v2.0.0 (2026-07-07)

Musicseerr is now DroppedNeedle, and Lidarr is gone. Everything Lidarr used to do runs natively now: the app scans your library, reads and writes tags, fingerprints tracks, and organises files itself. Downloading is native too. Point it at your own Soulseek (slskd) and/or Usenet (SABnzbd, with built-in Newznab indexers) and it searches, downloads, verifies, and imports, per album or per track. It can also act as a Subsonic- and Jellyfin-compatible server, so your existing player apps stream straight from the library.

Your data carries over. Point the new image at the same config volume and your settings, database, and library are all still there.

Moving from Musicseerr

• No more Lidarr. Set up slskd and/or SABnzbd under Settings -> Download Client instead.
• Everyone signs in once after upgrading (the session keys were renamed), and player state resets. Nothing else changes.
• Pulling habirabbu/musicseerr:latest moves you onto DroppedNeedle automatically. You can switch to habirabbu/droppedneedle whenever you like; both get the same builds.

Highlights

• Native library engine: scanning, tag read/write, audio fingerprinting, and file organising, all in the app. A folder-consensus scanner identifies albums from the files on disk and holds uncertain imports for review with an audio preview.
• Multi-source downloads over Soulseek (slskd) and Usenet (SABnzbd with native Newznab indexers, no Prowlarr), per album or per track.
• Safer imports: auto-accept needs artist evidence, mismatched or wrong-length files are held for review, and an album only counts as complete once its tracklist is covered.
• Quality cutoff with automatic upgrades for admin and trusted users (better files replace worse ones, with a recycle bin), plus a global storage cap and per-user request and storage quotas for shared instances.
• A Wanted watcher that re-searches failed or incomplete requests over time and downloads verified finds on its own, with a Wanted tab to manage it.
• Home and Discover rebuilt into toggleable sections (queue deck, Top Picks, Listening Lounge, Deezer/iTunes previews, downloadable discovery batches), warmed in the background so pages open ready. A header health indicator flags when a source like MusicBrainz or Last.fm is struggling.
• New Releases as a release log with a 30 / 90 / 365-day selector, a hide-owned toggle, and in-library ticks, plus a sidebar badge for unseen releases.
• Upcoming events: DroppedNeedle watches Ticketmaster and Skiddle for concerts by artists you follow, filtered to your city.
• Playlist import from your connected sources with live Spotify refresh (#108, @jma1ice), and a per-user Weekly Mix built from your listen history (#110, @jma1ice).
• Manual reimport of downloads that failed inside slskd (#105, @jma1ice), and a Wrapped integration for external newsletters (#112, @jma1ice).
• Faster cold cover grids and navigation, live now-playing presence over SSE, and a long list of download-reliability and tagging fixes.

Thanks to everyone who ran the betas and reported the rough edges. This was a big rebuild.