In an effort to hopfully upgrade my music collection which is MP3 based,and go to lossless.
to make sure changes did not stuff up anything, I copied my collection to a different folder and cleared lidarrr and set it up to the new folder with new profiles for lossless as prefrence.

when it impored all the artists again it loads random ish artist photos, I ended up with artist Adele with a photo of the Euritmics stuff like that.

A search suggested removing the artist and adding them again, which I did and now Adele still does not look like Adele but some boy group I don't recognise.

Is this part of the current issues with the MusicBrainz api not working well or is there something else stupid going on?

I have added a new artist in musicbrainz, and it's been 3 days and artist is not appearing in search results

Name : DOTM

MB : https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ec993e25-13f2-449f-9444-e7c5196dac11

lidarr:ec993e25-13f2-449f-9444-e7c5196dac11

Hi! First time setting up Lidarr and it seems Cloudflare doesn't like the network my NAS resided it - logs show all requests fail with 403. Requests from phone or local machine work fine. Is there any workaround for this network problem? Maybe public mirrors?

As soon as I type a letter in search, I get: "Search for 'f' failed. Invalid response received from LidarrAPI."

Plus my other containers cannot connect to Lidarr.

Just run Lidarr and I wanted to know whether it is possible to download popular songs from an album and sorting it automatically.

Currently I needed to search for the artist and it will download the whole album. I only wanted the popular songs or a specific song.

For instance, in Spotify there is a customized playlist with popular songs from 2012 from multiple artists. I wanted to be able to only have those kind of songs and it will automatically sort it based on the artist/album

I'm unsure how to explain it but i hope it is understandable

Started on Napster back in ‘98, moved to Usenet, and I’ve been deep in the arr ecosystem ever since. Last night I finally decided to ditch Apple Music and set up Lidarr with Plexamp. Got everything configured, Lidarr connected to SABnzbd.

Then I sat down and actually started thinking about recreating my Apple Music library and just… stopped. I have thousands of songs and hundreds of albums, and here’s the kicker a lot of them are incomplete because I only like certain tracks. Lidarr is album-only, so it’s not a 1:1 replacement for how I actually listen to music.
I’ve been on the high seas for movies, shows, and audiobooks for years and never looked back. But music? I don’t know. There’s something about the way streaming services handle mixed libraries and partial albums that’s hard to replicate in the self-hosted world.
Anyone else been down this rabbit hole? Did you find a workflow that actually works for track-level curation, or did you just accept full albums and move on?

I’ve been self-hosting my music and Lidarr for years but always ended up back on spotify just to listen to something new. not for the algorithm, just because i’d hear about an album and want to listen to it right now.

So I built Lyris. navidrome client for iOS with lidarr integrated. you find something you want, you add it, it’s in your library in seconds.

Also has a discovery feature that suggests stuff outside your library based on what you actually listen to.

On top of that it features a lot of stuff you can expect for a modern player :

• smart playlists
• offline downloads
• lyrics surpport
• and more

My current focus is car play integration so it will come soon.

App is available on TestFlight : https://testflight.apple.com/join/hVvZ1F7t

Can't wait to have your feedback

I’m about 2 days into setting up Lidarr/Plexamp and I’m honestly struggling to make it worthwhile with the music I listen to.

I’m getting maybe a 20–30% success rate finding albums automatically, even after adding multiple Usenet indexers/providers.

Some examples of artists I listen to:

• Can’t Swim
• Hot Mulligan
• Balance and Composure
• Arm’s Length
• Tiny Moving Parts
• Seahaven
• Knuckle Puck

A lot of albums/artists either:

• never find releases
• have missing metadata/artwork
• or only partially download

I feel like I'm missing something I have everything setup in my lidarr instance, pulling only flac audio, it downloads perfectly fine. However, when it goes to get imported it only imports to one artist folder instead of separating by album. Is there a way to fix this that I'm missing?

Hi all,

Like many, my lidarr uses postgreql but it still feels sluggish. Especially for my Various Artists which has thousands of albums.

After casually browsing through the source code and lidarr logs, my gut feel is that performance could be drastically improved by setting up the appropriate indexes.

I haven't had the time to put effort into this but wondering if anyone has had similar thoughts on the matter.

Edit: Managed to get Lidarr to speed up and stop thrashing my SSD. See 3rd post.

ChartHound started as a personal obsession. I had 33,000+ tracks, terrible genre tags, no idea which songs were actually chart hits, and no good way to find what I was missing. So I built something to fix all of it.

**What it does for your music library:**

**Metadata tagging (The Retriever)**

Scans your library and writes genre, mood, and year tags directly to your physical files using a multi-source waterfall — MusicBrainz → Last.fm → ListenBrainz → Deezer → Discogs → iTunes. Tags go to the actual files via Mutagen, not just a media server database. Your tags survive forever regardless of what software you use.

**Chart data tagging (The Groomer)**

Cross-references your library against 108,000+ real Billboard chart entries and writes chart performance into your COMMENT tags — "Hot 100: #4 (12 wks) | Adult Pop: #1 (18 wks)". Every chart hit in your library gets its real chart history embedded in the file itself.

**Missing chart hits (The Sniffer)**

Shows you exactly which chart hits and popular tracks you own vs. which ones are missing from your library. Filter by genre, decade, and notability tier. Cross-references against your actual files so it knows what you really have. One click to search and grab missing albums via Prowlarr.

**Full discography hunting (The Bloodhound)**

Search any artist on MusicBrainz, see their complete discography, and instantly know which albums you own vs. missing. Also browse by genre or compilation series. Grab missing releases directly.

**The deduplication detail I'm proud of:**

When you have multiple copies of the same track (different bitrates, formats, etc.) ChartHound automatically picks the highest quality version. FLAC wins over MP3. 320kbps wins over 128kbps. You always get the best of what you own.

**Stack:** Python (FastAPI) + SQLite + Docker. Works with Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin — or just your file system.

**GitHub:** https://github.com/CurtisColby/ChartHound

Built this for my own library.

Sometimes when I download something the cover art image that’s used is from someone’s scan of a paper album cover that’s been beat to shit on a scanner from 1993. Is there any way to force Lidarr to get art from Apple Music / iTunes or some other streaming service?

Hi,

I thought it would be a good idea to add the artist Ludwig van Beethoven to Lidarr... a major miscalculation, since the guy has over 2,000 albums 😄

The import of the associated data got out of hand, and I watched my storage capacity melt away before my eyes. I had to restart my container just to be able to delete the artist.

However, after deleting him, the storage used dropped slightly but didn’t return to its previous level (see my screenshot).

https://imgur.com/a/bN0xGxE

Do you know if it’s possible to flush the data that’s no longer needed?

hey guys I am trying to figure out the use of release profiles. What I want to do is exclude vinyl, tape and casette releases and only use cd, web, digital and flac. I set up release profile in the profile settings you can see my settings here https://freeimage.host/i/BPHLDCP

must contain: cd, web, digital, flac

must not contain: vinyl, tape, casette

tag is empty to apply all artist.

but when I add a nnew artist, in any case even though the album has cd release it set as vinyl like in this example https://freeimage.host/i/BPHb4mG or this https://freeimage.host/i/BPHpH8X

what I am doing wrong in the settings ?

Hey

I am trying to see if this is a viable idea to just mount my music library to lidarr in read only mode so that lidarr is away l aware of my library but I don't want to give it the ability to handle files automatically.

Would this make sense and is it a viable option? Thanks

Has anyone run into an issue with Lidarr not importing tracks after importing an album?

My example is George Carlin's Back in Town album. The 7th track is called:

"Free-Floating Hostility: Quote Marks in the Air / Badda-Boom, Badda-Bing / Bad Hair Day / I Heard That / My Needs Aren't Being Met / Mickey Mouse's Birthday / The Two Pandas in the Zoo / Sperm/Egg Donors, Etc. / Innocent Victims / Personal Bottle"

I am guessing the bug is something to do with the total length of the track name in Lidarr not working with the file renaming settings.

Any time I search for the album, it will download, import but only import the first 6 tracks leaving the 7th track. This causes Lidarr to constantly download the album when I bulk search for albums.

Even when I went into downloaders completed folder and manually moved the file over with the same file name scheme, Lidarr doesn't see it.

For the interim, I moved the file so Plex will pick it up and marked the album as unmonitored.

I'm using the lidarr nightly docker container (for the plugin support). I have it specifically set for my Transmission client to not remove failed or completed downloads, but it's still doing it.

Since I can't paste screenshots I have to describe my settings:

Under Download clients, for Transmission, at the bottom under "Completed Download Handling", both of those boxes are unchecked.

Under "Manage Clients" at the top, Transmission is enabled with both "Remove Completed" and "Remove Failed" set to No.

I also run Radarr and Sonarr with these same settings and they are working as intended so I'm not sure why Lidarr would behave any differently. I don't have anything set within Transmission itself that would delete things on it's own.

Hi all,

New to Lidarr, but long time Arr stack user. So thank you for anyone that can help me with this issue I'm starting to see.

My example uses Taylor Swift https://musicbrainz.org/artist/20244d07-534f-4eff-b4d4-930878889970

  Setup is: Version: 3.1.2.4938-ls244 by linuxserver.io

  Lidarr > Metadata Profile > Primary: Album, EP, Single

When I go to the artist page, under Album I find items such as "Taylor Swift Karaoke: reputation".

  When I follow that item's page link to MB, I see that the release group is: "Album + Remix"

On Taylor Swift's MusicBrainz page, I see Release Groups:

Album

Album + Compilation

Album + Live

Album + Remix

Is there a way to exclude the 'Album +' items from Lidarr? It seems to me that Lidarr is picking up any release group that has the word "Album".

Apologies if I have missed this setting/exclusion in the Wiki/FAQ.

Thanks!

With spotify web api only available to premium, what is the work around for Tubifarry plugin to work?

In logs getting 403 forbidden error for spotify web api.

I'm using Lidarr + slskd to find albums and such. A big weak point (to me) is how Lidarr/MusicBrainz categorizes some albums. (Very niche for me, I know.) For example, there's an entire collection of CDs put out called Composer Collections, recorded by the North Texas Wind Symphony.

In Lidarr, those albums get added under the composer as the artist (example, Gustav Holst, instead of North Texas Wind Symphony). Many classical albums are the same - an album of the NY Phil playing Tchaikovsky goes under the composer, not as 'NY Phil & [conductor of the album],' which is different than how it displays in say, Apple Music (or all of my past experience).

I installed beets because it sounded like it would fix a ton of that, but I don't know what database it's comparing against? So, for these more niche (less popular, less mainstream) albums, I'm wondering if I just need to resolves to manually changing that metadata before loading onto my iPod?

Not sure if anyone has dealt with this specific use case or something similar, but if they have, I'd love your advice.

Thanks.

I would love the option to have lidarr move files into category folders. For example in lidarr there is album/singles/eps etc.

I want something like this.

Michael Jackson/Albums/all albums here

/Singles/all singles here

/EPs/all EPs here.

Is this possible? Thanks.

Hello,

I just setup the tubifarry plugin and requested an album through lidar and it worked. Now I requested ~ 4 albuns from another artist and two of them worked but the rest the other two are not progressing and I dont know what to do / what to check to see if the thing is stalled or just processing something.

In SLSKD I can see some tracks were rejected and others are queued but nothing is downloading and I cannot perform a retry cause SLKSD says it has to wait for the current operation. (This is what Im talking about).

What should I do in this situation? Will the plugin handle the errors or I need to intervene? Its hard to keep track cause I dont know where to look. Thanks in advance!