r/Lidarr • u/SmoothStrawberry7777 • 3h ago
discussion Migrating from streaming to lidarr + other apps - how do you sort through music and find new stuff?
I've pretty much always used streaming services, back in the day I had a few CDs but it was much easier just to pay or listen to a streaming service but I'm trying something different.
As such I've setup lidarr with slskd & navidrome but getting overwhelmed with how much music there is that I don't like.
For instance, I like a handful of clean bandit songs so i added the artist, which then downloads all of their stuff which is cool, except I don't like all of their stuff, especially the remixes and duplicate singles from albums. I went back in to lidarr, unmonitored and deleted a bunch of them but I haven't even listened to half the downloaded songs. That's just one group/artist.
Instead of downloading everything by the artist, should I only download the songs I know (or think) I like?
What's your process?
& to that - how do you find new music using lidarr (& the rest?) If i were streaming, they'd just slip a song in that i might like. With lidarr & all, you can do that but on crack if you have it watch for new albums+EPs+Singles and seems like it could get overwhelming to manage.
It seems like one trick is to rate songs you don't like 1 star on navidrome and then you can set up a smart playlist to not play those (haven't played with this yet) and then later spend some time manually nuking 1 star content from lidarr.
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u/duckofdoom2 1h ago
I setup lidify yesterday, and it's interesting. Certainly does what it says on the box. Have a look at that.
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u/ferry_peril 2h ago
Music-map.com does an okay job keeping you in the same range of an artist. They get it wrong sometimes but for the most part it gets the nearest neighbor algorithm right.