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I had a small media library for myself, and wanted to automate it a bit more, so implemented arr stack (prowlarr, radarr, lidarr), it seems to work but I’m not sure how to pick indexers. I have no experience with it, and I initially just picked a public one, but it barely ever seems to download something.

I’m a bit confused about it, should i just pick as many as I can? Or join a private one? But no idea where to start there.

Any advice or push in the right direction would be appreciated.

Having a few public indexers shouldn’t hurt. However you probably don’t want to add a ton otherwise you will likely end up being overloaded by duplicates.

But really you should invest in getting into private trackers. Even an entry to mid-tier tracker will get you far better and more reliable results than public. Also the content will generally be much better seeded and more reliable.

I use Prowlarr with Flaresolverr.

Setup the Flaresolverr indexer proxy in Prowlarr: - Tags: flaresolverr - Host: http://flaresolverr:8191/ (or whatever host+port your flaresolv

And then I use these: - 1337x (Add Tags: flaresolverr) - TorrentDownload - Knaben

It’s not the best and Knaben is mostly just TPB + Rutracker. But this setup gets me everything I need. Everything wrong is filtered as I made my setup look for HEVC with specific bit rate ranges. Invalid file extensions are filtered out.

For actual downloading I use RDT Client with the TorBox debrid service.

Sometimes some indexing services time out but I’ll get the content later.

In my experience, with this setup, I really don’t need Usenet or private torrent trackers.

Cant. My nas is weak and cant run unraid. Raid5 and Raid6 is what I can achieve.