Readarr Troubleshooting (Retired)
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(I am not affiliated with the project at all, just an end user.)

Announcement: Retirement of Readarr

We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project’s metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.

Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we’re not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.

Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.

Key Points

  • Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
  • Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
  • Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
  • Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
  • Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.

Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.

Sincerely,
The Servarr Team

The github repo has been archived.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        The metadata proxy that mirrors musicbrainz DB is broken (read: Imploded).
        For now artist/album search is broken.
        Dunno about metadata-tagging for existing entries

      • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yea, it’s been broken for weeks. You can’t search for new artists at all.

        It got sorta fixed a while ago and now I can search for artists, but adding them doesn’t work. Their metadata server crapped out months ago and they’ve been fixing it ever since, should be done soonish. Or not.

        • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          It didn’t get sorta fixed, the few results that currently show up are just cached results from Cloudflare. The metadata server also didn’t crap out; MusicBrainz made breaking changes to their API.

          From the latest updates in the Discord, most of the rebuild work is done. The devs now just need to find the time to get it spun up and working for users - I think one of them is currently in the middle of a move if I read correctly, so it’s just a matter of patience right now.

  • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Yeah this sucks but honestly it never really worked well for me, ebooks are horribly underserved in the media world.

    • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Having to run two instances to support audio and text books was the deal breaker for me.

      Now I use audiobookshelf, and it’s easy enough to find everything I need on mam without an extra search layer.

      • layzerjeyt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        I’m actually using Audiobookshelf as my main server. I just wanted Readarr to get metadata and organize the folders. Do you have any workflow tips for that?

        • murky0106@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          The best way I found to do this was using audiobookshelfs upload feature and grabbing the meta data before upload. This sorts the folders for you

          • layzerjeyt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            It’s sort of weird to upload because it’s already on the hard drive where I want it to go… Just has to get squeezed back and forth through the pipes of my LAN a few times to go through this process.

            • murky0106@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              Yeah it’s not perfect. I normally just download and upload from my phone so works for me but it’s not a very automated or neat solution but it does work and uploads don’t take to long

  • smeg@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I’m generally pretty happy with LazyLibrarian. I know people get really excited about the *arr stack, but Readarr never worked well for ebooks. It was maybe a little better at finding audiobooks, but LL is getting better at that.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    I noticed that my Ansible playbook failed to do a docker pull on readarr, I just commented it and was going to investigate further today. This sucks, especially because rreading-glasses did in fact completely solve the issue they’re facing. Not sure why they didn’t consider migrating to it officially, it’s only a config change.

    • rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Readerr have been removed everywhere on rreading-glasses readme, maybe there is something related to law issues ? Also I didn’t understand what is rreading-glasses and why you need it

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, it’s probably a legal thing, rreading-glasses is just metadata for books, completely legal, but readarr legality is less clear, so maybe they’re trying to prevent issues.

        Also I didn’t understand what is rreading-glasses and why you need it

        Say you want to grab a book by Isaac Asimov, you type the name of the book in readarr search bar, readarr contacts a metadata provider to show you cover images, author, date, etc. Then when you select the book readarr uses that metadata to search for downloads and ensure you’re getting the correct book and not another random book with the same name.

        The problem is that readarr uses a closed source API for it’s metadata, and it’s constantly offline, which makes it impossible to use readarr. Luckily they allow you to customize the URL for the API, and rreading-glasses is an open source implementation of that API that you can use as a drop in replacement.

      • layzerjeyt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’m hoping someone will have some info about what happened because it seems strange. What does this mean?

        Unlike R——'s proprietary service, this is much faster, handles large authors, has full coverage of G——R—— (or Hardcover!)