Everyone here is talking about how to get the latest and best stuff, but no one is talking about how they actually manage it 😜
So, how do YOU manage your Movies / Shows / Music / eBooks / Games?
I begin:
I use Prowlarr + Radarr + Sonarr + Jellyfin.
I have
/datadirectory organised like this:/data ├── media │ ├── books │ ├── movies │ ├── music │ └── tv └── torrents ├── books ├── movies ├── music └── tvFiles added from Sonarr goes to
torrents/tvand that for Radarrtorrents/movies. Once the torrent client has downloaded the files, Sonarr and Radarr hardlinks the needed files tomedia’s respective folders. I have setmedia/tvfor shows andmedia/moviesfor movies on Jellyfin. Everything is automated, I love it.
I have nothing to add to this. This is exactly how I do it as well.
Mostly the same over here. I also run Jellyseer for automated show/film request handling, autoscan for faster Jellyfin scanning since my drive is a network drive not directly attached to the server, and unpackerr for auto-unzipping files from the occasional Usenet style download with a movie split into 60 RAR files.
NAS hosting all media and running:
- Sonarr for grabbing and managing TV shows
- Radarr does the same for movies
- Lidarr just for an overview of upcoming/missing music releases
- Navidrome to stream music (replaces Spotify)
- Jackett to manage torrent indexers
- qBittorrent via OpenVPN
Plus a VM running Nicotine+ (Soulseek client) for music sharing.
For managing my library on disk, I just recently made the effort to set up the *arr apps. I love having the metadata, tagging, organizing, and file naming all consistent and automated. Previously I used mp3tag and filebot to manage them and it was way more manual. Everything is set up with docker-compose and Ansible.
Library file stuff:
- Two Radarr instances, one for 4k and another for lower resolutions
- Sonarr for TV
- Lidarr for music
- Two readarr instances, one for epub/pdf and one for audiobooks
- Jackett
- deluge+openVPN
For library frontend stuff:
- Jellyfin for movies, tv, music, audiobooks
- Plex, for when Jellyfin is acting up
- Jellyseer for TV & movie requests
- LaunchBox for videogames and emulators
- Calibre + calibreWeb for ebooks & syncing to my Kobo eReader
Haven’t set up yet:
- flaresolverr
- unpackerr
- audiobookshelf
Doesn’t exist yet/wishlist:
- *arr app for emulator ROMs (I’ll have to check out romm, looks pretty cool!)
Is readarr really worth it? I’m a heavy reader, but i’ve not set it up.
Also, audiobookshelf is worth the effort. If you’re holding off because you don’t want to organize your library, the folder structure they use is really really good. I run all sorts of services, and I like jellyfin, komga, the arrs, etc. I love audiobookshelf. By far my most used app.
It’s alright. I have it tied in to my existing Calibre library so my metadata and library management workflows haven’t really changed. The process of finding and downloading new books has just been streamlined a bit.
DOOM (see citation) folders mostly
I have a computer running TrueNAS Scale with a network drive accessable on my network from all my PCs and my TVs.
All of my systems can access the drive and play the content via VLC.
Is it efficient? No.
Would I recommend it? Also no.
Citation: DOOM stands for Didn’t Organize Only Moved
@Gormadt
Sergeant Murphys Laws of Combat Operations, 6: If it’s stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid.
In general just creating folders and keeping everything organized.
I have a pretty stable setup now. I mainly focus on TV and Movies but I have the following:
- Plex for streaming
- Overseerer for media requests
- Radarr and Sonarr for Movie and TV acquisition
- Jackett for indexers
- Gluetun for vpn
From there I basically let radarr and sonarr handle the organizing for the most part. I have a movies folder and a TV folder in my NAS that they save to. I really only have to go in and clean things up every few months or so.
What sort of cleaning up do you have to do?
Usually just removing duplicate files or moving files into correct folders. I have my downloader set to keep downloading a show until it’s at 1080p quality and sometimes it just doesn’t delete the lower quality versions
- Sonarr and Radarr for getting torrents
- Prowlarr for setting up torrent indexers
- Bazarr for getting subtitles
- Jellyfin for playback
- Tachiyomi (Android app) for Manga
- Jellyfin + arrs for Media (TV, movie, music)
- Calibre for eBooks of all kinds
- Movies / Shows. Self-hosted automated Jellyfin media streaming stack
- eBooks. Calibre
- pictures. Hydrus Network
I hate Calibre and Hydrus because they make copies of files instead of keeping track of them wherever I want them to be.
- porn. Stashapp
Thanks for those recommendations…cough cough
Completely agree Calibre creating its own copies of files drives me crazy, but I still use it.
Plex is the big one. I have a Plex box that also runs qBittorrent and i can set that up to auto download and sorty new anime as they come out. I’m sure sonarr and radarr are handy, but they seem like a pain in the ass to set up. Plus everyone online who talks about them never educate on the pirate side, just the organization side. You just get cheeky nods and winks like ok… Thanks.
So I still very much manually pirate shit mostly. Like a chad.
Jellyfin for movies/shows,
Calibre for ebooks
Retroarch for ROMs
iTunes for music (so I can put it on my iPod)
I Thought u were a FOSS activist till I saw itunes 😂😂… Cheers mate.
Lol I really am, I’ve just been too lazy to install rockbox
Jellyfin, Shoko + Shokofin (anime metadata/organizer), separate NAS to store my music and videos. Games are just stored on my desktop.
Same, freakin love shoko, anime is very annoying to organize otherwise
Plex for movies/shows. For music spotify premium.
I don’t keep any media. I use Kodi, a VPN, Real debrid, trakt to keep my lists and the seren repository.
Throw it all in a folder mostly. I normally watch a series or whatever once, then delete it. No point hoarding stuff I know I’m never gonna touch again.