Set default release group for Slskd?

[IeuanK]

I added Slskd to my stack, and it's been a blessing. The only issue is that I have to manually import everything because Release Group is always empty.

Is there any way to set a default group so that it can just import as-is? I haven't come across a single Soulseek release that had a valid release group?

[TypNull]

I'm sorry, but I'm not entirely sure I understand the issue you're describing. To clarify how the process works: Lidarr does match albums against release groups, and it does so based on the album title. When you trigger a search through SLSKD, it downloads the result with the highest likelihood of success. It won't always find the exact release, but it tries to be as accurate as possible. There may be occasional cases where the matched release has too few tracks or is otherwise incorrect, but that should be the minority rather than the majority.

So what issue do you see exactly that makes it necessary for you to import manually?

[IeuanK]

My queue is filled with these. I now manually set them to release group 'unknown' to fix it, but I am wondering if it is possible to do this automatically.
From what I found the release group is dependent on the source (i.e. it is the uploader), you're saying that's not true?

[TypNull]

Ah ok I thought you mean MB release group, not scene release groups. The release group field being empty isn't what's preventing automatic import, Lidarr doesn't require that field to import files.
When you look at the manual import queue, there should be actual rejection reasons listed (like "album match not close enough" or "missing tracks") that are blocking the automatic import. The empty release group is just metadata that would be "nice to have" for Usenet or Torrent release groups but isn't causing your import issues.

If everything is importing fine after you manually set the release group to "unknown", then it would have imported fine anyway, the release group change isn't what fixed it. Try clicking on the items in your manual import queue to see what the actual rejection reasons are. Those are what you'd need to address to get automatic imports working. T
he release group field is only used for custom formats, file naming, and tracking which group released what, it's not part of the import decision logic. And really does not apply so soulseek as every user would be its own "release group"

[IeuanK]

Thank you for the elaborate explanation and apologies for my misunderstanding. It turns out it was a permission issue, I had wrongly assumed it was Tubifarry because I hadn't seen this before but I hadn't considered the fact that I created a new directory for Slskd (which I set up at the same time) that appears to have had the wrong permissions set.