What do you use to actually manage your stuff?
What do you use to actually manage your stuff?
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.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!)
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.
- Jellyfin: Media Center to stream movies, TV shows and music
- sonarr, radar, lidarr: manage collections and download, TV shows, movies and music, respectively
- transmission: torrent client, through VPN connection (NordVPN)
- Jackett: tracker manager
- stash: like Jellyfin, but for linux-iso files /s
All of that runs in docker containers on my NAS, using docker-compose to deploy the stack.
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
- Sonarr and Radarr for getting torrents
- Prowlarr for setting up torrent indexers
- Bazarr for getting subtitles
- Jellyfin for playback
- Tachiyomi (Android app) for Manga
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.
I dump everything into a single folder. Like a junk drawer. Because I really only save junk anyway 🤷🏻♂️
- Jellyfin + arrs for Media (TV, movie, music)
- Calibre for eBooks of all kinds
Plex for playback.
Transmission for torrents.
Radarr for movies.
Sonarr for tv.
Lidarr for music.
Bazarr for subtitles.
Readarr for books.
Ombi for discovery and requests.
Tautulli for statistics and newsletters.
Sonarr/Radarr + Plex has been good enough for me.
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.
Plex for my Movies, TV shows, and music (plexamp for music).
Kavita for books. Also nextcloud to a degree.
Games, honestly I have not pirated in a long time, so no need to manage. Gabe Newell was right in that piracy is mainly a service problem, and to be honest Steam and GoG are convenient enough for me that I don't feel the need to pirate anymore.
I used to maintain a Jellyfin server for my media, but moving to university put a stop to that - the campus network is cringe and makes it impossible to dial in from the outside. So... just boring old folders for video, and Calibre for my ebooks.
(I did make an attempt at moving Jellyfin to my VPS, but transcoding is... not possible on one core, to put it lightly.)
Surprised to see no mention of Playnite. I used to use Stardock Fences to categorize my games on my desktop, then I found Playnite and there was no looking back. It's a big game library with incredible features. Here's what I see when I load it up. (the games listed here are the games I have listed as "currently playing")
I use much of the servarr set for core functionality. Radarr for movies, Sonarr for TV show, Bazarr for subtitles, Prowlarr for indexing. Those are the management tools for the media. If I want to delete something off the HTPC, I delete it from Radarr/Sonarr and let them handle cleanup of the library.
Qbittorrent does the downloading, and the free version of Serviio handles DLNA streaming to display devices. All I want is software that streams to display devices while handling transcoding if needed, and Serviio does that. I've tried Plex and Jellyfin in the past, but I felt like they both attempted to do more than I needed while actually accomplishing less than I wanted. It's been a while since I tried either of those though, so things might be different now.
All of this is running in an old HTPC case containing the parts from the prior incarnation of my gaming PC, plus half a dozen 4TB hard drives. It's wildly over-specced for what I ask it to do, which has given me plenty of headroom to play around with self-hosting stuff like ViewTube and SearXNG.
I used Cloudbox and couldn't be happier.
It's an open source Ansible based repo which helps you setup everything and it's been working flawlessly for me.
Update is essentially a git pull + install command and there are tons of extra tools available on a community repo.
Some of the apps I've setup are ruTorrent + prowlarr + sonarr + radar + plex and rsync to host files on a cloud provider.
I just use Jellyfin for movies and shows. I don't listen to music or read ebooks, and I buy all my games through Steam because I use Linux.
Launchbox for roms, Komga for comics, calibre for books, kodi and plex for movies. Organizr for the cacophony of webapps.
With my bookmarks atm. I'm new to self-hosting and stuff like Jellyfin, etc. So at the moment I'm learning and saving websites and guides. Once I have more money I hope to start the next step in this hobby/way of life.
For movies and TV shows, I store everything on my NAS. Just organised into folders. Then play it back using the Infuse app on my AppleTV4K, by pointing the app to my network folder and letting it build a library.
No server software needed and it supports everything including 4K UHD remuxes with 7.1 lossless audio. Hopefully tvOS adds supports for Dolby TrueHD atmos in the future.
I don't keep any media. I use Kodi, a VPN, Real debrid, trakt to keep my lists and the seren repository.
I use Plex for movies/tv and Playnite for games
Plex for movies/shows. For music spotify premium.
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.
I only really run a server of TV Shows and movies. I use Jellyfin, just personal preference. It’s only really effective for use on the home network, but my smart TVs all have my own personal streaming service.
Radarr/Sonarr to acquire most things. Still go around them where needed.
Then I use Kodi for all video. I don’t go off the main device enough to worry about a full server setup for it so I’ll just network share if I need to use another device.
Navidrome and substreamer for music in a proper server config with Tailscale tying it together.
I just use qBittorrents built in categories/subcategory system to sort movies, tvshows. Then Kodi is set up to automaticly scan for new content on startup. Works well, simple.
I have like 20TB+ worth of external drives right now that hold all my shit (movies, tv shows, audiobooks, anime, manga, roms, etc.) I want to buy a 4+bay NAS and eventually set it up for streaming. However, right now I just have a an excel file that is organized but each drive and what is contained in each one. I just connect my drive to my Xbox series X and just play it with Kodi. I do have Fen (and I think the Promise) connected to RD. I know I can stream practically stream anything but I really do like having the actual files (I may be a digital hoarder).
I download almost everything using Premiumize. It essentially downloads the torrents for you, so you're only downloading things from them at drastically faster speeds, and never connecting to the actual swarm. You just send them the torrent file.
For the actual organizing, I use TVRenamer mainly. It's an extremely underrated tool that not only organizes your shows and movies, but does a great job of helping you identify what you're missing, like missing episodes or specials.
I use tdarr to reencode all my stuff to x265
Plex is mainly how I watch stuff. I like kodi a lot, but most the time Plex is a lot more streamline.
For comics I use comicrack. Best way to do comic organizing by far
Movie/shows download via pyload since one-click hoster is cheaper than Usenet. And I collect them in german/english. Torrents are not so wide spread for that combination.
Kodi for tagging.
Music per Lidarr/Jackett/Deluge/nzbget/OpenVPN primarily Usenet + occasionally torrent.
Tagging by beets because of its discogs plug-in since it is much better than musicbrainz on obscure music.TV/Movies: lookmovie2, sflix, 9anime (I only stream)
Music: Deemix and Musicolet
Manga: Kotatsu
Books: Libgen and Book Reader unless my local library has it.
Plex for streaming Movies / TV / Music Radarr / Sonarr / Lidarr + Prowlarr I use calibre to manage my ebook library and calibre-web to serve it haugene/transmission-openvpn + a VPN
Sonarr/radarr with rdtclient(real-debrid torrent client) for public torrent links, Qbittorrent vpn for private trackers, and then sabnzbd for usenet.
I mainly use this all for anime because it's harder for me to watch on the fly through kodi. Jellyfin for playback
I also use Kodi with seren and Real-Debrid for everything I don't wanna store.... Which is most of it
Jellyfin for my media, and that's about it. I don't have local music, ebooks etc. As for games, I just use Steam but have backups of some of my GOG games.
I organize all my games with Lutris, and my music library with Sayonara (the closest thing I've found to the era of Winamp I knew and loved). I don't have enough stuff to require any further automation.
I just use Real Debrid and Google Drive tbh
How's Romm? It's available for truenas and I'm looking for a good way to store and play. Looks really pretty but doesn't seem to have any emulsion built in? Not looking for anything heavy just backing up all my GB/GBC/GBA, PS1, PS2, Xbox, and GC.
But to actually contribute plex has been our time sink. The lady has so many dvds and blurays I've just been working through all of it. About 8tb deep right now and it's been working great.
@RandomLegend Here's how I do stuff:
- I use Calibre for books
- I use Shotwell for photos and videos
- I use Audacious for music
- For moving and deleting files around, I just use the regular file manager. I put music in Music, photos in the Pictures folder, videos go to Videos, documents go to Documents etc.
