linuxserver/lidarr repository overview

The LinuxServer.io⁠ team brings you another container release featuring:

• regular and timely application updates
• easy user mappings (PGID, PUID)
• custom base image with s6 overlay
• weekly base OS updates with common layers across the entire LinuxServer.io ecosystem to minimise space usage, down time and bandwidth
• regular security updates

Find us at:

• Blog⁠ - all the things you can do with our containers including How-To guides, opinions and much more!
• Discord⁠ - realtime support / chat with the community and the team.
• Discourse⁠ - post on our community forum.
• GitHub⁠ - view the source for all of our repositories.
• Open Collective⁠ - please consider helping us by either donating or contributing to our budget

⁠linuxserver/lidarr⁠

Lidarr⁠ is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new tracks from your favorite artists and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.

⁠Supported Architectures

We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here⁠ and our announcement here⁠.

Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/lidarr:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

⁠Version Tags

This image provides various versions that are available via tags. Please read the descriptions carefully and exercise caution when using unstable or development tags.

⁠Application Setup

Access the webui at <your-ip>:8686, for more information check out Lidarr⁠.

⁠Media folders

We have set /music and /downloads as optional paths, this is because it is the easiest way to get started. While easy to use, it has some drawbacks. Mainly losing the ability to hardlink (TL;DR a way for a file to exist in multiple places on the same file system while only consuming one file worth of space), or atomic move (TL;DR instant file moves, rather than copy+delete) files while processing content.

Use the optional paths if you don't understand, or don't want hardlinks/atomic moves.

⁠Read-Only Operation

This image can be run with a read-only container filesystem. For details please read the docs⁠.

⁠Non-Root Operation

This image can be run with a non-root user. For details please read the docs⁠.

⁠Usage

To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.

⁠docker-compose (recommended, click here for more info⁠)

---
services:
  lidarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/lidarr:latest
    container_name: lidarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
    volumes:
      - /path/to/lidarr/config:/config
      - /path/to/music:/music #optional
      - /path/to/downloads:/downloads #optional
    ports:
      - 8686:8686
    restart: unless-stopped

⁠docker cli (click here for more info⁠)

docker run -d \
  --name=lidarr \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Etc/UTC \
  -p 8686:8686 \
  -v /path/to/lidarr/config:/config \
  -v /path/to/music:/music `#optional` \
  -v /path/to/downloads:/downloads `#optional` \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/lidarr:latest

⁠Parameters

Containers are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

⁠Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.

As an example:

-e FILE__MYVAR=/run/secrets/mysecretvariable

Will set the environment variable MYVAR based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretvariable file.

⁠Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here⁠ before asking for support.

⁠User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id your_user as below:

id your_user

Example output:

uid=1000(your_user) gid=1000(your_user) groups=1000(your_user)

⁠Docker Mods

We publish various Docker Mods⁠ to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

⁠Support Info

• Shell access whilst the container is running:

  docker exec -it lidarr /bin/bash
  

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• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:

  docker logs -f lidarr
  

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• Container version number:

  docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lidarr
  

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• Image version number:

  docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/lidarr:latest
  

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⁠Updating Info

Most of our images are static, versioned, and require an image update and container recreation to update the app inside. With some exceptions (noted in the relevant readme.md), we do not recommend or support updating apps inside the container. Please consult the Application Setup⁠ section above to see if it is recommended for the image.

Below are the instructions for updating containers:

⁠Via Docker Compose

• Update images:

  • All images:

    docker-compose pull
    

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  • Single image:

    docker-compose pull lidarr
    

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• Update containers:

  • All containers:

    docker-compose up -d
    

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  • Single container:

    docker-compose up -d lidarr
    

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• You can also remove the old dangling images:

  docker image prune
  

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⁠Via Docker Run

• Update the image:

  docker pull lscr.io/linuxserver/lidarr:latest
  

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• Stop the running container:

  docker stop lidarr
  

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• Delete the container:

  docker rm lidarr
  

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• Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to a host folder, your /config folder and settings will be preserved)

• You can also remove the old dangling images:

  docker image prune
  

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⁠Image Update Notifications - Diun (Docker Image Update Notifier)

⁠Building locally

If you want to make local modifications to these images for development purposes or just to customize the logic:

git clone https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-lidarr.git
cd docker-lidarr
docker build \
  --no-cache \
  --pull \
  -t lscr.io/linuxserver/lidarr:latest .

The ARM variants can be built on x86_64 hardware and vice versa using lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static

docker run --rm --privileged lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static --reset

Once registered you can define the dockerfile to use with -f Dockerfile.aarch64.

⁠Versions

• 05.07.25: - Rebase to Alpine 3.22.
• 23.12.24: - Rebase to Alpine 3.21.
• 31.05.24: - Rebase to Alpine 3.20.
• 20.03.24: - Rebase to Alpine 3.19.
• 06.06.23: - Rebase master to Alpine 3.18, deprecate armhf as per https://www.linuxserver.io/armhf⁠.
• 17.01.23: - Rebase master branch to Alpine 3.17, migrate to s6v3.
• 06.06.22: - Rebase master branch to Alpine 3.15.
• 06.05.22: - Rebase master branch to Focal.
• 06.05.22: - Rebase develop branch to Alpine.
• 04.02.22: - Rebase nightly branch to Alpine, deprecate nightly-alpine branch.
• 30.12.21: - Add nightly-alpine branch.
• 01.08.21: - Add libchromaprint-tools.
• 11.07.21: - Make the paths clearer to the user.
• 18.04.21: - Switch latest tag to net core.
• 25.01.21: - Publish develop tag.
• 20.01.21: - Deprecate UMASK_SET in favor of UMASK in baseimage, see above for more information.
• 18.04.20: - Removed /downloads and /music volumes from Dockerfiles.
• 05.04.20: - Move app to /app.
• 01.08.19: - Rebase to Linuxserver LTS mono version.
• 13.06.19: - Add env variable for setting umask.
• 23.03.19: - Switching to new Base images, shift to arm32v7 tag.
• 08.03.19: - Rebase to Bionic, use proposed endpoint for libchromaprint.
• 26.01.19: - Add pipeline logic and multi arch.
• 22.04.18: - Switch to beta builds.
• 17.03.18: - Add ENV XDG_CONFIG_HOME="/config/xdg" to Dockerfile for signalr fix.
• 27.02.18: - Use json to query for new version.
• 23.02.18: - Initial Release.