You can automate that with sonarr/radarr/lidarr. Works like a dream.
I personally run a fairly modified version HTPC on a QNAP (was synology but upgraded earlier this year - better base board + dedicated graphics card)
- Setup two Radarr instances (normal and 4K) and two Sonarr instances (TV and anime)
- Follow the TRaSH guides to improve media quality
- Komga to read manga and comics
- Readarr Calibre integration to delegate parsing & metadata to Calibre
- Jellyseerr or Overseerr instead of Ombi
- Unpackerr to catch and handle compressed media
- autobrr if you’re looking to build ratio
For anime first time I've heard that suggestion but anime in general is super annoying to download due to not having real seasons or whatever often. Wonder how it helps..
If you're not using Plex or find it doesn't work so well for Chinese subs, can also try bazarr which does the same thing with subs but is a standalone software.
So with the above setup you can download the actual series from wherever and then it'll fetch Chinese subs for you and add them automatically. Otherwise for actual Chinese trackers try share.dmhy.org and mikanani.me for public trackers.
Feel free to shoot me an email(in my profile) if you need any advice or help setting anything up :)
My 4K instance has one root path (different from non-4K) and one quality profile that's auto-selected by default. Using the Radarr connect option, I have a quality profile on the non-4K instance that automatically adds the movie to the 4K instance. This way, you can ensure you have both 4K and non-4K copies of certain movies (e.g., for external access/transcoding). You also ~never need to actually interact with the 4K instance. See this page for details: https://trash-guides.info/Radarr/Tips/Sync-2-radarr-sonarr/
For Sonarr, it's also for separation, but less of an issue if you're on Sonarr v4. The one thing you gain even on v4 is the ability to have different quality definitions for anime and non-anime content. See: https://trash-guides.info/Sonarr/Sonarr-Quality-Settings-Fil...
You either have to commit those preferences to a tag that you try to remember to put on everything (fiddly), or you just commit to them being on everything you download regardless of whether or not it is anime, which can cause weird selections when sonarr is sourcing western media.
I’d pay an extra $10/mo for my seedbox to have just a single interface for all of this without having to manage all these independent apps. Trying to debug why sonarr->prowlarr->flaresolvrr don’t work is a nightmare. That reminds me:
- flaresolverr: proxy that handles cloudflare bot checks for torrent trackers that are starting to put it up
I think the base setup of Radarr + Sonarr + SABnzbd/qBittorrent + Prowlarr is a huge improvemenet over doing things manually. A lot stuff on top of that is helpful, but the benefit vs. effort ratio diminishes quite quickly.
I haven't had to setup Flaresolverr just yet, but might do that soon.
The remaining annoyances are:
- lack of multi language support
- there is no connection between the systems when you want to remove a movie (you remove it in one place and everything knows about that and acts accordingly)
- I still did not make to fully grasp how and where to say "I do not want this particular release". I think I saw that in radarr but it never is obvious to me where it is.
They all definitely feel like small parts of a single package, don't look like they merit being their own thing. But it's not my thing, so what do I know.
Not following this. Settings -> Connections in Sonarr for example.
What I meant is that there is no common management of dat. When I make changes in one service, the others do not know it, or know it after the fact (via a reindexing for instance).
Say for instance I delete a movie in Jellyfin. Radarr will then pick up that it is missing and re-upload.
Or that I deleted a torrent in deluge. Radar will restart it.
Most of the things are doable, one just need to know what to do where, exactly (otherwise the other pieces may try to recover).
Right now I am making the chnages in Radarr (despite actually seeing them in Jellyfin). This is a real problem when I have, say, two uploaded versions of a movie and want to keep only one. I have to be very careful to track down in JF what I will remove in Radarr.
It would have been great if there was a common indexing mechanism across all the suite.
What you pointed me are notifiers - they work fine (but are shoot-and-forget kind of services)
In particular I'd add to your list that the overnight scans to update cover art are an absolute mess. It's not so big a deal on my libraries in Sonarr and Radarr, but for Lidarr? Jesus Christ. I have reasonably sized music library (~400/500 gig), and every night Lidarr starts phoning out to check, for every single album and artist, whether the associated cover art or artist image has changed. This takes hours, and is completely unnecessary, and cannot be turned off. I've resorted to just blocking the addresses it does this on, but this breaks things when I try and use it to add new music.