Sonarr/Radarr, is this still a thing? (feddit.nl)

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Some time ago I gave up using sonarr & radarr to watch (popular) tv shows and movies because the search just stopped giving decent results. Now I heard that rarbg has also quit.

So I am wondering, is this still a thing?

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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 year ago

Automation apps have gotten more popular over the years so yes, they are still a thing.

Sonarr/Radarr are the most popular ones but there are others too. Most work with torrents and usenet but you'd need to check the individual projects to be sure.

Book Automation	Link	Description
LazyLibrarian	https://gitlab.com/LazyLibrarian/LazyLibrarian	Audiobooks / Books / Magazines
Mylar3	https://github.com/mylar3/mylar3	Comic Books
Readarr	https://readarr.com	Audiobooks / Books

Movies/TV Automation	Link	Description
DuckieTV	https://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV	TV
Medusa	https://pymedusa.com	TV
Nefarious	https://lardbit.github.io/nefarious	Movies/TV app (using Jackett/Transmission)
Radarr	https://radarr.video	Movies
SickChill	https://sickchill.github.io	TV
SickGear	https://github.com/SickGear/SickGear	TV
Sonarr	https://sonarr.tv	TV
Watcher	https://github.com/barbequesauce/Watcher3	Movies

Music Automation	Link	Description
Headphones	https://github.com/rembo10/headphones	Music
Lidarr	https://lidarr.audio	Music

General Automation	Link	Description
Autobrr	https://autobrr.com	Monitor IRC announce channels and RSS feeds
FlexGet	https://flexget.com	Monitor RSS feeds
RSSToolBot	http://rsstoolbot.infymus.com	Monitor and aggregate RSS feeds

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fucking lemmy man, wrote out awhole ass answer to this and got deleted. god fucking dammit.

welp. here goes again.

headphones is a monthly subscription and not that great, not worth it at all.

lidarr is garbage and the folks around it are assholes. you iether love it and froth at the mouth when someone says they're having trouble with it, or you hate it. It also is a fucking resource hog like I've never seen. MAJOR memory leaks

I use Roon and Qobuz, and Nicotine+ for stuff that isn't on Qobuz. qobuz-dl is really robust and awesome and can do anything you want lidarr to do: just maintain a list of artists in a document, and qobuz-dl will automatically download anything new as it keeps track of what's already been downloaded before.

The Roon folks are just as bad as the Lidarr folks. This shit costs $7-800 for a lifetime license and it does't even include ANY music streaming. It's just a music server and manager. And they don't actually have tech support. Literally if you go to their support page, they direct you to a fucking forum full of morons high on the koolaid (bc honestly you have to be if you invested $700 on a shitty music player), tell you to get lost if you don't like a program with bugs up the ass.

I would love to make an open source offering that does what roon does but also allows you to automatically download stuff using qobuz-dl, tidal-dl, bandcamp-dl, etc.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Headphones only costs money if you want to use their indexer. Ive never paid but does seem like a reasonable way to fund your project.

Why are the lidarr devs assholes? Also I have never experienced any memory leaks to my knowledge and the only time it slows down is if I'm trying to match my entire library

https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/docker-lidarr-extended comes with a bunch ofadditionaldownload scripts like tidall-dl

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you seen how they interact with people? It's embarrassing. Very pretentious, and they get pissy if your don't understand every facet of their poorly documented, poorly designed app. Yes it's free and open source. There's lots of FOSS stuff that isn't run by opinionated gatekeepers.

If you experience a bug, they bend over backwards to make it seem like it's your fault. "No dude, it's supposed to delete your entire library if you accidentally click that one button. You should have read the documentation that we're going to release sometime in the future"

[-] Quark95@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you considered using Plex as your music server? I’ve had a great experience with it.

[-] Stormcrow@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin for me!

[-] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I maintain my library with Lidarr in a manual manner for downloads and imports. I didn't experience memory leaks.

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[-] BeardedGingerWonder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Logitech Media Server (LMS)/slimserver may tick a lot of your Roon requirements.

[-] MusketeerX@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's a name I haven't heard for a long time!

I previously ran that with some Squeezeboxes if anyone remembers those.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah! The squeezebox software is still out there too, it's a sudo apt-get get away in something like it Ubuntu and just works (though does commandeer the audio on any pc you do that on by default)

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I did some light research and boy was it difficult to find anything out. Can you point me in the direction of a guide? I've heard that was the closest you can get so I may as well try it out. But yeah I spent way too much time trying to even find an installer or docker container for my nas and came up with nothing

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I personally use piCorePlayer on a raspberry pi which is basically burn an SD card which gives you a squeezebox (basically a client) there's a couple more steps to get lms running on top of that but the instructions are pretty good: https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/install_lms/

Official docker image seems to be here https://hub.docker.com/r/lmscommunity/logitechmediaserver

You'll want to install the "material skin" too if you do get it running, it's a pretty modern front end:

https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material

Official forum is packed with info too:

https://forums.slimdevices.com/

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Nice list, appreciated

[-] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Nicee

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[-] kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml 41 points 1 year ago

Sonarr and Radarr ARE THE THING, without them I hardly would use Torrents nowadays lol.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago

The are better than ever, they completely changed my server.

[-] Glassboxes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Man, I stopped using torrents 90 percent of the time. Usenet all day.

[-] soniko_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Radarr/sonarr/jackett is the way

[-] Hizeh@hizeh.com 7 points 1 year ago

Why not prowler?

[-] soniko_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Didn’t discover it until after a lot of time.

Also, while the linux setup is great, i’ve been running a windows build with great results.

[-] Hizeh@hizeh.com 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh makes sense!

[-] koinu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It very much IS still a thing!

Depending on your preferences, there's even been a pretty big update to Sonarr which allows custom formats, thus bringing out some pretty powerful abilities!

For example, I have it set up EXACTLY how I want for anime. X265 PREFERRED, Dual Audio PREFERRED, a whole smack of uploaders were essentially blocked from ever being downloaded, and there's a few users who trump all else and will always be downloaded first if they are available. So good.

There's a few guides if you want to give it a try! :)

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[-] Fontasia@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

Have a look at Jackett, it re-produces the search results for hundreds of torrent sites as Torznab feeds, what that means is that these can then be added to indexes for Sonarr and Radarr.

[-] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Prowlarr instead of Jackett. It's simplier and more convenient.

[-] Fontasia@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I guess I'll be looking into Prowlerr then 😆 does Prowlerr still require Mono?

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[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Or prowlarr for something different and a bit more powerful

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The search results are as good as your trackers, in my experience.

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[-] Acidpunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

yeah they work great here's how I have mine setup

Sabznbd Prowlarr Sonarr Radarr Docker container for Flaresolverr https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr

Now if you want to go further than that you can setup profiles https://trash-guides.info/ for quality.

But the truth is the problem isn't Sonarr or Radarr it's just that Torrents can be kind of garbage with automation, I would suggest you look into Usenet. It costs a bit of money to spend but a much more consistent experience.

[-] tooting_lemmy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I use it. I got a Usenet acct and just use torrents as a backup.

[-] Xepher@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Very much still a thing. Been using both with little issues for years.

[-] brunchyvirus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I use raddarr/sonarr/jackett and I haven't had any issues, I added addarr also so I can add things if I'm not near my computer. I just made a doc er compose with all of them through linuxserver.io on dockerhub, but makes it super easy if I need to switch to a new server

[-] Hirosum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use sonarr for a few weekly shows i watch and never had any big problems. I use torrents with jackett for my indexers. Downloading whole seasons works prefectly too assuming the show is popular enough to have seeders. Ive been recommended prowlarr over jackett but ive not had any reason to swap yet!

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