Brainarr v1.6.1 - AI-Powered Music Discovery

🧠 Brainarr v1.6.1 - AI-Powered Music Discovery

Thank you for using Brainarr! This release brings you the latest improvements to our AI-powered music recommendation engine.

📋 What's New

\n## ✅ Compatibility\n\nRequires Lidarr (unknown)+ on the plugins/nightly branch. CI validates against ghcr.io/hotio/lidarr:pr-plugins-3.1.2.4913.\n

🎉 Highlights

🔧 Improvements

• refactor(ci): use Common's reusable notify-failure workflow (#581)
• refactor(ci): use Common's reusable CodeQL workflow (#580)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix(test): make HttpResponseFactory shim self-contained (unbreak build)
• fix(schema): allow license/tags/targetFramework/rootNamespace in plugin.schema.json
• fix: invariant casing in genre-overview matching (Turkish-I locale bug)
• fix(memory): cap ValidationMetrics history on the batch path
• fix: harden recommendation pipeline against untrusted LLM data (defect hunt) (#583)

🚀 Installation

Easy Installation (Recommended)

1. Open Lidarr Web Interface
2. Go to Settings → General → Updates
3. Set Branch to nightly (plugins branch required)
4. Go to Settings → Plugins
5. Click Add Plugin
6. Enter GitHub URL: https://github.com/RicherTunes/Brainarr
7. Click Install
8. Restart Lidarr when prompted
9. Navigate to Settings → Import Lists → Add New → Brainarr

Manual Installation

1. Download Brainarr-$VERSION.zip from assets below
2. Extract to your Lidarr plugins directory:
   • Windows: C:\ProgramData\Lidarr\plugins\Brainarr\
   • Linux: /var/lib/lidarr/plugins/Brainarr/
   • Docker: /config/plugins/Brainarr/
3. Restart Lidarr
4. Configure in Settings → Import Lists

🤖 Supported AI Providers

🏠 Privacy-First (Local)

• Ollama - 100% local, no data leaves your network
• LM Studio - Local with GUI interface

💰 Budget-Friendly

• DeepSeek - 10-20x cheaper than GPT-4
• Google Gemini - Free tier available
• Groq - 10x faster inference

⭐ Premium

• OpenAI - Industry-leading GPT-4o models
• Anthropic - Best reasoning with Claude 3.5/4 Sonnet
• OpenRouter - Access 200+ models with one API key
• Perplexity - Web-enhanced responses

🔍 Verification

Verify your download integrity:

# Check SHA256 hash
sha256sum -c Brainarr-$VERSION.zip.sha256

# Expected file structure after extraction:
Brainarr/
├── Lidarr.Plugin.Brainarr.dll    # Main plugin
├── plugin.json                    # Plugin manifest
├── README.md                      # Documentation
├── LICENSE                        # License file
└── dependencies/                  # NuGet packages

💬 Support

• Documentation: README.md
• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions

🏗️ For Developers

This release includes:

• ✅ Comprehensive test suite (33+ test files)
• ✅ Cross-platform CI/CD (Ubuntu/Windows/macOS)
• ✅ Docker-based assembly extraction for reliable builds
• ✅ Semantic versioning with automated releases

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Full Changelog: $PREVIOUS_TAG...$VERSION

🤖 This release was automated with Claude Code

📊 Release Statistics

• Commits: 24
• Files Changed: 37
• Contributors: 2