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Announcement: Retirement of Readarr

We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project's metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.

Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we're not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.

Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.

Key Points

  • Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
  • Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
  • Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
  • Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
  • Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.

Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.

Sincerely,
The Servarr Team

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[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Yeah this sucks but honestly it never really worked well for me, ebooks are horribly underserved in the media world.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Having to run two instances to support audio and text books was the deal breaker for me.

Now I use audiobookshelf, and it's easy enough to find everything I need on mam without an extra search layer.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm actually using Audiobookshelf as my main server. I just wanted Readarr to get metadata and organize the folders. Do you have any workflow tips for that?

[–] murky0106@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The best way I found to do this was using audiobookshelfs upload feature and grabbing the meta data before upload. This sorts the folders for you

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's sort of weird to upload because it's already on the hard drive where I want it to go.. Just has to get squeezed back and forth through the pipes of my LAN a few times to go through this process.

[–] murky0106@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Yeah it's not perfect. I normally just download and upload from my phone so works for me but it's not a very automated or neat solution but it does work and uploads don't take to long

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