I’ve been using NZBHydra2 for a couple of years now. While my automation uses Prowlarr, I use Hydra2 manually to see what has been posted in various categories. Sometimes I find a show or something that I forgot about, or maybe a re-encode of something that normally wouldn’t be grabbed.
It does irritate me when I see something show up that I have no interest, like Dutch versions of Audiobooks or 24 bit FLAC encodes. So I add them as a forbidden word within Hydra and it seems to work. I’m not sure if it actually does, but if it keeps me from getting too annoyed then I’ll keep doing it.
So here’s my list of forbidden words by category, if it works for you cool. Some might be dupes, I should really go and edit them when I get a chance.
Audiobooks:
- AUDIOBOOK-WEB-DE
- Audiobook-DE
- DE-AUDIOBOOK
- MP3-PaZ
- MP3-DE
- WEB-DK
- WEB-SE
- MP3-DK
- MP3-SE
- Ungek
- 2024-PaZ
- 2023-PaZ
FLAC
- Grateful Dead
- 24BIT
- Flac.24-96
- 24-96
- 24-48
Movies/TV:
- 10bit
So those are my forbidden words for NZBHydra2. This isn’t a comprehensive list, just one that works for me.