Lidarr vs Readarr

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Lidarr		Readarr
	Project
122	Mentions	84
3,329	Stars	2,502
3.6%	Growth	3.0%
9.8	Activity	9.8
1 day ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Lidarr

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lidarr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

Moving full time to Plexamp
2 projects | /r/plexamp | 7 Dec 2023

I highly recommend Lidarr for organization/naming of your library. It's usually associated with piracy, but I just use it to maintain my self-ripped library and ensure that Plex has no issues discovering all my media.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life for me!! Recent streaming services, prices and shows getting butchered, finally decided its time. Here's how a basic self-hosted 'Netflix' would look like. Fully automated once its setup. Using only a makeshift homelab server from second hand parts.
30 projects | /r/Piracy | 6 Jul 2023

Lidarr: Manages music libraries.
Most "Private" Streaming Service?
2 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 11 Jun 2023

Lidarr + Jellyfin?
🦙 Llama - It really kicks the amps' ass (Plexamp inspired Music Player)
2 projects | /r/jellyfin | 26 May 2023

Lidarr handles your music downloads, sorts them and adds the correct metadata for your library to be picked up by Jellyfin. It will also upgrade your media if a better version is found. https://lidarr.audio/ there is also lidarr extended, which has extra features https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/docker-lidarr-extended
Other windows drive instalation issue
1 project | /r/Lidarr | 15 May 2023

This method doesn't help at all, or I am doing something entirely wrong.
Honest answer, is Spotify replaceable with Plex?
6 projects | /r/PleX | 20 Apr 2023

Lidarr (Music): https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr Lidarr can also pull down new album releases for artists, but that's something I usually have turned off (the artists I love I buy the CD for anyway).
Display studio albums/lives/compilations separately?
1 project | /r/Lidarr | 13 Apr 2023
Looking for help sorting music files
1 project | /r/Piracy | 26 Mar 2023

Try https://lidarr.audio/
Everytime when I ask someone what they watch movies on
17 projects | /r/Piracy | 17 Mar 2023

Lidarr: Music
Integrating SoulSeek into Jackett (and by extension, qbittorrent)
2 projects | /r/Piracy | 15 Mar 2023

Just a side note there is lidarr that has webui that handles music, not tried soulseek looking at it now, so don't know if it's the same..

Readarr

Posts with mentions or reviews of Readarr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-18.

Librum: Open-Source e-book platform
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2023
Best .NET Core API project for learning?
9 projects | /r/dotnet | 4 Dec 2023
Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life for me!! Recent streaming services, prices and shows getting butchered, finally decided its time. Here's how a basic self-hosted 'Netflix' would look like. Fully automated once its setup. Using only a makeshift homelab server from second hand parts.
30 projects | /r/Piracy | 6 Jul 2023

Readarr: Organizes book collections.
Search indexer WITHOUT author?
1 project | /r/Readarr | 15 May 2023
There's sonarr, radarr, and lidarr. What handles audio books?
1 project | /r/Lidarr | 3 May 2023
I made a C# Library for searching and downloading books from LibGen!
2 projects | /r/csharp | 25 Apr 2023

Maybe Readarr will be interested in this
PSA: Book Depository closes on 26 April. I'm desperate for alternatives as the main chains are so much more expensive and Amazon shipping is a rip.
1 project | /r/newzealand | 4 Apr 2023
Everytime when I ask someone what they watch movies on
17 projects | /r/Piracy | 17 Mar 2023

Readarr: Books
[Radarr] Une liste de tous les outils et logiciels complémentaires similaires à Radarr
23 projects | /r/enfrancais | 10 Mar 2023
E-Book Software für Docker und RPI3?
2 projects | /r/de_EDV | 24 Feb 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Lidarr and Readarr you can also consider the following projects:

Headphones - Automatic music downloader for SABnzbd

LazyLibrarian

Podgrab - A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.

Komga - Media server for comics/mangas/BDs/magazines/eBooks with API and OPDS support

YoutubeDL-Material - Self-hosted YouTube downloader built on Material Design

Calibre Web - :books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database

beets - music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

Plex-Audiobook-Guide - A walkthrough for optimal Audiobook experience using Plex

overseerr - Request management and media discovery tool for the Plex ecosystem

mylar3 - The python3 version of the automated Comic Book downloader (cbr/cbz) for use with various download clients.

picard - A cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database. Picard organizes your music collection by updating your tags, renaming your files, and sorting them into a folder structure, exactly the way you want it.

calibre - The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager