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Full disclosure, I'm pretty new to selfhosting myself, and I haven't written a guide like this before, but hopefully this scatterbrained writeup is enough for someone out there lmao

This is just what works for me and how I set it up. Always open to ideas for improvement as well.

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Should put a note on your blog that Lidarr’s Metadata database is being rebuilt, currently the Lidarr APi spits a bunch of 5xx errors when searching for artists/albums/etc.

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

If you currently have a library on the stable build the Lidarr team could use some help building the cache, they made this tool:

https://github.com/DeviantEng/lidarr-cache-warmer

It’ll search every artist in your Lidarr library so that the new database has a cache to quickly call upon.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago

I think I made a note about that, but you're right I should make it more apparent. I did use the blampe/hearring-aid build here which solves the issue for the short term, but I'll add a clearer note to futureproof it for when the main builds are fixed.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah and it’s been proper fucked for months. I set up anew server on my Mac mini M4 months ago and every now and then I spin up lidarr again to see if it is fixed and nope, won’t recognise a single album in my entire collection and can’t even manually add an artist.

Headphones is pretty terrible and slow, but it has the benefit of working.

[–] Statick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You can petty easily point Lidarr to an alternate cache server. Either use the docker images they provide (link below) or of you already have Lidarr with plugins setup, you can do it that way (also explained in the link below)

https://github.com/blampe/hearring-aid?tab=readme-ov-file#-docker-images

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks for this, I’ll give the plugin change a go.