Oh cool! I have been running it happily for a bit over a year but found the interplay to be annoying. Currently working on https://github.com/tclancy/lintarr to try to "prove" rules across the stack don't conflict with each other.

Indeed. The other thing to point out is that, once you have set them up, they will chug along fine for years with near zero input.

Here is the stack I recommend:

* Radarr (movies) with optional second instance for 4K versions

* Sonarr (shows) with optional second instance for 4K versions

* Sonarr (anime), separate instance to have control over quality settings

* Prowlarr (tracker/indexer management)

* SABnzbd (Usenet)

* qBittorrent (torrents)

I would also recommend consulting the TRaSH guide to tune your setup and ensure you’re grabbing quality releases. From there, the next logical step is Profilarr :)

I've been running my instances for over 5 years, I update the Dockers every few months and that's it. I have about five users in different households that rely on it it has never missed a beat.

I build my own version, single binary that does every thing. While I built it, I learned I cannot make it open source or distribute, bc it might be illegal to do so, so I assume many people have built that, but you're always locked into the narrowly scoped lego pieces. So I enjoy my media now, without hassles, all the features I need, none I don't. I hope one day I get to share.

I think it just sounds intimidating if one hasn't tried, but they are really well designed pieces of software, that are relatively simple to set up (just have to go through the motions and connect everything with API keys).

Highly recommend them to OP. My stack went down once in the past 4 years and it was my fault.

There's been two major disruptions in my experience.

First was Lidarr went for months last year (was it this year?) unable to search/add musicians due to complications with how they were relaying those searches. It took them a long time to refactor that part of the software and make it usable again.

Second was the retirement of Readarr, the ebook-version of this software, which was an absolute shame.

But aside from that this is pretty much set-and-forget software. Although the setting is harder than it should be, should be much easier to favour smallest x265 rips at <resolution>, lossless audio, season rips with subtitles.

Another good option is nixflix: https://github.com/kiriwalawren/nixflix (a nixos equivalent)

The bigger reason is Sonarr and Radarr opens you up to a plethora of attack vectors and realistically at this point you're probably already compromised.