Soulseek Search Options?

[patryksg]

Hey. Would it be hard to add an option to configure how Tubifarry searches for releases on Soulseek?

I.e. give people an option to set up their own way to search for releases:

1. ArtistName ReleaseName ReleaseYear Codec

2. ReleaseName ReleaseYear Codec

3. ReleaseName ReleaseYear ReleaseType Codec

4. Regular, should find most. 2. For banned artist searches on Soulseek's side. 3. For when an artist has an EP with the same name as an Album, for instance. All filtering out, for instance, non FLAC files.

Something like that. :)

[TypNull]

Hi,

Lidarr is designed to handle codecs and release details automatically, restricting its search would actually make it less effective. The current setup is broad for a reason: it parses every result to ensure nothing is missed, which is the intended behaviour. For blocked queries there is fallback search.

The same goes for release years. If you’ve set a specific release in Lidarr, it will match against that. If Tubifarry finds a release year, it passes that info to Lidarr, so you’re covered.

What if Lidarr mixes up an EP with an album?
That’s a Lidarr issue, not a search problem. You’d need to address it within Lidarr itself. Open a PR it seems like more people have a problem with that.

Let’s say you set a custom format that works for one release but breaks the search for others. That's at least not ideal. It is possible but I think the gain of it is minimal.

[patryksg]

I have messed around with it for a year or so now, and sometimes nothing will be found, no matter how many fallback metadata searches it tries, but then a manual search will actually get hits. But I will say that it most likely is my fault then.

I appreciate your reply. :)