Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack

pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• dmention7@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As far as I can tell, no. I haven’t been able to search or import releases since about April.

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• bigb@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’ll have to be more specific. :) I think it works well for organizing a music library unless there are issues with this feature that I’m unaware of. Using it to queue downloads was painful for me, so I resort to less automated ways to acquire music files.

  Simply put, the *arr software concept works well for downloading movies and TV shows (Radarr and Sonarr). Music just seems to be a little more difficult and I have lots of issues with Lidarr finding music out on Usenet and trackers. I hope that’s user error on my part.

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  • dmention7@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the issue they are referring to is that Lidarr’s API or interface with the MusicBrainz database has been broken for a few months now, which means it’s impossible to search or add new artists/releases to your Lidarr library.

    And as far as I can tell, it’s still down. I have been unable to use Lidarr for anything since about April, except for finding releases that I had already added to my local database.

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    • bigb@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yikes that’s a major issue that I coincidentally bypassed by not using Lidarr for the past few months myself.

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      • dmention7@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, Lidarr is easily the weakest of the *arrs in my experience. As a newbie to setting up that stack, it was definitely nice to have a similar interface and functionality between the apps, but the last few months have me ready to look for something different for music.

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  • pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So, no. They did not fix it.

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• watty@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It's getting there. They've been taking a progressive improvement route. Searches sometimes work, mbid searches more so. They are building a cache/index of some sort, so it's taking time for that to populate, and it'll have a higher success rate as the progresses.

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