qbit_manage VS sickbeard_mp4_automator

Congrats on a great setup. So hard links are wonderful if you are a member of a private tracker because you can seed forever and still maintain a nice folder structure on your media as you probably know. If you are not using private trackers or do not want to seed forever may I point you to one more piece of the puzzle. https://github.com/StuffAnThings/qbit_manage

I've found something similar to what I'm looking for in qBit Manage but I think it can handle a single instance.

There's also qbit Manage, but personally I find that one a little more confusing to get running for a simple task.

Using the Qbit_Manage bobokun container. - https://github.com/StuffAnThings/qbit_manage

You can use qbit_manage to automatically add tags based on the tracker. I have it setup to run every 30mins and it automatically updates anything new with tags. Setting it up can be a bit complicated tho. It does have a dry run feature that’ll simulate any changes it would do without actually making the changes. I suggest testing with that on first.

*arrs have nothing to do with removing torrents when media is deleted. You can accomplish this with an on-delete custom script or better yet with QbitManage

I have been using MP4 automator for over 5 years; https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator . I choose MP4 as it works on preety much any device i have ever tryied, H264, AAC stereo and AC3 5.1. Have also used Tdarr for H265 conversion; it really uses 35-50% less space for same quality (4k and I wasnt able to see difference).

They do extended versions of some existing containers that add extra stuff. I use sabnzbd-extended for the SMA support.

SMA, Automatically converts media files to a standardized format, and tags them with the appropriate metadata from TMDB if the container supports tagging. Made to integrate with Radarr, Sonarr, etc. but can be run stand alone. Python required (3+, although 2.7 was still supported, last I knew). Free. https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator

Sickbeard mp4 Automator for media conversation and metadata matching. Combined with mediaelch for bulk renaming and poster downloads, they’re essential for plex hosting. Also use subler for quick metadata/language code fixes.

You can use something like the following to automate the transcoding: https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator

Going back to https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator, I was following the steps for sonarr/radarr and went to add a connection (custom script). Browsed to /usr/local/sma/postSonarr.py and clicked the test button, and I got an error that the script exited with -1. I am wondering if it has something to do with this weird instruction from the github page: