r/Lidarr

I am currently researching the application of LiDAR technology for conducting road surveys that support the movement of wide‑load and super‑load vehicles. Several companies appear to be using LiDAR for this purpose, and I would greatly appreciate any insights, information, or suggestions you can share.

Background

Our management team is evaluating the ROCK R3 PRO vehicle‑mounted LiDAR system to collect data on Route clearances, Bridge heights, Roadway geometry,

We are open to alternative solutions and would welcome opinions on the suitability of the ROCK R3 PRO compared with other platforms.

Specific Questions

System performance: Have you used the ROCK R3 PRO (or similar setups) for heavy‑vehicle route surveys? What are its strengths and limitations?

Alternative technologies: Are there other LiDAR platforms or sensor configurations you would recommend for high‑accuracy clearance and geometry measurements?

Field‑operation challenges: What common obstacles have you encountered (e.g., GPS multipath, data volume, vehicle integration, weather effects) and how have you mitigated them?

Data processing workflow: Which software tools or processing pipelines have proven most efficient for extracting clearance, bridge‑height, and roadway‑geometry metrics?

Industry contacts & resources: If you know of publications or professionals with relevant experience, could you point me toward them?

Any experience you can share—whether successes, pitfalls, or lessons learned—will be extremely helpful as we refine our approach.

Hey y'all! I decided to post this here incase someone else has gotten to the same point of frustration with having to manually import, or just new files not being registered by Lidarr.

I mainly use Lidarr purely for the file management and organization -- it makes life so much easier when working on my self hosted discord music bot (local file search), and it leaves less room for error on Plex. Issue is though that Lidarr can be fairly finnicky when trying to get it to read new files, especially when using two root sources (pre-live, and live directories).

I use "D://Needs Lyrics" as my pre-live, so i can do all my renaming, .lrc creation's, and comparisons' between two versions of a track --- and "D:// Music" as my live folder once complete for plex and everything else to read. Due to this inconvenience and having to fight Lidarr to read the new files in "D://Needs Lyrics", i wrote a powershell command/ script to replace the Lidarr Artist Folder/Album Folder/Track Rename function. I'm sharing this here incase it may help one of y'all out as well. My format is {Artist Name}/{Album Title}/{track:00}. {Track Title} - {Artist Name} --- so if you prefer a different format, change it in the script.

*ALSO CHANGE - $Root = "D:\Need Lyrics" - to your correct path* If you need any help editing it, feel free to DM me. Script is as follows (in text to avoid links/downloads):

# =========================================

# NEEDS LYRICS AUTO ORGANIZER

# =========================================

# Scans ALL files inside:

# D:\Need Lyrics

#

# Creates:

# Artist\Album\

#

# Renames files to:

# 01. Track Title - Artist.ext

#

# NO DOWNLOADS REQUIRED

# Uses Windows Shell metadata reader

# =========================================

$Root = "D:\Need Lyrics"

# Supported audio extensions

$AudioExtensions = @(

".mp3",

".flac",

".m4a",

".aac",

".ogg",

".opus",

".wav"

)

# Cleans invalid filename characters

function Clean-Name {

param([string]$Text)

if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($Text)) {

return "Unknown"

}

[System.IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars() | ForEach-Object {

$Text = $Text.Replace($_, "_")

}

return $Text.Trim()

}

# Windows metadata reader

$shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application

# Get ALL audio files recursively

$Files = Get-ChildItem $Root -Recurse -File | Where-Object {

$AudioExtensions -contains $_.Extension.ToLower()

}

foreach ($File in $Files) {

try {

$Folder = $shell.Namespace($File.Directory.FullName)

$Item = $Folder.ParseName($File.Name)

# Metadata indexes

# These work on most Windows installs

$Artist = $Folder.GetDetailsOf($Item, 13)

$Album = $Folder.GetDetailsOf($Item, 14)

$Title = $Folder.GetDetailsOf($Item, 21)

$Track = $Folder.GetDetailsOf($Item, 26)

# Cleanup

$Artist = Clean-Name $Artist

$Album = Clean-Name $Album

$Title = Clean-Name $Title

# Fallbacks

if ($Artist -eq "Unknown") {

$Artist = "Unknown Artist"

}

if ($Album -eq "Unknown") {

$Album = "Unknown Album"

}

if ($Title -eq "Unknown") {

$Title = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($File.Name)

}

# Track formatting

if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($Track)) {

$Track = "00"

}

else {

$TrackNum = ($Track -replace '[^\d]', '')

if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($TrackNum)) {

$Track = "00"

}

else {

$Track = "{0:D2}" -f [int]$TrackNum

}

}

# Create destination folder

$DestFolder = Join-Path $Root "$Artist\$Album"

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $DestFolder -Force | Out-Null

# Build new filename

$NewName = "$Track. $Title - $Artist$($File.Extension)"

$DestPath = Join-Path $DestFolder $NewName

# Prevent duplicates

$Counter = 1

while (Test-Path $DestPath) {

$NewName = "$Track. $Title - $Artist ($Counter)$($File.Extension)"

$DestPath = Join-Path $DestFolder $NewName

$Counter++

}

# Skip if already correct

if ($File.FullName -ne $DestPath) {

Move-Item -LiteralPath $File.FullName -Destination $DestPath

Write-Host "Moved:" $File.Name -ForegroundColor Green

}

}

catch {

Write-Host "FAILED:" $File.FullName -ForegroundColor Red

}

}

Write-Host "`nFinished organizing Needs Lyrics." -ForegroundColor Cyan

In an effort to hopfully upgrade my music collection which is MP3 based,and go to lossless.
to make sure changes did not stuff up anything, I copied my collection to a different folder and cleared lidarrr and set it up to the new folder with new profiles for lossless as prefrence.

when it impored all the artists again it loads random ish artist photos, I ended up with artist Adele with a photo of the Euritmics stuff like that.

A search suggested removing the artist and adding them again, which I did and now Adele still does not look like Adele but some boy group I don't recognise.

Is this part of the current issues with the MusicBrainz api not working well or is there something else stupid going on?

I have added a new artist in musicbrainz, and it's been 3 days and artist is not appearing in search results

Name : DOTM

MB : https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ec993e25-13f2-449f-9444-e7c5196dac11

lidarr:ec993e25-13f2-449f-9444-e7c5196dac11

Hello all,

I spent some hours this weekend working on a music stack. It's currently offline, but that's just because I couldn't get into it. I currently use Usenet for my media downloads and this is how I set it up.

https://preview.redd.it/r4f5oo9yt31h1.png?width=470&format=png&auto=webp&s=9b3cb795e290c4adb4f72129094ca9675140c94a

We're using Lidarr to connect to my indexers, AudioMuse for taste and local radio, navidrome for a media playing client, and Sonobarr for artist discovery and library building. Ollama works within these to let me build playlists easily like 'whisky country from early 2000s' etc.

This was OK. I'm not going to try and hide it, I'm trying to chase a Spotify like experience. The issue is that when all put together, it just kind've sucked and felt like friction. Here's what was wrong:

1. Radio stunk. I'd be doing pretty good, and then all of the sudden I'd get a Frosty the Snowman cover because I could only really download in bulk.
2. I couldn't search individual songs anywhere, I wasn't interested in downloading from YouTube, even though I set up the API and everything with Expo - I ended up deleting it. I didn't want music video audio downloaded. It just wasn't clean enough.
3. I have a love/hate relationship with Spotify's DJ X, I tried to get close to that experience here with Explo & Sonobarr w/ Ollama, but it came back to that issue of downloading from artists, and then it not knowing to avoid Christmas Music in May. I love that DJ X sort of knows what music I like.

I understand that I'm not going to get all the way there to what Spotify is giving me. Totally get it, but I don't know if this is as good as it could be?

This setup was missing no automation, I could index and grab thousands of songs within a few minutes from artists I like. But I was really just missing a sort of smart playback feature & the ability to download single songs all from the same platform on mobile. I don't want my wife to have to come to me, say I want to listen to X song, and then I have to download a FLAC from that artist and hope it contains it! My entertainment arr's is great because we go on Seer, find the movie, request it and it downloads & populates on Plex like an hour later. Music is challenging because we're not treating it the same as other entertainment. I'll listen to hundreds of songs in a week, but I'll only download one show and watch it for a month. Almost no friction.

What do you guys do?

Hi! First time setting up Lidarr and it seems Cloudflare doesn't like the network my NAS resided it - logs show all requests fail with 403. Requests from phone or local machine work fine. Is there any workaround for this network problem? Maybe public mirrors?

Tail Scale was been working on my zima os, but after i setup jellyfin with sonarr and radarr it hasnt been working ive treid reinstalling it(from the app store) and tried looking at logs but im not sure why i can see it turns off as soon as it connects

Just run Lidarr and I wanted to know whether it is possible to download popular songs from an album and sorting it automatically.

Currently I needed to search for the artist and it will download the whole album. I only wanted the popular songs or a specific song.

For instance, in Spotify there is a customized playlist with popular songs from 2012 from multiple artists. I wanted to be able to only have those kind of songs and it will automatically sort it based on the artist/album

I'm unsure how to explain it but i hope it is understandable