straight up, whatever u want is there

Just use hd euro pix

It’s not that complicated to stream

streaming sites get taken down more often so you constantly need alternatives, don't have large enough libraries, generally have s*** quality, might be virus ridden, are slow, etc.. it's more about those things than how complicated it is

MY THREAD

how the hell am I going to stream a 70gb 4k blu ray movie

Trying to fill some hard drives with movies to stock up my Jellyfin server by the end of the month. It's actually kinda hard to fill 25TB

how much space have you used up so far? i've been downloading 4k movies more often lately but i bought so much space i feel like it'll last forever lol. also how do you like jellyfin? i'm plex sheep but it seems like the most polished and feature-filled option so far. only tried emby for a couple days and read about jellyfin so i don't really know.

I think I've used 8TB so far. I was at 16TB at one point but I recently decided to wipe damn near everything as I was switching most of my content to 4k. It's a separate dedicated PC so I'll have to check again.

I'm a huge fan of Jellyfin. I've used Plex for many years and even bought the lifetime Plex Pass but I don't think I'll ever go back. I want my server to be MY server and it's gotten annoying that I feel like I occasionally have to go out of my way to get to my own content. It's especially bad when you're sharing the server with the people you live with. I want my users to see the content that I am providing and only that. I feel like I have no control in Plex anymore. Jelly is still pretty much community ran and I think it's features and updates are coming from people that align more with what I want out of a self hosted server. Whereas Plex features and updates are coming from a fairly large company that is now trying to move away from the self hosted crowd.

I think you should give a spin for sure

i'll consider trying it one day. i did find it really annoying when they added that "Movies & TV" section and ended up hiding it on all of my users' accounts lol. i also really respect the FOSS philosophy

I tried building my tracker resume a few years ago and gave up, I tried again late 2019, but lost count of what I was doing. I just need an invite to at least one of the good ones and I’m set.

what trackers were you on? if i were you i'd try to get those accounts back. the usual best way to get into the main "cabal" is to interview for RED but that site seems to be having issues right now. and none of the others do open invites anymore IIRC. so the best route is probably to move up the ranks with what you've got

Why would I stream when I have (as of rn) a server with 40tb of storage?

Getting good ratio on RED is absurd if you’re not dedicated to it, s***s crazy..

I’m like barely surviving but I don’t use it that much these days

Yeah, I agree tbh. I am pretty sure What.CD wasn't this bad but maybe it's nostalgia. Like I think the seedbox racing wasn't this bad back then. I remember getting a decent ratio just by downloading torrents whenever they went freeleech. But you have to try really hard on RED and you will probably end up either buying albums for requests or buying a seedbox. I think having a somewhat difficult tracker as the entrypoint is important so that we can filter out the bad users but it is too much.
Anyway, is anybody here on Orpheus? I was on Apollo and just found out that they came back under a rebrand (again).I might try and get my account back.

redacted is fixed. no free tokens for the downtime unfortunately

There's 24 hours of freeleech over at GGN.

What's the benefit of using private trackers over public? I've had no issues with public ones so far

Less chance of the internet police finding out also with less risk comes more people who would be willing to share rarer things

Way faster downloads, can literally find anything so easily, and less of a chance of getting Notices from your ISP

Been torrenting s*** for 10+ years & only have been using a VPN for a couple years.. God knows how many terabytes of s*** I've grabbed without using a VPN. I don't know if it was dumb luck but I've never received a single notice from my ISP.

I also feel like private is only good for niche content.

i disagree with you for niche content. its so useful to find anything, in the quality you want, at a click of a button. Most the time on public trackers i can find stuff i want... but s***ty ass encodes like say "21 jump street 1080p" and the s*** is 800MB.

Radarr + Sonarr man. That eliminates the need to even go looking and allows you to filter out content based on the quality + file size + keywords. Yify/yts? f*** that s***. x264? Nope.

i used to use radarr + sonarr on public trackers but the peers just werent to the quality of private trackers. s*** slow af tbh

Are you aware of Jackett?

can i use couchpotato+radarr+sonarr+jackett with my private trackers? what exactly do they do?
from my understanding they download shows automatically but what if i prefer to look at how the episodes were encoded before downloading? can i set it up to show me all the different options across my different trackers or something before downloading?