Comment on Mediawolf - Looking for contributers
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Right now, if you want to add a new movie or TV show, you probably:
Search for it manually across different Arr services
I mean, you only search one arr service depending on the media type.
Check which quality profiles or indexers work best for that media type
Figure out if it’s already available somewhere in your library
You’ve already setup your quality profiles and indexers for your Sonarr and Radarrwhen you initially configured them, so there’s no need to do that every time you add a new item. If it’s already in your library, it showswhen you search for it so not much figuring out.
Manually add it to the right service
Again, you’ve already searched in the appropriate Arr service for the media type. The “manual” action is pressing “Add”, which in assume you’d need to do with this too?
I think I’m confused as to what problem this actually solves?
Kuvwert@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I guess here I was more thinking about having audio books and ebooks with the same title across two separate instances of readarr.
Yeah that is true, not so much a benefit but does help that all media types are manageable from the same dashboard
A reference to The benefit of having a recommendation engine auto add stuff for you. But I guess lots of the arr programs also have list imports but I’d prefer to not to depend on an external service for that sort of thing.
I’m realizing now that in my excitement I have done a very poor job of describing the scope of this project, and would like to recommend that you visit the repo and check it out yourself:
github.com/MediaWolfOrg/MediaWolf
Here’s is a snippet from the project pages that does a much better job of describing it than I did (apologies again for my poor description)
Proposed Project Features: Books (Readarr & Anna’s Archive)
✅ Missing List → Read from Readarr, fetch missing books and auto-download via Anna’s Archive ✅ Manual Search → Search Anna’s Archive and download books (user selection and defined file structure) ✅ Recommendations → Generate book suggestions based on Readarr library (using a background tasks to scrape from Goodreads) - with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting Movies (Radarr & TMDB)
✅ Recommendations → Read Radarr library and suggest similar movies via TMDB (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Manual Search → Search via TMDB with option to add to Radarr TV Shows (Sonarr & TMDB)
✅ Recommendations → Read Sonarr library and suggest similar shows via TMDB (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Manual Search → Search via TMDB with option to add to Sonarr Music (Lidarr, LastFM, yt-dlp, Spotify)
✅ Manual Search → Search Spotify for music and download via spotDL (which uses yt-dlp) ✅ Recommendations → Generate artist recommendations from LastFM based on Lidarr library (with options to add or dismiss suggestions including filters and sorting) ✅ Missing List → Read Lidarr library, fetch missing albums and download via yt-dlp Downloads (via yt-dlp)
✅ Direct Download Page → Input YouTube or Spotify link and download video/audio using spotDL or yt-dlp Subscriptions (via spotdl and yt-dlp) ✅ Schedule System → Subscribe to YouTube Channels, Spotify or YouTube Playlists and download on a schedule
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
A recommendation engine is perfectly fine and can be fun to discover new things you might otherwise not know about, but auto adding is a huge nono. You don’t want some random shit getting automatically added to your server and taking up space (or using potentially valuable/limited download credit from a private tracker) just because it thinks it knows what you want to watch/listen to/read. Automatically adding new stuff unsolicited it just a really bad idea.