Lidarr + Plex + iTunes Music Import
Hello there,
so just wanted to share a project I've been working on. Some folks suggested I post the experience here.
So the initial setup was Plex + Lidarr. I set it up on an old Dell Latitude 7480 Intel Core i7 circa 2017, with 16 GB ram. the setup is headless, docker. Happy to share docker compose config if anyone interested.
the Intel HD 520 videocard is good enough for transcoding, but that's a different story.
So today I migrated 16K+ songs I had organized for years in iTunes and then Music. But it comes with a huge inconvenience for me. I listen from a lot of locations, mostly on PCs hooked up to TV/Stereos and for years I did not have a solution. Today I'm a happy camper the entire library is flying like never before, easy to access form all devices.
Lastly Collections and Playlists. To be honest I'm big on album listening and prefer to listen to my library per album, but there are options to create playlists, randomize, and create collections, so I may give it a try.
Before I set it all up I also added decluttarr it worked better then I expected making Lidarr a bit more useful.
That being said Lidarr remains the weakest part, i manages to make it add music to my folders and not delete my folders, but the search / discovery is a weak spot. I will try NZBs next week.