Clean Audio Review and Safety

CLEAN Audio, Review & Safety

CLEAN track behavior

Default configuration:

clean_track:
  title: English - CLEAN
  language: eng
  place_clean_first: true
  make_default: true
  replace_existing_clean: true
  reprocess_existing_clean: false
  codec: auto

Censorarr preserves retained original media streams and creates a separate CLEAN audio track.

Reprocessing replaces the existing CLEAN track rather than stacking additional CLEAN tracks.

Original audio

Censorarr does not intentionally destroy the retained original audio track when adding the CLEAN version.

Dry Run

dry_run: true

Use this for initial evaluation.

Dry Run still reads/transcribes media but does not perform the final media replacement.

Review Mode

review_mode:
  enabled: true

When enabled, analysis stops at the review screen.

Approving uses the existing analysis report, so the file does not need to be transcribed again.

Safe replacement

Default safety settings:

safety:
  validate_output: true
  duration_tolerance_seconds: 2.0
  preserve_owner_mode: true
  backup_original: false

Censorarr creates temporary output, validates it, and only then replaces the original pathname.

If you want an additional original-file backup, enable:

backup_original: true

Understand the storage impact before enabling it across a large library.

Completion markers

Default marker:

.censorarr.done.json

It is stored in the media directory and includes a media fingerprint.

If the media file is replaced/changed, the fingerprint changes and the old completion state is no longer treated as current.

Reports

Default:

/config/reports

The example configuration keeps transcript JSON and rescue details.