So pretty much the title. Every time I add an artist, Lidarr will choose the release with the biggest number of tracks.
I have searched on the wiki but the only suggestion is to set custom formats but that only makes Lidarr to avoid downloading albums with unwanted keywords, it will still select the biggest release at the album settings and therefore, it will not match.
I know I can set the release manually but that is really annoying when you add an artist with many albums and it defeats the purpose of automating the while process.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Should I instead move to headphones or soulsync?
This has always vexed me and I’ve never just admitted that I don’t know to anyone:
Why to so many artists have “Deluxe Japan” album releases? Is there a content standard they have to meet or does Japan just generally get some extra tracks?
It’s because CDs were/are super expensive in Japan compared to the rest of the world and thee distributors wanted Japanese customers to purchase them at home rather than import.
Okay, that sheds some light on it. Does that mean that if an album has a deluxe Japan edition it’s better to pirate that version? There were some artists little Oomph! or Lacuna Coil that I literally could not tell the difference (my brain don’t work and many of the songs had differently translated names)
Not really, unless there are specific tracks you want. Most of the time it’s demos and singles, but imo they break the flow of a lot of albums. If there are no extra tracks then the only difference is in the physical packaging afaik (translation of the lyrics into Japanese, extras like postcards ame other collectibles etc.).
Okay, good to know. Thanks for answering my dumb question 👍
No worries, and it’s not a dumb question!
It’s because they’re big in Japan