What can be (realisticly) improved for a better and easier experience
Adding proper metadata to releases. Why are we still trying to decipher release titles, why not add a little metadata JSON file to every release and make the info available to the search API?
Also keeping multiple different versions of a release in Arr apps, like ebook and audiobook in different languages. Right now I’d need 4 Readarr instances to get the English and German audiobook and ebook versions of a book, and don’t even think about letting them manage the same root folder!
Sorry, best we can do is some unrelated ASCII art.
At least they sometimes include insane rants.
and following proper naming conventions too. why can’t releasers decided to choose one single naming convention together so it makes our job better to automate things?
Have you tried maintaining a standard at work?
Now imagine if several thousand people try to decide on a common standard.Several thousand people who tend to be less likely to follow the path most traveled, no less
Readarr honestly feels like the most barebones of all the arrs. I tried it for a bit and decided to just use Calibre to manage my library.
Sure, I need to manually grab stuff but it more than makes up for that with the other features it has.
A separate file or if the first few bytes of a file contained the metadata.
I actually like the release titles. It’s encoded in the name that way, there’s a somewhat good standard for it, and it’s one file. I rarely need more info than what’s in the release title. And I would dislike having to carry a separate json with me.
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.
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?
Currently as italian trackers Ilcorsaroblu, itatorrents and MIRCrew, do you know other good trackers for italian media?
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 :)
How to remux:
My program of choice: MakeMKV
How to:
Import two sources
Choose which tracks you want -> Example:
Video: The best video track of the two
Audio: 7.1 dolby EN (source 1) and Stereo DE (source 2)
Subtitle: 2-4 subtitle tracks (if needed). 2 from source 1 in EN, 2 from source 2 in DE
Remux it into a MKV (basically a zip version of a movie folder with each track included)
Rename your own release to fit the naming scheme
Import into *arr/media library.For an actual guide better search on YT/Google as only text might be difficult.
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.
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
Where to download separately?
Continued losses, in the billions, for ad-riddled streaming services is all I can ask for.
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.
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.I didn’t say that they steal anything. It’s just really hard to seed without one.
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.
FWIW, every episode of Red Green is on youtube. Just have to rip it, which is always fun /s
Honestly? Resurrection of Rarbg. That site was gold.
That was the cleanest and most curated movie site I have ever come across, honestly a big loss to have them gone. Consistent naming scheme, amazing torrent video quality (unlike low bitrate YTS), icons/logos to show what medium the rip was from. Literal gold
there are some entry level private trackers that are good as rarbg but you have to keep track of minimum seeding time and ratio for that, plus you have to wait for open sign-ups if you are a beginner.
Yeah, over the decades that was the golden era is convenience and quality.
I don’t really care about the site, but their releases were fast and had consistent X265 quality, nothing new matches them
Pahe is quite fast, PSA recently did something to their encoding and often/mostly can’t play them anymore on my TV, they worked fine up until last year, not sure what they messed up, at least with pahe X265 I have guarantee it will work
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.
Fairly pay og creators … But how do I pay RARGB if they don’t exist anymore? :(
Arr service that links with SoulSeek, automatically downloads music, passes it through beets, calculates ReplayGain values and the rest of the missing metadata and then organizes and renames it
This is the fucking dream. Lidarr is serviceable to get a library going, but we could do so much better.
Functional music sharing would be amazing. In the SuprNova days music was so readily accessible. Now it’s a crap shoot with most trackers and newsgroups.
The fact, that lidarr has no slsk integration…
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
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.
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.
Literally *arrs…
More people to get in to I2P.
What is I2P?
Fully anonymouse and FREE P2P network great for torrenting and somewhat encouraged even.
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
i2pd
Still the same ui tho
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.
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
I need people to submit more of the research papers that I need to be able to read to lib Gen or sci hub
You might know this already, but try emailing the primary authors directly and asking for a copy, it’s often the easiest way to get them if you haven’t got any other way to access.
Yeah. I just don’t like trying to email 100+ authors haha. But you are right in general they do like to share most of the time
This actually works way better than people expect. Many authors are tied to a publisher but are still allowed to personally give away copies to students.
The return of RARBG
Hopefully they’ll find a sanctuary country soon and restart it.
Arr software for YouTube with Sponsorblock built in.
A way to use Sponsorblock on podcasts.
You can use sponsorblock with yt-dlp, if that helps at all.
Interesting. Just need it to work on a server with an interface as effortless as sonarr.
Like to download videos from your subscriptions?
Yep. Add to the server with ads and sponsor bs removed.
More I2P torrenting support
Better music support. Movies and TV do great through the *arrs and Jellyfin, but music is a big mess.
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.
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…agreed then I would be able to drop my last subscription being tidal
