My experience with Lidarr

As much as I like radarr, lidarr has some problems radarr doesn't. Some bands nowadays do not release albums and directly release singles on YouTube or Spotify, so the albums organization doesn't work that well anymore.

On top of that, the content you find in the trackers is very heterogeneous, entire albums as a single track, discographies as zip files, different file formats, single albums... and it seems to confuse lidarr all the time so it cannot figure out what is what.

What do you use for your music collections? How do you organize them?

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That's not Lidarr's fault though. Lidarr gets the data from MusicBrainz, and MusicBrainz is very community driven. So if no one adds data to it, they won't have the data automatically.

Also, the music piracy scene is just not as standardised as movie and TV shows. It's hard to automate when every releaser uses different naming format.

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- I haven't been into this stuff for very long. Is there a particular reason for this?
  
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  My uneducated guess would be that, overall internet speeds have increased enough that streaming is feasible for most people and that there is a lot of healthy competition in music streaming, where almost all of the major competitors have nearly identical libraries, so you don't need to pay 10 different subscriptions for music.
  
  Additionally, there exists services like tidal which offer lossless streaming so even the hardcore people can get all (most) of their music legitimately.
  
  Basically the music industry did the opposite of the movie/tv industry and generally figured out streaming a long time ago.
  
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Lidarr and I contribute to musicbrainz if it aint there so it will be made available to lidarr

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Just MusicBrainz and a general music folder. I either use a SMB share or Navidrome to listen to my library, depending what's most convenient. I've noticed that Lidarr generates huge traffic spikes when it fetches album info, rate limiting it on my Pi Hole, so I've stopped using it. I don't like the idea of automating downloading music anyway, I prefer to listen to it first then download if I like it.

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Soulseeker for some excellent yo-ho-ho and honestly iTunes for management.

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- On one hand I can sorta see it for organizing. On the other I hated using it with my iPod touch.
  
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  I use it with my android.
  
  You can just manually copy the library over once iTunes adds it, but if you use the DoubleTwist player, you can sync over smart playlists and such.
  
  It's a pain in the ass for sure, but even still I haven't found a better music manager.
  
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Well since so far no one has suggested any solutions (and I'm not aware of an alternative to Lidarr that suits my needs) but I also have noticed a similar problem. Many albums download fine, but there's times where the whole artist downloads each 01 01 01 track and it gets complicated.

I believe outside of manually doing it we'd be looking for filebot, but that's paid, or possibly some sorting tools available through foobar2000 plugins - I'm not sure if it exists here but many others must.

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- You can download an old version of Filebot from the Github and it'll still work. Used it about a week ago without issue.
  
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  Ohh lovely, I never looked too deeply into it thanks for the heads up!
  
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Yea it's tough there's actually a huge drop off of the rr suite after radarr, sonarr and prowlarr.

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