Hey guys, apologies in advance because I’m probably going to use the incorrect jargon here.

Anyways onto my issue, a somewhat popular artist I listen to released a new single last week and a record of the mentioned song has already been made on music brains.

But when I go into mentioned artist on Lidarr, the new single hasn’t been listed yet therefore Lidarr isn’t looking for and downloading the mentioned single. Is there a way I need to jump start a metadata / musicbrains data check?

I also have a custom metadata consumer setup but I wasn’t sure if this would be contributing to the problem as it looks like it’s only used to update the metadata of existing files.

Any help, pointers, or tips are appreciated!

Copied from my original post on r/ARR

I’ve had an idea-arr: Jellyfin ↔ Spotify sync + Spotify → Lidarr migration tool?

I’ve recently ditched Spotify and gone all-in on a self-hosted setup with Jellyfin for music, and honestly it’s been great. The only thing I’m missing is the social/sharing side of things.

Right now I’m building and maintaining playlists inside Jellyfin, but I’ve got friends who are still on Spotify, and I’d love a way to keep sharing playlists with them without manually rebuilding everything.

Idea 1:

A tool/service that syncs Jellyfin playlists → Spotify (one-way), and keeps them updated automatically. Even a periodic sync (daily or so) would be perfect. Match via metadata/ISRC where possible, fall back to search.

I’ve seen tools that do one-time transfers, but nothing that continuously syncs from a self-hosted library like Jellyfin.

Idea 2 (bigger one):

Why isn’t there a proper “leave Spotify” pipeline?
Something that:
• Imports your Spotify playlists
• Recreates them in Jellyfin
• Checks your library for missing tracks
• Sends those missing artists/albums/tracks to Lidarr and/or Slskd for acquisition

Basically:
*Spotify → Jellyfin playlists → Lidarr/Slskd fills the gaps → fully self-hosted library*

Feels like this would massively lower the barrier for people trying to move off Spotify into a self-hosted setup.

Does anything like this already exist and I’ve just missed it?

And if not… this feels like it could slot perfectly into the \*arr ecosystem, or even live as a standalone service that talks to Jellyfin, Lidarr, Slskd, and Spotify APIs.

Keen to hear if others have tried solving this, or if there’s interest in building it.

I’ve recently ditched Spotify and gone all-in on a self-hosted setup with Jellyfin for music, and honestly it’s been great. The only thing I’m missing is the social/sharing side of things.

Right now I’m building and maintaining playlists inside Jellyfin, but I’ve got friends who are still on Spotify, and I’d love a way to keep sharing playlists with them without manually rebuilding everything.

Idea 1:

A tool/service that syncs Jellyfin playlists → Spotify (one-way), and keeps them updated automatically. Even a periodic sync (daily or so) would be perfect. Match via metadata/ISRC where possible, fall back to search.

I’ve seen tools that do one-time transfers, but nothing that continuously syncs from a self-hosted library like Jellyfin.

Idea 2 (bigger one):

Why isn’t there a proper “leave Spotify” pipeline?
Something that:
• Imports your Spotify playlists
• Recreates them in Jellyfin
• Checks your library for missing tracks
• Sends those missing artists/albums/tracks to Lidarr and/or Slskd for acquisition

Basically:
Spotify → Jellyfin playlists → Lidarr/Slskd fills the gaps → fully self-hosted library

Feels like this would massively lower the barrier for people trying to move off Spotify into a self-hosted setup.

Does anything like this already exist and I’ve just missed it?

And if not… this feels like it could slot perfectly into the *arr ecosystem, or even live as a standalone service that talks to Jellyfin, Lidarr, Slskd, and Spotify APIs.

Keen to hear if others have tried solving this, or if there’s interest in building it.