Metadata that works, Lidarr searches that work
BrainzMash is a community Lidarr metadata server pool.
It's the MusicBrainz metadata you know and love but it solves some issues experienced with the official Lidarr metadata.
For Lidarr users it's a single metadata endpoint. Behind the scenes it is a pool of generous community members running lidarr metadata servers, the work is load balanced between the servers in the pool.
The data on each server is verified as correct and checked regularly to ensure it matches the other servers in the pool by way of running hashed data quorum checks against various endpoints, checking replication freshness and ensuring images are present where possible.
BrainzMash provides a single metadata endpoint for Lidarr
This endpoint is not shared publicly, it's avaiaible when you join the Discord, and please ensure not to share it - access is restricted so we can make sure demand doesn't exceed supply but we should be good!
Full instructions are available on the BrainzMash Discord server.
The basic setup:
That's it.
- Easy: https://github.com/statichum/brainzmash-hearring-aid
More info in Discord.
If you're already running your own metadata server you can contribute it to the BrainzMash pool and help share the load.
If you're using the original Hearring Aid project, you'll need to switch to the BrainzMash fork which fixes broken images and wiki content.
You'll need to make this change as servers missing images or wiki data will fail the BrainzMash data quorum checks.
Instructons at the bottom of git to make this change:
And adding security - an Nginx proxy to take care of an API header to ensure only the Brainzmash serer accesses your API