## Sonarr recommended naming scheme examples
Often on Sonarr discord people asking what's the recommended/best way to naming your files.
first of it's personal preference, but the support staff often recommend to add also non recoverable info.
Why ?
if you even need to do a re-install, re-import for what ever reason in Radarr or Plex/Emby/JellyFin it's nice to have all that info in the filename so it get's imported correctly and not been matched as HDTV or WEB-DL etc.
The Tokens not available in the release won't be used/shown.
[Standard Episode Format ](#standard-movie-format-examples )
[Daily Episode Format ](#daily-episode-format )
[Anime Episode Format ](#anime-episode-format )
[Series Folder Format ](#series-folder-format )
[Season Folder Format ](#season-folder-format )
[Multi-Episode Style ](#multi-episode-style )
[Original Title vs Original Filename ](#original-title-vs-original-filename )
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### Standard Episode Format
> All the details.
`{Series TitleYear} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {Episode CleanTitle} {[Quality Full]} {[Preferred Words]} {[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRange]} [{MediaInfo VideoBitDepth}bit] {[MediaInfo VideoCodec]} {[MediaInfo-AudioCodec}-{MediaInfo AudioChannels]}{[MediaInfo AudioLanguages]}{-Release Group}`
RESULTS:
Single Episode:
`The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01 - Episode Title 1 [HDTV-720p Proper] [iNTERNAL] [HDR] [10bit] [x264] [DTS 5.1]-RlsGrp`
Multi Episode:
`The Series Title! (2010) - S01E01-E02-E03 - Episode Title [HDTV-720p Proper] [iNTERNAL] [HDR] [10bit] [x264] [DTS 5.1]-RlsGrp`
> Minimal details + the irreplaceable data.
`{Series Title} S{season:00}E{episode:00} {[Quality Title]}{[MediaInfo AudioCodec}{ MediaInfo AudioChannels]}{[MediaInfo VideoCodec]}{-Release Group}`
RESULT:
Single Episode:
`The Series Title! S01E01 [HDTV-720p][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp`
Multi Episode:
`The Series Title! S01E01-E02-E03 [HDTV-720p][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp`
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### Daily Episode Format
> All the details.
`{Series TitleYear} - {Air-Date} - {Episode CleanTitle} {[Quality Full]} {[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRange]} [{MediaInfo VideoBitDepth}bit] {[MediaInfo VideoCodec]} {[MediaInfo-AudioCodec}-{MediaInfo AudioChannels]}{[MediaInfo AudioLanguages]}{-Release Group}`
RESULT:
`The Series Title! (2010) - 2013-10-30 - Episode Title 1 [HDTV-720p Proper] [HDR] [10bit] [x264] [DTS-5.1]-RlsGrp`
> Minimal details + the irreplaceable data.
`{Series Title} - {Air-Date} - {Episode CleanTitle} {[Quality Title]}{[MediaInfo AudioCodec}{ MediaInfo AudioChannels]}{[MediaInfo VideoCodec]}{-Release Group}`
RESULT:
`The Series Title! - 2013-10-30 - Episode Title 1 [HDTV-720p][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp`
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### Anime Episode Format
> All the details.
`{Series TitleYear} - {absolute:000} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {Episode CleanTitle} {[Quality Full]} {[MediaInfo VideoDynamicRange]} [{MediaInfo VideoBitDepth}bit] {[MediaInfo VideoCodec]} {[MediaInfo-AudioCodec}-{MediaInfo AudioChannels]}{[MediaInfo AudioLanguages]}{-Release Group}`
RESULT:
Single Episode:
`The Series Title! (2010) - 001 - S01E01 - Episode Title 1 [HDTV-720p v2] [HDR] [10bit] [x264] [DTS-5.1][[JA]]-RlsGrp`
Multi Episode:
`The Series Title! (2010) - 001-002-003 - S01E01-E02-E03 - Episode Title [HDTV-720p v2] [HDR] [10bit] [x264] [DTS-5.1][[JA]]-RlsGrp`
> Minimal details + the irreplaceable data.
`{Series Title} - {absolute:000} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {[Quality Title]}{[MediaInfo AudioCodec}{ MediaInfo AudioChannels]}{[MediaInfo VideoCodec]}{-Release Group}`
RESULT:
Single Episode:
`The Series Title! - 001 - S01E01 - [HDTV-720p][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp`
Multi Episode:
`The Series Title! - 001-002-003 - S01E01-E02-E03 - [HDTV-720p][DTS 5.1][x264]-RlsGrp`
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#### Original Title vs Original Filename
> Want to keep the original release name that holds like all the info of the file then I suggest to use `{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`
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### Series Folder Format
`{Series TitleYear}`
RESULT:
`The Series Title! (2010)`
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### Season Folder Format
> For this theirs only one real option to use in my opinion.
`Season {season:00}`
RESULT:
`Season 01`
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### Multi-Episode Style
`Scene`
RESULTS:
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THNX:
> A big thnx to [fryfrog](https://github.com/fryfrog), [rg9400](https://github.com/rg9400) and [bakerboy448](https://github.com/bakerboy448) for the suggestions.
