Fire up the jellyfin
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Yaaaar and boudoir
Deluge and sploosh
Stay free (libre) software my guys. Deluge.
I mean I use Deluge anyway, but Qbittorrent is also libre and actually has a more permissive license (so more freedom)
Edit: apparently I looked at the wrong qbittorrent in github. The real one is GPL too so no more free than Deluge.
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As said in my other comment down the chain, I was looking at another repo named Qbittorrent by accident. That one was MIT.
Deluge is GPLv3 only. Qbittorrent is a mix of GPLv2 and GPLv3. Personally I’ll stick to v3 since it includes specific terms that protect against modern DRM and ways to circumvent GPLv2.
Ah, right, I googled qbittorrent license earlier and accidentally instead read another similarly named project’s license, which was MIT. You’re right, Qbittorrent isn’t really any more free than Deluge.
The reason why people put uTorrent in memes is due to its recognition, let’s change this, always create memes with qBittorrent
qBittorrent does not have a nice web UI for mobile. We should create memes with Transmission instead
You can install a custom web UI.
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/List-of-known-alternate-WebUIs
I did this a while back, and while the alt I tested was great on mobile it didn’t offer the functionally I like to use with the built in UI.
I wanted to split mobile/desktop traffic, which I imagine is relatively straightforward if you have a decent amount of web dev experience, but alas I do not.
Do you usually see mobile versions of uTorrent in memes?
Vuetorrent custom UI is the the best, desktop or mobile alike. They should adopt it as the default.
Yes - replying because this is by far the best compromise between usability and functionality.
If Deluge was (is?) able to do the same with themes I’d be back onboard without hesitation, though!
That’s the main reason I switched to qbittorrent; you can use themes and it works better than anything else on phones that I’ve used.
I run flood together with qbittorrent, looks great everywhere.
You say uTorrent, I say µTorrent. We are not the same ;P
EDIT: I get µ from [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [m] (or [Alt Gr] + [m]), in case someone wants to be able to do it easily themselves. It might be different on your keyboard…
Leech and seed.
Hijacking this comment cause more people REALLY need to know about Debrid services, such as Real-Debrid. It “caches” torrents, so anything you want can be downloaded instantly at your connection’s maximum bandwidth; no waiting for seeds. And since you’re not distributing anything, you don’t have to pay for a VPN, either.
EDIT: It’s kind of like a seed box, except it’s more of a collective seed box. So if at least one user added the torrent before, you can download it immediately.
I have a Gigabit connection and was able to download three different AAA titles, 50+ GB each, play all of them, then decide that I don’t like any of them, all within a couple of hours. It’s mind-blowing how much faster it is than using a torrent client.
Even better, you can integrate it with your favorite media center app like Plex or Kodi (personally I prefer Stremio for its Netflix-like interface). Now you have every show and film from every streaming platform – all in one place – streamed instantly to your TV. I’ll never use torrent clients ever again. They take too long.
EDIT: It bothers me that so many people are willing to dismiss Debrid services without even giving them a chance. Here’s proof that this is legit – /r/Piracy megathread on reddit | Video 1 | Video 2 (sorry for the shaky phone video. I just wanted to get this evidence out quickly before people move on to a different thread, and it’s kinda difficult to have a steady hand when you’re trying to film and click at the same time.)
Can confirm, it’s pretty great. I use it with Syncler. It can be a pain to setup, but once it works, you’re golden.
The “too good to be true” sell and complete lack of detail / pricing on their website is sketchy imo. I’m immediately suspicious of any org that profits off of piracy in such an opaque way
Bro, you have no idea what you’re turning down. I get it; on the surface it does seem sus. I was suspicious too until I tried it. Debrid is an absolute game-changer. It’s kind of like a seed box, except it’s more like a collective seed box. So if at least one user added the torrent before, you can download it immediately.
I don’t know what you mean by “lack of detail / pricing” on their website. The pricing is laid out very clearly, and there’s not a lot of explanation cause it’s really that simple. (EDIT: Looks like you need to make a free account to see the pricing; I’ll admit that’s stupid). So here’s a screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/5LQehRp.png
You don’t have to use Real-Debrid. I just mentioned them cause they’re the most popular. Google “Debrid services” for alternatives. There’s also a megathread on reddit.
I get the “never pay for piracy” argument, but with torrents you need a VPN to keep your ISP off your ass, so at the end of the day, you’re paying for piracy regardless. Debrid is cheaper than a VPN.
It bothers me so much that you’re not willing to give it a shot, that I made a video to show you how fast, easy, and convenient it is. And here’s another video of me streaming a movie almost instantly, in case you still think I’m full of shit. (Videos might still be processing when you see this, so try again later if the quality is too low for you to see what I’m doing.)
Idk, I’ve been using the free tier of torrents (except for a VPN, which I’d have anyway) and never not downloaded close to my full speed. Don’t really know how what you say beats that.
Also btw if you load sequentially and first and last pieces first you can start watching your downloaded files immediately with any normal torrent. DL speed just has to be faster than total playtime of what you’re watching.
Even if that were true, Debrid services are still faster. Torrents can take a minute or two even get started in torrent clients. Debrid is instant, even if the torrent doesn’t have a lot of seeds. Think of it like a shared seedbox, where anyone can add to/download from it. And like I said, it’s cheaper than a VPN.
But whatever, do what you want. If you don’t want to try it, that’s on you. I literally offered to pay for it, and you still won’t give it a shot it. I give up.
(Some people, man.)
As I said, since I have a VPN anyway, torrents are literally free for me. I believe you, I just don’t want to pay for another service.
Alright fine. I hope I managed to convince at least one other person, though…
Just wanted to chime in and say I was a skeptic till a few days ago. I tried the $4 30 day plan to see if it was for me, and wow, I’m amazed.
I did it for stremio as I don’t have the storage to keep up with local hosting and it’s simple for the non technical members of the house.
Blown away by how much faster it was to play a full 4k HDR stream with atmos. It was buffering like mad before. I’m a believer now.
Thank you. I was worried that I was shouting at brick walls for a moment.
I also use Stremio with Real-Debrid. The girlfriend knows nothing about piracy, but Stremio is so easy and convenient that my mother could use it. She uses it almost daily to watch anime that she can’t find on Crunchyroll.
People are suspicious cause it does sound too good to be true; I get it. Being able to stream any 4K HDR video you want without buffering seems unbelievable. It’s a little frustrating cause I always seem to get downvoted by a bunch of skeptics every time I bring up Debrid. Maybe cause I come on too hard and sound like an advertisement, but I can’t help but be fanatical about it. It’s just so much better than any other method for obtaining free content!
I think people are also reluctant to pay for piracy.
Absolutely understandable, this was my hold up for a long time. I believe it really depends on your setup, what I had before wasn’t working as well as I wanted to and this was my solution. Unfortunately, I don’t have the means for local storage, so this was the next best thing for me.
I’m just in the mindset of the fact that I went from $40 a month paying for my streaming services to $40 a year for this plus my VPN.
Use whatever works for you.
The *arr + torrent client setup just works so well, I can’t be bothered to change it. The *arr software automatically picks out good torrents that are the format you requested and that are seeded. I never really saw it not saturate my connection. For movies, I have to wait a few minutes (depending on file size and my own connection speed). For TV shows, new episodes are downloaded automatically as soon as they are released, so I just have to select the episode under “new episodes” in my media center app on whatever device I’m on.
Even if I were to use a debrid service, I’d probably still use a VPN for it because I wouldn’t want them to log my real IP.
If that works for you, that’s absolutely fine. No judgment. You do you.
All I want is for people to know that there’s another alternative to torrent clients and VPNs. That said, use what you’re comfortable with, but if I can convince even one person that there’s a better way, then my job here is done.
I have nothing to gain from my little crusade; I didn’t even post an affiliate link even though the option is there. Just trying to inform those who are interested. There’s no wrong way to sail the high seas, just faster routes to your destination. ;)
Edit: And BTW, your IP logging concerns were addressed in the reddit thread I linked to.
Can you point me to where my concerns are addressed? I read the following:
- You don’t need to worry about the following:
- IP address leaking
How does this address my concerns of the service itself logging my IP address though?
Logging IP addr and payment details unless they take monero.*
- You don’t need to worry about the following:
Buddy,
I saw your post by chance. I am an old sailor of the seven seas (15+ years) and torrent (with a seedbox) has been my favored ship for years. But I did à test with your solution: what a breeze it is (even for me who watch movies with french subtitles)
Thanks for putting that much energy in explaining and convincing that stremio + RD is a very convenient tool; it indeed is.
Sonarr + Radarr + Plex + Sabnzbd
Sonarr + Radarr (really, they could roll these into one by now) + Sabnzbd. Hold the plex. I mean who is watching download bars these days? Just wait for it to email me it’s ready!
Radarr is a fork of Sonarr.
I know, but I’m just surprised they’ve not been merged into a single project.
There are a lot of arr’s
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- Lidarr
- Bazarr
- Readarr
I’m probably missing some
Whisparr for science!
Hmm, I knew about the others but Readarr. I think I’ll be adding another arrrrrr to my collection me 'arrty. Thanks for that.
I definitely don’t want them to be the same project. I love the logical separation between the two
Ah, now see I’d have like to have it on tabs at the top of the screen. It’s a minor thing. It’s not a problem to run both. Just, I feel like it’d be nicer to have a movies/tv tab in one app.
Nzb360 to manage.
How do we setup all this ? I have a desktop PC , its an i5? Can I setup all of the above ? If not, whats the hardware I have to buy ?
Go with docker images and save your setup files/commands, so you can always redeploy on a NAS/new server later. Go with lscr.io/linuxserver images.
It probably took me a good 20 hours to setup. Then dozens more hours to get my existing library imported, but that’s just part of the process.
Initially it is time intensive, but it’s totally worth it. Make sure you make proper backups, so you don’t lose your work.
Tbh, setting things up the second time is a lot faster than the first time.
It can be a good bit less than 20 hours. I did my very first setup and it took maybe 5-6 hours total, possibly less. But to be fair, I already had the computer assembled and the operating system and docker were already installed. I use Gentoo so building everything from scratch would’ve taken 20+ hours for sure.
Couple of tips for anyone just getting started: Use docker compose and copy the YAML from sonarr, radarr, prowlarr and (overseerr or jellyseerr) docker registry pages (or github readme). If they don’t want to connect to eachother, try using the container name (defined in docker compose file) instead of localhost. Docker will set up those as hostnames for communication between containers on the same machine. Luckily I knew this from having worked with docker previously, could’ve been a pain to figure out otherwise (I mean sure, you could also use your machine’s local (not 127.0.0.1) IP, but that can change, if you don’t have a static one set up).
Also, the configs usually mount a path (a fictional one you change) for config. This makes reusing your config easier. If you omit that part, the config files will live on an ephemeral volume.
I was having trouble adding my Prowlarr indexers to Radarr and Sonarr. Then I googled around a bit and discovered that it should be done the other way around - add Radarr and Sonarr as apps to Prowlarr.
Next step for me is to buy some used hardware and a bunch of big shiny new drives and set up an actual server instead of running it on my Linux desktop PC (which to be fair, runs 24/7 anyway). Thinking NVMe boot drive and 18 TB drives for storage, start with 3 in RAID 5 and then add a couple more over time. I THINK that’s a good idea, but if someone wants to tell me why it’s not, please do.
*Arr + Ratio
- transmission with VPN + nzbget instead of sab
There are so many good sites now with a VPN, downloading is obsolete. Websites are just as good as Netflix, can skip intro, auto play, get subtitles, auto next, etc. I used to torrent but now I just watch on the sites online. No need to fill SSDs
I dunno, sometimes you can’t count on them to buffer quick enough.
Aside from comparison of quality, running a streaming platform is very resource intensive, hence requires a lot of money.
The burden of torrent download is instead spread among many peers.
This but radarr/sonar
Sure if you want your filenames out of your control and at the whims of databases run by no intelligent person at all.
You caim people that wrote complex open source applications are not intelligent at all because it has one thing you dislike, but can’t set Docker up to solve the issue? RTFM
Sonarr destroyed my one piece folder by renaming things incorrectly. Also sites like the TV db and anidb mislabel season numbers on a lot of anime lately. So my beef is mostly anime based and against the databases that sonarr uses, not sonarr itself.
You mean you used sonarr to rename things incorrectly. Sonarr didn’t do anything other than exactly what you told it to.
I understand you want to defend something that you enjoy. That is fine. The program completely misinterpreted the filenames as they were with absolute numbering and erroneously assigned incorrect filenames, such as making episode 201 into S02E01. I set the format and trusted it to uniformly rename. It failed at that. You can still enjoy it. I’ve found an app called Filebot that seems to do better interpretation and allow more freedom. I’ve mostly gone back to manually managing things, though. I also found some features in sonarr to be a bit obtuse. Since it’s renaming files, it has to keep the original file to seed the torrent. That’s completely understandable but I wish there was a way to have it wait until ratio/time limit before renaming. It would save hard drive space to allow that.
You can still enjoy sonarr. The databases it pulls info from are also part of the problem as I detailed in another response here. For me, it is not ideal.
Your issues with sonarr seem to entirely be based upon a lack of understanding. For one thing it seems like you probably didn’t set the show to the anime format which detects absolute numbering. And beyond that, the rename tool provides an interactive interface where you can easily verify and adjust the renaming. Not to mention, sonarr’s purpose is primarily retrieving and indexing content. Content which usually adheres to a standard naming already. Renaming existing content is a secondary function and is the wild west when the files might be in whatever nonstandard naming convention the user thought up.
Since it’s renaming files, it has to keep the original file to seed the torrent. That’s completely understandable but I wish there was a way to have it wait until ratio/time limit before renaming. It would save hard drive space to allow that.
This is where I can really tell you just don’t understand the program. One of sonarrs primary features is hardlink management. When a torrent is done downloading, sonarr creates a hardlink from the torrent file to the proper location in your media directory and then renames that hardlink. There’s no additional storage usage. It wouldn’t be helpful to wait for a torrent to finish seeding to rename it because in the mean time it wouldn’t be picked up by Plex/Jellyfin because your torrent directory is (or rather it should be) separate from your media directory that Plex/Jellyfin sees. And additionally, another primary benefit of sonarr is that it allows you to permanently seed torrents while also having nice naming. In which case your file would never be renamed if it waited until it was done seeding of course.
You could always create an account and contribute the correct information to these databases.
I have tried and was, the first time, turned down and told I was incorrect. When the next season came out for the same show, I submitted again for correction and got zero response. Similar for another show where the show’s single season that had a break had its second half called “season 2” (happens a ton lately, infuriating), I also got no response. And that’s TV db. Don’t get me started on anidb later. They fucking divided the two halves of that show as well, but not into two seasons… INTO TWO SHOWS. So now the second half of the single season of “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury” on anidb is a whole other show entry and is named “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (2023)” - fucking maddening. And applications like Plex rely on those kinds of databases for sorting things. And naming things. And similarly, sonarr uses them for renaming your files to fit the format you set up. And it’s also not 100% smart on some stuff. Sure, “one_piece_207.avi”, let me rename you as One Piece - S02E07.avi that will be fabulous.
Sure, “one_piece_207.avi”, let me rename you as One Piece - S02E07.avi that will be fabulous
Is it One Piece episode #207 or something? Because, in the realm of pirated TV, “207” literally is season 2 episode 7. Always has been.
Correct, and there were ways in place that was supposed to allow sonarr to understand absolute numbering, similar to another agent plugin I use for Plex that gives it that understanding. The file formatting for sonarr can even include {absolute} for this use case. I was numbering these files, hoping to rename them with episode titles plus the {absolute} as well as S{season00}E{episode00} (can’t recall the exact code), but anyway… Despite everyone in this thread calling me an idiot, I know I made no error other than not backing up first.
I think you may be the one lacking intelligence here.
It’s always a possibility, but it is unlikely in this case. I’m fairly meticulous, though imperfect as anyone is
You, uh… you know you can customize the way file names are saved, right?
This one’s a “You” issue, big guy.
I’m this thread, everyone dogpiling me after misunderstanding what had happened despite verbose explanations below. Feels like good old reddit.
We’ve all had something fuck names up.
That’s mostly in thetvdb.com and not Sonarr, though.
Edit: there was a time I fucked up the folder structure of the downloads and multiple series got mixed up. That was also a “Me” issue - not Sonarr’s fault I didn’t read the manual.
It’s still beats doing it manually. Did that shit for far too long. I’ll take a few hours of cleanup once a year (if even) over manual effort that could take a few hours per day.
Is there a specific version of Qbit to use? Asking for a friend…
There’s a couple forks I believe, but I was specifically asking about the actual version number. Say, the latest 6.5.2 or an older 4.x.x. I’ve heard things over the years about “the best” version to use, but it’s all old now that I am curious what the verdicts is these days
I’m using whichever is the freshest version BakaBT allows (v4.5.4 right now).
I swapped to using Kodi + RealDebrid and it has just been great. Just a miniscule amount of money for an experience that’s just as good as regular streaming.
I hate Kodi’s UI with a passion. Looks like Steam’s Big Picture mode puked over with pixelated low quality text.
There are a ton of different themes out there. You can probably find one you like.
And libretorrent on android. Piracy always rules.
Ttorrent Wants in on the list of alternatives
Wouldn’t the equivalent be some illegal streaming sites?
Tor and removed? Or Netflix and chill?
Test: who.r.e whor.e whore
Nice try.
Seed and… seed?
Seed and leach that… torrent.
Tor and wh.or.e
Shit I just posted that.
Pilfer and pump.
Sneed’s Feed & Seed
So, now what.
formerly Chuck’s
uTorrent (pronounce micro torrent) and micro…. Nevermind…
