It been some years since downloading tv and movies. What software to use in 2025

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu
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    3 days ago

    slsks is good for music, but it’s not as automatic as lidarr (which is broken anyway)

    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.

    • slackarr@piefed.ca
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      3 days ago

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

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        2 days 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.

    • Egonallanon@feddit.uk
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      3 days ago

      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?

      • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 days 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.

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        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.

    • misk@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      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.

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          3 days ago

          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
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            3 days ago

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