Do not show movies as available when no digital/physical release date exists, even 90 days after theatrical release.

[somesuchnonsense]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Currently a movie will be considered released/available 90 days after a theatrical release if no physical/digital release date is found. This results in downloads of non-genuine releases. This situation commonly occurs with limited-release films documentaries.

Describe the solution you'd like

If no theatrical/physical release date exists, the movie's status should still be In-Theaters/unavailable.

Describe alternatives you've considered

This could be put behind a setting such as "Delay after theatrical release to conciser movie released"

Anything else?

A current example of this is Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, but I've incountered this in the past with limited release films and independent documentaries as well.

[mynameisbogdan]

Mainstream movies are released to digital around this mark, hence the logic. But yes, anime can take up to 6-12 months.

Personally I'm against this suggestion as not many movies get their release dates filled and already are issues with those if they're released earlier than 90 days.

There was some internal talk about adding types to movies, so guess an anime type with a longer period would make sense. Or to take into account if the keyword anime is present and alter based on that. 🤷

[somesuchnonsense]

While mainstream movies, generally do have digital releases by this time, they are also most likely to have the correct metadata to reflect this, rendering the code for this logic unreachable anyway. The current logic pre-optimizes to correct a situation which is unlikely to ever occur. Furthermore, there is no indication in the ui that this default exists, make the current behavior unpredictable to the user.

Currently the only way to correct for this behavior by the user is to disable monitoring, and then re-enable monitoring once the movie is actually released, or manually delete and ban downloads. If the 90 default were removed, the user always can manually search for a released movie regardless of the release status in radarr. Of these two options, the one that requires continuous manual action by the user seems less desirable.

This issue isn't limited to anime. I've also regularly encountered this with documentaries and small studio releases.

[mynameisbogdan]

Sadly I fail to see how this is going to prevent the grabbing of fake releases anyway, as they'll always be there.

You should be improving your sources instead, since changing the default to 365 days for example will prevent a lot of grabs for other users as not many contribute on TMDb with release dates.

But I guess an opt-out option would make sense in this case to satisfy this requirement.

[somesuchnonsense]

Of course this wouldn't entirely prevent the grabbing of fake releases.. It would however prevent a condition in which every release is fake. I am arguing that the current logic solves for a problem which likely doesn't exist (in which mainstream movies have been released to digital within 90 days after theatrical release, yet the metadata provider has no been updated yet.) Even when that situation does exist, it has two permanent solves: the metadata provider can be updated (which is crowd-sourced), or the user can manually search for the film. The current logic provides no long-term recourse for the problem scenario other than for the user to manually monitor the genuine release date, and toggle the film from monitored to un-monitored accordingly.

At the bare minimum, there should be transparency in the ui as to why an unreleased title is being regarded by radarr as released, despite the metadata source stating otherwise. A toggle, or editable field would be even better. Still, considering the crowd-sourced nature of radarr's metadata source, any override should be opt-in or editable, rather than a magic number the user has to hunt through the code to understand why the software is behaving improperly.

[mynameisbogdan]

The availability is described in the WIKI at https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/faq#what-is-minimum-availability when dates are missing. Maybe this should be added to the UI as well, under minimum availability details.

Even with current logic, there was too many times when I missed new releases due to the lack of dates on TMDb where I had to add them. So don't assume everyone is contributing in advance.

Sadly you keep complaining about fake releases, but I noticed on your profile that you're a realdebrid user. That ecosystem if frowned upon and this app's place is not to fix whatever issues is having with fake releases.