Automated self-hosted music setup? - eviltoast

Let me preface this by saying I have a somewhat working setup right now, but it’s the automation that’s lacking.

I use Navidome for hosting and am happy with how it works and performs, so switching that is out of the question.

Currently, Lidarr is used to organize my music. I haven’t really found anything else as easy to use. I don’t really have access to or ratio on trackers to grab the FLACs that I want. So for all intents and purposes, assume that Lidarr does NOT download. It also cannot re-tag (just rename) - because in case it did grab something, this would break torrent hashes.

What I’m looking for is an automatic or semi-automatic way to add new types of downloads into this setup. Think: SoulSeek, Bandcamp purchases, downloads via streaming services, ytl-dlp etc. The source doesn’t matter. This stuff can (and probably should) get re-tagged and renamed by Lidarr. I want to keep this in the same library.

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How do you guys have your music set up?

Do you see any way to have “external” sources managed by Lidarr, without splitting libraries?

Is there any cool, additional software I should know about?

  • ovizii@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use lidarr to index my music. lidarr connects to prowlarr for searching and to nzbget for downloading. It does NOT however handle my library (no importing or renaming) that is done by a cron job which runs an import by beets. beets handles the music import, tagging, whatsoever and pushes the downloads into the library.

    Then I connect front-ends like plex (and play with plexamp) or LMS to my library.

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    Not 100% automated as beets cannot handle everything on its own, and sometimes I run it manually, so it can ask me for corrections.

  • janaxhell@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It also cannot re-tag (just rename) - because in case it did grab something, this would break torrent hashes.

    Learn how to setup Atomic Moves https://wiki.servarr.com/lidarr/settings

    Lidarr will tag&rename anything you want, but still keep the original torrents untouched, because it will hardlink them to a renamed filename were you want and at the same time it will keep seeding. The physical file will be linked from 2 different folders, one of which is the torrent download folder and the other is your library folder. 1 file, 2 links.

    • schaka@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Retags modify the file though. It’s modifying the file’s metadata. I already do renames with hardlinks