Reference
Glossary
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Absolute numbering | Anime episodes numbered through all seasons (Title - 26) instead of season and episode |
| Advanced | The switch at the top of settings pages that shows expert settings |
| Alternative title | Another title of a movie or series (translation, scene name, your own) that releases are matched against |
| API key | A secret for scripts and tools, sent as X-Api-Key; acts as an Admin |
| Blackhole folder | A folder where StreamZH saves grabbed NZB files for another downloader (SABnzbd, NZBGet) |
| Blocklist | Releases that failed and are not grabbed again |
| Category | A download category (movies, series, …) with its own folder, priority and post-processing; for torrent clients, the label of StreamZH's torrents |
| Custom format | A set of conditions on a release (title, group, language, source, size …) that profiles give a score |
| Cutoff | The quality (and optionally custom format score) at which StreamZH stops upgrading |
| Cutoff unmet | A file below its profile's cutoff; StreamZH keeps looking for an upgrade |
| Daily series | A series whose episodes are named by air date (talk shows, news) |
| Data folder | Where StreamZH keeps its database, keys, logs and backups (C:\ProgramData\StreamZH, /var/lib/streamzh, /config) |
| Delay | Time a new Usenet or torrent release waits before it may be grabbed, so a better one can show up |
| Discover | The page to find and request movies and series from TMDB |
| Grab | Sending a chosen release to a download client |
| Hard link | A second name for the same file on the same drive: imports without extra space, torrents keep seeding |
| Import | Moving (or linking) a finished download into the library and renaming it |
| Import list | A list (TMDB, Trakt, Plex watchlist, RSS …) whose titles are added to the library automatically |
| Indexer | A site that lists releases: Newznab (Usenet) or Torznab (torrents) |
| Interactive search | Manual search: you see all releases and pick one |
| Minimum availability | From when a movie counts as released: announced, in cinemas or released |
| Monitored | StreamZH looks for and grabs releases for this movie, season or episode |
| NZB | A file that lists the Usenet articles of a release |
| Organize | Renaming folders and files of library items to the naming scheme, with undo |
| par2 | Recovery files and the tool that repairs downloads with missing parts |
| Pending release | A release waiting for its protocol delay |
| Profile | Quality profile: allowed qualities and language, cutoff, custom format scores |
| Propagation | The time a new Usenet post needs to reach all servers |
| Release | One upload of a movie or episode, named like Movie.Title.2026.1080p.WEB-DL.x264-GROUP |
| Release profile | Words a release must, must not or should contain |
| Remote path mapping | How a path reported by a download client on another machine looks for StreamZH |
| Requester | A role that may only use Discover and request |
| Retention | How many days a Usenet provider keeps posts |
| Root folder | A folder your movies or series live in |
| RSS sync | Reading the newest releases of all indexers regularly |
| Scene numbering | The episode numbering release groups use, from TheXEM, when it differs from TMDB |
| Seed ratio, seed time | How much a torrent must upload, or how long it must seed, after downloading |
| Setup code | The one-time code that lets you create the owner account from another device |
| Side-by-side mode | StreamZH grabs nothing automatically while the old apps still run (migration) |
| Status window | The panel at the bottom right with running work and notices (owners and admins) |
| Storage location | A base folder the owner allows StreamZH to use for media and downloads |
| TMDB | The Movie Database, where titles, posters and episode lists come from |
| Torznab, Newznab | The indexer APIs for torrents and Usenet |
| TRaSH Guides | Community guides with tested profiles and custom formats; StreamZH syncs them |
| URL base | A path StreamZH is served below, e.g. /streamzh behind a reverse proxy |
| Usenet server | The news server of your Usenet provider the built-in engine downloads from |
| Wanted | Missing items and items below their cutoff |