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?
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 Thank you for your extensive post 👍🏼
Nice list, appreciated
Nicee
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!
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
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.
Man, I stopped using torrents 90 percent of the time. Usenet all day.
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.
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?
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!
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.
Or prowlarr for something different and a bit more powerful
I still use it. It still works well enough for me that it’s mostly fire and forget.
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?
I use it. I got a Usenet acct and just use torrents as a backup.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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!
You can still self-host a local copy of (almost?) all the rarbg torrents for *arr apps to use as index, a lot of them still have seeds.
How can we do this?
mgdigital RARBG selfhosted Torznab
How do wet get that setup
With Prowlarr or Jackett you can use it with (almost) any other site, or you can use RSS feeds
