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Why so many *arr services? Why not 1 service that works with all media types? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by YorddleZiggs@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[-] Z4rK@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Because no one creates one that will work on many media types.

The source information and structure of the media types can be quite different, you can’t just add books to sonarr for example. It’s often better with niche tools that to one thing well than some huge bloated software that does everything poorly.

Maybe one day someone will create what you are asking for.