I have a plex server, I keep hearing about these programs. I don’t really understand what they do or how to use/set them up
If you want to use Radarr or Sonarr you better be ok with TVDB metadata because that’s all they support and will likely ever support based on the discussions I’ve seen over the past few years.
Adding this because I didn’t see anyone else post it, but I found this guide really useful for setting them up: https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/Hardlinks-and-Instant-Moves/
It’s linked to on the official wiki, and walks through the process of Hardlinks and Atomic Moves. They’re basically shortcuts, they allow the file to exist in two places at once. This means you can still have a torrent seeding, while the media also exists in your plex collection. It also “moves” the file instantly once it’s finished downloading, without having to wait for it to copy anywhere.
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They have a wiki which explains a lot: https://wiki.servarr.com/ as well as other arr software.
What if I don’t have a seed box?
Seedbox is optional. It can connect to different torrent software to load the torrents in. It also can just do “black hole” which dumps all the torrents into a folder that you can setup your torrent program to watch.
What about my porn collection? I mean my friend’s porn collection? I mean, I don’t like porn, and I don’t know anyone who does, how dare you!
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Yeah. I mean how else are you supposed to know if you’re about to watch Backdoor Whores 9, or the Slutty Professor? Labels, people. Labels!
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The answer is probably yes, if you download movies or shows somewhat regularly.
Together with Overseer they can reduce the process of finding, downloading and organizing releases to just one click in a Netflix-like interface.They can also keep looking for better versions of your existing stuff and upgrade it automatically in the background. And there is Bazarr to automatically fetch missing subtitles.
I had also heard of them but waited a long time to finally check them out, and I wish I’d done the switch much sooner! It takes a bit to configure everything to your liking, but it saves soooo much time now and does things I would never have bothered to do by hand, like upgrading pretty much my entire library.
I have jellyfin set up just for myself and those solutions just didn’t seem necessary to me. I simply pull and seed manually from my desktop and transfer the files to the server over the network. Easy enough 🤷
It’s not easier than configuring each one once and then letting them do all the work from there on out. Not trying to convince you to use them but they’re pretty damn great especially when you’re trying to watch multiple TV shows or see a movie that came out a lot sooner than you thought it would.
I guess that can be easier for some. Personally I kind of like looking for file sources myself, I’m somewhat particular about the quality I’m looking for. It’s probably also easier to manually handle edge cases, for example recently I found a TV show that came with all the extras such as the soundtrack along with the show itself, and I wanted those to end up in separate places.
Depends on whether you’re concerned about your enemies approaching from the sea or the sky
Why
Well different technologies have different uses, you can’t spot sound with sight or objects moving underwater with sound
I thought you were making a Dr stone reference… I’ll see myself out
Sonarr is a TV show downloading interface that connects with various indexers to provide content. It has been hit or miss for me. I don’t like some of the features and there’s no dark theme. I recently tried it again after a few years and I unfortunately found that it looked and behaved almost the exact same.
I thought auto-renaming would be cool, but if you seed things for a long time like I do, you end up with duplicate copies of everything because it can’t delete or rename the original files since they’re in use by your torrent client.
I also thought importing my watchlist from Trakt would be cool, but then it started auto-downloading everything I hadn’t already watched with no way to pick and choose during the import. I had to do it manually after deleting all of the torrents Sonarr had automatically sent to qBittorrent, which sort of defeated the purpose of having it do all these things for me.
I dunno, maybe I’m just an idiot, but Sonarr seems not to have the level of fine-tuning that I would prefer. It’s nearly easier for me to do it myself.
You should look into hard linking: https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/Hardlinks-and-Instant-Moves/. Remaining and no double storage
As for trakt isn’t that what you want? If you haven’t watched it and it’s on your watch list why filter things out?
If I have 100 gigabytes free on my media drive, and I have Columbo and Friends on my to watch list, and I also want to keep up with Invincible as new episodes come out, then auto downloading would fuck me. It would fill that 100 gigabytes with 10 seasons of sitcoms and 10 seasons of detective shows, and then next week when the new Invincible episode comes out, there’s no room for it. But I definitely would rather watch the new Invincible on a timely basis than another season of Ross getting into arguments with Rachel. I can watch Chandler make bad jokes any time, and it’ll take me ages to get to season 10 if I’m on season 2
I’m just gonna do it manually from now on, to be honest.
And no, that’s not what I want. I have 30+ shows on my watchlist - not only do I not want to watch them all right away, but I have limited disk space and an average download speed of 4MB/s so it just doesn’t make sense to download 30TB of stuff all at once.
Yeah, I hated it too. If I had a server automatically downloading torrents at all times on my network, I could kiss goodbye to online gaming and voice calls with my swarm, and even browsing and work would slow to a crawl. I guess I’d spend a lot more time reading physical books while waiting for the internet to work.
Yes.
You might do, but you might also want to just use Stremio with a Real Debrid account and save yourself ballache in the process.
