[FEATURE] - LIDARR - A way to prevent endless loop of adding related artists.

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Endless loop of adding more artists when add related artists is turned on.

Describe the solution you'd like A way to somehow prevent this.

Describe alternatives you've considered Maybe a setting to control how many "tiers" away from the original artist it will add. Something like "add related artist to existing artists only."

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[RandomNinjaAtk]

What you’re looking for, I don’t think would be easily possible. The setting warns you that it will cause a loop.

It does only add artists via highest ratings by fan count first, so limiting to only 3 artists should only get you the top 3 rated similar artists…

You’re probably better off disabling it.

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What you’re looking for, I don’t think would be easily possible. The setting warns you that it will cause a loop.

It does only add artists via highest ratings by fan count first, so limiting to only 3 artists should only get you the top 3 rated similar artists…

You’re probably better off disabling it.

I like the feature, filling up a folder with a bunch of stuff related to what I like, but some more granular control may be helpful. I am still figuring out this script but it seems best to run in for a few hours and then start over with some different genre with a few bands. If you let it loose on a large library it gets crazy quick.

[RandomNinjaAtk]

Just FYI: I have an idea on how to resolve/improve this, but I'm not sure when I'll get to implementing it.

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Just FYI: I have an idea on how to resolve/improve this, but I'm not sure when I'll get to implementing it.

Thank you, would be neat to have some limitation.

[RandomNinjaAtk]

This should be resolved with this new setting: https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/arr-scripts/blob/06439f37c4b66e0b147aa078fe0983fb15bd12d3/lidarr/extended.conf#L68

Keep in mind this only applies to new additions and won't retroactively work for existing artists...

However adding the "arr-extended" tag to any existing artist will prevent it from adding related artists for that artist...

Give it a test and report back..

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Thanks for doing this! I'll give it a try when I get a chance.