With Lidarr being not very functional due to the Unable to communicate with LidarrAPI - Lidarr API “Internal Server Error” 500 | Invalid response received from LidarrAPI | HTTP Request Timeout · Issue #5498 · Lidarr/Lidarr I have been thinking about getting rid of it altogether. I have only started using it recently and don’t like it.
What I use Lidarr for:
- Find metadata for music
- organize files in a consistent way base on metadata
- obtain album art
- create .nfo or other files
- Identify desired music and instruct download utility to get it (this is optional for me— I can handle myself if needed)
- Do the above via a web interface which can be browsed nicely
I don’t like about Lidarr:
- The not-really-open-source nature of it, e.g. this current problem, where you are reliant on their external server to run your own home server. I feel this might be a more pervasive issue in the Arrs but not sure of all the implications
- How unsupported it is to include work that the lidarr servers don’t know about. There will never be a metadata database which includes all music. There is just too much music in the world!
- no audiobook/podcast support
I also have Jellyfin going for the actual serving/streaming of the music. Am not sure if it is able to fully manage the metadata and files?
Lots of options in the awesome-selfhosted list.
I could use a linux desktop app if it was better than a selfhosted server.
Thoughts?
51dusty@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I use beets. highly configurable, good documentation. cli, though. I think someone was working on a browser plug-in…🤔
laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I tried beets but it takes so long to do any task. Even if I just ask it to look up 1 album.
beet import /path/to/album
I got frustrated trying to learn it.Was surprised about being unable to find any --verbose argument so I could at least see what was going on. Does it just take forever to do anything?
NebulaNymph@programming.dev 5 days ago
I’d recommend going through the documentation for beets, they have great guides on using the auto tagger and importing music!
(If it is ‘taking forever’ to look up 1 album there is likely an issue with your config or beets install, following the docs can help with this!)
Beets Docs