I am almost done building my first self hosted streambox through Docker. That’s a total of 16 instances, each fulfilling 1 specific role.

As I’m new to the *arr world, could you please help me understand why it is standard to deploy multiple *arr services for each media type (ex: readarr1 for books + readarr2 for audiobooks) instead of using 1 that does multiple media types?

Thank you.

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    101
    ·
    1 year ago

    In the software world, based on personal experience and the UNIX philosophy, software should aim to do one thing and do it really well.

    Then there are also the bloat complaints (why should I download a whole stack of arr services when I only care for movies)

    The most unfortunate one however can be them mixing. If my child looks up Star Wars but instead the suite ends up downloading a Star Wars porn parody… that’s just… bad

    • Crogdor@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      I do wish I didn’t need to run a second Radarr instance to have both 1080p and 4K media.

      • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Not everyone has to, though. I use one instance for a wide variety of resolutions, depending on the show and consumption model; including 360,480,720,1080, 2160 (HDR/10-bit). But I run Plex on a box with quicksync that is doing my transcoding for me.

        So why have you chosen to run different instances?

    • Crit@links.hackliberty.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Sure but they also seem to share quite a bit of GUI code at least. Couldn’t all of these just be plugins for a core *arr service?

      • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        I think the goal of the original project (I think it was Sonarr?) was just to cover TV shows. The others had forked and the rest is history. It was never aimed to be a multi platform thing.