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Jackett logo Jackett

API Support for your favorite torrent trackers.

Lidarr logo Lidarr

Lidarr is a music collection manager for downloading and organizing music libraries.
  • Jackett Landing page
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    2023-09-13
  • Lidarr Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-11

Jackett

Categories
  • Video & Movies
  • Resources
  • Download Manager
  • Cloud Storage
Website github.com
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Lidarr

Categories
  • Music Downloader
  • Video & Movies
  • Audio Player
  • Download Manager
Website lidarr.audio
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Jackett videos

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Setup and Configure Sonarr Radarr Lidarr and Jackett with Torrents or Usenet

More videos:

  • Review - Tutorial: Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Plex
  • Review - Installing Jackett Indexer in Openmediavault

Lidarr videos

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Setup and Configure Sonarr Radarr Lidarr and Jackett with Torrents or Usenet

More videos:

  • Tutorial - How to Find a Artist On Lidarr & Automate With Plex/Troubleshoot

Category Popularity

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Jackett

Lidarr

Video & Movies
45 45%
Video & Movies
55% 55
Audio Player
0 0%
Audio Player
100% 100
Download Manager
39 39%
Download Manager
61% 61
Music Downloader
0 0%
Music Downloader
100% 100

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Jackett and Lidarr

Jackett Reviews

The Ultimate Automated Media Setup for Movies & TV Shows
Jackett works as a proxy server: it translates queries from apps (Sonarr, Radarr, SickRage, CouchPotato, Mylar, etc) into tracker-site-specific http queries, parses the html response, then sends results back to the requesting software. This allows for getting recent uploads (like RSS) and performing searches. Jackett is a single repository of maintained indexer scraping &...
Source: brandonb.ca
Installing Radarr, Sonarr and Deluge on your Unraid Server
Jackett works as a proxy server: it translates queries from apps (Sonarr, Radarr, SickRage, CouchPotato, Mylar, etc) into tracker-site-specific HTTP queries, parses the html response, then sends results back to the requesting software. This allows for getting recent uploads (like RSS) and performing searches. Jackett is a single repository of maintained indexer scraping &...
Source: blog.harveydelaney.com
9 Best Home Server Apps to Automate Media Management
I install Jackett on each media server I own because the base for good searches and results are always the providers, and Jackett offers a wide collection even if the main download services are not.
Source: www.smarthomebeginner.com

Lidarr Reviews

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Lidarr seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 21 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Jackett mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Jackett yet. Tracking of Jackett recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Lidarr mentions (21)

  • Moving full time to Plexamp
    I highly recommend Lidarr for organization/naming of your library. It's usually associated with piracy, but I just use it to maintain my self-ripped library and ensure that Plex has no issues discovering all my media. Source: 4 months ago
  • 🦙 Llama - It really kicks the amps' ass (Plexamp inspired Music Player)
    Lidarr handles your music downloads, sorts them and adds the correct metadata for your library to be picked up by Jellyfin. It will also upgrade your media if a better version is found. https://lidarr.audio/ there is also lidarr extended, which has extra features https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/docker-lidarr-extended. Source: 11 months ago
  • Integrating SoulSeek into Jackett (and by extension, qbittorrent)
    Just a side note there is lidarr that has webui that handles music, not tried soulseek looking at it now, so don't know if it's the same.. Source: about 1 year ago
  • has anyone done the big move from Spotify or other to Plex?
    First you will need "https://lidarr.audio/". Source: about 1 year ago
  • Plex & Torrent
    And finally, to connect these to all the various torrent sites and interpret the varying results you get back into a form sonarr/radarr (and even Lidarr for music) can deal with: there is Prowlarr. It handles adding/removing torrent trackers and each of their categories, then syncs those settings to the other software mentioned. You can also use it to manually search all of your torrent trackers at once for any... Source: about 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Jackett and Lidarr, you can also consider the following products

Radarr - A fork of Sonarr designed to work with Movies.

Sonarr - Sonarr (formerly NzbDrone) is a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users.

Open Subtitles FlixTools - Download perfectly matched subtitles for your movies and TV series, edit meta-data and convert...

SubiT - With SubiT, you can download subtitles to your favorite movies and serieses, with a simple click.

Headphones - Automatic music downloader for SABnzbd. Headphones is an automated music downloader for NZB and Torrent, written in Python. It supports SABnzbd, NZBget, Transmission, µTorrent, Deluge and Blackhole.

Addic7ed - Subtitles for TV shows and movies.

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