I’ve seen many people have insane setups to download things automatically and NAS’ with tens of terabytes of capacity, which i don’t understand at all.
I have a 1 tb drive from 2013 of which I’m using ~850GB and most of the space is used by series i have already watched and haven’t bothered to delete.
What are you storing to need so much space and how are you finding so much good content that you actually want to save?
I store everything that I pull, my aim is to be a Netflix replacement for my family. Just have whatever you want to watch at the snap of your fingers or doom scroll until you find something.
How I get more content? Easy, I don’t. I have a telegram bot that my user can request additional content from. Usually my users have good taste so I just watch whatever they pull.
Is there a GitHub for the bot?
https://github.com/Waterboy1602/Addarr
I think this is the one I use, otherwise I’m fairly certain it’s only a search away.
If you want to automate look into the “Wikiarr” but to answer your question I think many of us are just data hoarders. I try to delete stuff I’ve watched but I also tend to keep stuff that I’ve had trouble finding good versions of. I am also building a large music library (currently around 200-250gb) and that’s entirely around avoiding crappy streaming services. Most of this collection I either already owned (used to rip ipods id repair for people) or used soulseek/other tools to build.
Personally I’d replace that 10 year old drive as it’s probably limited on remaining life even if only lightly used.
Definitely data hoarding is a big part of it for me. I seem to be instinctively getting myself setup for some sort of doomsday scenario where the Internet is gone, but power still works and I have enough leisure time to binge watch movies lol.
But yeah I also have things like offline Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg with Kiwix, and I don’t pirate books but I do DRM strip them so I can keep a permanent archive and stuff like that.
What is your preferred format for music? I use Opus at 192 kbps since I prefer open-source and it supposedly is “near-perfect” quality, but I know a few people who store FLACs instead.
that’s entirely around avoiding crappy streaming services
I think it’s important for OP: I too do store music that I like because I want to avoid to continuously pay for crappy streaming services. Most of my music is bought from Bandcamp, or ripped from CDs that I had previously bought. It needs some tweaking to make those files available on a smartphone, but it’s worth it.
Usually only FLACs for future proofing my collection.
Most is may be fake FLACs but whatever.If you’re worried about fake FLACs, why not test them?
Throwing your songs into a spectrum analyzer is just super fun too
Anything you can recommend?
Anything you can recommend?
I’d second that last paragraph. At least download a tool to check your HDD out- I saw crystaldiskmark used in an LTT video and decided to install it and check out my drives. Turns out one of them has 60,000 hours on it and it’s seems to be starting to fail.
I will be changing the drive out some time soon since storage is so cheap nowadays and the disk has almost ~35k POH
Usually what happens is a simple set up of a laptop with Kodi and a 1tb external drive turn into a hobby and you end up with huge NAS set ups with docker stacks. It’s so much less about about the actual content and more about the hobby. At least for me it’s become that.
Offline access is a must. Don’t rely on others to store stuff for you
Agree, after some blog posts i read were taken down due to fraudulent DMCA requests, I’ve been downloading all blog posts i read with a simple wget command
Finding stuff to watch:
Honestly:
Ads on YoutubeBesides that: Reddit r/movies, random posters I see in day to day IRL or online or with NZB360 (which utilizes Trakt and TMDB)
Storing stuff:
7TB external HDD plugged into an Intel NUC acting as a makeshift NAS with OMV.
What I store is mostly what is of interest.
Movie: ~ 3.3TiB (419 movies)
Anime and TV: ~2.7TiB (133 shows total)I have currently about 500GiB free storage and if I am ever short on something I will delete what I deem unworthy to keep or not worth the quality (like a 1080p BluRay instead of a 4K Remux)
What I keep:
- Hard to aquire
- Favorites
- Rewatchable stuff like short cartoons
I love how this is my same routine except I only have 600ish Gb to work with total, the rest is for gaming.
I use adblock on all my devices so i don’t see ads and even if i did, most of the shows advertised here in Finland don’t really interest me.
Initially it was just using overseerr and letting everyone that use my server just request what they wanted. I would also just explore overseerr once in awhile to see whats new.
Now though, I have several lists configured in both radarr and sonarr that are made by mdblist that will add the latest popular films/shows. Due to this usually I can just check my server and I’ll already have either the show or the movie without doing anything.
See what’s trending, check the score. Is it streamable? If no. It’s stealable.
Thanks for the tip, never heard of this site since i usually just browse imdb
IMDb is great if you want to confirm that Shawshank redemption still is the top rated movie. I think IMDb is bad to find new fresh content.
I have Jellyseerr set up so that I and my friends can request things that will automatically get pulled down. It also has trending and upcoming content, so I sometimes find stuff there. Also, generally, I just see/hear people talking about stuff and want to check it out.
I had 2TB of space when I got my NAS, and that was more than enough for my lab, until I started downloading media. Then I bumped it to 4TB and then recently 12TB.
I want to have content for myself and my users. I will occasionally delete things if I don’t think anyone else will want to watch it and I won’t want to rewatch it. That’s usually nothingy action flicks.
I’m just a data hoarder who likes to re-watch things.
I’ve been building my collection for about 15 years or so. It adds up, and thats after a few hdd failures too.
What is easy to find today could be difficult tomorrow. Also original versions could be lost or edited to be more PC and the original stops being sold or streamed.
Disney is removing media from its service for tax breaks. Game servers go offline all of the time making lots of games fully or partially unplayable. Bungie deletes dlc that people have paid for and I’m sure others will be able to chime in with more examples… The point is it better to save it if its important to you.
A lot of the new stuff I download I don’t actually watch right away, I wait for lulls in programming(such as a writers strike) to binge watch them.
Also I like old movies (the Marx Brothers, etc.)and old, hard to find TV shows (still looking for Strange Luck from the 90s).
Found TV Rip of that show! New to Lemmy so don’t know how to DM. :-(
Typically I’ll check IMDb for the More like this section and go from there. It’s how I found out about Jeff and Some Aliens and The Life and Times of Tim.
Some media is also hard to come by so people might fear deleting content that might not be easy to get back in the future.
Look at all the semi-lost media where there’s only a segment of it that exists on YouTube
I have 50TB of capacity, 30TB used, for Movies and Shows (mostly movies). I get maximum quality 4K Blu-ray rips called Remuxes. For 4K they can be as large as 110GB each movie but never lower than 25GB.
Where I find it is private (torrent) trackers. These places are utopic is what they have available to download and organized to find everything super easy, and the trackers I’m with have a good community and we all talk and hang out in the IRC chat.
I have a seedbox on which I store stuff but I just stream everything from real debrid.
For new content, I check daily:
- trending torrents categories (movies, tv packs) on a few public trackers to see what people are watching
- check the “what’s on tv tonight” recommendations on the guardian uk website
- I use trakt tv for recommendations
Netflix has a top shows section you can check for free as well
Found it. Just checked out their 10 top tv for US. Says a lot about Netflix content that users have nothing else to watch but Suits “re-runs”.
