I love my sonarr and radarr setup. But readarr seems to not be working so well. Is there a guide on how to get it to be more reliable in grabbing books? And while I am at it, how do I manage audio AND ebooks?

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

how do I manage audio AND ebooks?

You need two versions of Readarr. Yes, that's just how it is. Just like if you wanted a 4K and non-4K radarr.

[–] Slinky5737 8 points 2 years ago

Butthurt people downvoting you for giving the right answer. It's frustrating, but it's cleanest to run two instances of Readarr for two formats (which is why it's best to run it in containers).

[–] AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting. Why would you want multiple version of a movie though?

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

If you're sharing with other people who don't have a 4K screen or don't have the bandwith to stream 4K, it uses a lot of system resources to transcribe 4K content down to something manageable, so some people find it easier to just keep two copies.

[–] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Readarr goes through fits of not working very well, usually linked to issues with the metadata provider. My tip would be to ditch it entirely and use LazyLibrarian instead. It's a lot more reliable, and has all of the same functionality.

[–] AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That seems to be the general thought around here.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm personally trying to setup LazyLibrarian instead because it supports Libgen.

[–] AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I will give a shot.

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Semi-related, can these automations really be relied upon for quality, or is there a system to help find the best copy? When I'm downloading books I do it manually through Anna's Archive and I always download as many unique versions of a book that I see, then open them all and compare their internals to see which one I keep. Often not many ebooks are suitable for using my own font and layouts with Koreader.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Same. I wouldn't trust an automated system. There's too much variation between book releases. It isn't like downloading video.

[–] siskourso@odin.lanofthedead.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

To add to this currently Readarr metadata server is having issues and has been most of the month so you may find issues adding authors/books to your library that you had not already added.