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Understanding Sonarr’s Logic: Quality Profiles vs. Custom Formats
For now, the most practical approach is to follow TRaSH Guides for up-to-date custom formats, use Recyclarr for automated updates, and periodically review your quality profiles to ensure they align with both your hardware capabilities and the evolving release landscape.
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: Go to Settings > Profiles , select your quality profile, and give your new "x265" format a positive score (e.g., +100). 2. Use Release Profiles (Sonarr v3)
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To block x265 entirely, create a custom format that matches x265/HEVC releases and assign it a large negative score (e.g., -10000) in your quality profile. Alternatively, use the "Must Not Contain" field in a release profile with the same regex pattern.
Set the to 0 (this ensures Sonarr still downloads x264 files if an x265 version is unavailable). Click Save . Method 2: Configuring Release Profiles (Sonarr v3)