submitted 2 years ago by silva@sopuli.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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?

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[-] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 years ago

if the music is older, and not from the US, it's often not on spotify. Versions matter too - even for some mainstream bands their B sides/acoustic/live versions just aren't on spotify or youtube. Album metadata for spotify is garbage too - it just isn't an adequate replacement for a record collection.

I do use a spotify subscription, but for me it's a tool for playlist generation and music discovery.

Also audio quality, as others have mentioned.

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