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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

quality
organization of files
proper metadata
extras like photos/other images, lyrics, links, etc
community (on various torrent sites, mainly)
not being reliant on a company and centralized servers
someone paid for the album.. band made more from that one sale than how many streams of it? Lol 😐
commands are crowding my CLI history. Lol

It depends what it is and maybe I'm not savvy enough but, I find it easier to use bittorrent still.

Some things are easier to find on YT or X streaming service so, I'd say multiple methods these days are necessary depending on what one is into.

To that end, I think we need to just reach out to bands and point them to a primer on uploading their music. Additionally, more people need to go to shows and start creating high quality torrents of smaller, more independant bands. As well as people creating torrents or torrent packs for the stuff that gets ripped from the other sources.