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> transcoding and finding the damn things

I'm sorry, this is bullshit.

I spend _less_ time if I torrent stuff.

Example: I want to watch the last season of Expanse. Ok, go to iTunes (Apple TV). Nope, not there (Australia). Hmmm, may be Netflix? Nope. I remember it was by Amazon or smth? Oh yeah, it's in Prime.

How much time did I just spend? And I also must pay for all of those?

Torrents:

- go to my favourite tracker

- search, find bunch of options from SD to HD with bunch of audio tracks and subtitles that not a single commercial pos offers

- copy magnet link

- paste in transmission UI

- done, took less than 3 minutes.

Whenever I feel like watching it, open Infuse on iPhone and watch it from my Emby.

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When I want to stream something I go to justwatch.com, search, and then see which streaming services carry it either through subscription or for rent or purchase. Then I fire up that app or website on whatever device I like and watch.

Torrenting isn’t hard but these days neither is streaming.

Seriously it is some BS. I even spent like mabye an hour setting up the *arr tools and now anyone in my family can log into 1 site, find the tv/movies and hit download and it manages everything.

maybe you wouldn’t mind me asking: but how’s your setup work exactly?

also, for everyone: i have been looking for an easy way to allow my parents to browse torrents (via an app on their phones or tv or something), then select what they want to watch, and the movies/whatever are then downloaded on a remote pc that also hosts a plex server. they could watch whatever on plex in minutes, ideally. is there something that sreamlines this kind of thing?

Yep so I just run sonarr (for tv shows), radarr (for movies), jackett (a torrent search engine connector that the *arr apps use), deluge (for downloading things), and unpackrr (for extracting torrent rar sets) all on a single box

I have a little dashboard just providing quick links to sonarr/radarr that people can go to.

In radarr/sonarr they can search for movies and tv shows, add it to the application and it auto searches for the best download option through jackett and adds it to deluge

unpackrr will auto unpack it if it needs it

radarr/sonarr will automatically pick up the completed download and move it into the correct media directory

jellyfin/plex/whatever will pick it up and show it

everything is pretty easy to setup, i probably got it all running in 3 or 4 hours tops probably two years ago and honestly haven't touched it since.

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