I've set up Readarr recently and I have a hard time getting it to find good, well documented sources. Book titles and formats are not often set correctly on public trackers.

Do any of you have good suggestions to improve the workflow? It seems I always have to manually pick the torrent, then manually import in JF. It usually works great for videos.

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Readarr sucks (not due to being a bad software... Don't get me wrong). Maybe due to how the media itself is messy, no good source like IMDb, messy releases that are hard to decypher.... Even worse for non English languages, let me tell you.

Also, cannot manage ebook+audiobook and you need two instances for just that.

I gave up using it as well.

Calibre seems better to manage, and to search&download you can always use prowlarr directly.

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I had the same problem and eventually abandoned it. Even though I had good results with it finding content, the book metadata is usually terrible and I end up having to manually fix it in Calibre and then force download metadata and cover art.

If I’m already having to do that anyway, might as well just acquire the book manually and import it myself.

[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I'm waiting for this to fill the holes:

https://github.com/MediaWolfOrg/MediaWolf

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When I got into the space I had to find a private tracker, but since then I've had no issues with Readarr aside from some series being slow to get their metadata updated, but that's not a Readarr issue.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

MaM?

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

MaM.