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I vibe with this
Kazaa
Morpheus
Limewire
Bittorrent
uTorrent
DC++
Gnutella
Old school eh? I haven't used those in a long time.
qBittorrent has search built into it, but search is better with the 'arrs.
Jellyseerr and the 'arrs make searching torrents as easy as browsing movies in a streaming service. Search and browse movies in Jellyseeer. Read about them, watch the trailer. Then click "Request" when you find a movie you want to watch. The 'arrs then automatically find the torrent, and download it using qBittorent, or one of those other programs you mentioned.
I was just playing with my setup and learned that Usenet gets slow AF if you download to an NFS share. Back to downloading to local NVMe then copy the finished off to the server.
Also at 90% full thrashing becomes a real problem. More drives on the way.
I need to add jellyseer too.
I had this happen at a kids' bday party last week. Have to accept it 😅
JellyFin?🤔
Amazing software
love jellyfin. i use stremio too. you can pay for real-debrid library with sats (~3500 sats/month) and get whatever you want :)
I think nostr:npub1m64hnkh6rs47fd9x6wk2zdtmdj4qkazt734d22d94ery9zzhne5qw9uaks was telling me about Stremio. Is that the one where you stream and torrents are in the background.
What I need is to setup properly the arr suite. Didn’t work well before. It would erase all my metadata. I probably set it up wrong
Ya, thats how it works. I installed stremio on my computer, hooked that up to my tv. And then i installed the real-debrid.com extension in stremio which is a popular torrent scraping service i saw someone mention on reddit. I pay for real-debrid and basically get any show i want for like $4 a month. Everything haopens in background, wife can use it without issue. Been using it for a couple months now and only one instance where real-debrid was down for a few hours.
Yeah stremio is great. I used to have a setup like jellyfin, SickBeard I think it was called. The same concept anyways. Stremio made it unnecessary for me. No offline capability, but I almost never lack Internet access.
Stremio also marries well with users that have a self-hosted setup too, cuz you can download the show you just watched in the stremio app to local computer.
Big fan of jellyfin / the *arr suite.
That’s what I need to setup. Last time I did it didn’t work properly at all. It would erase my metadata
Anything special I need to do for the arr suite to work properly. My library is already setup with terabytes of content
Forgot a ?
Not really. Make sure you have a downloader setup and a few metadata sources set and Youll have to do a mess of manual importing. But its pretty Straight forward.
Oh I’ll have to do a lot of manual importing? So many movies, music and tv shows though 😬
Mabey. I have ~20 tb of video and When i did My initial import It was more like double checking to make sure they didn't assume things were something that they weren't.
Makes sense
If you have radarr and sonarr add the TMDB ID to your folder/filname that will prevent any confusion in the future.
I need to do this for every movie?
No. Set up Sonarr and Radarr to do it with future downloads.
If a movie gets identified wrong, it's best you manually rename it with the tmdb ID number so you don't have to ever deal with it again.
In your opinion, what’s the best practice for my existing collection? I have terabytes of movies, tv shows, music
Jellyfin w/Jellyseerr, running the web UI version of qBittorrent, and the 'arrs is the best setup I've run into.
Genuinely don't know how I torrented for so many years without the *arr setup.
Never played with this ecosystem, but a decade ago I had a SickBeard/Couchpotato setup that worked great with my Kodi boxes. Very similar I think.
It's pretty slick, so I have some things set up that are publicly accessible.
Jellyfin kind of acts as the base. Then I have something called Jelly Seer, which allows people to request stuff. That plugs into both Sonarr and Radarr, so once a request is approved, Sonarr and Radarr go out and automatically grab things set up with the quality profiles I have set up.
All I have to do is approve the request and then the show shows up in however long it takes to download it. I can also do media management outside of the house, which is pretty nice. Like, I can be like, oh, I want to watch this series or show or something or add it to the server while somebody's telling me about it, so I don't have to remember it later. 😅
Do you have a good guide/tutorial to set this up? I already have Jellyfin properly setup
I just followed the docs for those individual programs.......I didn't really find a comprehensive setup guide. I linked the wiki below i think there are some guides there. My personal setup has radarr, sonarr, prowlarr, lidarr and readarr (I don't really use the last two all that often if at all. They are a bit janky)
Radar, sonar, prowlarr and jellyseer. Is the order in which I install important?
Get radarr and sonarr done first. Prowlarr Isn't strictly necessary but do it next if your gonna use it, it gives you a central management point for all of your sources. (Like which usenet or torrent sites are you using to search and pull from)
Then slap jellyseer on it as it will ask for sonarr and radarr APIs.
Yeah. SB/CP was the same. Web Interface to pick which shows and movies I wanted. It used a torrent program to download, then renamed and added metadata so Kodi would integrate it nicely for tv viewing. I had network drives & VPN set up so I could take my laptop to people houses for movie night. Trakt.tv integration so it just watched my lists and automatically grabbed stuff too. Really cool stuff.
Okay, yeah, proper. I've never played with that ecosystem, so I didn't know it did all that.
Who even has netflix? There been nothing worth watching there for years and years
Selection was always better on torrents 💯
