TRaSH Guides
Shares rank 21 of 24 online tutorials by recommenders
Free guides for setting up Sonarr and Radarr quality profiles, recommended by people who cherry-pick from them. Power users find it easier with Recyclarr, and it has a learning curve.
Free guides for setting up Sonarr and Radarr quality profiles, recommended by people who cherry-pick from them. Power users find it easier with Recyclarr, and it has a learning curve.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Guides cover quality profile setup
“I'd recommend all of these guides / articles, I basically cherry-picked what I liked from all of them”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy” “at least use TraSH guides to set up quality profiles”
Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Steep learning curve for power users
“TRaSH is definitely for power users. It becomes much easier to work with when configured with Recyclarr, but there is still a learning curve.”
Comment from 16 Oct 2026 in “What I self-host”
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| TRaSH GuidesThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“TRaSH is definitely for power users. It becomes much easier to work with when configured with Recyclarr, but there is still a learning curve.”
“I find Trash guide to quality profiles/settings useless.”
“I find that those mostly don't make sense for anime”
“a separate instance allows you to set global quality settings that are more accurate for anime”
“at least use TraSH guides to set up quality profiles”
“makes setting it up where data doesn't have to get copied around and waste time”
“I'd recommend all of these guides / articles, I basically cherry-picked what I liked from all of them”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.