this is my current plan, but I’ve yet to selfhost for longer than a month or two previously. what do y’all think of my choices?
Proxmox HV running TrueNAS+Debian Stable Server
Prowlarr: Indexer manager Sonarr: TV show management automation Radarr: Movie management automation LazyLibrarian: Book management automation Lidarr: Music management automation Homarr: Dashboard for managing applications Seerr: Media request management system Jellyfin: Media server qBittorrent: Torrent client NZBGet: Usenet downloader WireGuard: VPN software Surfshark: VPN service Portainer: Docker container management UI Watchtower: Automated Docker container updates Immich: Photo gallery & backup Mealie: Meal planner Moonlight: Low latency remote gaming (retro game emulator focused) Kavita: Ereader for books, manga, audiobooks, most formats Funkwhale: Music streaming
open to suggestions, but wanted to see if the community would perceive this as a reasonably interlocked software system or if i need to be using other software.
incredibly new and lowkey uninformed by trying my best to learn. plz be nice lol
I haven’t found one yet. My workflow is to use nicotine+ to find flac music, convert to 256bit opus, properly tag with Picard, rsync with my Navidrome library and trigger a scan. It’s clean for me and lots of it is scripted, but that wouldn’t work for everyone.
Radarr and Sonarr work because the workflow of show -> season -> S01E01.Title.extension (even simpler for movies) is well known and accepted as more or less a standard for organizing video media.
Music, on the other hand, is very individual. Some like strict folder organization, others are particular about naming conventions, others are picky about tags, there is no standard for handling playlists, off-beat, rare, or bootleg music is enjoyed by some, some like compilation albums, etc.
If you look at the complaints for lidarr, most of the issues stem from folks not fitting lidarr into their workflow, which is totally valid, but not something the Lidarr devs could do anything about.
Ultimately, Lidarr failed because metadata fetching became onerous to maintain.