I recently set up Sonarr and Radarr on my home server and I’m loving it.

However, I don’t get why you would ever use Lidarr. Why would you ever download music using torrents? You can use tools like spotdl and yt-dlp to download songs from YouTube music and Spotify, it’s faster and more reliable; I have had some issues finding torrents of music from less-known artists.

To me it seems like it would be much better to have a tool like Lidarr or have support in Jellyseerr to download music from common streaming services.

What are your views on this?

  • Proteus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    57·
    6 months ago

    Basically boils down to quality. The default options for pirated music are FLAC 44.1-96 kHz 16-24 bit, or MP3 320kbps.

    Both are better than YouTube quality.

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
      14·
      6 months ago

      Yep, don’t need to get a headache from crappy 128bps mp3s.

      Also because fuck this rent-music mentality.

    • the_third@feddit.deEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      Eh - YT music (premium) offers 256kB-ish Opus now. That’s on par with 320kBps MP3.