Couchpotato, sonarr alternatives in 2025
Couchpotato, sonarr alternatives in 2025
It been some years since downloading tv and movies. What software to use in 2025
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- Couch Potato is pretty much dead, Radarr is the way to go.
- Back in the day Sabnzbd was considered slow and inefficient so Nzbget was usually recommended. These days both are pretty much indistinguishable performance-wise and Sabnzbd seems to get more active development.
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If my memory is correct, back when I was using Usenet, content got taken down really fast. Has that changed?
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That’s still the case so automation + multiple providers is still the way to go. This guy here makes Usenet provider maps so that you can figure out what combination will work the best for you: https://gnu.gl/users/rexum/statuses/114789594488827582
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For TV/movies:
Sonarr
Radarr
SABnzbd
Overseerr
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Sonarr still the best IMHO And radar ofc.
The others 'are meh, stopped using them in favor or other ways.
What are some other ways?
slsks is good for music, but it's not as automatic as lidarr (which is broken anyway)
And for books / audiobooks I think manually with telegram and/or plain old torrents is the only way. Readarr again is just broken and unable to manage books and audiobooks.
And Audiobookshelf is an amazing audiobooks and podcast playback platform that you can self-host.
Not as popular but there are other apps that do TV automation, SickChill and Medusa for example are still active forks of the old SickBeard/SickRage software.
There are probably others I'm not thinking of right this second, nowadays people mostly prefer using the *arr stack for automation (Sonarr, Radarr, all the other arrs).