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Guides
Coming from Readarr or Sonarr
What carries over and what differs.
If you have run Sonarr, Radarr or Readarr, most of ABM is where you expect it.
The same
Section titled “The same”Wanted (Missing, Cutoff Unmet), Activity (Queue, History, Blocklist), Calendar with an iCal feed, indexers with RSS, automatic and interactive search, quality profiles with a cutoff and upgrades, delay and release profiles, tags, Connect, remote path mappings, a recycle bin, backups, Tasks and Status.
Different
Section titled “Different”| In the arrs | In ABM |
|---|---|
| Resolution-based qualities | A ladder of audio formats, single or multi-file |
| Custom formats | Release profiles with Must Contain, Must Not Contain, Preferred |
| An item is an episode, film or book | A book, with series and position tracked as catalogues |
| Metadata from their own service | Libex, with covers lockable, sidecars and tags written |
| One download folder | Same, plus Library Import for existing collections |
| No media conversion | A conversion queue: convert, merge, split, chapters |
| Naming formats | ABM chooses folder names. Rename Files is on lists |
| Import lists of many kinds | MAM and RSS |
Not in ABM
Section titled “Not in ABM”Flood is not a client. There are no custom formats. Readarr’s book support is not part of this. ABM is audiobooks only.
Moving over
Section titled “Moving over”There is no Readarr importer. Point ABM at your existing audiobook folder with Library Import and see Moving a library in.