Activity
Activity shows the work that Aurral does for you. It has two views:
- Queue lists album requests, queued and active downloads, playlist imports, and tracks that wait for your review.
- History lists finished, denied, and failed work.
Wanted in the sidebar lists Aurral tracks that need more work. It has two filters:
- Missing lists tracks whose download failed.
- Cutoff unmet lists tracks with files below your quality cutoff.
To see the details of any row in Activity or Wanted, select its info action.
Queue shows active work, including playlist imports that have not started yet. A track stays in the queue when it waits for your decision, for example when its duration or identity is unclear.
A quality upgrade searches for a better file of a track you already have, so that track can appear in the queue again. Its row shows a rising arrow before the status. Hover the arrow, or open the row’s info, to see the quality it replaces. Your current file stays until the upgrade finishes.
For a track that Aurral downloads for an album, select Open to go to the album page. That page shows the download state and lets you cancel or retry.
Album downloads
Section titled “Album downloads”When Aurral looks for two or more missing tracks of a Library album on one release, Activity shows those tracks in one album row. Expand the row to see each track’s status and review controls.
- The row shows how many tracks are ready.
- The row stays in Queue while any track is active or waits for review.
- In History, the row shows Completed only when every track is ready. A failed or missing track leaves the album incomplete.
If the release leaves tracks unfilled, Aurral first tries the next ranked folder or release for them, and then the next download source that can supply the release. If Aurral then falls back to downloading tracks one by one, those tracks stay in the same album row. The info action shows the reason for the fallback and the download sources. Other requests show one row for each track.
Review a track
Section titled “Review a track”Aurral holds a download for review when the file has the requested title but its duration or artist credit is a little off. A file from Soulseek, Usenet, or yt-dlp waits while Aurral tries the other results and download sources, and goes to review only if none of them verifies. The file stays with its track through a restart, and while an album download that failed starts again. If you deny it, Aurral searches for the track again from the start, its album’s release included. A file from deemix goes to review at once. Another song by the same artist is never held for review, and neither is an automatic upgrade: Aurral drops a file it cannot verify and keeps the one you have.
Each review row shows the requested track, artist, and album, the path of the downloaded file, the match scores, and the duration. Preview the track, then approve or deny it.
Approving moves the file into the Library. Denying deletes it and searches again without that file. Removing a playlist, an album, or a track that waits for review deletes its file too. Aurral never deletes a file in the Library folder or a Lidarr root folder this way, for example one that deemix saved there.
To stop tracks from waiting indefinitely, set Settings > Downloads > Review queue > Maximum wait (hours). Aurral denies a track that waits longer, and searches again without its file. The default, 0, keeps every track until you decide.
History
Section titled “History”History shows finished, denied, and failed work.
When an album request to Lidarr fails, you can retry the search from History if the row offers it. For an album that Aurral manages, use Retry on the album page.
Aurral stores who requested each album. Activity can show the requester, and other tools can filter requests by user. If you use Lidarr, its import webhook can mark a requested album as available as soon as Lidarr imports it. See Lidarr.
Wanted
Section titled “Wanted”Wanted includes every Library track that Aurral manages, the tracks in your playlists, and the tracks in the flows that you can open. It leaves out unmonitored tracks.
- To search again for one missing track, select Re-search track on its row.
- To search for a better file for one track, select Search for upgrade on its row in Cutoff unmet.
- To search for every track in the current filter, select Search all.
A row in Cutoff unmet changes to Upgrade queued at once, and keeps that state after a page refresh. Follow the searches in Queue and their results in History.
Choose a download yourself
Section titled “Choose a download yourself”Automatic search picks a result for you. When it picks the wrong one, or none, you can choose the file yourself.
- In Wanted > Missing, select Choose a download manually on a track.
- In Download client, select a client. The list shows the configured clients: Soulseek, deemix, yt-dlp, and Usenet through SABnzbd, NZBGet, or Tidarr.
- Select Search. Aurral shows up to 100 results from that client.
- Select one result, then select Download selected.
To replace a finished track in a flow or static playlist, right-click it and select Re-search > Manual. The same window opens.
A manual choice works differently from an automatic search:
- Aurral downloads only the result that you chose. If that download fails, the job fails. Aurral does not try other results or other clients.
- Aurral does not check the title, artist, album, or duration of the file.
- Aurral still requires readable audio with a known quality. It accepts quality tiers that your profile turns off.
- Search results expire after 10 minutes. If they expire, search again.