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There's actually great tools to help you build and organize that library... assuming you pirate everything.

I'm just hoping the movie/TV industry gets the picture soon and goes the way the music industry has with streaming.

I don't pirate everything. In fact, I don't pirate anything. For instance, with regards to eBooks, I hit Humble Book Bundles hard. They're bloody incredible for the discerning legitimate DRM-free digital content purchaser.

I was more just making the point that it's actually easier to do library organization for movies and TV as a pirate than it is as a legit owner of Blu-Rays for example.

Sad state for the industry, really.

Meh, it isn't that difficult with ripped blu-rays either. Plex can do it quite well.

I've found Plex great for movies, my ripped television shows on the other hand tend to be weird. Since the order of DVDs, BRs don't always match up to the airing order there can be a lot of manual work in cleaning that up. Plex is also not super great with music yet. It's getting better but it's definitely having problems with a lot of my music since I've got a lot of local/indie bands.

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