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Couchpotato, sonarr alternatives in 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
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It been some years since downloading tv and movies. What software to use in 2025

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[–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Sonarr still the best IMHO And radar ofc.

The others 'are meh, stopped using them in favor or other ways.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What are some other ways?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    slsks is good for music, but it's not as automatic as lidarr (which is broken anyway)

    And for books / audiobooks I think manually with telegram and/or plain old torrents is the only way. Readarr again is just broken and unable to manage books and audiobooks.

    And Audiobookshelf is an amazing audiobooks and podcast playback platform that you can self-host.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's chaptarr that is in development as a replacement for readarr though I don't think there is a public download for it yet.

    What happened to lidarr is it not supported anymore?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Lidarr is still very much supported and the issue is being actively worked. The only people bitching about it are entitled users who demand the free software be fixed and maintained on their schedules instead of that of the volunteer devs who have lives of their own.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't use Lidarr, but I've read that the team has been having issues over the past few weeks with its metadata server, which can't be run locally (as of right now, anyway) and is required for parsing and fetching metadata. So, essentially, the auto-tagging and search systems are non-functional.

    I think it's only supposed to be temporary, but I'm sure it's been frustrating a lot of users and I've seen that some people are switching to alternatives or just downloading/tagging songs manually again.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    For plain ebooks there’s a Calibre plugin that integrates Anna’s Archive as a store. Requires a paid account but works okay in my limited experience.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    for non-audio e-books I always find everything on zlib

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Not as popular but there are other apps that do TV automation, SickChill and Medusa for example are still active forks of the old SickBeard/SickRage software.

    There are probably others I'm not thinking of right this second, nowadays people mostly prefer using the *arr stack for automation (Sonarr, Radarr, all the other arrs).

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    • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    • Couch Potato is pretty much dead, Radarr is the way to go.

    • Back in the day Sabnzbd was considered slow and inefficient so Nzbget was usually recommended. These days both are pretty much indistinguishable performance-wise and Sabnzbd seems to get more active development.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If my memory is correct, back when I was using Usenet, content got taken down really fast. Has that changed?

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    • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    For TV/movies:
    Sonarr
    Radarr
    SABnzbd
    Overseerr

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide#torrent-apps

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