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/releases/tag/v1.1.1

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!

  • arthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    really liking this… i’ve been using SoulSync, but its very buggy, and its mainly a soulseek driven downloader… lidarr is the way to go,

    which trackers are good for music? should i just try and get a red invite?

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    24 hours ago

    Connects to Lidarr

    So, I don’t run the ‘arr stack’, and am not interested in downloading, but I would like recommendations on new music. I am running Navidrome which scrobbles to Listenbrainz. How would Mixarr fit into this scenario?

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        Oh snap! Man, you didn’t have to do all that just for one dipshit who didn’t understand what Mixarr was. I should have done a bit more reading. I feel embarrassed. I will spin this up in an hour or two when I get my chores done. Thank you so much!

        • aquantumofdonuts@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          4 hours ago

          Haha no worries! It’s a useful feature. No reason to lock the subscription engine behind a Lidarr connection.

          But I think I will rest for a while now lol.

    • curled@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      22 hours ago

      Why would you need this for your scenario? If you’re not downloading you can simply check the listenbrainz recommendations in the playlists that it creates for you

  • Unrefined@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Been playing around with it over the last few days and I love it. I don’t use Spotify, but it does a great job at looking at my Plex library and recommending similar artists.

    Great job, and thanks!!

  • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    262·
    2 days ago

    Nice. Couple of things:

    • The link in your post is broken 😉
    • Consider doing with Jellyfin anything you’ve done with Plex. Plex is on it’s way out, especially with Fediverse users.
    • aquantumofdonuts@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      I think the link is fixed now?

      I will definitely take the Jellyfin suggestion to heart. Mixarr is Plex-centric because that’s what I use, but I see that Jellyfin has a large share as well. Thanks for the suggestion!

      Edit: Added Jellyfin support. Four new subscription types in the “My Library” subscription preset group. You can pull and rebuild docker (or pull the latest image) to get the changes.

      • OR3X@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        Might also consider looking into Navidrome support. Not sure if it’s even possible but in my experience Jellyfin’s music experience is kinda crappy.

  • SeventySeven@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    This is such good news to see this on my frontpage today, I’ll definitelybe giving this one a try later. Mad respect and appreciation for the amount of time this must have taken for you to make this. Thank you so much!

  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I am trying to put this behind Haproxy but not having much luck, I keep getting “client sent an HTTP request to an HTTPS server”.

    Anyone have a clue how to resolve this?

    I understand this image has its own caddy reverse proxy, not sure how to bypass that at the moment.

      • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        23 hours ago

        I am running in docker, I got 443 pointed at 3443.

        I saw the 3010 setting in the docs, i just can’t figure out if 3010 is pointed at 80?

        • aquantumofdonuts@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          22 hours ago

          3010 is the web port, on the web container itself (direct connection the the web ui). 3443->443 and 3080->80 are the Caddy ports, which also point to the web ui (just proxied through Caddy). Hopefully that’s not too confusing.

          • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            20 hours ago

            Understood, though it’s still kicking my butt TBH.

            Exposing port 3010:3010 seems to get me a connection refused. But I can still connect to port 3443:443. Both ports are set to TCP.

            Guess I’m just exhausted, will play around with it more tomorrow. Thanks for your help.

              • Statick@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 hours ago

                First, thank you for making this. Seems very useful… That being said I’m having the same issue, even after mapping port 80, it redirects to https/443 no matter what I do.

                services:
  mixarr:
      container_name: mixarr
      image: ghcr.io/aquantumofdonuts/mixarr:v1.1.0
      ports:
        - 3010:80 # Edit: change 80 to 3000 in order to bypass caddy in the container
        - 3443:443
      volumes:
        - ~/mixarr-data:/data
      environment:
        - SESSION_SECRET=$(openssl rand -hex 32)
        - FRONTEND_URL=https://my-domain:3443/
        - BASE_URL=http://my-domain:3010/
      restart: unless-stopped

                Edit: Just realized you have it using caddy, always, and it is set to redirect to 443. You should give people the option to run without caddy in the container. I have my own instance of caddy running, I don’t need it built in.

                That being said, changing it from pointing to port 80 and instead to port 3000 allows me to access it over http but ends up having authenticaton issues when trying to change settings.

                Edit 2: Oh there is a much more robust docker-compose file. I was just going based on the readme. Will give it a try a bit later.

  • Buck@jlai.luEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I haven’t figured out how to use the we hook feature to connect to Pushover… maybe it can’t?

  • jabberwockiX@piefed.socialEnglish
    35·
    2 days ago

    This sounds great. I will have to check it out when I’m back home. I have been missing a music discovery tool as I am trying to avoid using any of the corporate overlord algorithm machines.

    • aquantumofdonuts@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      Awesome! I hope you like it. I’ve successfully converted my household from Spotify to Plexamp using this. Setup a few subscriptions, let the new artists and recommendations roll in, and you have a constant stream of new music.

  • bootstrap@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    First off thank you so much this is exactly what I’ve been waiting for.

    I looked at the compose file and it doesnt seem to have the base image in there, just the DB and web setup.

    I’m not super experienced with docker but would love to deploy this through my dockstarter setup - am I missing something here, is there a way to get it up and running through compose now?

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Man, that would absolutely rock if it integrated with Navidrome.

    Navidrome can scrobble to Listenbrainz which this supports.

  • priapus@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Do you know if it will work with SQLite? I’d like to try it but I hate spinning up more postgres instances

    • aquantumofdonuts@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Hi, it might but I haven’t explored that. I’ll look into it. Would you want to roll your own SQLite, or just have that containerized instead of postgres?

      • priapus@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        SQLite doesnt require you to have any service running, the DB is just stored in a file which the program accesses through an SQLite library. I think its the best option for selfhosted software, as its very lightweight and more than performant enough for 99% of these use cases.

        • curled@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          22 hours ago

          Performance isn’t the only advantage to a full postgres deployment. I have a central database for all of my self hosted apps which makes it really easy to back it all up.

          I’ve had a lot of problems in the past from software crashes that left sqlite files in a corrupt state, backups where the sqlite file wasn’t properly closed leaving it in a weird unlockable state, transactions not completing when swap is used, etc. Besides that sqlite really doesn’t play nice with NFS, which is the basis for quite a few cloud storage providers.

          “Best option” really depends on what self hosting looks like in your specific setup.

          • priapus@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            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