I'm brand new to this kind of stuff, only recently started looking into torrents and p2p. My friend has the arr stack setup, but I'm not really looking to have an entire server and all the apps. Right now, I just want to find music I've got saved on Spotify and get it downloaded in my music folder so I can transfer it to my other devices.

Every video I find on Lidarr seems to use a VPS, and I'm struggling to understand some of the per-requisites in the Linux installation guide. I'm just wondering if Lidarr is actually even what I'm looking for, or if this is something more than I want or just overall not what I'm looking for.

Hello,

I have lidarr running on my synology NAS, installed via package manager. FFMpeg was also installed via package manager, the binary is in my /volume1/docker/@appdata directory.

Trying to setup Codec Tinker for some post-file transformations, but when I try to path to /volume1 in the FFmpeg Path field, it cannot see /volume1 or any of its subdirectories.

How do I make ffmpeg visible and available to use?

Not a major issue, just an irritating one..
I'm overhauling my archives, and have been locating albums I didn't have in entirety before. Lidarr had already imported a few tracks, but now I'm deleting those and importing the entire album.

When I delete the file from my system and try to import the album, Lidarr's import screen gets stuck on "this file is missing" and to fix it, I have to delete the artist (without removing files) then re-add the artist and it imports fine..

Not sure if this is known or not, or how complicated it is to fix, just bringing it up in case no one else has..

LSIO Sabz image seemingly fails to extract most RARs, so I ended up with a huge complete dir of unextracted nzbs. I threw together a quick script to extract everything, and now I am attempting to manual import.

Sonarr/Radarr - no issues. They both matched the files on disk against wanted and got on with it. Lidarr? Nah - It expects me to manually tag the artist, album and track for every single file (thousands of them).

Am I missing something silly?

I've set everything up seemingly correctly—including Prowlarr—but when I add artists, nothing downloads. Is anyone else experiencing this?

A path to success using naming convention, custom formats, quality profile and delay profile

V2026.07.11-01

https://github.com/Jbaal/scoring_with_lidarr/tree/main

I've recently made this guide for Lidarr users wanting to have a better understanding of the scoring system in Lidarr, with some advice to get the best out of it. Hope it can be helpful to some of you!

Hi everyone,

I am trying to set up a seamless workflow for handling Japanese music, but I am running into massive struggles with track naming, automation, and metadata matching.

My Current Setup:

* Downloader: Lidarr integrated with slskd (Soulseek)

* Media Server: Jellyfin

* Mobile Client: Symfonium

The Goal:

I want to be able to search for my Japanese tracks using Romanized names (Romaji) inside my mobile app. Right now, searching is incredibly difficult because a huge portion of the tracks are imported with their original Kanji/Kana titles.

The Struggle:

Lidarr often struggles to automatically match Japanese releases via slskd, or it grabs releases that default strictly to Japanese characters. I need a reliable way to favor English/Romanized pseudo-releases from MusicBrainz during the automated process.

My Questions for the Lidarr community:

1. How do you configure your profiles, metadata settings, or release preferences to heavily favor English/Romanized/Pseudo-releases for Japanese music?

2. Is there a custom script or naming token setup in Lidarr you use to handle foreign character transliteration on import?

3. Should I handle this entirely inside Lidarr, or do most of you use an external tagger as a manual bridge before the files hit your media folder?

Any advice or workflow adjustments would be greatly appreciated!

*(Note: Also posted to r/jellyfin to look at the media server side of the metadata puzzle).*