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Lidarr, Bazarr and Prowlarr

Setup

Move your music, subtitle languages, Sources and Downloaders. The steps match Move from other apps; this page lists what each app brings.

  1. Open Settings > Move from other apps and click Add an app for each app.
  2. Type the address and API key, or the backup path, and click Check connection. For qBittorrent, type the user name and password, or its API key on version 5.2 and later.
  3. Read each app, then go through Choose, Try it and Move. You should see each app’s groups in Choose.
From Lidarr In HolyArrs
Library folders Library folders for music.
Artists Titles, matched by MusicBrainz id, folders and files in place. A watched artist gets Keep up to date. Nothing is searched for.
Quality profiles The closest Pick rules preset (Lossless first, Lossy 320 or V0, Any music).
Exclusions The Never-add list.
Untagged default wait rule Waits on the matched Pick rules, up to 7 days.
Indexers, download clients, remote path mappings, naming, notifications Same as for Sonarr and Radarr.

Stays behind: metadata profiles, import lists for music, custom formats, release word rules and tags.

From Bazarr In HolyArrs
Default language profile Default subtitle languages.
Podnapisi and Gestdown Subtitle sites, one of each kind. A kind already here is left alone.

Stays behind: other subtitle sites and their accounts. HolyArrs reaches Addic7ed through Gestdown with no account, so add Gestdown under Settings > Subtitles. For a site with an account, type it there or use Import keys from a file.

From Prowlarr In HolyArrs
Torznab, Newznab and RSS indexers Sources, added paused and blocked from your home network.
Download clients Downloaders, added paused.

Stays behind: app links, sync profiles, indexer proxies and notification kinds HolyArrs does not have.

qBittorrent and SABnzbd

Link to qBittorrent and SABnzbd
From In HolyArrs
qBittorrent, SABnzbd A Downloader, added paused, using the holyarrs category so it never picks up the old apps’ downloads.

Stays behind: download categories and SABnzbd’s usenet servers.

Before you turn things on

Link to Before you turn things on

Type each key again and resume each item. See After the move.

If it does not work

Link to If it does not work
Symptom Cause Fix
qBittorrent read fails Wrong user name or password, or the key on a version before 5.2. Use the user name and password from qBittorrent’s Web UI settings.
A Downloader at home does not answer May reach the local network is off. Turn it on for that Downloader.
A subtitle site is off It needs an account, which a move cannot bring. Type the account under Settings > Subtitles, then turn it on.

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