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Lidarr is more or less abandoned, FYI.
Do you have a good alternative to recommend? I also found that lidarr sorta sucks compared to sonarr and radarr
I haven't found one yet. My workflow is to use nicotine+ to find flac music, convert to 256bit opus, properly tag with Picard, rsync with my Navidrome library and trigger a scan. It's clean for me and lots of it is scripted, but that wouldn't work for everyone.
Radarr and Sonarr work because the workflow of show -> season -> S01E01.Title.extension (even simpler for movies) is well known and accepted as more or less a standard for organizing video media.
Music, on the other hand, is very individual. Some like strict folder organization, others are particular about naming conventions, others are picky about tags, there is no standard for handling playlists, off-beat, rare, or bootleg music is enjoyed by some, some like compilation albums, etc.
If you look at the complaints for lidarr, most of the issues stem from folks not fitting lidarr into their workflow, which is totally valid, but not something the Lidarr devs could do anything about.
Ultimately, Lidarr failed because metadata fetching became onerous to maintain.
Ahhh that makes sense! I think I'll just search for some of the other music alternatives mentioned in this thread