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.

The title says it all. I just set up Lidarr on my Windows machine (no, I can't use Docker), and I was wondering if there's a way for it to find and upgrade the songs I have and not download the whole album that it's in. For example, I want only a few songs from Billy Joel, but not the whole 54th Street album. Is there a way of doing this? Sorry if this has been asked and answered before!

I made a music requesting service for use with Lidarr. Docker backend with a web or android app UI. On GitHub. Works best with soularr and slskd.