I recently set up Sonarr and Radarr on my home server and I’m loving it.

However, I don’t get why you would ever use Lidarr. Why would you ever download music using torrents? You can use tools like spotdl and yt-dlp to download songs from YouTube music and Spotify, it’s faster and more reliable; I have had some issues finding torrents of music from less-known artists.

To me it seems like it would be much better to have a tool like Lidarr or have support in Jellyseerr to download music from common streaming services.

What are your views on this?

  • possibly a cat@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    YouTube and Spotify are lossy, and not everything I listen to is available for streaming anyway.

    99.9% of the time I just stream, though.

    My view is that there are many ways to interact with music, and you should do whatever works for you. I think for a lot of people that means not using torrents because the benefits don’t really match their use cases.