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Sonarr/Radarr, is this still a thing? (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 year ago by krimson@feddit.nl to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 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
[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Nicee

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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.

[–] Quark95@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 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.

[–] Stormcrow@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin for me!

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sonarr and Radarr ARE THE THING, without them I hardly would use Torrents nowadays lol.

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah the community just reeked of the an oldschool mindset on hierarchy and senior dominance.

[–] soniko_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Radarr/sonarr/jackett is the way

[–] Hizeh@hizeh.com 1 points 1 year ago

Why not prowler?

[–] legion@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started using real debrid once rarbg fell. Game changer

[–] ImDonaldDunn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] legion@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's really cool, do you have any tutorials or something? How do you watch the files? Plex?

[–] ImDonaldDunn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just Google rdt-client. The GitHub page explains how to set it up. You can watch the files using Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, Infuse, etc.

[–] koinu@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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! :)

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] Acidpunk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Or prowlarr for something different and a bit more powerful