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Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack (leshicodes.github.io)
submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36925956

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[–] bigb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You'll have to be more specific. :) I think it works well for organizing a music library unless there are issues with this feature that I'm unaware of. Using it to queue downloads was painful for me, so I resort to less automated ways to acquire music files.

Simply put, the *arr software concept works well for downloading movies and TV shows (Radarr and Sonarr). Music just seems to be a little more difficult and I have lots of issues with Lidarr finding music out on Usenet and trackers. I hope that's user error on my part.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the issue they are referring to is that Lidarr's API or interface with the MusicBrainz database has been broken for a few months now, which means it's impossible to search or add new artists/releases to your Lidarr library.

And as far as I can tell, it's still down. I have been unable to use Lidarr for anything since about April, except for finding releases that I had already added to my local database.

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yikes that's a major issue that I coincidentally bypassed by not using Lidarr for the past few months myself.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, Lidarr is easily the weakest of the *arrs in my experience. As a newbie to setting up that stack, it was definitely nice to have a similar interface and functionality between the apps, but the last few months have me ready to look for something different for music.

[–] pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I’ve been using Soulseek but I often have issues with the metadata not loading properly into Plex.

[–] pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

So, no. They did not fix it.