The whole music shelf, for the price of one app. Navidrome, Lidarr, DroppedNeedle, Digarr, Prowlarr, Decypharr and SABnzbd, wired together on one ElfHosted subdomain, so the collection, the automation and the player all live at an address you bookmark once.

What is in it?

Where you listen

• Navidrome is the player. A fast web UI, and a Subsonic API that every decent music app on iOS and Android already speaks, so you pick the client you like rather than the one you are given. Your library, streamed from anywhere, with no syncing and no local copies.

Two ways to fill the shelf

• Lidarr is the one that watches. Follow an artist and it monitors for new releases, grabs them through your indexers, tags them and files them into a folder structure Navidrome reads without being told twice. Set a preferred format and it quietly upgrades lower quality files when better releases appear.
• DroppedNeedle is the one you ask. Search the whole MusicBrainz catalogue, request a record, and its own engine fetches, tags, verifies and imports it. It also scrobbles to ListenBrainz and Last.fm at the same time, imports the Spotify playlists you have been meaning to get out of Spotify, and tells you when a band you follow is playing near you.

What goes and gets it

• Prowlarr is the address book. Add your indexers once and it keeps Lidarr supplied with them, rather than making you paste the same credentials into every app.
• Decypharr is the fast path. It looks like a download client to Lidarr, but hands the work to your own debrid account and links the result straight into the library, so a cached album is playable in seconds.
• SABnzbd is the thorough path. Usenet, with par2 repair for the older and less well retained material that debrid caches have never heard of. It is also the client DroppedNeedle drives, so it is what makes the request desk work.

What tells you where to dig

• Digarr builds a taste profile from what you actually listen to, runs it through the AI provider of your choice, and hands you a review queue. Approve an artist, or just the two albums of theirs you want. Bring your own API key; a budget model costs cents a month.

How the seven fit together

Prowlarr holds the indexers and keeps Lidarr supplied. Lidarr watches your artists and hands anything it finds to Decypharr for the cached copy or SABnzbd for the properly downloaded one. DroppedNeedle works the other direction: you ask for a specific record and it fetches, tags and files it through SABnzbd on its own. Both paths land in the same library. Navidrome scans that library and serves it to whatever you are holding. Digarr reads what you have been playing and proposes what to add next.

That last part earns its place. Point Lidarr at an artist and it will cheerfully fetch the entire discography, including the 1997 live album that nobody asked for. Digarr is how you say no to that one and yes to the other three.

Set it and forget it, or ask for it now

Lidarr and DroppedNeedle overlap on purpose, because collections get built both ways. Lidarr is the standing order: name the artists you care about, walk away, and new releases turn up on their own. DroppedNeedle is the request desk: it is Tuesday night, you want one specific record, and you would rather search MusicBrainz and have it appear than configure a monitoring rule. Same library, same player, two different moods.

What you bring

• Storage. We host the apps, not the music. Attach your own cloud storage with our magic mounting and all seven apps see the same library at the same path. Google Drive, OneDrive, S3, Backblaze B2, and anything else rclone speaks.
• A way in. Decypharr runs against your own debrid subscription; SABnzbd runs against your own Usenet provider. Neither account is included here. Bring either one and the bundle works; bring both and you cover far more ground. If you already subscribe to one of our Stremio addon or Debridge plans, you may well have Usenet with us already, and it carries across at no extra cost.
• Indexers, added once to Prowlarr, plus Newznab indexers in DroppedNeedle for its own searches.

What does it save?

Billed monthly, cancel whenever, same as everything else here. Prepay three, six or twelve months for a further discount.

What do I not have to deal with?

• Shared storage. All seven see the same files at the same path. Nothing to map, nothing to keep in step, no app quietly writing somewhere the others cannot read.
• Always on, at a fixed address, with TLS and single sign on already done.
• Nothing opened on your home network, and no machine left running so your phone can play an album.
• Backed up config, which matters most for the tagging and profile work you will never want to do twice.
• Updates, across all seven, without you touching anything.

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to bring my own storage? Yes. ElfHosted is app hosting; the music lives on storage you attach, using magic mounting. It takes a few minutes, it works with every major cloud provider, and it means your collection is yours and stays yours if you ever leave.

Do I need a debrid account, or Usenet, or both? At least one, and neither is bundled into this price. Decypharr wants a debrid subscription and is close to instant on anything cached. SABnzbd wants a Usenet provider and is better at the older and more obscure material. Running both is how you stop coming up empty.

I already have Usenet or debrid through another ElfHosted plan. Does it work here? Yes. Entitlements attach to your account rather than to a single product, so a Usenet provider that came with a Stremio addon or Debridge plan is already available to SABnzbd in this bundle. Check your NNTP page to see whether you have one.

My debrid provider is TorBox. Does Decypharr work? Yes, with one decision to make up front. By default Decypharr links to the file rather than downloading it, so your library points at something living in your debrid account. TorBox clears items out after about a month and doesn't allow tools to keep touching them to stop that, so a library built purely of links will eventually go quiet. Take a real copy into your own storage instead and the problem disappears: the album is yours, and the TorBox item can expire whenever it likes. That is a perfectly sensible trade for music, where a record is a few hundred megabytes rather than the tens of gigabytes a film would cost you. If you would rather keep the nothing-stored, stream-it-on-demand approach, CatBox is the TorBox-safe way to do that, sold separately.

Why both Lidarr and DroppedNeedle? They are two habits, not two copies of one app. Lidarr monitors artists over time and upgrades quality in the background. DroppedNeedle is search, request and listen, right now, over the whole MusicBrainz catalogue. They write to the same library, so nothing is wasted whichever one you end up living in.

Do you supply any music? No. Bring your own collection, whether that is ripped from discs you own, bought as downloads, or Creative Commons and public domain material. The bundle is the shelf, not the records.

Can I add or drop one later? Yes. The bundle is a convenience and a discount, not a lock in.

I already run Plex or Jellyfin. Do I still want Navidrome? Probably. You can point either at the same library, but Navidrome is built for music specifically: compilations, multi disc releases and artist metadata behave the way a music listener expects, and Subsonic clients handle playlists and offline caching better than the general purpose media apps.

Anything odd about DroppedNeedle? One thing. It runs its own logins rather than ElfHosted single sign on, so claim the admin account as soon as your instance comes up. If somebody beats you to it, ElfBot can reset the app so you can claim it again.
The Mixtape Bundle is the music shelf on ElfHosted. Seven apps that find the records, file them properly and play them back on whatever you happen to be holding, for a quarter of what they cost one at a time.