Hey all, it's been a bit since I've provided an update, but today I'm announcing the release of Tunarr 1.3. This version is a major step forward for the platform, introducing a mid-roll break system, music video support, UI internationalization, a stream troubleshooter, and a host of scheduling improvements that give channel operators far more control over their lineups.

It will likely be the last "large" feature release, as I shift to smaller, more incremental releases (getting features to you all faster).

As always, take a backup of your current setup before upgrading and consider upgrading to a duplicate instance to test the new version.

Highlights

Mid-Roll Breaks (Slot Schedulers)

Tunarr 1.3 introduces a system for mid-roll filler in the slot schedulers. Three break placement modes are now supported — fixed interval, percentage-based, and initial delay + interval — with configurable duration ranges, per-list filler filtering, and a new "lazy" scheduling strategy that defers filler selection to stream time for fresher cooldown state. Mid-roll breaks are configured directly within slot schedulers.

Internationalization (i18n)

The entire web interface is now translatable. Tunarr now ships with the Lingui framework that makes community contributions straightforward. Language can be changed in Settings > Web. If you are interested in contributing translations, please reach out to me!

Music Video Scanning

Music videos are now a first-class media type. Tunarr can scan music video libraries from local files (with NFO metadata), Jellyfin, and Emby. Music videos are indexed, searchable, and schedulable alongside movies and TV shows.

HLS Streaming Improvements

• Master playlist generation — FFmpeg now produces proper HLS master playlists, enabling multi-audio and multi-subtitle rendition support. More to come on this front.
• WebVTT sidecar subtitles — External .srt/.vtt subtitle files are served as selectable HLS subtitle tracks (experimental; enable in Settings > Features).
• HLS Direct mode improvements — The "remux" playback mode now copies all available audio and subtitle streams, giving clients full track selection. This is not exposed in the UI yet, but was added to power a much larger scale project I'm working on with Tunarr.

Scheduling

• Slot Linking — Slots can now be explicitly linked to share a single episode iterator. Two modes: continue (slots advance sequentially together) and rerun (all linked slots play the same episode before advancing). This eliminates accidental duplicates and enables same-day rerun patterns.
• Season Exclusion — Show slots now support excluding specific seasons, making it easy to skip unwanted content without enumerating every included season.
• Mixed Link Modes in Iteration Groups — Linked slot groups using sequential scheduling can now contain slots with different link modes for more complex scheduling strategies.

Library & Sync

• Custom Show Sync — Custom shows can be configured to automatically sync their content with an upstream Plex playlist. A background task keeps them current with external library changes. NOTE This currently only supports Plex. Support for syncing with Jellyfin or Emby will be coming very soon.
• Periodic Jellyfin/Emby Collection Sync — Collections from Jellyfin and Emby are now periodically re-synced on the library refresh schedule, ensuring new items appear automatically.

UI & UX

• Program Troubleshooting — A new diagnostic page (System > Troubleshoot) analyzes the full streaming pipeline for a given program: media source connectivity, FFmpeg capabilities, stream selection rules, and the generated transcode command.
• Three-State Channel Icon — Channel icons now support three modes: custom image, default Tunarr logo, or no icon at all. The "no icon" state removes the icon from M3U playlists, XMLTV data, and watermark overlays.
• Relative Date Search — Search queries now support relative date operators (release_date in the last 6 months, added_date not in the last 2 weeks).
• Mobile UX improvements — Better layouts for channels, library overview, tasks, and bottom navigation on small screens.

Streaming & Transcoding

• Default to veryfast preset for software H.264/H.265 software encoders, a marked performance improvement for software transcoding which should allow many users on older or lower-powered devices to run Tunarr when no GPU is available.
• Numerous fixes to VAAPI and QSV hardware acceleration pipelines (tonemapping, pixel formats, scaling)
• Improved subtitle stream handling across Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby sources

What's Next

Subsequent feature releases (e.g. 1.4, 1.5, etc) will start to come more quickly. Rather than building up a mass feature set, I hope to make feature releases more immediate and leave the "dev" (likely to be renamed to "next") release line for large-scale changes (read: dynamic schedules). I'm still experimenting to see what feels right here, so feedback is welcome! Feature-wise, stay tuned for a more robust stream selection system, the ability to restrict free-text search to a subset of indexed fields, bulk operations for channel properties, and more!

what do y’all use to onboard new users to your different services. i looked at wizarr and like it but it doesn’t support some of the other server types i host like mealie for example. i’d love to find something that walks my users through the on-boarding process for all the services they want to use on my server and serve as a hub to launch the web ui for their various services. i’m fine if the onboarder and hub are different docker containers too.

for Usenet only users...are you hiding your radarr > indexer > downloader > to media server traffic?

If so, what have you found that works well?

So I've got the standard arr stack running, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, with Decypharr as my download client, jellyseer to request content, and Torbox as my debrid provider. Torrents work perfectly fine (albeit very limited in comparison to realdebrid before the purge)

Just upgraded to Torbox Pro to get Usenet access but I have no idea how to get it actually working with my setup. Decypharr has a Usenet tab that asks for NNTP credentials but from what I can tell Torbox doesn't give you NNTP details, it all goes through their API.

Is there a way to automate Usenet downloads through Torbox with the arrs or is this just not possible yet? Keen to know if anyone has found a workaround while waiting for Decypharr to add proper Torbox Usenet support.

Cheers

I've been looking into getting a NAS and setting up an ARR stack to replace my stremio+realdebrid current set up. It works well most of the time but I feel like this will be more reliable and I like the idea of having locally downloaded files, almost like the physical media of old.

I have a few questions that I cannot seem to find answers for, and I don't really want to use AI for it I reckon it'll spew nonsense so would much rather get some advice from the experts here.

1. Is it possible to set up my arr stack so that others can access the content from their devices in their own homes? IE Outside of just my home network and have it accessible remotely.

2. How do you choose the content to be downloaded? Is there a way to select content from an android APK interface perhaps and automate the downloading and file management? I'm thinking when I'm out and about and think about something I'd like to download or get a recommendation.

3. What are people's experiences with reliability? Surely having the files actually downloaded and streamed locally would mean effectively no lag or buffer, but are there any other concerns like crashing apps / jellyfin or Plex becoming unresponsive etc? I'll be using an Nvidia shield as my primary end client device so good processing power.

4. Are there existing setups that tick the box for points 1 and 2 above, and if so are these available on GitHub or somewhere?

Thank you everyone!

I setup an arr stack on my old laptop(antix linux). And pointed radarr to a mounted drive and used rclone to upload movies to my 15tb google drive storage. Is there any software/explorer that i can use to watch these movies from my fire tv stick with google drive as source, without downloading of course...?

I built Driparr, a small self-hosted app that drip-feeds IMDb CSV lists into Radarr.

Instead of adding a huge IMDb list all at once, Driparr lets you import a CSV and add movies gradually in controlled batches. It also includes duplicate protection, a live status feed, Docker/Portainer support, and a mock Radarr test stack so you can try it safely first.

https://preview.redd.it/jj6r1p2wb60h1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ed33685678fbc486c4975727b5d6f4a7565767d

It’s still early beta, so I’m looking for testers and feedback from Radarr/self-hosted users.

GitHub:

https://github.com/Sander1384/Drippar