nexcrate
Switching in seven steps
If you already work with Radarr and Sonarr, you find the tab “Switch to nexcrate” under Settings, Services.
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Check first, then write
Before anything is written, Nexview checks whether nexcrate knows the titles that requests, storage entries and rights hang on.
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What it is waiting for is written on it
In nexcrate mode every title page carries one line per version: it is here, downloading, nothing found that fits the profile, not released yet, sitting out a delay.
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Deleted files come back
nexcrate keeps its recycle bin as a list rather than a folder: file by file, with size, date and who deleted it.
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One connection instead of four
Until 1.0.0, procuring in Nexview meant Radarr for movies, Sonarr for shows, and a second instance of each for 4K. Now there is a second way. nexcrate replaces Radarr and Sonarr with a single app that keeps several versions per title, and Nexview talks to it directly. If you stay with Radarr and Sonarr, stay: little changes for you.
During setup
Who procures the titles?
A fresh installation asks right after the TMDB step who procures: Radarr and Sonarr, or nexcrate. One switch for movies and shows alike; there is no mixed mode.
From then on the wizard only shows what belongs to that choice. For nexcrate that is an address, the pairing, and the question of which versions everyone may request. Quality profiles, naming, folders and the recycle bin live over there in nexcrate, so Nexview does not ask about them at all.
Pairing means: Nexview asks nexcrate for a key, you confirm the request there, and Nexview collects it. There is nothing to copy.
For running installations
Switching in seven steps
If you already work with Radarr and Sonarr, you find the tab “Switch to nexcrate” under Settings, Services. First the numbers, then connecting, then you map each current version onto one from nexcrate.
The mapping is one to one. Two of your versions cannot point at the same one in nexcrate, or a title held in both, the same film in Full-HD and in 4K, would collapse into one entry. The assistant says so while you set it up, not afterwards.
Where nexcrate has no counterpart, pick “None”, and everything in that version stays as it is.
Before the switch
Check first, then write
Before anything is written, Nexview checks whether nexcrate knows the titles that requests, storage entries and rights hang on. What is missing is listed with its reason, and you decide before going on.
Then the backup. It is the only way back, so the assistant creates it itself and does not let you continue without it. The switch runs in one transaction: if anything fails, nothing has changed. Only then does Nexview leave Radarr and Sonarr, and it only removes its own webhook entries there.
Finally Nexview hands over approved requests, because nexcrate has never heard of them. No file is touched, nothing is downloaded, nothing deleted.
On the title
What it is waiting for is written on it
In nexcrate mode every title page carries one line per version: it is here, downloading, nothing found that fits the profile, not released yet, sitting out a delay. nexcrate supplies the reason, Nexview writes the sentence, so it reads in your language.
Radarr and Sonarr cannot say this. There the section is absent rather than showing “no reason known”, which would claim everything is fine.
Approvers jump from the title straight across to nexcrate with “Open in procurement”.
Storage
Deleted files come back
nexcrate keeps its recycle bin as a list rather than a folder: file by file, with size, date and who deleted it. Nexview shows it under Settings, Quotas, and one click brings a file back.
If the title has left the library since, nexcrate adds it again when the file comes back, unmonitored, and the row says so beforehand. Where it cannot, because the file is gone or its place is taken, the row says that too, and the button stays closed.
When an upgrade replaces a file, the old one lands there as well. In nexcrate mode the age of a title for the cleanup suggestion comes from nexcrate itself; where it is unknown, Nexview does not guess one.
Rights
Rights hang on the version
“4K or not” has become “which version”. Every version has two switches, in Radarr mode too: whether it is open to everyone, and who else may request it. That includes the main version.
In nexcrate mode every version stands on the services page with its switch and the state nexcrate reports for it. A new version in nexcrate stays closed until you open it.
No obligation
If you stay with Radarr and Sonarr
Radarr mode is not on its way out. Everything Nexview does with Radarr and Sonarr stays: the quality wizard, naming, webhooks, picking folder and profile at approval.
What changes there is small and in the release notes: rights per version instead of per tier, and the media server no longer creates storage entries; it only measures what Radarr and Sonarr reported.
You can switch at any time later, with the same assistant.
What nexcrate is. A separate open source project from the same workshop: movies, shows and music in one app, several versions per title. Everything about it on nexcrate's own site.
⚠️ Adding a title again from the recycle bin needs nexcrate 0.3.0. An older nexcrate refuses it, and Nexview says why.