Login

r/Lidarr

▲ 231 r/Lidarr+3 crossposts

I built a FlareSolverr replacement that's 3× faster and actually solves captchas!

Been running FlareSolverr for a long time for my *arr stack and got tired of the 11-18s solve times and constant breakage. Built TRAWL as a drop-in replacement!

Key differences:

  • Cloudflare solves in 4-15s (vs 11-18s) - uses a fresh Camoufox Firefox context which triggers CF's fast-path evaluation
  • Cached repeat requests return in ~500ms via Redis - after the first solve, the same domain is instant
  • Actually solves in-page captchas: Turnstile (shadow DOM click), reCAPTCHA v2 (free Google STT audio), hCaptcha (auto-pass), GeeTest v4
  • 4-tier execution: plain HTTP → cached session → live browser solve → residential proxy. You pay the full browser cost only when you have to
  • Custom headers support - pass Authorization, Referer, Origin through all 4 tiers including browser
  • FlareSolverr v2 compatible - change one URL in Prowlarr/Jackett, nothing else

Website: https://trawl.germondai.com
Docs: https://docs.trawl.germondai.com
GitHub: https://github.com/germondai/trawl

Happy to answer questions. Still early but it's been running stable on my homelab and no issues so far.

reddit.com
u/Germond_ — 3 days ago
▲ 14 r/Lidarr+2 crossposts

Stackarr.app: Media Server Tools for OpenClaw & Hermes Agent

First off, I'm aware how many are distrustful of AI with their media stack. If this is you, no worries I get that. All I ask you is kindly ignore.

Now to the fun part. I've been dogfooding an app and iterating for the past 2 months based on day-to-day media server management tasks. Decided to open-source it so, announcing Stackarr: A central control plane to manage your media stack with the help of AI agents like Claude, Hermes and OpenClaw etc.

Some of the standout features include:

  • UI Dashboard to monitor your entire media stack
  • Lightweight in-browser Docker for Desktop replacement
  • MCP Server and CLI for agent-based setup
  • Cloudflare tunnel setup to expose any services publicly via custom domain
  • Backup & Restore Stack (Offsite cloud integration coming soon)
  • Portless Service Mapping to human-readable URL's (plex.stackarr)
  • Hermes Agent & OpenClaw Plugins / Skills

After installing agents on the same Mac Mini that Plex et al. runs on it made me realise how easy having access to this via Telegram, Discord makes managing your media server. For example once I forgot to leave Tailscale open and I asked my agent to configure it so I could access media stack remotely. It's saved me countless times when inevitable bugs or wrinkles form in the flow. With the help of automated backups and using a decent provider most of the risk is mitigated. I haven't had any irrecoverable losses running it 24/7.

The goal is not to replace any of the apps it manages but merely to interact with them using native API's and maintain an agent-friendly control system with harnesses. I would love for you to give it a try. This is not abandonware and something I plan to maintain for some time.

Disclaimer: This has only been tested on Mac with Docker image, I'm looking for Windows and Linux testers to report any bugs here: https://github.com/b-bot/Stackarr - If you are not interested I would appreciate a star!

There is an official image on Docker Hub too, for full setup and docs go here: https://stackarr.app/

Parts of this were AI-coded but this isn't a vibe coded project, I'm an engineer by trade for more than a decade. The UI was whipped up quickly using component library defaults but I will be doing an entire UI redesign when the functionality is solidified. I added the flair nonetheless to appease the overlords :)

u/b-b0t — 3 days ago
▲ 4 r/Lidarr

Artist images not loaded

A few dags ago I installed lidarr as a docker on my Synology. I noteced that some of the images of artist are not loaded. I tried a lot with troubleshoot by unfortunally

I checked the logs and it looks like Lidarr doesn't have premission to access some of the artists images.

2026-07-03 12:17:16.8|Debug|RefreshArtistService|Finished Artist refresh for [5dca4d22-d6c8-4e70-8ca1-4543e43353c7][Kenny Chesney]

2026-07-03 12:17:16.8|Warn|HttpClient|HTTP Error - Res: HTTP/2.0 [HEAD] https://r2.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/banner/txwxtt1479657685.jpg: 403.Forbidden (0 bytes)

2026-07-03 12:17:16.8|Warn|MediaCoverService|Couldn't download media cover for [5dca4d22-d6c8-4e70-8ca1-4543e43353c7][Kenny Chesney]. HTTP request failed: [403:Forbidden] [HEAD] at [https://r2.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/banner/txwxtt1479657685.jpg]

2026-07-03 12:17:16.9|Warn|HttpClient|HTTP Error - Res: HTTP/2.0 [HEAD] https://r2.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/thumb/yttqpw1478079268.jpg: 403.Forbidden (0 bytes)

2026-07-03 12:17:16.9|Warn|MediaCoverService|Couldn't download media cover for [5dca4d22-d6c8-4e70-8ca1-4543e43353c7][Kenny Chesney]. HTTP request failed: [403:Forbidden] [HEAD] at [https://r2.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/thumb/yttqpw1478079268.jpg]

Is there a way to solve this or is this something for the developers?

u/HSG1984 — 3 days ago
▲ 4 r/Lidarr

Artist Picture/Art Unable to Add?

According to the FAQ, the only way to get Artist pictures into Lidarr, is to rely on Fanart.tv?

Does anyone else think this is absolutely absurd?

I have tried in the past to upload perfectly fine pictures into Fanart.tv, and they always get rejected for stupid reasons. Fine, I am trying to improve the community, but deny them. Whatever.

BUT...

Lidarr, at its core, stores all the information in a Database, and I cannot fathom a single reason why there would be any barrier to uploading/adding my own art for artists. Why am I forced to rely on a site that is so oppressive and incomplete? It makes zero sense at all!

Is there any other way to import artist pictures/art from different sources?

reddit.com
u/RomusLupos — 4 days ago
▲ 2 r/Lidarr

Using Lidarr for downloading but not monitoring?

I like using Lidarr as a means of finding torrents for albums I want and adding them to the right folders, but I don’t want it to download any albums unless I specifically tell it to. In other words, I don’t want it to automatically download anything based on monitoring. Is there a way to globally turn this off in the settings? I haven’t found anything conclusive from googling this. Thanks!

reddit.com
u/DaemonettePurp — 3 days ago
▲ 0 r/Lidarr

How to deal with duplicate songs?

I just started using Lidarr, and a lot of Artists have multiple albums that are "Collections," "Best of," or "Mixes." This causes multiple duplicate songs for the artist as they are included in multiple albums, and most of the time they are exactly the same!

Is there a way to automatically unmonitor/delete re-released songs/albums? Or at least those "collection" albums?

reddit.com
u/AlternateWitness — 4 days ago
▲ 2 r/Lidarr

tools to backup what your library consists of, without backing up the content?

Does anything exist to back up just a list of what artists/albums you have monitored/downloaded without backing up the content itself? I have data backups but as a "plan C" I just want a list of everything I have (that I could hopefully re-import to a fresh lidarr install in case something went horribly wrong)

reddit.com
u/OrneryWhelpfruit — 5 days ago
▲ 5 r/Lidarr

Lidarr went hyperactive yesterday

I have no idea what happened, but yesterday (the 29th of June) Lidarr suddenly really wanted to finish my collection and scheduled over 400 gigabytes of downloads.

Very weird. Totally out of the blue. I barely get it to do anything automatically. It's been pretty dormant for over a year before this.

Has anyone else had this happen to them before?

reddit.com
u/skerit — 6 days ago
▲ 1 r/Lidarr

Album not adding

Hi all, super newbie here.

I am looking to see if anyone can give me a little guidance on an issue I've hit. I'm trying to add John Lennon - Live in New York City to my library. I go to Add New and it find its the album no problems, when I then click on "Add Live in New York City" the green button does it's little flash thing, like it recognises that I've clicked the button, but then nothing happens. The green "Add Live in New York City" button is still there, it hasn't actually added the album to the artist's page... and no matter how many times I press the button, nothing happens.

Is there a way to force it into the artist list, or is this just a problem with Lidarr where it doesnt accept some albums and I'll just have to accept that's how it goes with some albums?

reddit.com
u/ADG1983 — 6 days ago
▲ 123 r/Lidarr+3 crossposts

Digarr hit 100 stars and v1.10.0 this week - self-hosted music discovery for your *arr stack

It's Friday, Digarr just passed 100 stars on GitHub, and v1.10.0 is out. That's the first stable 1.x line, so it felt like a good moment to share it properly.

Digarr is a self-hosted music discovery layer that sits in front of Lidarr (or your media server). It learns what you listen to, asks an AI provider for new artists and albums, scores them, and hands you a review queue. You approve what you like and it goes to Lidarr or a playlist target. The data stays on your server.

A few things I think it does well:

  • An AI taste pipeline you actually control. It builds a profile from your listening sources, asks your AI provider for candidates, then scores them with weights you set (consensus, similarity, genre overlap, AI confidence, popularity, and learning from your past approvals). You pick the provider: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Point it at Ollama on localhost and nothing leaves your box.
  • Album-level discovery. Most tools only recommend artists. Digarr also finds individual albums: studio albums you are missing from artists you already follow, new releases you missed, and net-new finds from artists you don't have yet. Approving an album adds the artist to Lidarr unmonitored and grabs only that album, so you don't pull a whole discography to get one record. As far as I can tell, nothing else in this space does album-level discovery.
  • Mood discovery. Type "something like Boards of Canada but darker" or "upbeat 90s pop for a road trip" and it turns that into a result set. No filter-building first.
  • Works with or without Lidarr. If you don't run Lidarr, discovery-only mode still works and pulls from ListenBrainz, Last.fm, Spotify, Deezer, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Discogs.

The basics, in short:

  • Connects to Lidarr, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and slskd, plus ListenBrainz, Last.fm, Spotify, Deezer, and Discogs
  • Review queue with approve / reject / skip, swipe on mobile, card stack on desktop
  • Discovery modes (Artist Radio, Release Radar, Library Gap-Fill, Charts, Deezer Flow, Spotify Saved Albums, and more) you can run on demand or schedule as subscriptions
  • Auto-playlists to Navidrome, Jellyfin, Emby, Plex, or Spotify, or export as M3U / XSPF
  • Genre browser, decade filter, cross-platform search, 30-second previews
  • Multi-user with OIDC/SSO and per-user sources, weights, and targets
  • Backup and restore, job history, webhook notifications (Discord, Slack, ntfy, Gotify) with an optional scheduled digest
  • 15 UI languages with locale-aware AI output, 15 color themes in dark and light
  • One container that runs next to your existing stack. Free and open source, MIT.

On the AI question, since it always comes up: this is built with AI assistance, and I drive it. I set the roadmap, design the architecture and the UX, decide which features ship, and review every change. The AI writes most of the code and tests under that direction. I'd rather say that up front than have someone find it in the commit history.

GitHub: https://github.com/iuliandita/digarr

Happy to answer questions, and bug reports or feature ideas are welcome in the issues.

u/ChupacabraRaton — 9 days ago
▲ 1 r/Lidarr

How to fix a corrupted database?

Hello all,
My Lidarr database appears to be corrupted (Or in some other way messed up) is there an easy way to fix that? I do not know what might of caused the issue, but it's not allowing me to download anything.

I have relevant logs for why I think it's corrupted:

2026-06-24 15:53:38.2|Warn|LidarrErrorPipeline|System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException: SQL logic error
no such column: EnableUsenet

[v3.1.0.4875] code = Error (1), message = System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException (0x87AF001F): SQL logic error
no such column: EnableUsenet

Essentially Lidarrs delay profile is set to usenet only and I do not use usenet. I attempt to set it back to torrent and it get the above error. Anyone know why this might be happening and a fix?

reddit.com
u/Bluepenguin053 — 11 days ago
▲ 20 r/Lidarr+1 crossposts

Mularr: telegram media indexer + download manager

If you're looking for a way to index, search & download any of your media content from your telegram groups/ channels/ etc you might find this tool useful:

It's primarily an amule client, but includes a very handy Telegram extension:

It's a selfhosted tool. (Runs on docker)

https://github.com/joecarl/mularr

Enjoy!

u/AdWeak4851 — 11 days ago
▲ 1 r/Lidarr

Adding Discogs cataloged items

I cataloged all my CD's into Discogs with the intention of adding that in Lidarr as an import list. Welp Lidarr does not import from Discogs. I've tried adding the catalog into my musicbrainz account but still can't import into Lidarr. I've added script buttons in musicbrains etc. Searched this sub for information, Google, Gemini. No luck. Anyone have a work around.

reddit.com
u/Muziclush — 11 days ago
▲ 1 r/Lidarr

I can't stand the genres being separated incorrectly with ;

for reason unknown to me, some songs have their genres separated by `;`, right now I'm checking songs with genre `Punk Rock;Pop Punk;Punk;Skate Punk;Melodic Hardcore;Rock;Ska Punk;Comedy Rock;Grunge;Alternative Rock` (yes, the hole string is the genre).

I've been trying to fix this issue today by locating all albums with this problem and updating them in MusicBrainz.org, then asking Lidarr to refresh and Jellyfin to download the metadata again. But before that I tried using a Python script to address the issue in the files themselves.

I'm honestly tired of seeing such mounstrosity, anything I do doesn't work so far.

Any suggestions?

reddit.com
u/No_Cartographer1492 — 12 days ago
▲ 3 r/Lidarr+1 crossposts

Is Lidarr’s Metadata Thing Broken Again?

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!

reddit.com
u/ItIsJustBoom — 13 days ago
▲ 0 r/Lidarr

Since Lidarr only downloads future releases (afaik) - do I need to save my whole collection in it?

Hey redditors,

If I'm not mistaken Lidarr (at least without extra add-ons) will only download something that appears (e.g. in Usenet) in the future, not something that is already there.

If true, does it make sense to add all releases of an artist that I already have, or can I only add the latest one (released e.g. in June 2026) and then all future ones will be downloaded?

The reason for asking - it will take months to add all my existing collection to Lidarr, so wanted to save some time if my assumption is true.

Thank you!

reddit.com
u/LSDwarf — 13 days ago