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streaming or torrenting today vs. 5 years ago (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've been a good boy for 5 years or so but the seas call to me. Are streaming sites the way to go now or is torrenting still a better bet for mainstream movies and tv? I'd imagine all of my accounts have been deleted on those sites so I'd be starting over.

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[-] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 70 points 6 months ago

Commenting to bring awareness to the ‘arrs. Radarr sonarr and lidarr will get you all the media you need organized perfectly. It runs on any device but take a few days to figure out. Once setup it’s a set it and forget it thing. Uses torrents and or usent so use a vpn. Mine runs on a 10 year old raspberry pi 2 and a few usb hdds. Been going strong with very little maintenance for 6 years at this point.

[-] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 6 months ago

Agreed. Combined with a jellyfin instance and you will never want to come back. As said before, it takes a while to setup at first (especially if you download animes which aren't exactly handled the same way), but when it's done you'll see you weekly episodes magically appear with nothing to do on your side, and that's just great

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 19 points 6 months ago

Jellfyfin is the reason why I do this. I went from spending 30 minutes dumpster diving through terrible movies in one of the streaming platforms to now spending 30 minutes trying to choose from a selection of movies that I actually want to watch.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

I now dumpster dive through 7TB of good movies I don't find time to watch :|

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Living the dream ~

Which is 5TB of movies I think I should watch, 1.5TB of stuff I already watched and think I would watch again and the rest of stuff I actually want to watch.

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Have you seen a good method/guide to prioritise release groups for anime? I looked into it but it was super confusing to me and didn't beat just grabbing a nyaa rss feed.

[-] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

Actually yeah I do. I followed this guide which is really nice. I did need to add a few more sources manually depending on how popular a given anime is, but it's really useful anyway

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks for sharing!

[-] Gilgeam@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

I'm super old school and just started finding my way back to torrenting. Would you have a recommendation on how to read up on these arrs? So far I still manually pull my torrents from a search engine and run it through my vpn hardened Pi in the cellar. It works, but I do wonder if there's a more streamlined approach.

[-] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Their docs are decent and will guide you through setup. For advanced stuff search for Trash's arr guides

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Disclaimer: This page is aimed at the setup stage and less about the installation!

https://trash-guides.info

[-] Shimitar@feddit.it 2 points 6 months ago

Check this wiki, specially the torrebt and Usenet pages... Then you can wither follow the practical installation pages or ignore and find some docker only guides.

Https://wiki.gardiol.org

[-] bigfoot@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

You could probably install a home server management software like TrueNAS Homearr or CasaOS on your Pi and just download the "apps" that way.

[-] beeb@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Something like this is a good start! I use transmission as the torrent client instead of deluge. Also added a service for my vpn and use that as the network for the tranmission service so all traffic is routed through the vpn. https://ochoaprojects.github.io/posts/PlexAutomation/