What can be (realisticly) improved for a better and easier experience

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Adding proper metadata to releases. Why are we still trying to decipher release titles, why not add a little metadata JSON file to every release and make the info available to the search API?

Also keeping multiple different versions of a release in Arr apps, like ebook and audiobook in different languages. Right now I’d need 4 Readarr instances to get the English and German audiobook and ebook versions of a book, and don’t even think about letting them manage the same root folder!

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Sorry, best we can do is some unrelated ASCII art.

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At least they sometimes include insane rants.

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A separate file or if the first few bytes of a file contained the metadata.

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and following proper naming conventions too. why can’t releasers decided to choose one single naming convention together so it makes our job better to automate things?

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Have you tried maintaining a standard at work?
Now imagine if several thousand people try to decide on a common standard.

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Several thousand people who tend to be less likely to follow the path most traveled, no less

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I actually like the release titles. It’s encoded in the name that way, there’s a somewhat good standard for it, and it’s one file. I rarely need more info than what’s in the release title. And I would dislike having to carry a separate json with me.

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Readarr honestly feels like the most barebones of all the arrs. I tried it for a bit and decided to just use Calibre to manage my library.

Sure, I need to manually grab stuff but it more than makes up for that with the other features it has.

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