Worth noting that for new releases far from everything gets released online, and overall the arr focus is on lossless which is the gap in the market. So if you're a (digital) Audiophile with high-end DACs and Headphones then yeah sure, but if you're not and just want to listen to music then no, it's not worth it in my opinion. It's harder to share a banger with a friend, you'll be late to the party when someone new is discovered and you'll need to curate your own playlists all the time. Not to mention filling up your drive with album tracks you're going to listen to once at most.

Lidarr is not a Spotify replacement. There is no way to play music, just like you can't play movies in Radarr.

There is no way to discover new artists, it only knows the artists you tell it about.

I use it. It's just as easy to set up and run as the other two, whether you use the tarball install, repo packages, or docker. While you're at it, look into Prowlarr also to manage your indexers and download clients so you don't have to make changes on all 3 manually. Then maybe look into Ombi to manage download requests. I like Overseer better, but it doesn't support music yet, unless something changed recently. The biggest hurdle is that in contrast to the TV and Movie categories, the file naming conventions for music downloads are not nearly as well standardized and enforced. Lidarr does a great job of shifting through and finding what it can, but I still get a lot more releases that require manual importing than with Sonarr or Radarr. Maybe I just need to tune the filters better. Discovery isn't really something Lidarr does yet, although there may be some forks working on adding it. Last.fm or listbtainz can help with that, or there are a bunch of self hosted media trackers that have recommendations built in.

Why are AIs engines still so piss poor at identifying music I like? I was really looking forward to that being a major perk of good AI.

To replace Spotify for finding new music, I switched to subscribing to radio stations in a podcast app. Free. I can send donations directly to radio stations I like. I can add tracks, albums, or artists to a list to search out further and support them directly through media and merch purchases.

Plenty of combinations, I'm sure, but I use Podcast Addict; it has a section specifically for subscribing to radio stations. From there I'm subscribed to WFUV out of New York, WXRV out of Boston, WBRU out of Rhode Island, KZCR out of Minnesota, and a few others. It's not as easy as searching a genre or song and getting a custom Spotify playlist instantly, but I have enjoyed finding DJs I like, tuning in when they're on air, and effectively getting a recommendation song list from a knowledgeable person. And it isn't even piracy.

I found radio station recommendations online and also by the search function in Podcast Addict that has some ability to search by genre.

If anyone else does similar and has radio stations recs, I would love to hear them.

I use lidarr to manage my existing library and use airsonic to listen to it. For me it works great and I can import tracks from my Spotify playlist. But yeah, it’s more of a nice to have, for me personally. I use it mainly to keep things tidy.

Once I discovered the Ad-Free patch for Spotify I shutdown my Lidarr. Much less hassle, and it freed up a solid 300GB of space on my NAS.

I use Tidal instead of Spotify. It's not perfect, but it integrates with Plex, which I use to host local files as well.

I use Plex's app Plexamp for daily driver listening, but also will sometimes flip over to Tidal, which has really good stations including a daily one for discovering new artists. I use this when I feel like something new.

My local files are a mix of ripped CDs from when owning those was a thing, Bandcamp purchases (which are still my default way to obtain music if it's possible), and Tidal files pulled via Tidal-DL (when there's not a quick/easy way to purchase the music permanently).

Over time, I've moved from streaming full time from Tidal with local files to fill the gap of more obscure stuff to streaming full-time from my own collection while occasionally using Tidal directly just for discovery.

I do and it works okay, you need to be on a bunch of indexers (or just a few good ones i guess) to make it work well

I ran into issues with availability on Lidarr. Maybe I just didn’t have the right trackers but it almost never pulled complete discography.

I would say use zspotifyor sum I found that I found it on github.It's Not another app that downloads stuff from youtube music soo

I would rate radarr/sonarr with 10/10 and lidar 5/10. I dont think its bad, its probably too early stage or too hard to accomplish with music what radarr/sonarr can do with movies/shows. There are many artists/albums that dont exist in lidarr database and sometimes bad imports happen with wrong tracks. Yeah, and there is no jellyseer for music. I dont use it much, but I love it

I got all excited to talk about the topographical maps we've got in arc gis...

I've tried it before but found it to be too cumbersome. I went back to just doing it all manually. Music isn't pirated and organized in the same way TV and movies are.

I started using Lidarr. I have had a bit of a hard time with it not being able to just grab a song.

I think this is more in how I have my expectations and workflow set up. It works great for what it's built for, I need to spend some time to adjust.

I use it with the Deemix plugin and that is great.

Just browse blog and bandcamp discovery page. It's really not difficult to find music without algorithms