Just wanted to share my feelings about the arr* stack, will keep it short !
First, thanks to all those beautiful people giving their free time to work on all thoses services ❤️ !
At first I wasn't that impressed and didn't understood all the hype arround all thoses services and only used sonarr to rename my files I had manually imported. It did a great job as a file renamer service, however I was still managing everything manually from hard links to qbittorrent organization creating in the end a total messed up file system with a lot of duplicated hardlinks and files scattered in different directories, renamed differently, etc.....
Also, after the most known french piracy tracker had been hacked and shut down (finally !), a lot of new trackers opened like wildfire and had over 10 trackers to keep an eye on. Searching the web, I came across Prowlarr and seeing how It connects directly to sonarr I got curious.
That's the exact moment when I finally unsterstood what's all the hype about the ARR stack ! My god, what an amazing piece of software stack...
First came jellyfin, sonaar, then prowlarr, radarr, seerr and now I discovered profilarr. It's amazing to see how everything perfectly communicates with each part of the stack and everything is perfeclty automated and god does it work well... I'm impressed and still baffled how something so good is free and open source !!
Im still scratching the surface of this powerfull stack, but does it feel good to just ask seerr and after a few minutes having my media perfectly organized in qbittorrent, filesystem directories, renaming scheme, hardlinks, quality profiles, config synchronization......... 💥🤯
It does have it's own quirks right and there, and can become kinda weird if you do not know what you are doing (thanks Trash guides ❤️❤️) and seeing from all the issues the arr stack seems to hit a wall with the current code implementation. But IDK, i'm not a programmer so I may be wrong here.
And there seems always something new to complement the arr stack !
So that's it :) Just wanted to share my feeling and appreciation with all of you ! Happy self-hosting !!
Glad to see appreciation as always but I got to be honest.
I’m one of those people who doesn’t get the arr stack. I’ve looked into it and don’t see the advantage.
Is keeping your media organized that much of a challenge? I find it fun, easy and a better way to kill time than being on social media.
Downloading a movie, TV show or music just means putting it in the right folder then Jellyfin is smart enough to figure out.
I also don’t want to use any extra resources when I can use that for other self hosted software.
I’ll probably eventually get it, I’m glad they will keep making it better till then
Edit: I expected some replies but God damn what have I done lol
Edit2: looks like the main gap is letting others download what they want. If I were to do that then all my space would be filled with low quality paw patrol shows.
Same! Honest question, is the Arr stack only for pirates? I mean the name suggests this but I am not entirely sure
You could probably use it to download legal torrents (movies, series) but they depend on metadata providers for all the data.
I thinks It wouldn't be that useful for something else than piracy (torrent&Usenet) but I may be wrong here.