Automated self-hosted music setup?
reddit / selfhosted

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schaka · 2023-11-24 15:41

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?

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applesoff · 2023-11-24 16:10

Lidarr-deemix or lidarr-extended are good options. I made a free
account with Deezer and got a bunch of music in FLAC that way. It is
semi automatic. You can take playlists from Spotify and drop them in
and it will grab all the music and keeps Deezer tags if I am not
mistaken. Adding artists to lidarr should also trigger deemix to
download their albums if you click download from lidarr.

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ovizii · 2023-11-24 16:26

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.

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janaxhell · 2023-11-24 19:26

> 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/setti
ngs](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.

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schaka · 2023-11-24 19:29

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

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janaxhell · 2023-11-24 19:37

Sorry, misread the rename part. I'm so used to get albums from usenet
and deemix that I forgot that.

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bonelifer · 2023-11-25 20:11

Filebot, it has a script to automate