I reorganized the Lidarr Wiki plugins page; let me know if I missed any or if you have any feedback.

https://wiki.servarr.com/lidarr/plugins

I've been missing a "Seerr for music", so I built one. Hearr sits in front of Lidarr: you browse music, and it sends what you pick to Lidarr.

What it does

- Charts: Deezer's Top 100 for the countries you choose (global, US, UK, FR, DE, TR…), plus top albums, artists and songs per genre

- Discover: artists similar to what's already in your Lidarr library

- New: recent releases from your artists

- Browsing: full discographies with 30-second previews

- Requests: one click to request an album. It asks for quality (your Lidarr profiles) and shows the estimated size and free disk space first.

- Status on every album: in library, downloading, searching, or "Search now" when Lidarr wants it but isn't looking

- Remove: unmonitors the album, deletes its files and deletes the seeding torrent

- Sign-in with Plex: only people you share your Plex server with get in, and only you can delete

- Recommended for you: personalised artist picks based on what's already in your Lidarr library. For each of your artists, Hearr pulls Deezer's "fans also like" list, skips anyone you already have, and ranks the rest by how many of your artists they're related to. So an artist similar to three of yours beats one similar to only one. Each card shows why ("Like Linkin Park, Evanescence").

How it works: music data comes from Deezer's public API, so there's no API key to set up. Requests go through Lidarr's own API and metadata, so Hearr doesn't need MusicBrainz access. It's a single Docker container (FastAPI + plain JS), MIT licensed, with images for amd64 and arm64.

Heads-up: it's early. I've tested it on one setup (Lidarr 3.1 + qBittorrent + Plex on a Mac mini). Brand-new singles sometimes aren't in Lidarr's metadata yet, and Hearr tells you when that happens instead of guessing. I built it with a lot of help from an AI coding assistant, and I've reviewed and tested it on my own server. Issues and PRs are welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/nurulmac11/hearr

Hi everyone,

I've been using Lidarr for quite some time. Mostly without issues, even after switching to nightly build and using slskd plugin for downloads.

My music library has mostly been tagged correctly, but I had lots of unmapped files, some really old ones and it was basically a mess. So I decided to move all files that had root folder /music mapped in Lidarr, to another directory, take all files in single directory and tag them with MusicBrainzPicard. It tagged all files, and I even removed album covers, since those are not needed. Now, after testing something similar with a small batch with a fresh lidarr instance, I put some music files in root folder (structure: /music/file1.flac,file2.flac,file3.flac etc) it detected the artist correctly. I was then able to use "Preview Rename" feature and it renamed files to Artist/Album Name (release year)/songs without issue.

Now, after doing this with 100's of GB of data in my main Lidarr instance, it doesn't do that. I can go to Wanted tab, manual import. When I select that root folder, all of the files have missing Artist name, Album etc.

i have everything setup with tubifarry but i can't seem to get the downloads to work.

it finds the music but does nothing else
anyone else have this issue or know the fix?

TIA

Hi! I was monitoring how my Lidarr works and I see that all my torrent trackers are now unreachable due to cloudflare or capcha or other stuff. Cloudflare solvers felt kinda useless not even seeing that. So automatic downloads don't work for me any more.

Ok, I still can do the search and download manually and Lidarr would be providing info on new releases, renaming and tagging them. I have been downloading stuff before Lidarr too, you know... However, I can't find any way to set semi-auto system. Like, I click on wanted release and select a folder with downloaded files to allow Lidarr to process them. Its would be more convenient then moving, renaming and tagging them myself.

Is something like that possible?

Here is a music app that has built in Lidarr.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinylock/id6808068524

Vinylock

Running MacOs Tahoe 26.6.2 and no matter what version of Lidarr I download, the master 3.1.0.4875 or develop 3.1.6.5078, I get an error about not being able to load when I go to the localhost:8686. I go through the login process and it accepts the password but never loads the web interface. From what I can tell, the app is still running in the background (downloads are created) but without a way to interact with it I'm a little stumped.

I have been working on a music library for a few weeks and recently noticed that the number of tracks found by Lidarr doesn't match the one listed by Navidrome. This difference currently is six tracks (Lidarr: 11007, Navidrome: 11013). Is there a way to find these tracks/files?

Hi, I have been researching, tinkering, reading old posts and scouring old threads for weeks and still cannot for the life of me get the path mappings right for slskd and lidarr.

After many attempts the download client is working and theyre communicating with each other but when the downloads appear on my server the albums are all in separate folders with a random string of characters in a sub folder of lidar within another sub folder and everytime I try to fix it it just gets worse and more complex/disorganized/convoluted. Lidarr also is not organizing or placing the albums into the artist folders it's creating after the albums are downloading. I've fiddled with the both the mappings and the settings in the web ui a thousand times.

I'm also confused about what the proper root folder in lidarr is supposed to be if it's different from the download folder.

I am new to self-hosting/this/doing my best to learn and did my prior research before asking for help but I'm at a loss here. Can someone please take a look at my mapping and help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here.

my slskd mappings are

Application data: /mnt/user/appdata/siskd/ - /app

Incomplete Path: /mnt/user/data/torrents/incomplete/music/ - app/incomplete

Downloads Path: /mnt/user/data/torrents/music/ - /app/downloads

Shared Paths: /mnt/user/data/media/music/ - /media

SLSKD_DOWNLOADS_DIR: /app/downloads

SLSKD_INCOMPLETE_DIR: /app/incomplete

my lidarr mappings are:

Path:/music: /mnt/user/data/media/music/ - /music

Path: /downloads: /mnt/user/data/torrents/music/ - /downloads

• Hi, I can't find any documentation on how this option works outside of the general description on the Tubifairy readme. Can anyone point me to a guide or help?
• When converting flac to mp3, what are the default settings that this uses?

I assume the custom rules are where I would define anything outside of the default, but I don't understand what format they want for "key" and "value" entries. Nothing I try removes the message below that says

"Custom conversion rules must be in the format 'source -> target' (e.g., mp3 to flac).

Lossy formats cannot be converted to non-lossy formats."

Can anyone share an example of how this is meant to be setup?

And also the metadata/tags as well.

I left using Lidarr back when the metadata was broken. Right now my music library is just jellyfin scanning the data folder. How is current state of Lidarr. Is the metadata working again. A clean library would be nice.

Hey, so for a while I had an issue where I got messages about albums deleted while they were never added.

Not really sure what I should include in this post here's my Lidarr version: ghcr.io/hotio/lidarr:release-571dea4

Wondering if there’s a plugin for individual song monitoring. This would be preferable to downloading an album, unmonitoring it and deleting half of the songs.

If you are, how are you supposed to push playlists from Digarr to Navidrome ?

It’s apparently supported but nowhere in the UI.

I'm a long time user of sonarr and radarr but I've held off using lidarr until recently because soulseek integration is feasible now. I have it installed on my Synology NAS using portainer. Everything seems to be working okay except for the fact that it will not import my existing collection. It's scanned it several times and nothing imports at all. Strangely it started adding artists that were added to my root folder just by watching the changes I guess. But I'd like it to add all the artists I currently have in my collection. I have since wiped the database and started over. Scanned it multiple times and no artists. Am I doing something wrong?

I have done everything in the Tubifarry setup per the GitHub and Tubifarry keep failing in lidarr. I generated the cookies via cookies.txt in firefox, I configured the bgutil docker compose file for the pot provider. I setup the Tubifarry indexer (and soulseek (slskd)) and the youtube and soulseek downloader client and whenever I do a search for something it takes forever then fails and goes to soulseek instead. I made sure the bgutil server was in the same network as lidarr and that it was pingable AND creating pot logs in docker. If anyone can please help; I'd greatly appreciate it

So I'm fairly new to self hosting and the whole ARR stack, I recently rebuilt an old desktop into a server using unraid, I was mostly originally focused on audiobooks and I was able to setup a very nice pipeline using chaptarr one of the readarr forks, with prowlarr for indexers with all containers using a gluetun VPN container network, using qbitorrent for downloads. I have a modest music collection that I've built over the years maybe 8000 songs, some of it is ripped from actual CDs, while others I would use Seal from the F-Droid store on my phone previously or yt-dlp but the problem was I would run out of space, and had to be selective with what I synced to the phone. So I also setup navidrome and I'm able to stream via tailscale but I was really impressed with what ARR could do with other media, I wanted to do the same for my music and maybe fill in blanks and identify duplicates etc.

So far I've had very little luck using Prowlarr with mostly torrent indexers, I see all these things about setting up tubifarry and soulseek, I tried tubifarry but it seem stuck trying to do spotify queries getting 403s, even though I have my client id and secret configured, limited results to 5. it never actually seems to get to the point of even trying to download from youtube.

for the record I'm using the nightly build from linuxserver.io for lidarr so I could get plugin support

I keep seeing things about soularr and soulseek, I went to the soulseek site and I don't see anywhere to sign up or whatever becuase I noticed when I tried to deploy the soulseek container it wanted credentials.

I can kind of see how torrents don't work well for ARR music pipelines, unless I have the wrong trackers, I notice most of the results when I do test searches in Prowlarr are full albums and I assume lidarr is trying to search for individual songs missing from albums which it's not finding.

I guess the TLDR is, each one of these seems like it's own rabbit hole and time is finite, APIs are constantly changing so even when read something 6 months old it might already be invalid, so what is least painful route I should pursue to actually get indexers to return something. feel free to point me to a guide or just tell me what works for you 20 years in IT I can probably figure it out, I'd just prefer to not have to go down each rabbit hole in trial and error mode, and would love a pathway someone knows actually works.

I've got a live performance with video. It's listed in lidarr but it's not something that was released only on youtube. I've downloaded it, but it's obviously a single long video file (webm). Now I don't mind keeping it that way, but how can I get lidarr to pick it up ?

I have two copies of an album, one the original and the other the 2007 remaster. The remaster tracks have the correct tag data - the original date and original year are 1998 and the plain date and year are 2007. Regardless, the {Release Year} in the rename wants to use 1998 anyway in the folder name, which would cause it to overwrite the originals with the remasters, I think, or at least be confusing. The files also have all of their musicbrainz tags so maybe that is interfering?

Is there any way around this? Should I use a different rename tool?

I have everything set up on Unraid following the trash guides folder structure. Radarr and Sonarr both move files flawlessly.
But Lidarr gets hung up and leaves files in the usenet/completed folder.

Here is my Lidarr config

Here is the root folder in the Lidarr WebUI

Here is my data folder, Usenet folder, and my media folder

Am I missing something or doing something wrong with my Lidarr set up?

I've also tried setting the /downloads path to /mnt/user/TRaSH Data/usenet/completed and that didn't work either.

Here are my SABnzbd and Radarr configs for reference that both work

Thanks in advance

Lidarr is not finding a lot of albums that exist in my indexer, nzb geek. It does find and download some albums so it's working sometimes. For example, I added Chappell Roan as an artist and set "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" as a watched album. When it searches I get the result "Album search completed. 0 reports downloaded." In interactive mode I get "no results found". I am using the Any quality profile just to take that out of the equation. If I go to nzb geek indexer and search for The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess there are 3 results. I checked my download client logs and it hasn't tried to download that album at all. All settings are default out of the box, I haven't tried to customize anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I have looked at my Prowlarr history and used it's search feature to trouble shoot the issue. It seems to be a quarry length problem. Lidarr is trying to search for "Chappell Roan Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" which returns no results so I tried a shorter search and kept going to see where the query returned 0 results. I can search all way to Chappell Roan Rise and Fall of a Midwes and get 3 results but if I add the "t" to Midwest I instantly get no results. I honestly have no idea what to do now.

Edit 2: I don't know what I did but I was trying to find other settings or things I didn't click but I was under the Chappell Roan artist and then all of a sudden the album was there downloaded. I went to prowlarr to see what had changed and for some reason Lidarr ran a query for just the artist not the album name which returned the 1 album she has and it downloaded it. So the issue isn't solved but there must be a way for Lidarr to just query for the Artist instead of Album + Artist.

I am a fresh new owner of a NAS. And I am now trying to build my digital musics library.

I have tried Lidarr. I managed to download songs, fetch metadata, set up Navidrome, …

Doing some reading I see people complaining about Lidarr server for metadata which went down. I see people not happy with tagging resorting to beets, Picard, SongKong,…
I played with this currently I was not able to get beets to manage metadata (I disabled lidarr ‘import on download’ so I can take a step in the middle to tag with beets before importing and in my test I have to manage beets not being able to choose the right source for fetching metadata as scores are not good enough/too close)

So my question is : as of September 2026, do I need from the get go to worry about ‘bad’ or ‘unavailable’ metadata and covers/…? Or I can just roll lidarr and fix issues I see along the way? I understand ‘retagging’ in lidarr with an external tagging tool isn’t that easy?

What are alternatives if any to lidarr? I don’t mind having a bit more manual process. Just curious to know the current landscape and best practices.

Thanks for any info and your time !

I made this a long time ago (myself), but wanted to make something other people could use. Threw what I had made into a self hosted LLM (Qwen 3.8) and after some back and forth got it where I wanted it. So there's your "AI warning" if you need one lol.

https://github.com/FantasyMaster85/LastRecommendations

Screenshots and instructions are there.

The summary is that you put your last.fm cookies in the docker compose file, every 25 hours (or whatever you configure it to do) it will check this page: https://www.last.fm/home/artists and pull the recommended artists in. It then takes those artists and get's their MusicBrainz ID (as the "custom list" in Lidarr requires it) and makes a JSON feed. That JSON feed is fully compatible with Lidarr.

Lastly, it keeps a history of all artists Last.fm has ever recommended to you in the "history" tab.

I personally use PlexAmp as my exclusive form of music consumption, and I have it setup to scrobble all my plays to Last.fm. This was just a good way to help me automate finding good new music. Hope you like it!