You might be onto something, lidarr does have UMASK=002 setting in the .env file. I think the issue is when sabdnzbd puts the files and then lidarr can’t read them, so what exactly is the expected permission setting then in this case? If I put it to 000 for lidarr, won’t other services then be unable to add the files there?
I always feel so dumb when it comes to these things since in my head it’s something that should be pretty straightforward and simple, why can’t they all just use the same user and share the same permissions within this folder hierarchy…


This is how I learn readarr is done :( I was just thinking of setting it up again one of these days but was having some issues with lidarr that got in the way
If the issue was just metadata parsing, surely the rest of the software can be saved and forked, no? No need to create everything from scratch?