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
The release it “defaults” to should have no bearing on what it grabs though, it’s just what’s displayed until it grabs something and updates to the release that best matches the download.
Are you sure? Because when I do the search to grab the album it will never match, and it tells me it’s because it’s missing tracks. I have never seen it change the release to a different one. It’s always the biggest release.
And even if it does find the deluxe release, it’s very annoying to have 30 tracks with different versions of an album with like 10 songs.
This is how it evaluates what to grab, with a slight correction on that “preferred word score” is “custom format score”. https://wiki.servarr.com/lidarr/faq#how-are-possible-downloads-compared
So beyond quality, custom formats would be the greatest tool you could use to dictate that you’d want to score deluxe version lower that releases without deluxe in the name.
If you click the human icon in the activity queue you can see what release it thinks best matches what it grabbed, it could be possible that the release you grabbed isn’t on MB or the tags point to a different release.
When I add an artist the albums might show the giant multi disk tracklist but as soon as something is downloaded it picks a release that more closely matches what was downloaded. It’s not perfect always though but usually it’s not due to a mismatch in track numbers unless the release I have is not on MB
Can you give an example artist? I can play around with it and see if there’s a way
Thank you for the reply. Looking at my music I can see that The Beatles The White album has 107 tracks and it’s because it chose the Super Deluxe release with 6 CDs (not joking, that’s the name) and it found it so it got downloaded.