{Original Title} => The.Series.Title.S01E01.Episode.Title.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-RlsGrp

{Original Filename} => show episode 1-1080p or lchd-tkk1080p or t1i0p3s7i8yuti

Thanks:

A big Thanks to fryfrog, rg9400 and bakerboy448 for the suggestions.