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?
Sonarr and Radarr ARE THE THING, without them I hardly would use Torrents nowadays lol.
The are better than ever, they completely changed my server.
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 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.
Have you considered using Plex as your music server? I’ve had a great experience with it.
Jellyfin for me!
Logitech Media Server (LMS)/slimserver may tick a lot of your Roon requirements.
Wow, that’s a name I haven’t heard for a long time!
I previously ran that with some Squeezeboxes if anyone remembers those.
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
I maintain my library with Lidarr in a manual manner for downloads and imports. I didn’t experience memory leaks.
That’s good for you, thanks for chiming in
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
Nice list, appreciated
Nicee
Thank you for your extensive post 👍🏼
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! :)
Do you have any guides for the custom anime formats? I haven’t updated yet and would love to get more dual audio releases. My current setup is pretty hit or miss as to whether I ever get a dub of a show.
https://trash-guides.info/Radarr/Radarr-collection-of-custom-formats/ for radarr
https://trash-guides.info/Sonarr/sonarr-collection-of-custom-formats/ for sonarr
These are fantastic have really upped my quality. I was just randomly grabbing releases without knowing whether they had atmos or hdr 10 or dv etc. This is SUPER helpful as you can give a score and then when you manually search, it chooses the highest score.
For me the highest custom format score possible is Dolby Vision with hdr10 or hdr10+ fallback, truehd atmos, criterion collection. This was a custom one I made. YOu can also follow precisely their own prescriptions for how to use the custom formats if you like, which I may go back and do.
That said, some releases that say atmos in the title are not atmos and it pisses me off. The good thing is you can find which scene releasesd , check out a few more “atmos” titles from them and see if it’s worth just blocking their releases entirely, which you can do with custom formats.
I think the next step for radarr/sonarr is to make those custom formats a LOT easier to manage on your own. LIke let you give a a priority list or video codecs, a priority list of audio codecs, a priority list for other things such as criterion collection, etcc.
gonna piggyback off of your comment, here is a trash guide specifically for anime in Sonarr!
This is what I used, and I added some custom rules too! There is an uploader who goes by “Judas”, so I added a rule that gives a positive weight of 100 whenever it’s his upload, so if it’s between 2 exact copies of a torrent, but 1 is by Judas, then he gets priority. I also made 265 a positive score instead of negative. And I also made dual audio positive.
It works very well for me!
To piggyback on what /u/MonkCanatella said, here is a trash guide specifically for anime in Sonarr!
This is what I used, and I added some custom rules too! There is an uploader who goes by “Judas”, so I added a rule that gives a positive weight of 100 whenever it’s his upload, so if it’s between 2 exact copies of a torrent, but 1 is by Judas, then he gets priority. I also made 265 a positive score instead of negative. And I also made dual audio positive.
It works very well for me!
I have plex setup, and I have two tv’s, one from 2022 and and one from 2015, Samsung for some reason the old tv sometimes on some shows has this screen tearing thing… I don’t know why, any ideas?
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.
Prowlarr instead of Jackett. It’s simplier and more convenient.
I guess I’ll be looking into Prowlerr then 😆 does Prowlerr still require Mono?
Or prowlarr for something different and a bit more powerful
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.
I use it. I got a Usenet acct and just use torrents as a backup.
If you had issues with search results then the problem is your indexers, Sonarr queries the sources you give it, if you give it bad sources then it’s going to have bad results.
I use Sonarr and Lidarr with private trackers and usenet where usenet is the preferred download source. I also use Jackett to combine the trackers so I can make one query from Sonarr to multiple trackers. Previously, for the longest time, going back to 2007, I used a torrent client with an RSS feed to download new TV show releases. It worked, but Sonarr provides far more granularity. And it is wife friendly, she can easily go on and add a show by herself. I don’t know of anything that works better than Sonarr, so OP… what would we have been using instead of it?
The search results are as good as your trackers, in my experience.
The only issues I have are occasionally with documentary series - like Nova where it can be a little hit or miss, everything else has been solid.
My issue with Nova is that PBS and The TVDB don’t agree on season/episode numbers so I often have to rename files. When uploaders title based on TVDB numbering, everything works great.
The only issues I have are occasionally with documentary series - like Nova where it can be a little hit or miss, everything else has been solid.
You can get all the episodes of nova from the pbs website https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
You can get all the episodes of nova from the pbs website https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
I did not know that, thanks!
Radarr/sonarr/jackett is the way
Why not prowler?
The devs for these projects are kind of uppity tbh. Like I’m appreciative of their efforts, but I’d never contribute to the code base itself as they’re very rude.
They’ve seemed pretty decent to me except for the king A-hole /u/Bakerboy448 or whatever his username is/was. I see they removed him as “junior developer” so problem solved. He was always a prick when offering ‘help’ to anyone in the radarr/sonarr subreddits. Like why even bother responding to help requests if you’re just going to be as least helpful as possible?
Yeah the community just reeked of the an oldschool mindset on hierarchy and senior dominance.
I’m still using it. I binded 1337 and torrGalaxy and so far, not a single issue as far as results.
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
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!
Very much still a thing. Been using both with little issues for years.
Very much so. I just switched to prowlarr from jacket to handle searches. I use pirate bay for all media 1337x, and eztv for television and find most everything that’s not obscure. Have it all behind a VPN though obviously.
