Just wanted to share my feelings about the arr* stack, will keep it short !
First, thanks to all those beautiful people giving their free time to work on all thoses services ❤️ !
At first I wasn't that impressed and didn't understood all the hype arround all thoses services and only used sonarr to rename my files I had manually imported. It did a great job as a file renamer service, however I was still managing everything manually from hard links to qbittorrent organization creating in the end a total messed up file system with a lot of duplicated hardlinks and files scattered in different directories, renamed differently, etc.....
Also, after the most known french piracy tracker had been hacked and shut down (finally !), a lot of new trackers opened like wildfire and had over 10 trackers to keep an eye on. Searching the web, I came across Prowlarr and seeing how It connects directly to sonarr I got curious.
That's the exact moment when I finally unsterstood what's all the hype about the ARR stack ! My god, what an amazing piece of software stack...
First came jellyfin, sonaar, then prowlarr, radarr, seerr and now I discovered profilarr. It's amazing to see how everything perfectly communicates with each part of the stack and everything is perfeclty automated and god does it work well... I'm impressed and still baffled how something so good is free and open source !!
Im still scratching the surface of this powerfull stack, but does it feel good to just ask seerr and after a few minutes having my media perfectly organized in qbittorrent, filesystem directories, renaming scheme, hardlinks, quality profiles, config synchronization......... 💥🤯
It does have it's own quirks right and there, and can become kinda weird if you do not know what you are doing (thanks Trash guides ❤️❤️) and seeing from all the issues the arr stack seems to hit a wall with the current code implementation. But IDK, i'm not a programmer so I may be wrong here.
And there seems always something new to complement the arr stack !
So that's it :) Just wanted to share my feeling and appreciation with all of you ! Happy self-hosting !!
Huh I guess the difference is that I have an internal quality gate.
Ongoing series? Better wait for the season to be done, otherwise I could be disappointed.
Marvel movie collection? The whole point is to pick only the good ones.
An artist released an album, let’s see the reception and then maybe I’ll get it.
I also don’t want to waste space so making things automatically download could lead to quantity over quality
I've been downloading shows for 30 years and all the manual curating and renaming is for the birds.
I think it's fine for yourself, but as soon as other ppl are relying on you for this, it becomes a full time job.
Hmmm, that also might the other missing link, I am not sharing with others (have suggested but their adoption is slow).
I also find others deciding to add content to my library a no go, what if they download a terrible movie?
Shutters
Love me a terrible movie. Used to do a b movie night with friends and we'd each choose the worst movies we could find and roast them mst3k style. Even bad movies can have artistic value if you reframe your perspective. I'd never have found Slaxx if I ignored so called bad movies. Campy low budget horror at its finest and highly recommend. But to each their own
You can set quality preferences so it only downloads greater than x quality.
They meant artistic quality, not resolution and bitrate.