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Mixarr – a music discovery companion for Lidarr/Plex (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by aquantumofdonuts@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey everyone,

I'm new here! I wanted to share a music search and discovery tool for Lidarr. It plugs into Spotify, TIDAL, Deezer, Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Plex/Tautulli, Jellyfin, and even some AI recommendations.

GitHub: https://github.com/aquantumofdonuts/mixarr

Website: https://aquantumofdonuts.github.io/mixarr/

What it does:

Connects to Lidarr and analyzes your existing artists
Hooks into Spotify, TIDAL, Deezer, Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Plex/Tautulli, and AI services
Finds related/similar artists, new releases, charts, labels, playlists, etc.
Gives you a review queue to approve or dismiss discovered artists
Automatically adds approved artists to Lidarr with the profile you choose
Has a universal search and discovery interface across all services
Runs as a web app (Next.js frontend + Express backend) and plays nice with Docker

Why I built it:

I wanted one tool that I could point at my Lidarr library and get a steady stream of relevant artist recommendations.

Basically, make music discovery feel as automated and “infrastructure-y” as the rest of the *arr ecosystem.

Current status:

Working with Lidarr + Spotify/TIDAL/Deezer/Last.fm/MusicBrainz + Plex/Tautulli
Has subscriptions for different discovery sources (charts, playlists, related & followed artists, etc.)
Docker-compose setup available, plus local dev if you prefer
Early but usable; I’m actively using it myself and iterating

If you try it, I’d love to hear any feedback! Thanks!

EDIT: version 2.0 released today February 10, 2026, with some nice updates

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[–] priapus@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I wasn't trying to say SQLite is universally better. I shouldn't have said best option, I really meant best default. I don't think the majority of users are running a central db, most will just spin-up docker compose files for each service and end up with multiple SQL versions running.

I’ve had a lot of problems in the past from software crashes that left sqlite files in a corrupt state

I have had this issue, but it was always easily recoverable. I haven't had the same issues with backups, although a lot of the software I use that's running SQLite has a builtin backup feature, then I just backup that directory to a cloud service.

Besides that SQLite really doesn’t play nice with NFS, which is the basis for quite a few cloud storage providers. Also a good point, I just don't think the majority of users are using NFS for their DBs.

When an app is using an ORM already, I think they might as well make sure it supports both SQLite and a hosted DB like Postgres

[–] curled@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah that's true, in the case of just running a premade compose file sqlite is the better choice for sure