We’ve all been there. It’s 11:00 PM on a Tuesday. You just want to watch that one new show. But instead, you’re jumping between three different tabs. You’re checking Sonarr for the TV series, Radarr for the movie, and then you’re logging into Jellyseerr just to see if your brother’s request actually went through.
We’ve accepted this “fragmented excellence” as the cost of a high-end home lab. We call it a “stack.” But let’s be honest: it’s a scavenger hunt.
What if we could stop managing a constellation of apps and start managing our media?
The Vision of One
That is why I am so incredibly excited to talk to you about MediaManager v1.10.0.
Imagine taking Sonarr, Radarr, and the best parts of Jellyseerr, and collapsing them into a single, elegant singularity. One app. One configuration surface. One permission model. This isn’t just a “wrapper”; it’s a ground-up reimagining of how we automate our digital lives.
And for those of us who care about security—and I know this crowd does—it brings OAuth and OIDC to the table as first-class citizens. No more hacky session cookies. We’re talking Keycloak, Authentik, Authelia—integrated out of the box.
Breaking the Rigid Mold
But it’s not just about consolidation. It’s about intelligence.
For years, we’ve been slaves to “Quality Profiles.” Boolean “yes/no” rules that often fail the reality of a complex library. MediaManager introduces Scoring Rules. It’s a nuanced, weighted system that mimics how we actually think. It looks at the codec, the group, the resolution, and the audio, and it makes a sophisticated decision.
And for the first time, we have True Multi-Quality Support. You want the 4K HDR version for your home theater and a 720p SDR version for when you’re streaming on a spotty airport Wi-Fi? MediaManager doesn’t flinch. It handles both, under one title, in one UI.
The Reality Check
Now, I’ve been discussing our phase—that transition from “cool project” to “daily driver.” And in the spirit of intellectual honesty, we have to talk about the “Ugly” side of being an early adopter.
MediaManager is young. It’s a David standing against the Goliaths of the “arr” ecosystem. Moving your entire library is a high-stakes play. It requires a MetadataRelay—which you can self-host, but it’s another gear in the machine. There is “tribal knowledge” in the Sonarr community that simply hasn’t been written for MediaManager yet.
The Import Revolution
But here is the kicker—the reason I think v1.10.0 is the tipping point. The Import Tool.
Until now, switching meant starting over. But with v1.10.0, you can point MediaManager at your existing, battle-hardened library and say, “Learn.” It reads what you have, organizes it, and builds the database without you having to re-download a single byte. It’s the olive branch to those of us who are heavily invested but desperately want a cleaner way to work.
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