Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new tracks from your favorite artists and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Automatically detects new tracks.
- Can scan your existing library and download any missing tracks.
- Can watch for better quality of the tracks you already have and do an automatic upgrade.
- Automatic failed download handling will try another release if one fails.
- Manual search so you can pick any release or to see why a release was not downloaded automatically.
- Fully configurable track renaming.
- Full integration with SABnzbd and NZBGet.
- Full integration with Kodi, Plex (notification, library update, metadata).
- Full support for specials and multi-album releases.
- Beautiful UI.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Raspberry Pi, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/lidarr/Lidarr
Support:
Developer: Lidarr
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Lidarr is written in C#. Learn C# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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