Libresonic is a web based music streamer with transcoding capabilities. In contrast to Sonarr, Radarr and Headphones it does not download new content but rather manage and provide convenient access to existing collections. Unlike Subsonic or Madsonic it is free and has no limitations.
Radarr is a movie download manager capable of downloading from BitTorrent and Usenet. It is a fork of Sonarr and is comparable to Couchpotato or Headphones. It integrates with rTorrent, uTorrent Server, Deluge, NZBGet and many more downloaders. It can also make use of Jackett to communicate with BitTorrent trackers.
Mergerfs is a FUSE based union filesystem that allows pooling of mount points or other directories into a single virtual directory. While it does consume significant CPU resources and somewhat limit maximum throughput it works well otherwise and is easy to set up. It still offer sufficient performance for a home server use. It is very similar to other union file systems such as MHDDFS.
Headphones is an automatic music downloader and manager. It is equivalent to CouchPotato or Sonarr but for music. For improved security it is installed under it’s own user and group. Backing up settings and the library is very simple and only requires a database and configuration files to be saved. The one major weakness of Headphones is that it uses MusicBrainz public mirror by default. The MusicBrainz public mirror is slow and unrelaible. This problem can be solved by using alternative server, either free or paid or running your own my setting up MusicBrainz VM Server with QEMU.
Mhddfs allows to pool physical drive mount points or any other directories into a single virtual directory. It is fuse based so performance does take a hit so does the CPU resource usage. It does however work well otherwise and is easy to set up. It still offer sufficient performance for a home server use.
Subsonic is a web based music streamer with transcoding capabilities. While a great concept, unfortunately it is purposely crippled by non-premium limitations that prevent the use of mobile apps as well as many other features. Libresonic is an alternative free and open-source fork that may prove to be a better option. In contrast to Sonarr, Radarr and Headphones it does not download new content but rather manage and provide convenient access to existing collections.
Sonarr is a TV series download manager capable of downloading from Peer to Peer and Usenet networks. It is comparable to Couchpotato or Headphones except it manages only TV series. It integrates with rTorrent, uTorrent Server, Deluge, NZBGet and many more downloaders. It can also make use of Jackett to communicate with BitTorrent trackers.
