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How do you discover new content? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I love not being bombarded by ads thanks to pihole and adblockers. I don't have cable TV either. But without browsing netlifx/Hulu/etc. how do you actually find stuff to watch and discover worthwhile shows and movies to rent from my library?

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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The 'popular', 'trending new shows'/'up comming movies', and 'most anticipated' lists in NZB360 (android app for managing the whole 'arr stack and more)

User requests via Ombi (it also has lists like above to look through)

Random titles I find on Lemmy.

Word of mouth.

Oh yeah: and IMDB lists added to radarr. Lists for various studios, and a big standup comedy list.

[-] Cl1nk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Do you add the IMBD list by hand?

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

The imdb lists are monitored by Radarr, but aren't created by me.

I just found a few public lists I like and now whenever new content is added to those lists by their maintainers, Radarr adds+downloads it.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

That's what is mainstream popular. How do you find stuff you actually like ?

Only a system that you have trained with like/dislike and can compare with other sets of content preference similar to yours will find that precious "content similar to your preferences but you haven't seen yet"

That's a content recommendation engine.

Now the questions is, how can we each run our owm self hosted recommemder engine which will share our list to others automatically so that we can pool it all together and create a useful recommender engine.

Without that, we have to rely on the artificial mainstream mush like marvel movie #27

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 30 points 10 months ago

Word of mouth. Friends. Internet.

Speaking of which, have you seen Barbie yet? I heard it's pretty good.

[-] DM_Gold@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah Barbie is played by this really good actress! Looking forward to seeing her in more stuff!

[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Overseer if you use plex and jellyseer if you use Jellyfin.

Makes the content browsing experience pretty fantastic.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

i have enough.. uh... 'archived' content that i don't need to 'discover' anything new for years.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I had a system like that running for the family. 3000 movies, they watched about 20 and they keep asking me if there's anything new.

I scraped the system on the 10th rerun of Airplane!

Without a proper recommendation system, the hoard of content is useless.

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

And yet I can't stop

[-] Darkncoldbard@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yo, shoot a list bro cause im dry af... I mostly watch community, it's always sunny in Philadelphia, that 70s show, 30 rock etc...

[-] AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Based on that let me recommend you "Brooklyn 99", "The Good Place" and "Archer".

[-] Darkncoldbard@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Completely finished Brooklyn and the good place but archer seems awesome from the first episode I saw... appreciate you bro

[-] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

How I envy you to be able to watch Archer for the first time.

I must have watched the whole thing a dozen times.

[-] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago

Word of mouth

[-] devilish666@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

These-are-the-Best-Movie-Sites-Now-UPDATED-2023-1703255757338

[-] quirzle@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

I setup Radarr/Sonarr/Overseer and shared my Plex server with some friends. They do the heavy lifting, and know when something's probably good when several of them are watching the same thing.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah i check my played count on Tautulli once in a while and see what's hot.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I usually browse the "what are you watching" threads on the trackers I'm on, get suggestions from friends and co-workers, and my wife who still watches network TV to know what to put into my rss feed.

[-] nevernevermore@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

I started using JustWatch as a means to find which streaming service had the thing I wanted to watch. Then I started using it to track what I had watched. And now that I’m completely moved over to stremio+torrentio I use it to find what’s popular and new.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Other, real people talking about it on sites like this. Finding groups with similar tastes as myself and seeing what they're talking about. I also just read descriptions while I'm scrolling on the service or whatever and if it sounds good, I might check it out.

[-] supes@lemmy.csupes.page 5 points 10 months ago

I use the discover feature on Jellyseer. It makes my life so much easier to see what's out there now.

[-] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

This. Plus, when I'm watching something I like, I'll usually look up actors in it and see what else they've done.

[-] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I bought the app nzb360 it has popular, trending new shows and most anticipated sections for TV shows. And something similar for movies.

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Love this app so much. Sonarr, radarr, BitTorrent, etc all accessible in nzb360

I never buy apps, but this one was worth it

[-] Sylocule@lemmy.one 4 points 10 months ago

Either word of mouth or browsing the recently added section on my Plex share

[-] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I pretty much do the same. I'll check the recently added and see if something stands out to me, especially when it's time for new TV seasons to start.

I use Lemmy and ad-blocked YouTube to hear about new things through the communities and channels that cover my interests.

Setting up all these lists, etc isn't for me - I don't always know what I'm going to enjoy so seeing everything being added to the Emby share I'm on is fun.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

!moviesandtv@lemm.ee

[-] calzone_gigante@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 10 months ago

Curators are a good way too, some blogs or podcasts do a lot of heavy lifting in discovering new shows, some communities with similar tastes are also good to find content, way better than algos and ads.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

IMDb gives recommendations based on your ratings for things you've seen.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

My usual method - see what's trending on 1337X, then go to IMDB and see what is under "more like this"

And yeah, once you start rating stuff, some of the recommendations are pretty accurate

[-] CedricMord@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Jellyseer is great.

[-] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

https://github.com/Fallenbagel/jellyseerr

Yup, based on overseer. It's a great selfhosted way to see what's new and popular.

https://github.com/sct/overseerr/raw/develop/public/preview.jpg

[-] mariah@feddit.rocks 2 points 10 months ago

Whats the difference than using this as opposed to the *arrs

[-] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

It complements the arrs. You can request shows and movies in seer and it adds it in the arrs.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The 'arrs handle actually finding/managing media files

Overseer/Jellyseer/Ombi are interfaces for you and your users to request media to be added to the 'arrs. Either directly, or after approval by an admin.

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[-] nolight@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I usually browse Trakt and look for some decent lists, then add what I like to mine. The lists are hooked up to Radarr/Sonarr so I don't have to bother manually downloading my media.

[-] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 10 months ago

Music is my main media and I pay Deezer specifically to recommend me stuff.

For games, I'm on an emulation streak, so top X listicles. Mostly, I'm racking my brain for things I thought were interesting but never played/didn't finish/want to experience again.

For TV and movies (and new games), I care a lot less about and I mean a lot less, so word of mouth. If all my colleagues, family, and friends are raving about the new hotness I'll find out.