Some time ago I gave up using sonarr & radarr to watch (popular) tv shows and movies because the search just stopped giving decent results. Now I heard that rarbg has also quit.
So I am wondering, is this still a thing?
Automation apps have gotten more popular over the years so yes, they are still a thing.
Sonarr/Radarr are the most popular ones but there are others too. Most work with torrents and usenet but you’d need to check the individual projects to be sure.
Book Automation Link Description LazyLibrarian https://gitlab.com/LazyLibrarian/LazyLibrarian Audiobooks / Books / Magazines Mylar3 https://github.com/mylar3/mylar3 Comic Books Readarr https://readarr.com Audiobooks / Books Movies/TV Automation Link Description DuckieTV https://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV TV Medusa https://pymedusa.com TV Nefarious https://lardbit.github.io/nefarious Movies/TV app (using Jackett/Transmission) Radarr https://radarr.video Movies SickChill https://sickchill.github.io TV SickGear https://github.com/SickGear/SickGear TV Sonarr https://sonarr.tv TV Watcher https://github.com/barbequesauce/Watcher3 Movies Music Automation Link Description Headphones https://github.com/rembo10/headphones Music Lidarr https://lidarr.audio Music General Automation Link Description Autobrr https://autobrr.com Monitor IRC announce channels and RSS feeds FlexGet https://flexget.com Monitor RSS feeds RSSToolBot http://rsstoolbot.infymus.com Monitor and aggregate RSS feeds fucking lemmy man, wrote out awhole ass answer to this and got deleted. god fucking dammit.
welp. here goes again.
headphones is a monthly subscription and not that great, not worth it at all.
lidarr is garbage and the folks around it are assholes. you iether love it and froth at the mouth when someone says they’re having trouble with it, or you hate it. It also is a fucking resource hog like I’ve never seen. MAJOR memory leaks
I use Roon and Qobuz, and Nicotine+ for stuff that isn’t on Qobuz. qobuz-dl is really robust and awesome and can do anything you want lidarr to do: just maintain a list of artists in a document, and qobuz-dl will automatically download anything new as it keeps track of what’s already been downloaded before.
The Roon folks are just as bad as the Lidarr folks. This shit costs $7-800 for a lifetime license and it does’t even include ANY music streaming. It’s just a music server and manager. And they don’t actually have tech support. Literally if you go to their support page, they direct you to a fucking forum full of morons high on the koolaid (bc honestly you have to be if you invested $700 on a shitty music player), tell you to get lost if you don’t like a program with bugs up the ass.
I would love to make an open source offering that does what roon does but also allows you to automatically download stuff using qobuz-dl, tidal-dl, bandcamp-dl, etc.
Have you considered using Plex as your music server? I’ve had a great experience with it.
Jellyfin for me!
Headphones only costs money if you want to use their indexer. Ive never paid but does seem like a reasonable way to fund your project.
Why are the lidarr devs assholes? Also I have never experienced any memory leaks to my knowledge and the only time it slows down is if I’m trying to match my entire library
https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/docker-lidarr-extended comes with a bunch ofadditionaldownload scripts like tidall-dl
Sonarr and Radarr ARE THE THING, without them I hardly would use Torrents nowadays lol.
Radarr/sonarr/jackett is the way
Why not prowler?
It very much IS still a thing!
Depending on your preferences, there’s even been a pretty big update to Sonarr which allows custom formats, thus bringing out some pretty powerful abilities!
For example, I have it set up EXACTLY how I want for anime. X265 PREFERRED, Dual Audio PREFERRED, a whole smack of uploaders were essentially blocked from ever being downloaded, and there’s a few users who trump all else and will always be downloaded first if they are available. So good.
There’s a few guides if you want to give it a try! :)
I have plex setup, and I have two tv’s, one from 2022 and and one from 2015, Samsung for some reason the old tv sometimes on some shows has this screen tearing thing… I don’t know why, any ideas?
Have a look at Jackett, it re-produces the search results for hundreds of torrent sites as Torznab feeds, what that means is that these can then be added to indexes for Sonarr and Radarr.
Or prowlarr for something different and a bit more powerful
Rarbg is a PITA with its random rate limiting. I wish they’d let me sign up and get an API key (Even if that meant paying for it) because I’d rather have rarbg than rely on whatever arse trackers I have the time and energy to sign up for.
I know people say “oh just get private trackers” but it’s so much effort, especially when my piracy philosophy is that it should be as painless as possible to access content. I just want to get a tracker’s info, add it to Prowlarr, and start downloading. The requirement of posting and becoming a community member when I deal with my seedbox/prowlarr setup once every couple of months (if that) is far too labour-intensive imo.
Freeleach filters, and re-seeding for the minimum amount of time is a great way to handle private trackers though. Yes, still more work than public trackers, but you generally get access to stuff that’s harder to find if you’re into them, and download speeds are generally faster.
Usenet is also a good option, but that requires $
Nothing wrong with how the leeching system works on privates. I quite like it, in fact. It’s just that private trackers are very often a “who you know” kind of affair and that requires sitting in IRC, forums etc. which is something I can’t justify doing on the random chance I spot a tracker doing signups.
Any private trackers that do have open signups seem to have too few users to keep new content coming through at a decent pace. I use DigitalCore, for example, and a lot of their content is just nonexistent compared to RarBG (RIP) with less seeders on anything that isn’t brand new, and the only new stuff is usually concentrated on stuff already seeded ad nauseam on public trackers.
It’s a shame RarBG went kaput because their system was fine… when it worked.
Rarbg shut down I believe.
Oh good god I haven’t updated my trackers in months. Fuck.
Rarbg is gone unless I’m mistaken.
Ah shit.
The devs for these projects are kind of uppity tbh. Like I’m appreciative of their efforts, but I’d never contribute to the code base itself as they’re very rude.
They’ve seemed pretty decent to me except for the king A-hole /u/Bakerboy448 or whatever his username is/was. I see they removed him as “junior developer” so problem solved. He was always a prick when offering ‘help’ to anyone in the radarr/sonarr subreddits. Like why even bother responding to help requests if you’re just going to be as least helpful as possible?
Yeah the community just reeked of the an oldschool mindset on hierarchy and senior dominance.
I started using real debrid once rarbg fell. Game changer
Real Debrid combined with Sonarr/Radarr is an excellent combination with rdt-client as the torrent software. Most of the time the files are already hosted on RD, so you don’t have to wait for the torrent to download, and it sometimes has files for torrents that no longer have seeders
That’s really cool, do you have any tutorials or something? How do you watch the files? Plex?
Just Google rdt-client. The GitHub page explains how to set it up. You can watch the files using Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, Infuse, etc.
