Do You Hide Your Traffic
for Usenet only users...are you hiding your radarr > indexer > downloader > to media server traffic?
If so, what have you found that works well?
u/Hungry-Criticism-770 — 9 hours ago
r/Softwarr
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PlexMix — Smart Playlist Builder for Plex
Hey everyone
I’ve been working on a project called Mixarr, a fully containerized smart playlist builder for Plex Music designed to bring more of a Spotify-style experience to self-hosted libraries.
The goal is to make massive Plex music libraries feel more dynamic, discoverable, and personalized using smart metadata, mood analysis, popularity scoring, and advanced filtering.
I’m opening it up for beta testing and would love feedback from the self-hosted / Plex community.
I always wanted an easy way to make playlist for large libraries, thanks to some help from AI coding, it is in its test phase.
Features
Blazing Fast Local Cache
PlexMix autonomously syncs your Plex music library into a local PostgreSQL database, including:
- Artists
- Albums
- Tracks
- Genres / Tags
This allows for near-instant querying even across huge libraries with tens of thousands of tracks.
Smart Metadata Enrichment
PlexMix enriches your library using external metadata providers like:
- Spotify
- Last.fm
- Deezer
- AudioDB
It calculates:
- Mood / Valence scores
- Popularity rankings
- Deep metadata for smarter mixes
Dynamic Rule Builder
Build highly customized playlists with advanced filtering rules like:
- Genre contains “Rock”
- Popularity <
- Exclude seasonal tracks
- Deep cuts only
- Mood-based mixes
- Decade / year filtering
- And more
All querying happens locally against your synced database for speed.
Push Directly to Plex
Generated playlists can be exported directly back into your Plex server automatically.
Modern UI / UX
Built with Next.js and designed with a glassmorphism-inspired UI featuring:
- Animated mesh gradients
- Smooth micro-animations
- Responsive layouts
- Clean typography
- Native-feeling mobile experience
On mobile, the interface transforms into a dedicated mobile layout with bottom navigation for easy use on the go.
Self-Hosted First
Mixarr is designed to be:
- Docker-first
- Fully self-hosted
- Containerized
- Easy to deploy
- Privacy friendly
Beta Testing
I’m looking for people willing to:
- Test it on different Plex library sizes
- Report bugs
- Suggest features
- Break things
- Help shape the roadmap
There are definitely rough edges still, but it’s at the point where I’d love real-world feedback from other Plex users and homelab/self-hosted enthusiasts.
If there’s enough interest, I’ll keep rapidly expanding features and polishing the experience.
Would love to hear what features you’d want in a smart Plex playlist system.
Feel free to check it out on github https://github.com/cvarano84/Mixarr
u/cvarano84 — 1 day ago
Questions about Arr Stacks
I've been looking into getting a NAS and setting up an ARR stack to replace my stremio+realdebrid current set up. It works well most of the time but I feel like this will be more reliable and I like the idea of having locally downloaded files, almost like the physical media of old.
I have a few questions that I cannot seem to find answers for, and I don't really want to use AI for it I reckon it'll spew nonsense so would much rather get some advice from the experts here.
Is it possible to set up my arr stack so that others can access the content from their devices in their own homes? IE Outside of just my home network and have it accessible remotely.
How do you choose the content to be downloaded? Is there a way to select content from an android APK interface perhaps and automate the downloading and file management? I'm thinking when I'm out and about and think about something I'd like to download or get a recommendation.
What are people's experiences with reliability? Surely having the files actually downloaded and streamed locally would mean effectively no lag or buffer, but are there any other concerns like crashing apps / jellyfin or Plex becoming unresponsive etc? I'll be using an Nvidia shield as my primary end client device so good processing power.
Are there existing setups that tick the box for points 1 and 2 above, and if so are these available on GitHub or somewhere?
Thank you everyone!
u/Guilty_Orange_78 — 1 day ago
Need help with arrstack
TLDR; I don't know how to solve a few problems can someone guide me through it please?
Hi everyone! I'm gonna try to make it as short as possible. I set up my first arr stack using trash guides and this automation avenue tutorial slightly modifying it for my setup. I'm running Proxmox > lxc > docker compose > arr stack.
Everything runs however I have a few issues:
Plex can't remote stream unless I create a tunnel using cloudflare (at least that's what I've been using cause that's what I know how to do lol)
There's a problem with certain torrent indexers and I get messages like:
- 1337x - "unexpected response status Forbidden code from indexer request"
- Private indexer - "Found captcha during automatic login, aborting"
(I do have both solverr and byparr installed)
That's actually it the rest is just configuration I don't know yet how to do like telling prowlarr od radarr or whatever to prioritize usenet over torrents, dual language etc. but I can solve it on my own I think.
Is there anyway someone would hop on a call or sit in chat with me to solve this?
u/_-KuKi-_ — 4 days ago
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I built Driparr: a small self-hosted app that drip-feeds IMDb CSV lists into Radarr
I built Driparr, a small self-hosted app that drip-feeds IMDb CSV lists into Radarr.
Instead of adding a huge IMDb list all at once, Driparr lets you import a CSV and add movies gradually in controlled batches. It also includes duplicate protection, a live status feed, Docker/Portainer support, and a mock Radarr test stack so you can try it safely first.
It’s still early beta, so I’m looking for testers and feedback from Radarr/self-hosted users.
GitHub:
u/Emotional_Mortgage28 — 4 days ago