I come from the movies/tv shows i.e. radarr/sonarr side of things. This method does not work for music and I’m wondering what other options I have to auto-find downloads at a reasonable bitrate to fill out my library without having to download entire albums all of the time.
What is your setup?
Check out Lidarr Extended too: https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/docker-lidarr-extended . It adds some additional functionality that addresses some of your concerns.