Each Quality shown in the Profiles section can be selected or deselected for each quality profile. This allows you to create specific quality hierarchies, and you can choose a specific profile to use on a per-movie basis. Qualities shown higher on the list are "preferred" over lower qualities.
You can re-order this list, so you can place specific qualities in any order you wish to use—with higher priority qualities at the top, and lower priority qualities at the bottom. If you want to create an "archive" quality profile for older movies you have already seen, you can place what would normally be construed as "lower quality" versions above "higher quality" versions to automatically download smaller files on titles which that "Archive" quality profile is applied to.
For example, the "Archive" quality profile shown below has lower quality versions in a custom hierarchy that will prefer `480p` or `DVD` versions of the associated files:
The cutoff shown above is set to `Blu-ray 1080p`. Now a practical example: If you already have a `Blu-ray 720p` version in your library, when a 1080p version comes across in an RSS update, the `Blu-ray 1080p` version will download and replace the `Blu-ray 720p` version. If another RSS update happens later down the line with a `Remux 1080p`, since the cutoff has already been met, it will not download the Remux version. However, if `Remux 1080p` and `Blu-ray 1080p` come across in the same RSS update, since the `Remux 1080p` quality is active, it will prefer the Remux release. If you use a delay profile, there may be several RSS updates during that delay period and if a Remux version comes across in any RSS update during the delay period, it will be preferred.
You can use this logic to create specific profiles for higher quality versions of movies you want the best quality versions of, or also use it to archive older movies that you don't really care much about the quality of.
**Proper Releases**
A tag to consider that will always supersede "cutoff met" is when a PROPER release comes across through RSS and you have "Download Propers" activated in `Settings > Media Management > File Management`. This is a "hidden" setting (shown in yellow) so you must have "Hidden" settings shown to see it.
With this active, `PROPER` releases will always download a new copy because it is assumed that the release fixes an issue with the previous release of that movie. For example, `PROPER` releases usually come across when audio is found to be out of sync, or if there are visual artifacts, or other issues with the original release. If you notice that a title in your library downloaded more than one version of a movie you thought that the cutoff was met for already, it is likely because a `PROPER` release superseded that cutoff.
**Preferred Tags**
If you'd like to give a little more weight to a release without *requiring* it, this setting in each specific profile is for you. For example, you might *prefer* releases with `TrueHD` or `DTS-HD` to get the best audio, but it is okay to grab a release that doesn't have this support.
If you'd like to give a little more weight to a release without *requiring* it, this setting in each specific profile is for you. For example, you might *prefer* releases with `TrueHD` or `DTS-HD` to get the best audio, but it is okay to grab a release that doesn't have these audio tracks.
**Delay Profiles**
You can also set up Delay Profiles to wait to download preferred releases until after a certain time has elapses, this will allow extra time for releases with your preferred tags or cutoffs to be released.
For example, this delay profile will wait one day to start the download, and if any releases containing your preferred tags come across it will be preferred over others that do not have the preferred tags.
Delay profiles were originally created to prefer Torrents over Usenet, or visa versa, by setting a delay before starting a download for either torrents or usenet. However, it can also be used to wait for preferred tag releases and prevent multiple successive qualities from downloading when a cutoff is unmet. For instance, if a `Blu-ray 720p` release comes across RSS first, and a `Blu-ray 1080p` version comes across RSS 2 hours later, if you have a delay profile set for more than 2 hours, only the most preferred release (in this example, we are assuming `Blu-ray 1080p` is preferred by the associated Quality Profile) will be sent to your download client.
Michael Klass
7 years ago