And for books / audiobooks I think manually with telegram and/or plain old torrents is the only way. Readarr again is just broken and unable to manage books and audiobooks.

And Audiobookshelf is an amazing audiobooks and podcast playback platform that you can self-host.

[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There's chaptarr that is in development as a replacement for readarr though I don't think there is a public download for it yet.

What happened to lidarr is it not supported anymore?

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't use Lidarr, but I've read that the team has been having issues over the past few weeks with its metadata server, which can't be run locally (as of right now, anyway) and is required for parsing and fetching metadata. So, essentially, the auto-tagging and search systems are non-functional.

I think it's only supposed to be temporary, but I'm sure it's been frustrating a lot of users and I've seen that some people are switching to alternatives or just downloading/tagging songs manually again.

[–] Vegiforous@piefed.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Lidarr uses musicbrainz as the primary metadata source and mb changed the format of the data given by their api. They are posting details and updates here:

https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr/issues/5498

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lidarr is still very much supported and the issue is being actively worked. The only people bitching about it are entitled users who demand the free software be fixed and maintained on their schedules instead of that of the volunteer devs who have lives of their own.

[–] misk@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For plain ebooks there’s a Calibre plugin that integrates Anna’s Archive as a store. Requires a paid account but works okay in my limited experience.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

for non-audio e-books I always find everything on zlib

[–] misk@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I assumed OP is after some kind of media manager with integrated download capabilities and Zlib doesn’t have anything similar as far as I know.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh right, I just download via zlib and import into Calibre, but I guess that's a more manual operation

[–] Gert@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ah. Know I get it I thought you used something else for tv and movies . Thanks

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Chaptarr on the way, readarr with rreading-glasses works great for now though.

https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses

[–] slackarr@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you can hook slskd into lidarr with a script called soularr so it automatically grabs all your shit

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair, i have a paid Spotify account and occasionally sync my playlists using Spotizer. I have long removed lidarr because it's pretty bad experience overall anyway. Slskd is there for all the other music needs.