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  • N [email protected]

    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.

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    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

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    • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

      (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      The github repo has been archived.

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      #5

      Sad news 😞

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      • R [email protected]

        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

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        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!)

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          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

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          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.

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          • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

            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!)

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            I believe R-- stands for Readarr and G--R-- stands for GoodReads.

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            • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

              (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.

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              #9

              I was just getting this set up, this and the music one, because I want to leave Spotify. Hopefully an alternative solution shows up.

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              • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

                (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.

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                #10

                Not that I'm happy about this or anything, I think competition is good.

                But I never got readarr to work properly, it seemed to have a workflow that was unintuitive to me, compared to Radarr and Sonarr.

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                • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

                  (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.

                  ikidd@lemmy.worldI This user is from outside of this forum
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                  How would this have compared to Calibre's OPDS function? I've used that for years with no issues.

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                  • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

                    (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.

                    smeg@infosec.pubS This user is from outside of this forum
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                    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.

                    laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL australiansimon@lemmy.worldA 2 Replies Last reply
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                    • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

                      (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.

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

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                      • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comC [email protected]

                        Any alternative apart from lazylibrarian ?

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                        #14

                        Not right now

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                        • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comC [email protected]

                          Any alternative apart from lazylibrarian ?

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                          Not anything that I have found, but at least LL is pretty solid. It may actually help development if LL gets some more focus from the community; It sort of got overshadowed by Readarr, simply because people wanted to stay within the *arr ecosystem.

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                          • kushan@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

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

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                            The media world huh?

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                            • N [email protected]

                              Not that I'm happy about this or anything, I think competition is good.

                              But I never got readarr to work properly, it seemed to have a workflow that was unintuitive to me, compared to Radarr and Sonarr.

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                              Problem was the underlying metadata which was either outdated or incorrect

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                              • ikidd@lemmy.worldI [email protected]

                                How would this have compared to Calibre's OPDS function? I've used that for years with no issues.

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                                Not related. Readarr was more like lazylib

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                                • paraphrand@lemmy.worldP [email protected]

                                  The media world huh?

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                                  You know exactly what I'm referring to

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                                  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

                                    Not right now

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                                    Where are the vibe coders when you need them 😉

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                                    • kushan@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                                      You know exactly what I'm referring to

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                                      You damn right know exactly what I'm referring to.

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                                      • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comC [email protected]

                                        Where are the vibe coders when you need them 😉

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                                        Hopefully, slowly but surely destroying a number of for profit businesses.

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                                        • G [email protected]

                                          I was just getting this set up, this and the music one, because I want to leave Spotify. Hopefully an alternative solution shows up.

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                                          Same here.

                                          Did you find a good way to export the Spotify playlist and get that torrented somehow?

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