Music flows through a fully automated chain: Lidarr searches for wanted albums via Headphones VIP indexer, sends grabs to NZBGet on the remote seedbox, rsync pulls completed downloads to Proxmox, Lidarr imports and organizes them, and Navidrome serves the final library for streaming.

Data flow:

Indexers:

Download client: NZBGet at 192.168.8.221:16789 (SSH tunnel to seedbox port 13036).

Quality profiles: Any, Lossless (preferred), Standard. Set artists to Lossless for FLAC.

Release profile — ignored terms (compilations and greatest hits are blocked to prevent import loop):

• Greatest Hits, Best Of, The Essential, The Very Best
• Collection, Definitive, Complete, Anthology, Ultimate
• YouTube rip, SoundCloud rip, ytrip, camrip, Rock Mix, Rancho Texicano

Track naming format: {Album Title} ({Release Year})/{Artist Name} - {Album Title} - {track:00} - {Track Title}

Lidarr has no built-in scheduled MissingAlbumSearch — this is a known design gap. The RSS sync (every 15 min) only grabs random new releases from the Headphones VIP feed, not library-specific missing albums. A Proxmox cron job compensates:

Trigger MissingAlbumSearch manually:

curl -s -X POST 'http://192.168.8.100:8686/api/v1/command?apikey=3dc17d20ca664be4ac90fb89004f91b8' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name":"MissingAlbumSearch"}'

Beets 2.7.1 is installed on CT 100 at /usr/local/bin/beet. Config at /root/.config/beets/config.yaml. Primary use is importing new music from the seedbox and handling compilations that Lidarr’s 80% threshold rejects.

Plugins: musicbrainz, fetchart, embedart, lastgenre, scrub, chroma

Pipeline script: /usr/local/bin/beet-full-pipeline.sh — DISABLED as of April 13, 2026. The initial bulk import is complete: 2,112 albums / 33,654 tracks / 1.4 TiB across 197 artists. The 30-minute cron was removed because the import had finished but was re-scanning 2,662 folders of duplicates/junk every 3 hours in an infinite loop. 134 potential hi-res/deluxe keepers were preserved in /mnt/seedbox/Music-Duplicates/ for manual review; 658 non-keepers and 1,870 junk-only folders were deleted.

Pipeline behavior:

1. Checks for new files in /mnt/seedbox/Music
2. If found, runs beet import -q /mnt/seedbox/Music to match, tag, and move to /mnt/music
3. Cleans up empty directories left behind
4. If no new files, exits immediately

Manual maintenance commands (run on CT 100 only when needed, not scheduled):

# Fetch missing cover art for albums without artwork
/usr/local/bin/beet fetchart

# Embed cover art into audio file metadata
/usr/local/bin/beet embedart

# Tag genres from Last.fm
/usr/local/bin/beet lastgenre

# Re-catalog any files in /mnt/music not yet in beets DB
/usr/local/bin/beet import -qA /mnt/music

Using beets for compilations (albums blocked by Lidarr’s release profile):

# SSH into CT 100 and run:
/usr/local/bin/beet import /downloads/Music/SomeAlbum/

Beets matches with 15% threshold, auto-fetches art, tags genre from Last.fm, moves to Compilations/ folder. Navidrome picks up automatically.

Two Lidarr plugins are planned to supplement the Usenet pipeline. Both require the nightly branch (already active).

Installing a plugin: System → Plugins in Lidarr UI → paste GitHub URL → Install → Restart.

Tidal auth flow (quirky): Add indexer → enter data path → Test (will error) → Cancel → refresh page → re-open Tidal indexer → copy the OAuth URL → log into Tidal in browser → copy the redirect URL → paste back into Lidarr. Redirect URLs are single-use.

Seedbox state (as of 2026-04-13):

• completed/Music/: Active — consolidated seedbox-sync.sh runs every 15 min, pulls from both nzbget and general complete paths
• NZBGet: idle when queue is empty, average ~70 MB/s when downloading
• Beets import complete — /mnt/seedbox/Music/ is empty and ready for new Lidarr grabs