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What specifically is Sonarr/Radarr? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 8 months ago by Cattypat@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Exactly the title. I'm researching having a jellyfin server and downloading media seems like it would be tedious (the way I've done it once or twice previously). I could use some clarity on what Sonarr is, what it looks like (like is there a GUI?? I'm too stupid to run something off of a terminal), and how it works. I'm familiar with torrenting but not with usenet, and I use the megathread from this community. Can someone explain Sonarr/Radarr to me in a way that would be understandable to someone at my level of understanding?

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[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If you aren't already self-hosting services and aren't really comfortable with command line, you might want to look at something like CasaOS and this video: https://youtu.be/QfpZcXXGpVA

I watched it several times when building my stack and still go back to it from time to time.

Ultimately, Sonarr and Radarr take away the tedium of running your media server. You tell it what you want, it does the work of finding, obtaining, naming, and sorting. Then Jellyfin picks it up automatically. Jellyseerr, as others have said, puts a nice shiny coat of paint on it.