• non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    1 day ago

    I know this doesn’t answer your question directly, but it’s related; Lidarr is pretty much dead. The problem became managing metadata sources and assignment to media.

    • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      I’m actually generally finding it working better for me since they let you search for releases/groups and not just artists. Combined with MusicBrainz Picard for the metadata and finding the release ID, it’s pretty good.

    • mondoman712@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      I’m using Lidarr and it’s sometimes a bit of a hassle but it works. What would you recommend instead?

      • HumbleBragger@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        I use tubifarry, a lidarr plugin to use slskd (soulseek) to find and download albums. For me is way better than searching for torrents

      • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I don’t think there is anything, really. I use a soulseek client to get flac files and convert them to opus manually.

        Radarr and Sonarr work because the naming conventions for videos are more or less established.

        With music, everyone has a different philosophy for tagging, renaming files, transcoding, how to handle best-of albums, compilations, etc. So what works for you probably doesn’t work for me and vice versa.

        Lidarr gets very few updates, I don’t think anyone is working on it anymore. I remember the problem was keeping up with metadata handling.