Search and queue downloads through Prowlarr indexers, right from the app. Media Centaur is a complete library manager without ever downloading anything — acquisition is a bolt-on for people who want it.
The library, the metadata, the review queue, the playback — none of it depends on downloading a single byte. Acquisition is plumbing you switch on only if you already run indexers and want them surfaced in one place.
Media Centaur is a complete library manager without ever downloading anything. Acquisition is a bolt-on for people who want it — nothing in the rest of the app assumes it's there.
Point Media Centaur at your Prowlarr instance and you get a search surface for the indexers you've
already configured. Prowlarr is the single integration point; your indexers stay yours.
Every grab moves through honest states — Searching → Grabbed → Pending — with Abandoned and Cancelled surfaced plainly rather than hidden. You always know exactly where a request stands.
A newly-announced season the tracker spots can be found and grabbed in the same flow — release tracking watches, acquisition acts, and the library absorbs the result.
When acquisition is enabled, a request isn't a black box. It walks a visible path, and the dead ends are labelled as dead ends — Abandoned and Cancelled are first-class outcomes, not silent failures.
Querying your Prowlarr indexers for a match.
A release was picked and handed to the client.
In flight — waiting to land in the library.
Surfaced honestly when a grab can't complete.
Release tracking monitors TMDB for new seasons of the shows you already own. When one is announced, acquisition gives you a place to find and grab it — then the file flows back into the same library grid, identified and arted like everything else.
You bring your own Prowlarr and indexers; Media Centaur doesn't ship or endorse any. It's neutral plumbing for content you have the right to — no piracy cheerleading, just a tidy search-and-queue surface.
Downloads the latest release, verifies its checksum, installs atomically, and sets up a service unit. You can run the whole library manager without ever configuring an indexer.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/media-centaur/media-centaur/main/installer/install.sh | sh
Watches your directories, identifies titles via TMDB, downloads artwork; low-confidence matches wait for review.
Learn moreLaunches mpv locally, resumes where you left off, auto-advances episodes, world-class subtitles.
Learn moreMonitors TMDB daily for upcoming movies and new seasons of the shows you own.
Learn moreKeyboard at the desk, gamepad or remote on the couch. Large artwork, dark-first, readable focus.
Learn moreEvery change appears instantly via Phoenix LiveView. No polling, no refresh button.
Learn moreThe whole pipeline end to end — watch, identify, art, review, track, play.
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