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.
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.
I had issues getting Prowlarr to connect to many sites at all. Jackett just works and has a huge list of working sites, however syncing them all up in the other arr services is a pain which is where https://github.com/AllergicDuck/jackett-sync-ts comes in.
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 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
Just be selective and if you notice a bunch of crappy releases coming from a specific tracker or release group, you block them. It’s worth getting into private trackers if you cam meet the seed requirements but I dunno where to gain access to new private trackers other than reddit /r/OpenSignups
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?
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?
Searching for files is not what Sonarr and Radarr are really strong in. They do an excellent job of managing files and keep track of shows. And occasionally ask an indexer to find them.
Indexers are what actually search files. Jackett was the popular manager, Prowlarr is the new hotness and really simplifies the process a lot.
But bigger point being Sonarr, Radarr, and Prowlarr work together to find and manage files. They are only as good as what you set them up to do. Prowlarr can search 50+ torrent websites for a file at the same time if you set up all the integrations for those. It is better than any one website because it can search them all, even RarBG when it was up. It also works with NZBs and search them all at once. Then you set Sonarr and Radarr to the quality and type you want and they’ll pick from the search results automatically.
Is the manual search interface and experience better on Prowlarr? I don’t really need the automation part from Sonarr/Radarr but the mega search on Jackett is really useful for me.
Yeah, it’s pretty nice. Prowlarr is a straight up upgrade over Jackett from my experience. It even auto manages the indexers on all your arr instances for you.
This actually isn’t true. You can configure sonarr and radarr to directly search indexers without using a wrapper. Most people use a wrapper so you only need to configure changes to your indexers from one place instead of updating sonarr,radarr,lidarr,readarr all individually
Still, at the end of the day a large part of what you get is what you have access too. Better indexers gets you more content
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.
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.
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 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/
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)
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
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”
Real Debrid combined with Sonarr/Radarr is an excellent combination with rdt-client as the torrent software. Most of the time the files are already hosted on RD, so you don’t have to wait for the torrent to download, and it sometimes has files for torrents that no longer have seeders
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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?
I had issues getting Prowlarr to connect to many sites at all. Jackett just works and has a huge list of working sites, however syncing them all up in the other arr services is a pain which is where https://github.com/AllergicDuck/jackett-sync-ts comes in.
+1 for jackett. Been running the same instance for years and it has not failed once. Super simple and low overhead.
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.
Very much still a thing. Been using both with little issues for years.
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’m still using it. I binded 1337 and torrGalaxy and so far, not a single issue as far as results.
You need good trackers and tags to filter to good releases, otherwise the default quality profiles and tags will not do the heavy lifting.
So how does one get good trackers?
Just be selective and if you notice a bunch of crappy releases coming from a specific tracker or release group, you block them. It’s worth getting into private trackers if you cam meet the seed requirements but I dunno where to gain access to new private trackers other than reddit /r/OpenSignups
It’s great with Usen3t.
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.
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?
Searching for files is not what Sonarr and Radarr are really strong in. They do an excellent job of managing files and keep track of shows. And occasionally ask an indexer to find them.
Indexers are what actually search files. Jackett was the popular manager, Prowlarr is the new hotness and really simplifies the process a lot.
But bigger point being Sonarr, Radarr, and Prowlarr work together to find and manage files. They are only as good as what you set them up to do. Prowlarr can search 50+ torrent websites for a file at the same time if you set up all the integrations for those. It is better than any one website because it can search them all, even RarBG when it was up. It also works with NZBs and search them all at once. Then you set Sonarr and Radarr to the quality and type you want and they’ll pick from the search results automatically.
Is the manual search interface and experience better on Prowlarr? I don’t really need the automation part from Sonarr/Radarr but the mega search on Jackett is really useful for me.
Yeah, it’s pretty nice. Prowlarr is a straight up upgrade over Jackett from my experience. It even auto manages the indexers on all your arr instances for you.
This actually isn’t true. You can configure sonarr and radarr to directly search indexers without using a wrapper. Most people use a wrapper so you only need to configure changes to your indexers from one place instead of updating sonarr,radarr,lidarr,readarr all individually
Still, at the end of the day a large part of what you get is what you have access too. Better indexers gets you more content
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.
Nicee
Thank you for your extensive post 👍🏼
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.
Logitech Media Server (LMS)/slimserver may tick a lot of your Roon requirements.
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 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/
Wow, that’s a name I haven’t heard for a long time!
I previously ran that with some Squeezeboxes if anyone remembers those.
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)
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
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”
Have you considered using Plex as your music server? I’ve had a great experience with it.
Jellyfin for me!
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
Nice list, appreciated
Sonarr and Radarr ARE THE THING, without them I hardly would use Torrents nowadays lol.
Man, I stopped using torrents 90 percent of the time. Usenet all day.
The are better than ever, they completely changed my server.
Radarr/sonarr/jackett is the way
Why not prowler?
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.
Ahh makes sense!
I started using real debrid once rarbg fell. Game changer
Real Debrid combined with Sonarr/Radarr is an excellent combination with rdt-client as the torrent software. Most of the time the files are already hosted on RD, so you don’t have to wait for the torrent to download, and it sometimes has files for torrents that no longer have seeders
That’s really cool, do you have any tutorials or something? How do you watch the files? Plex?
Just Google rdt-client. The GitHub page explains how to set it up. You can watch the files using Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, Infuse, etc.
I’m still using it. I binded 1337 and torrGalaxy and so far, not a single issue as far as results.