lidarr-automated-downloader (LAD)

Deprecated

This repository is now deprecated, will no longer be updated and is being set to archived. This script was a lot to maintain and I have split it into multiple scripts going forward to simplify maintenance.

• For Audio: https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/docker-amd
• For Videos: https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/docker-amvd

Features

• Complete automation for downloading Music Audio & Video files
• Downloading Music using online sources and importing them into Lidarr Automatically
  • Support for Lossless downloads
  • Support for output to a perferred format (FLAC / OPUS / MP3 / AAC / ALAC)
  • Beets tagging support for improved metadata
  • Replaygain tagging for lossless FLAC files
  • Download Artist Artwork
  • Downloads Synced Lyrics for use with Plex/Kodi
  • Support for automatic imports into Lidarr
• Downloading Music Videos using online sources for use in popular applications (Plex/Kodi/Emby/Jellyfin):
  • Support for IMVDb (https://imvdb.com) to find videos
  • Support for Musicbrainz Database (https://musicbrainz.org) to find videos
  • Downloads using Highest available quality for both audio and video
  • Saves thumbnail of video locally for Plex/Kodi/Jellyfin/Emby usage
  • iTunes compatible files, drag and drop iTunes support
  • Optimize files for faststart playback
  • Matching videos with Musicbrainz Artist track info
  • Embed subtitles if available matching desired language
  • Writes metadata into Kodi/Jellyfin/Emby compliant NFO file
  • Tagged Data includes
    • Matched Title (MusicBrainz), fallback to IMVDb or Record Title (MusicBrainz)
    • Matched Year (MusicBrainz)
    • Matched Artist (MusicBrainz)
    • Thumbnail Image
    • Matched Release Genre Tags (MusicBrainz), fallback to Artist Genere Tags (MusicBrainz)
    • Director (If available from IMVDb)
    • Matched Album (MusicBrainz), fallback to YouTube (If available)
  • Embeds metadata into Music Video file
  • Tagged Data includes
    • Matched Title (MusicBrainz), fallback to IMVDb or Record Title (MusicBrainz)
    • Matched Year (MusicBrainz)
    • Matched Artist (MusicBrainz)
    • Matched Album Artist (MusicBrainz)
    • Thumbnail Image
    • Matched Release Genre Tags (MusicBrainz), fallback to Artist Genere Tags (MusicBrainz)
    • Matched Album (MusicBrainz), fallback to YouTube (If available)
• Cron support, create a cron job to automatically run script at desired interval
• Official Docker with everything built in! lidarr-lad

Audio + Video (Plex Example)

Video Example (Kodi)

Additional Information

Visit the wiki: https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/lidarr-automated-downloader/wiki (more info coming soon)

Requirements

Linux Software Packages:

• jq
• find
• ffmpeg
• beets
• flac
• mp3val
• curl
• eyed3
• kid3-cli
• youtube-dl (Video DL Client)
• deemix (Audio DL Client)
  

Baseline OS used for testing is Ubuntu 18.04, so use equivalent package versions

Setup

1. Edit "config" with a text editor that can write in Unix line endings... see: Configuration

Eecution

Execute script via CLI with the following command: bash lidarr-automated-downloader.bash

Files

• lidarr-automated-downloader.bash
  • script to execute
• config
  • File contains all configuration settings, see: Configuration
• notfound.log
  • Log file containing list of albums that could not be found using normal or fuzzy matching, automatically cleared every Saturday via cron
• musicbrainzerror.log
  • Log file containing list of artists without links, open log for more details
• imvdberror.log
  • Log file containing list of artists without links to IMVDb, open log for more details
• download.log
  • Log file containing list of albums that were downloaded, automatically cleared every Saturday via cron
• cookies.txt
  • OPTIONAL :: Include this file in your script directory for youtube-dl to be able to use it automatically for authentication. You may require this to avoid throttling...

Configuration

Modify the "config" file to set your configuration settings using a text editor that can write in Unix line endings...

Lidarr Configuration Recommendations

Media Management Settings:

• Disable Track Naming
  • Disabling track renaming enables synced lyrics that are imported as extras to be utilized by media players that support using them

Track Naming:

• Artist Folder: {Artist Name}{ (Artist Disambiguation)}
• Album Folder: {Artist Name}{ - ALBUM TYPE}{ - Release Year} - {Album Title}{ ( Album Disambiguation)}

Importing:

• Enable Import Extra Files
  • lrc,jpg,png

File Management

• Change File Date: Album Release Date

Permissions

• Enable Set Permissions

Connect Settings

Add Custom Script

• Settings -> Connect -> + Add -> custom Script

This script will extract the embedded file artwork and store it in the local ablum folder

Official Docker: lidarr-lad

• Pre-configured, no setup required, includes Lidarr