Where Nicotine/Soulseek excel is finding rare stuff that's usually not distributed via torrent, similar to @Meuzzin@lemmy.world 's comment. Not only that, but friend lists, PMs, as well as browsing music shares from users that have similar interests and advanced filtering for format, bitrate, etc.

A lot of my music collection was never even released on tape, much less CD or streaming, and dealing with Discogs and waiting for sellers to get in stock what you're looking for is a hassle. If your tastes veer toward the more mainstream and official digital releases are available, then torrents may be better for you. For myself and others like me, the choice is pretty clear though.

The biggest pain point that I have with Lidarr is that there is no integrated way to split flac/cue albums that are very prevalent. I really need the tracks split so they can be played via plexamp. If anyone has any suggestions to automate this relatively well, I would appreciate it.