Detect Duplicate Downloads for RSS-feeds: how does it work?

[pven]

Hi!

I am trying to understand this option.

When I turn it off, everything will be downloaded
When I put it on pause, duplicates will be paused, meaning one of the can be downloaded, the other one can be deleted manually?
When I put it on discard, what will happen?

[shypike]

What "discard" means: it will not enter the queue at all.

[pven]

Is it possible to automatically download one item, and delete the duplicate?

[safihre]

That is what will happen, a duplicate will only be detected after the first original one has already been downloaded.

[shypike]

If you need more sophistication, use Sonarr as a front-end for SABnzbd.

[pven]

I already use Sickrage for series. I use RSS-feeds for other stuff.

I'll set the setting to Pause, and keep track if it only pauses items that were already downloaded.

Thanks!

[shypike]

I'll set the setting to Pause, and keep track if it only pauses items that were already downloaded.

Because the match is done against the history database, the detection may be late.

In the case of "discard" it would not be a good idea to throw away duplicates before
you know that a download was successful. You wouldn't know that an alternative was available.

In the case of "pause", it would be safe to detect immediately.
The alternatives for a failed build would still be in the queue.

There's no perfect solution (at least not with this simple model), but some improvement is possible.
I'll have to think about it.

A better (long term) solution would be to pause duplicates and then remove them
after the first successful download.

[pven]

Thanks for the information!