Single instance works fine, but a separate instance allows you to set global quality settings that are more accurate for anime: https://trash-guides.info/Sonarr/Sonarr-Quality-Settings-Fil...

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ffsm8 15 hours ago | parent [-]

You can configure quality profile via the tags too (I do have separate profiles for anime vs liveaction). I didn't even set the tag, as I don't intermingle them in the same directory, and automatic tagging by sub path is possible too

So I'm also surprised why someone would configure a second instance for that

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russelg 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If using the TRaSH guides (synced automatically with recyclarr), with all their quality profiles etc, I find that those mostly don't make sense for anime. It's easier for me to keep the anime specific stuff separate, different naming conventions, different episode numbering, etc.

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Cyph0n 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you explain? Are you manually setting tags for every anime you add? How does it work with requests made thru Seerr?

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ffsm8 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not using seerr, I've used overseer and jellyseer for a while years ago, but as I'm the only person interacting with radarr/sonarr... The value wasn't there for me.

I suspect it's would still work, but haven't tried it out

Sonarr/radarr has the ability to configure multiple library roots. Those are available in a drop-down when adding a new series through the (son|rad)arr interface

This is eg /media/(anime-series|series) for me. Then I defined a rule for those paths to add an anime|lifeaction Tag.

This then controls the tracker and quality profiles, as well as language preferences etc

	▲	Cyph0n 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, I know about root paths, but didn’t know about path-specific rules. Thanks, will check this out. And yeah, it should work fine with Seerr.