I use Radarr and Sonarr for my movies/shows, and Spotify for music, but I do know there’s another *arr app for that. The question is, is it worth setting up and how easy is it to discover new/similar music as opposed to Spotify, given that Spotify isn’t expensive at all. And how do you fellow crewmen go about it?
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I use it. It’s just as easy to set up and run as the other two, whether you use the tarball install, repo packages, or docker. While you’re at it, look into Prowlarr also to manage your indexers and download clients so you don’t have to make changes on all 3 manually. Then maybe look into Ombi to manage download requests. I like Overseer better, but it doesn’t support music yet, unless something changed recently. The biggest hurdle is that in contrast to the TV and Movie categories, the file naming conventions for music downloads are not nearly as well standardized and enforced. Lidarr does a great job of shifting through and finding what it can, but I still get a lot more releases that require manual importing than with Sonarr or Radarr. Maybe I just need to tune the filters better. Discovery isn’t really something Lidarr does yet, although there may be some forks working on adding it. Last.fm or listbtainz can help with that, or there are a bunch of self hosted media trackers that have recommendations built in.
Why are AIs engines still so piss poor at identifying music I like? I was really looking forward to that being a major perk of good AI.
I will say that google music recommendations in 2018 still has every engine I’ve used beat by a landslide. Nothing has correctly recommended music to me since then.
Because people can like the same song for different reasons. Some might like it for the lyrics, some for the melody and some for the beat.
If you setup this script for lidarr https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/arr-scripts it’ll automatically download music. Combined with navidrome it’s very good.
It is better than spotify because spotify doesn’t have all music and you can choose the front end and don’t depend on them.
You are right, now that I think about it Spotify was only good on macOS and Android for me. The official app wasn’t even available for Linux on my platform. And I wasn’t able to find all the music I wanted with it anyway, so I might give it a shot, thank you!
Set it up and add one artist. See how it goes. It fetches info from musicbrainz and then works its magic. If the info is not on musicbrainz, add it with a greasemonkey script (or however you want to add it). Don’t overload it.
I do and it works okay, you need to be on a bunch of indexers (or just a few good ones i guess) to make it work well
It’s worth it if you disagree with how the monetization works
I would rate radarr/sonarr with 10/10 and lidar 5/10. I dont think its bad, its probably too early stage or too hard to accomplish with music what radarr/sonarr can do with movies/shows. There are many artists/albums that dont exist in lidarr database and sometimes bad imports happen with wrong tracks. Yeah, and there is no jellyseer for music. I dont use it much, but I love it
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I’ve tried it before but found it to be too cumbersome. I went back to just doing it all manually. Music isn’t pirated and organized in the same way TV and movies are.
I started using Lidarr. I have had a bit of a hard time with it not being able to just grab a song.
I think this is more in how I have my expectations and workflow set up. It works great for what it’s built for, I need to spend some time to adjust.
I use it with the Deemix plugin and that is great.
Once I discovered the Ad-Free patch for Spotify I shutdown my Lidarr. Much less hassle, and it freed up a solid 300GB of space on my NAS.
Yes, but consider ownership.
I did. That’s how I ended up with 300GB of Music. In the end my storage space was more valuable to me, and it frees up some of my server’s resources as well.
Just browse blog and bandcamp discovery page. It’s really not difficult to find music without algorithms
