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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?

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (15 children)

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
[–] MonkCanatella 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Have you considered using Plex as your music server? I’ve had a great experience with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin for me!

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