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Automated self-hosted music setup? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by schaka@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Let me preface this by saying I have a somewhat working setup right now, but it's the automation that's lacking.

I use Navidome for hosting and am happy with how it works and performs, so switching that is out of the question.

Currently, Lidarr is used to organize my music. I haven't really found anything else as easy to use. I don't really have access to or ratio on trackers to grab the FLACs that I want. So for all intents and purposes, assume that Lidarr does NOT download. It also cannot re-tag (just rename) - because in case it did grab something, this would break torrent hashes.

What I'm looking for is an automatic or semi-automatic way to add new types of downloads into this setup. Think: SoulSeek, Bandcamp purchases, downloads via streaming services, ytl-dlp etc. The source doesn't matter. This stuff can (and probably should) get re-tagged and renamed by Lidarr. I want to keep this in the same library.

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How do you guys have your music set up?

Do you see any way to have "external" sources managed by Lidarr, without splitting libraries?

Is there any cool, additional software I should know about?

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[–] janaxhell@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It also cannot re-tag (just rename) - because in case it did grab something, this would break torrent hashes.

Learn how to setup Atomic Moves https://wiki.servarr.com/lidarr/settings

Lidarr will tag&rename anything you want, but still keep the original torrents untouched, because it will hardlink them to a renamed filename were you want and at the same time it will keep seeding. The physical file will be linked from 2 different folders, one of which is the torrent download folder and the other is your library folder. 1 file, 2 links.

[–] schaka@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Retags modify the file though. It's modifying the file's metadata. I already do renames with hardlinks