I just setup Lidarr for my Ubuntu server environment. User lidarr, group media with 775 permission on the music folder and all subfolders. Everything should work as expected, however Lidarr tells me it doesn't have write permissions when I try to add the root folder:

Folder '/data/media/music/' is not writable by user 'lidarr'

I also tried to change permissions to 777 to test out whether it's a permission setup mistake, however it still puts out the same error. Kinda at a loss here... The rest of my apps all work as intended (Sonarr, Radarr and Prowlarr don't have any issues). I also tried to reinstall it over script and manually.

Here are the logs:

2026-07-21 10:50:17.7|Warn|LidarrErrorPipeline|FluentValidation.ValidationException: Validation failed: 
 -- Path: Folder '/data/media/music/' is not writable by user 'lidarr'

[v3.1.0.4875] FluentValidation.ValidationException: Validation failed: 
 -- Path: Folder '/data/media/music/' is not writable by user 'lidarr'
   at Lidarr.Http.REST.RestController`1.ValidateResource(TResource resource, Boolean skipValidate, Boolean skipSharedValidate) in ./Lidarr.Http/REST/RestController.cs:line 122
   at Lidarr.Http.REST.RestController`1.OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext context) in ./Lidarr.Http/REST/RestController.cs:line 67
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Controller.OnActionExecutionAsync(ActionExecutingContext context, ActionExecutionDelegate next)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Filters.ControllerActionFilter.OnActionExecutionAsync(ActionExecutingContext context, ActionExecutionDelegate next)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ControllerActionInvoker.Next(State& next, Scope& scope, Object& state, Boolean& isCompleted)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeInnerFilterAsync()
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.<InvokeNextResourceFilter>g__Awaited|25_0(ResourceInvoker invoker, Task lastTask, State next, Scope scope, Object state, Boolean isCompleted)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.Rethrow(ResourceExecutedContextSealed context)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.Next(State& next, Scope& scope, Object& state, Boolean& isCompleted)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.InvokeFilterPipelineAsync()
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.<InvokeAsync>g__Awaited|17_0(ResourceInvoker invoker, Task task, IDisposable scope)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.<InvokeAsync>g__Awaited|17_0(ResourceInvoker invoker, Task task, IDisposable scope)
   at Lidarr.Http.Middleware.BufferingMiddleware.InvokeAsync(HttpContext context) in ./Lidarr.Http/Middleware/BufferingMiddleware.cs:line 27
   at Lidarr.Http.Middleware.IfModifiedMiddleware.InvokeAsync(HttpContext context) in ./Lidarr.Http/Middleware/IfModifiedMiddleware.cs:line 40
   at Lidarr.Http.Middleware.CacheHeaderMiddleware.InvokeAsync(HttpContext context) in ./Lidarr.Http/Middleware/CacheHeaderMiddleware.cs:line 32
   at Lidarr.Http.Middleware.StartingUpMiddleware.InvokeAsync(HttpContext context) in ./Lidarr.Http/Middleware/StartingUpMiddleware.cs:line 37
   at Lidarr.Http.Middleware.UrlBaseMiddleware.InvokeAsync(HttpContext context) in ./Lidarr.Http/Middleware/UrlBaseMiddleware.cs:line 28
   at Lidarr.Http.Middleware.VersionMiddleware.InvokeAsync(HttpContext context) in ./Lidarr.Http/Middleware/VersionMiddleware.cs:line 28
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression.ResponseCompressionMiddleware.InvokeCore(HttpContext context)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization.AuthorizationMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext context)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.AuthenticationMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext context)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.ExceptionHandlerMiddlewareImpl.<Invoke>g__Awaited|10_0(ExceptionHandlerMiddlewareImpl middleware, HttpContext context, Task task)


2026-07-21 10:50:17.8|Warn|LidarrErrorPipeline|Invalid request Validation failed: 
 -- Path: Folder '/data/media/music/' is not writable by user 'lidarr'

Hi,

I'm trying to set up Lidarr with Tubifarry plugin on my unRaid server but I'm have some problems.

When I want to add indexer I have error saying

Unable to connect to Slskd: HTTP request failed: [401:Unauthorized] [GET] at [http://slskd:5030/api/v0/application]

in slskd logs I can see

Unauthorized request from IP address ::ffff:172.18.0.6: Unknown API key beginning with: Stup

In slskd options I have added API key as shown

  api_keys:
#       my_api_key:
#         key: StupidApiKeyIsNotWorking
#         role: readonly # readonly, readwrite, administrator
#         cidr: 0.0.0.0/0,::/0

I have both Lidarr and slskd on same custom proxy bu I've tried also with default one.

What I can do go make it work?

My Chemical Romance had an album rerelease last week that's a remaster and has a different track listing removing some tracks featuring a guy they don't work with anymore and adding a bunch of bonus tracks.

The release group is https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/a1bbdaa1-fb64-4db3-a6cd-4a37cd2ffa3e.

The release (well, there's a few matching) that I care about is this: https://musicbrainz.org/release/a2134030-532c-4168-9362-6a2f65ee30f4

Lidarr can't find that release for whatever reason, so my import is just stuck.

Hello, I have tried changing the paths in the .yaml file of slskd and the docker compose files to point to my torrent directories (similar to the trashguide for the arr-stack).

The app isn't running (slskd) so i guess I'm doing something wrong

this is my compose file

  slskd:
    image: slskd/slskd
    container_name: slskd
#    ports:
#      - "5030:5030"
#      - "5031:5031"
#      - "50300:50300"
    environment:
      - SLSKD_REMOTE_CONFIGURATION=false
      - SLSKD_DOWNLOADS_DIR=/downloads
      - SLSKD_INCOMPLETE_DIR=/incomplete
    volumes:
      - /data/torrents/music/downloads:/downloads
      - /data/torrents/music/incomplete:/incomplete
      - /docker/appdata/slskd:/app
    restart: always
    network_mode: service:gluetun

I did have to add the /downloads and /incomplete under /music, don't know if it was needed.

EDIT : this worked for me, also set the Settings->Download Clients-> Remote Path Mapping add "/app/downloads" to "/data/torrents/music"

    container_name: slskd
#    ports:
#      - "5030:5030"
#      - "5031:5031"
#      - "50300:50300"
    environment:
      - SLSKD_REMOTE_CONFIGURATION=false
      - SLSKD_DOWNLOADS_DIR=/app/downloads
      - SLSKD_INCOMPLETE_DIR=/app/incomplete
      - SLSKD_VPN_PORT_FORWARDING=false
    volumes:
      - /data/torrents/music:/app/downloads
      - /data/torrents/incomplete:/app/incomplete
      - /docker/appdata/slskd:/app
    restart: always

Are there any programs like Lidarr but for single tracks? I really appreciate the concept of Lidarr, but downloading whole albums at a time just does not work for my preferred way to listen to music, and also takes up wayy to much space for music that I wont listen to.

I appreciate any suggestions if you have any :)

I am struggling to find any indexers with Christian rappers such as Caleb Gordon, Alex Jean, or Hulvey! Are there any indexers out there that have these artists?

Except it never works.

lidarr extended worked for a bit then it stopped.

plugin doesn't seem to work at all.

is there any workaround to get this working right now?

thinking of trying out soulsync since it seems to be able to use tidal as a downloader...

I've tried lidarr for years and I gotta say, it rarely ever worked as it should.

and the saddest part is it's not even tidal actively trying to block the effort, it is just lidarr not being able to do what it's supposed to do.

A few dags ago I installed lidarr as a docker on my Synology. I noteced that some of the images of artist are not loaded. I tried a lot with troubleshoot by unfortunally

I checked the logs and it looks like Lidarr doesn't have premission to access some of the artists images.

2026-07-03 12:17:16.8|Debug|RefreshArtistService|Finished Artist refresh for [5dca4d22-d6c8-4e70-8ca1-4543e43353c7][Kenny Chesney]

2026-07-03 12:17:16.8|Warn|HttpClient|HTTP Error - Res: HTTP/2.0 [HEAD] https://r2.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/banner/txwxtt1479657685.jpg: 403.Forbidden (0 bytes)

2026-07-03 12:17:16.8|Warn|MediaCoverService|Couldn't download media cover for [5dca4d22-d6c8-4e70-8ca1-4543e43353c7][Kenny Chesney]. HTTP request failed: [403:Forbidden] [HEAD] at [https://r2.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/banner/txwxtt1479657685.jpg]

2026-07-03 12:17:16.9|Warn|HttpClient|HTTP Error - Res: HTTP/2.0 [HEAD] https://r2.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/thumb/yttqpw1478079268.jpg: 403.Forbidden (0 bytes)

2026-07-03 12:17:16.9|Warn|MediaCoverService|Couldn't download media cover for [5dca4d22-d6c8-4e70-8ca1-4543e43353c7][Kenny Chesney]. HTTP request failed: [403:Forbidden] [HEAD] at [https://r2.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/thumb/yttqpw1478079268.jpg]

Is there a way to solve this or is this something for the developers?

First off, I'm aware how many are distrustful of AI with their media stack. If this is you, no worries I get that. All I ask you is kindly ignore.

Now to the fun part. I've been dogfooding an app and iterating for the past 2 months based on day-to-day media server management tasks. Decided to open-source it so, announcing Stackarr: A central control plane to manage your media stack with the help of AI agents like Claude, Hermes and OpenClaw etc.

Some of the standout features include:

• UI Dashboard to monitor your entire media stack
• Lightweight in-browser Docker for Desktop replacement
• MCP Server and CLI for agent-based setup
• Cloudflare tunnel setup to expose any services publicly via custom domain
• Backup & Restore Stack (Offsite cloud integration coming soon)
• Portless Service Mapping to human-readable URL's (plex.stackarr)
• Hermes Agent & OpenClaw Plugins / Skills

After installing agents on the same Mac Mini that Plex et al. runs on it made me realise how easy having access to this via Telegram, Discord makes managing your media server. For example once I forgot to leave Tailscale open and I asked my agent to configure it so I could access media stack remotely. It's saved me countless times when inevitable bugs or wrinkles form in the flow. With the help of automated backups and using a decent provider most of the risk is mitigated. I haven't had any irrecoverable losses running it 24/7.

The goal is not to replace any of the apps it manages but merely to interact with them using native API's and maintain an agent-friendly control system with harnesses. I would love for you to give it a try. This is not abandonware and something I plan to maintain for some time.

Disclaimer: This has only been tested on Mac with Docker image, I'm looking for Windows and Linux testers to report any bugs here: https://github.com/polyphonic/stackarr - If you are not interested I would appreciate a star!

There is an official image on Docker Hub too, for full setup and docs go here: https://stackarr.app/

Parts of this were AI-coded but this isn't a vibe coded project, I'm an engineer by trade for more than a decade. The UI was whipped up quickly using component library defaults but I will be doing an entire UI redesign when the functionality is solidified. I added the flair nonetheless to appease the overlords :)

I like using Lidarr as a means of finding torrents for albums I want and adding them to the right folders, but I don’t want it to download any albums unless I specifically tell it to. In other words, I don’t want it to automatically download anything based on monitoring. Is there a way to globally turn this off in the settings? I haven’t found anything conclusive from googling this. Thanks!

According to the FAQ, the only way to get Artist pictures into Lidarr, is to rely on Fanart.tv?

Does anyone else think this is absolutely absurd?

I have tried in the past to upload perfectly fine pictures into Fanart.tv, and they always get rejected for stupid reasons. Fine, I am trying to improve the community, but deny them. Whatever.

BUT...

Lidarr, at its core, stores all the information in a Database, and I cannot fathom a single reason why there would be any barrier to uploading/adding my own art for artists. Why am I forced to rely on a site that is so oppressive and incomplete? It makes zero sense at all!

Is there any other way to import artist pictures/art from different sources?

I just started using Lidarr, and a lot of Artists have multiple albums that are "Collections," "Best of," or "Mixes." This causes multiple duplicate songs for the artist as they are included in multiple albums, and most of the time they are exactly the same!

Is there a way to automatically unmonitor/delete re-released songs/albums? Or at least those "collection" albums?

Does anything exist to back up just a list of what artists/albums you have monitored/downloaded without backing up the content itself? I have data backups but as a "plan C" I just want a list of everything I have (that I could hopefully re-import to a fresh lidarr install in case something went horribly wrong)

I have no idea what happened, but yesterday (the 29th of June) Lidarr suddenly really wanted to finish my collection and scheduled over 400 gigabytes of downloads.

Very weird. Totally out of the blue. I barely get it to do anything automatically. It's been pretty dormant for over a year before this.

Has anyone else had this happen to them before?

Hi all, super newbie here.

I am looking to see if anyone can give me a little guidance on an issue I've hit. I'm trying to add John Lennon - Live in New York City to my library. I go to Add New and it find its the album no problems, when I then click on "Add Live in New York City" the green button does it's little flash thing, like it recognises that I've clicked the button, but then nothing happens. The green "Add Live in New York City" button is still there, it hasn't actually added the album to the artist's page... and no matter how many times I press the button, nothing happens.

Is there a way to force it into the artist list, or is this just a problem with Lidarr where it doesnt accept some albums and I'll just have to accept that's how it goes with some albums?

1. Imported a bunch of old music
   
2. Deleted and re-added the root folder
   
3. Man MusicBraniz Picard because it was mostly unsorted mp3s

Still have a ton of unmapped folders

I'm very old (thus the mp3s) but I have lousy taste, meaning all my music is pretty mainstream. I checked the logs and here's what I saw:

[Error] ImportDecisionMaker: Couldn't evaluate decision on [/data/media/music/The Beatles/The Beatles] 

[v3.1.3.4970] System.InvalidOperationException: Sequence contains no matching element
   at System.Linq.ThrowHelper.ThrowNoMatchException()
   at NzbDrone.Core.MediaFiles.TrackImport.Specifications.MoreTracksSpecification.IsSatisfiedBy(LocalAlbumRelease item, DownloadClientItem downloadClientItem) in ./NzbDrone.Core/MediaFiles/TrackImport/Specifications/MoreTracksSpecification.cs:line 20
   at NzbDrone.Core.MediaFiles.TrackImport.ImportDecisionMaker.EvaluateSpec[T](IImportDecisionEngineSpecification`1 spec, T item, DownloadClientItem downloadClientItem) in ./NzbDrone.Core/MediaFiles/TrackImport/ImportDecisionMaker.cs:line 282

Where did I donk up?

Bonjour a tous,

Nouveaux dans les *arr, j'ai un problèmes avec Lidarr, il me déplace ou supprimer mes média, ou il les mappe pas.

J'ai essayer plusieurs réglages rien ne change.

Merci a vous 👍👍

EDIT: a few days later we have V1.11.0 available. A bunch of fixes to issues reported by people here and on GitHub and several new improvements. Check out the full changelog here.

It's Friday, Digarr just passed 100 stars on GitHub, and v1.10.0 is out. That's the first stable 1.x line, so it felt like a good moment to share it properly.

Digarr is a self-hosted music discovery layer that sits in front of Lidarr (or your media server). It learns what you listen to, asks an AI provider for new artists and albums, scores them, and hands you a review queue. You approve what you like and it goes to Lidarr or a playlist target. The data stays on your server.

A few things I think it does well:

• An AI taste pipeline you actually control. It builds a profile from your listening sources, asks your AI provider for candidates, then scores them with weights you set (consensus, similarity, genre overlap, AI confidence, popularity, and learning from your past approvals). You pick the provider: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Point it at Ollama on localhost and nothing leaves your box.
• Album-level discovery. Most tools only recommend artists. Digarr also finds individual albums: studio albums you are missing from artists you already follow, new releases you missed, and net-new finds from artists you don't have yet. Approving an album adds the artist to Lidarr unmonitored and grabs only that album, so you don't pull a whole discography to get one record. As far as I can tell, nothing else in this space does album-level discovery.
• Mood discovery. Type "something like Boards of Canada but darker" or "upbeat 90s pop for a road trip" and it turns that into a result set. No filter-building first.
• Works with or without Lidarr. If you don't run Lidarr, discovery-only mode still works and pulls from ListenBrainz, Last.fm, Spotify, Deezer, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Discogs.

The basics, in short:

• Connects to Lidarr, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and slskd, plus ListenBrainz, Last.fm, Spotify, Deezer, and Discogs
• Review queue with approve / reject / skip, swipe on mobile, card stack on desktop
• Discovery modes (Artist Radio, Release Radar, Library Gap-Fill, Charts, Deezer Flow, Spotify Saved Albums, and more) you can run on demand or schedule as subscriptions
• Auto-playlists to Navidrome, Jellyfin, Emby, Plex, or Spotify, or export as M3U / XSPF
• Genre browser, decade filter, cross-platform search, 30-second previews
• Multi-user with OIDC/SSO and per-user sources, weights, and targets
• Backup and restore, job history, webhook notifications (Discord, Slack, ntfy, Gotify) with an optional scheduled digest
• 15 UI languages with locale-aware AI output, 15 color themes in dark and light
• One container that runs next to your existing stack. Free and open source, MIT.

On the AI question, since it always comes up: this is built with AI assistance, and I drive it. I set the roadmap, design the architecture and the UX, decide which features ship, and review every change. The AI writes most of the code and tests under that direction. I'd rather say that up front than have someone find it in the commit history.

GitHub: https://github.com/iuliandita/digarr

Happy to answer questions, and bug reports or feature ideas are welcome in the issues.

Hello all,
My Lidarr database appears to be corrupted (Or in some other way messed up) is there an easy way to fix that? I do not know what might of caused the issue, but it's not allowing me to download anything.

I have relevant logs for why I think it's corrupted:

2026-06-24 15:53:38.2|Warn|LidarrErrorPipeline|System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException: SQL logic error
no such column: EnableUsenet

[v3.1.0.4875] code = Error (1), message = System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException (0x87AF001F): SQL logic error
no such column: EnableUsenet

Essentially Lidarrs delay profile is set to usenet only and I do not use usenet. I attempt to set it back to torrent and it get the above error. Anyone know why this might be happening and a fix?

I cataloged all my CD's into Discogs with the intention of adding that in Lidarr as an import list. Welp Lidarr does not import from Discogs. I've tried adding the catalog into my musicbrainz account but still can't import into Lidarr. I've added script buttons in musicbrains etc. Searched this sub for information, Google, Gemini. No luck. Anyone have a work around.

for reason unknown to me, some songs have their genres separated by `;`, right now I'm checking songs with genre `Punk Rock;Pop Punk;Punk;Skate Punk;Melodic Hardcore;Rock;Ska Punk;Comedy Rock;Grunge;Alternative Rock` (yes, the hole string is the genre).

I've been trying to fix this issue today by locating all albums with this problem and updating them in MusicBrainz.org, then asking Lidarr to refresh and Jellyfin to download the metadata again. But before that I tried using a Python script to address the issue in the files themselves.

I'm honestly tired of seeing such mounstrosity, anything I do doesn't work so far.

Any suggestions?

EDIT

after much fiddling with the database, the folders on metadata and such, I decided to move to Navidrome (without any agents set), and only in Navidrome the genre tags as set in the music files by Beets are respected.

I'm almost convinced that the problem comes from the bundled MusicBrainz plugin and Jellyfin writing the tags incorrectly.

Hey guys, apologies in advance because I’m probably going to use the incorrect jargon here.

Anyways onto my issue, a somewhat popular artist I listen to released a new single last week and a record of the mentioned song has already been made on music brains.

But when I go into mentioned artist on Lidarr, the new single hasn’t been listed yet therefore Lidarr isn’t looking for and downloading the mentioned single. Is there a way I need to jump start a metadata / musicbrains data check?

I also have a custom metadata consumer setup but I wasn’t sure if this would be contributing to the problem as it looks like it’s only used to update the metadata of existing files.

Any help, pointers, or tips are appreciated!