What can be (realisticly) improved for a better and easier experience
The return of RARBG
Hopefully they’ll find a sanctuary country soon and restart it.
filenames following the standards of library apps like jellyfin, plex, etc.
i don’t want every file to be named “[ASDF]some.shitty.show.S3E7.MULTI(360p h264 7.1 dual audio).mkv”
jellyfin can’t identify most of these, and the relevant information can be found out easily by tapping properties (in windows, anyway)
Errrm, sonarr/radarr can sort that out perfectly
i don’t want every file to be named “[ASDF]some.shitty.show.S3E7.MULTI(360p h264 7.1 dual audio).mkv”
That file name contains the S3E7 bit, which is enough for it to get parsed by plex. Seems to be a jellyfin issue.
that may very well be the case, but it’s still excessive. i would much rather have a .txt file with relevant information and the “ShowXY S03E07” naming.
at least manually identifying shows is easy in jellyfin.
Give FileBot a try. I liked it so much, I even bought the license. It works really well.
been using antrenamer, filebot looks like it’s gonna make my job much easier.
the next time i’m reorganizing my (3TB btw) library, i’ll give it a try.
That dubbed audio tracks of movies could be downloaded separatey and easily merged in the audio, in a way similar to subtitles. This way, the audio track in non English languages would be downloaded very quickly, even with just one seeder, and the whole movie in original language has way more seeders than dubbed ones.
I’ve seen some anime releases where they had separate mka files for different languages and a little script to attach whatever dub you want into it. It is technically possible already, but super rare
Would be great for commentary tracks too.
I’d love that!
How do you approach the challenge (of getting the movies / series in English and non-English) at the moment?
Do you download two versions of the same movie?
Do you use Radarr/Sonarr and Plex? How did you set them up to be “bilingual”?
I’ve always only torrented movies “manually” until a few weeks ago, when I set up my first media server with jellyfin and sonarr/radarr, and set the language to italian only. often however I see that the requested movies not downloading automatically because no italian torrent is found with the required resolution (1080p), and/or the ones actually available have 0 seeds, while there’s plenty of English torrents with loads of seeders
Which trackers do you use?
As someone being bilingual en/de and my family being primarily pl/de:
I will either manually remux my own from torrent/usenet releases or (usually for shows) usually just download the german version.
Usually the uploaders include the english track anyway.Regarding your question for multilingual radarr/sonarr: https://trash-guides.info/Radarr/radarr-setup-quality-profiles-french-en/
Just replace fr with language of choice :)Thank you for chipping in!
I guess I have to keep my eyes open for movies series in my own language and hope they come with the original (English) sound included.
But if not: how does the whole remuxxing work? I have literally zero ideas how to get started with that. Where do you find the right (non-english) audio track(s) for the movies? Which software do you use? Etc…
Thanks for the link for Radarr dual-language setup! I came across it before :)
Ditto for audio in general. I notice wild differences between encodings in dialogue clarity and volume. If this were standard we could all mix and match whatever audio is best for our equipment.
Better matching with dubbed versions of non-English shows. I have to manually search, since the “language” isn’t English in the original, even though there’s an English dub. Using Sonarr
Being able to find and complete certain torrents. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong anymore, but I used to be able to copy and paste the hash into a search engine and complete seeders for a torrent that got stalled. Now it seems like it does nothing and I’m stuck forever. :(
my personal wishlist would just be a proper homeserver and the typical home theatre stuff like a nice big screen, speakers, etc.
in a broader sense of how the ecosystem would be improved, i’d say more open source projects and solidarity in general. currently the worst, yet most common sort of piracy is people searching “watch blank online free” and clicking the shady websites full of junk ads, popups and malware just to see a shitty heavily compressed buffering version with baked in subtitles and stuff. piracy should be for the people, not for profit; lowering the amount of technical hoops you need to jump through to get to the good accessible media by having simple, free, and open tools would help a lot.
Being able to find, download and seed old series and movies.
Nobody ever stays seeding anymore because big private trackers make it all about ratio and small ones simply don’t have to userbase to support “old” series.
Back with RARBG I had every season of that 70’s show and had around a ratio of around 50. For old scooby doo, red green show, Mr. Rogers, Tom & Jerry, some cartoons from when I was a kid, etc… Now it is difficult to even find a lot of that media, much less have a good ratio from it on smaller private trackers where it might get 1 download per 6 months or so. There is absolutely no incentive for keeping around older media. If you want to get in good in trackers, you HAVE to pump and dump the most popular torrent of the week once a month or so to get a good enough ratio.
For example, on SceneTime I have a ratio of like 0.1 because it simply doesn’t have users. However, they assign bonus points based on how long your torrent is seeding, if I am not mistaken, so my site “effective ratio” has gone up to 2 because you can spend the bonus points to add “upload GB” to your account if you are keeping alive “unpopular” torrents.
Currently seeding
Tom & Jerry Collection 1940 1080p BluRay WEBRİ H265
Looney.Tunes.and.Merrie. Melodies.HQ.Project.v2022Pretty big in size for my rented seedbox though… :(
Which tracker is this on?
I don’t know what to do with my stuff from RARBG anymore because nobody can connect to it, but I don’t want it to go to waste.
Maybe I should repackage it is AV1 and put it on a tracker or something.
As this tracker is always talked about: TL
The other tracker is much smaller and I prefer to not mention the name in public. If interested send me a PM.
Edit: The RARBG stuff should still be connectable over DHT and other trackers.
I also share the rarbg db so users searching for the rare unicorn in the database might choose to connect to yours over a magnet link.
I like the trackers I’m in that have a point system that awards indefinite seeding and makes it possible to have a decent ratio even if you can’t ever actually seed because of people with seedboxes.
Wdym all seedbox users stealing your ratio?
Some can’t even participate with homeservers due to laws or don’t even autobrrr through their whole wishlist.
Honestly my biggest thing is for affordable 10 or even 20 TB SSDs to hit the market.
Unfortunately you’ll be waiting for a while. SSDs were at the lowest last year to the point that manufacturers were almost losing money. So they reduced production. We will only see the prices going up from now, at least for a while.
You can’t really even find a 10+ TB SSD easily right now let alone anything approaching 20, so it’s a moot point for now anyway. All that pricing stuff is cyclical though. There was a big spike in SSD prices a couple years ago prior to that huge price drop we just saw. It’ll come back down again eventually.
We just moved over to a HDD setup recently because I had run out of space on SSD and the amount of space is great, but I forgot how much I hate HDD seek and transfer times and I’m not gonna invest in RAID for now so I guess this is my life.
Might be smart to maybe keep my most active shows on an SSD and the rest of the catalog on the HDD.
What’s the current price roughly?
About tree fiddy.
Not seen this low quality meme in years
I have not seen a consumer SSD of 10 or more TB for sale anywhere and absolutely not 20. So the answer is, I have no idea.
Samsung has started selling 8TB drives for around 500-600 which is really not that bad, but I’m just gonna wait a couple years for larger capacities to hit the market and skip 8. It’s in my opinion kind of a middling size if you’re archiving a lot of video.
For now I’ll just stick with the high capacity HDD setup I’m using.
Guessing you’ve got some sort of raid setup going on. You could always get lower capacity SSDs and do some work on a revolutionary compression algo 😉
Last time I checked:
500GB = 50-70€
1TB = 60-80€
2TB = 110-150€ (depending on product tier like samsung evo or pro models)
4TB = 250-400€ (same here)
8TB = >600€Obviously different pricing for M.2/SATA/SAS drives.
I’ve been waiting for that for over ten years now. I thought it would take two at most.
Samsung is selling some somewhat affordable 8TB drives but I feel like that’s kind of an odd spot for size where it’ll hold a lot of stuff, but when you get to that level of kinda semi-deranged collector mentality file hoarding, you’re gonna blow past 8 pretty easily. I’m hoping it’ll actually happen in a few years.
Might be a silly question, but aren’t SSD’s supposedly worse than HDD’s for storing data long term? Or is that just a myth?
I’ve read that if you only store data and then read it off the disk without overwriting then it’s comparable to HDD data degradation wise. Not sure how true is that.
If you dump 8tb of data onto a 10tb SSD and only read from it, it will probably last just as long as a hard drive. SSD’s wear from lots of write operations, reading from them doesn’t really do much other than the cache will be damaged over time.
From what time are we talking here? 1 year 24/7 or 10 years 24/7?
what’s the point of SSD for archival purposes? seem like less safe option than HDD and speed is not really issue for long term archiving or watching TV shows/movies, I don’t really see point in SSD besides running OS/apps
Some kind of watch list feature for Jellyfin.
Or, a self-hosted universal watch list for both Jellyfin and any platforms I may use from time-to-time. In the past I’ve resorted to compiling a massive table, but now I just have an account on JustWatch. Obviously doesn’t show me anything from Jellyfin, though.
Other than that, I feel like we need to teach others how to pirate themselves. I’m often the one that friends and family come to to get books, streaming links, software, etc. Its surprising how little people understand how torrenting actually works at a fundamental level.
This is possible using Trakt. Add a movie or series to your watchlist, sonarr & Radarr sync from this list and add to jellyfin.
There’s also a plugin in jellyfin itself for Trakt that can report back to say when you’ve watched it I believe.
Interesting, looking into it, it can automatically send a request to Sonarr and Radarr to download certain content, if I don’t have it on a streaming service? How does this compare to Jellyseerr?
A way to fairly pay the original content creator.
If I really enjoy a movie, series or music, I often actually want to send the actual creator some money to reward their creativity. May be just a dollar, may be ten. But I can’t.
I wish anime/manga/etc studios were transparent about their costs and profit. I want to see if my favorite show has so far made enough money to afford the next season or for the team to afford their next project.
Kickstarter/Patreon should have shown creators that people will support what they like and even if they have made enough money people will continue to buy/donate to creators they love.
But I can’t
You sure?
I don’t pay for movies or series of (I just don’t). But when I like some music (bands, producers, or even a record label) I end up buying some physical records or merchandising. If you don’t care about that, the most direct way is to go to Bandcamp and buy something on friday. People often want to put a price on their work, and not just “a dollar” like it’s your spare change, but there are several options and websites to do it.
With games I do the same but in Steam.
A live broadcast open p2p protocol
I can’t remember the name now (and struggling to find it) but there was some packaging of VLC with I think a customised libtorrent, where someone would effectively broadcast with an infohash (sha hash like in a torrent) and people could stream and share with not much latency. Hashes were shared on sites/telegram/discord etc and it seemed to work ok.
Surprised it didn’t become more popular/standardised
I can only find links for acestream but it’s not an open protocol. If you have other suggestions I’m all ears.
Not always, but occasionally I have issues with playing a video and the language not being my preferred (English). Either the video doesn’t have English audio or it’s not the default. Not a biggie but it can waste some time if there’s no talking for the first few min and my family isn’t used to navigating audio settings.
Jellyfin?
Yeah, I do have my jelly fin set up to select English tracks by default but I’ve still had issues with the wrong track being selected. Maybe this was due to poor labeling of the audio tracks but that’s still something that never happens with a regular streaming service so my family is more resistant to use the self-hosted programs.
VLC lets you set automatic audio preference matching, so that you type in “eng” in the settings, and it will try and pick an audio track that has “eng” in it’s title, great for multi-lang media but doesn’t work for stuff like commentary tracks rarely.
Thanks, I didn’t know that was a VLC setting. It’d be nice if there was some type of standard for language and audio tracks etc. so there’s less chance of error due to free typing the name of a track.
For TMDB to end their stupid policy of setting broadcast episode order as the default. Any app that uses them for metadata to match files names ends up with wrong episodes because obviously nobody wants broadcast order.
Yeah I want to watch my shows in alphabetical order.
Haha. What I mean is that some TV series have a different episode order on DVD/bluray than what they were originally broadcast in. “Firefly” is the classic example. The TV networks broadcast them out of order and the DVD order is the “correct” one and the order in which pirate TV packs will use. But by default many tools (which use TMDB.com) have the wrong metadata for the episodes.
Other than Firefly, are there other shows that did this?
Better music support. Movies and TV do great through the *arrs and Jellyfin, but music is a big mess.
agreed then I would be able to drop my last subscription being tidal
Lidarr works ok
The app works pretty well but the database it has to use isn’t as mature/quickly updated as Tv/Movies. I believe it uses musicbrainz? Either way it’s not as standard as the others if feels like.
At least we have Musicbrainz.
But a big part of that problem come from the legacy time.
Just see how many releases were made for old bands like ACDC…Well, unlike TV/Movies, typically ALL music is available on ALL platforms, so there isn’t a service problem. Spotify and others are still really nice to use for consumers.
More people to get in to I2P.
It needs a modern rewrite atleast in terms of ui but ideally a complete rewrite. I tried it 10 years ago and it still looks just as complicated
I agree that the web UI looks a bit outdated. But it is more then functional and imo not that complicated. Personally I use the container version with podman so idk about the windows version.
i2pd
What is I2P?
Fully anonymouse and FREE P2P network great for torrenting and somewhat encouraged even.
