Bazarr: The Library for Managing Subtitles

This post is part of the entire series for obtaining multimedia content. In the previous post, we saw how to configure Radarr and before that Sonarr, which together give us access to both movies and series. In this post, we’ll cover the missing point: subtitles.

1 - What is Bazarr?

Bazarr is an application that automatically links with Radarr and Sonarr and searches for and downloads subtitles for that content.

It’s true that sometimes the content we download already comes with subtitles, and we can configure both Radarr and Sonarr to fetch the subtitle along with the video. But this application will help us for all the files that do NOT come with subtitles.

2 - How to install Bazarr?

To install Bazarr, all we need to do is add the following code into the docker-compose file or, as in our case, into Portainer:

version: 3services:  bazarr:    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/bazarr:latest    container_name: bazarr    environment:      - PUID=1000      - PGID=1000      - TZ=Europe/London    volumes:      - C:\Server-config\bazarr\config:/config      - C:\Documents\Movies:/movies       - C:\Documents\Shows:/tv     ports:      - 6767:6767    restart: unless-stopped

Here we indicate where our configuration is located as well as the path to the series and movies directories.

With this, you can open the application in your browser at http:\\{ip-server}:6767 and see the following:

Now we need to configure both Sonarr and Radarr.

2.1 - How to configure Sonarr in Bazarr

First, go to the Sonarr section and fill in the information. Remember, you don’t have to enter Sonarr’s IP address or external port; you need to use the internal port in Docker. In our case (and for most cases), it’s the same.

Remember that the API key is in Sonarr under Settings -> General

Save the configuration. If you want it to download the monitored content, check that box.

2.2 - How to configure Radarr in Bazarr

Just like before, go to the Radarr section and fill in the info. Don’t enter Radarr’s IP or external port—use the internal port in Docker. In our case (and most cases), it’s the same.

Keep in mind that the API key is in Radarr under Settings -> General

3 - Add languages to Bazarr

Now let’s indicate the languages you want to use. Go to settings -> languages and add the ones you want—in my case, English and Spanish.

And just save the changes.

4 - Add Subtitle Provider

Just as before, it’s very straightforward. Go to providers and click the +; simply select the one you want. I recommend opensubtitles for English and subtitulamos for Spanish from Spain.

5 - Download subtitles with Bazarr

At this point, you should already have all your series and movie content loaded in Sonarr and Radarr, so just select one, click edit movie at the top, and choose the profile you want.

You can also do bulk editing from the main view.