#4859·Radarr

Custom Formats do not apply before the Movie Year in release titles

Author: imjuzcyCreated Aug 12, 2020Updated Sep 11, 2026
LabelsType: BugStatus: Maybe One Day

Describe the bug The custom format is v3 is very weird ang buggy. It says it's regex, but it's performing very inconsistently.

For example, let's say the release title is "Vectronic Presents Native Daughter (2019) 1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL x264. NL Subs Ingebakken". If the regex is set to (without quotes):

"Vectronic Presents": no match "Vectronic Presents.*": no match "Vectronic.Presents.": no match ".*Vectronic.Presents.": no match "native": no match "daughter": no match "2019": match "amzn": match

Let's say if the release title is "A.Beautiful.Day.in.the.Apartment.2019.UHD.BluRay.2160p.DTS-X.7.1.HEVC.REMUX-FraMeSToR-Scrambled". If regex set to (without quotes):

"beautiful": no match "apartment": no match "2019": match "uhd": match

Let's say if the release title is "Red.Lantern.3D.2011.MULTI.1080p.BluRay.x264-JASS". If regex set to (without quotes):

".(3d|sbs).": no match

But if the release title is "Blue.Lantern.3D.2011.1080p.BluRay.Full-SBS.DTS.x264-TruHD", then ".(3d|sbs)." gets a match.

From this, it seems that only the year and everything that proceeds are going to get matched with custom formats. If this is true, this might give some problem as mentioned in above examples, I would like to avoid 3D files and releases from "Vectronic Presents", but Radarr will still grab the first, third and forth releases in above given examples, which I'm actively trying to avoid.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Do as mentioned in example.

Expected behavior Custom formats should match everything including things that precede title.

Platform Information (please complete the following information):

  • OS: Ubuntu 20.04 Docker
  • Radarr Version: 3.0.0.3374-ls18 by linuxserver.io

AB#825