SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader

Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by mattkrea on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:32AM (#11302590)

Also check out:

Sick Beard - 'Internet PVR for TV Shows' (can use SABnzbd for as a backend)

http://sickbeard.com

Couch Potato - Similar to Sick Beard but for movies

https://couchpota.to

NZBGet - alternative to SABnzbd written in C++ but still open source

http://nzbget.net

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by xeroxmalf on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:44AM (#11302628)

SickBeard appears to be stale, and the replacement options for it are Sonarr[0] and SickRage[1].

There is also Headphones[2] - similar to CouchPotato and SickBeard/Rage/Sonarr but for music.

[0] https://sonarr.tv/ [1] https://github.com/SickRage/SickRage [2] https://github.com/rembo10/headphones

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by mattkrea on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:49AM (#11302641)

Oh wow. I've been out of it a while (just use Hulu / Netflix / Prime these days). I'll have to check these out. Headphones I used before but it wasn't very reliable at the time.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by NamTaf on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:19AM (#11302727)

That's a common refrain I hear about Headphones - buggy and not really reliable.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by mrmondo on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:48AM (#11303417)

Yep, although SickRage's website is truly awful the software is a great upgrade from Sickbeard. Sonarr I have tried several times and it bugged out every time.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by dvcc on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:39AM (#11305025)

Not sure when the last time you tried it was, but it's been a ton more stable within the last 6 months when on the latest stable mono version.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by mrmondo on Friday March 18, 2016 @04:47AM (#11310597)

Last tried it about 2 months ago from memory, very buggy then.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by kayone on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:33PM (#11306488)

mono has really been source of many of our issues on non-windows platforms, hopefully we can switch to .NET Core soon and have a more multiplatform runtime.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by kayone on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:09AM (#11302695)

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of sonarr,

Sickbeard is an abandoned project, last commit was ~ year ago. there are multiple fork of Sickbeard, (Sickrage is big one but has had some internal drama), obviously I would recommend Sonarr :p

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by tylerdavis on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:17AM (#11302717)

Love me some Sonarr. Great work.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by kayone on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:24AM (#11302735)

Thanks :D, glad you find it useful.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by fcmk on Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:29AM (#11302993)

Is there a way to make Sonarr work with a single download folder? Sickbeard also did not officially support it, but you were able to make it work with enough configuration and scripts. That's the only reason I still use it. I just have two big folders (watched and unwatched) and a hotkey to move stuff between them. It's simple and I don't need to use a mouse. I wouldn't want to give this up.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by kayone on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:35PM (#11306511)

Copying another reply:

Sonarr supports as many root folders as you want, the only restrictions is that a single show is limited to a single folder, so tvs1/show1 and tvs2/show2 is completely valid, but watched/show1 and unwatched/show1 is not.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by Pengwin on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:37AM (#11302886)

I dropped Sickbeard/SickRage for Sonarr a few months ago. I'm very happy with the change. Especially with the better support for torrents and easier to use UI.

Thanks for all your hard work on the project!

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by kayone on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:31PM (#11306477)

Thanks, that's generally the feedback we get, when people switch they are generally very happy, but I guess that might just be the feedback loop.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by khorne on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:41AM (#11303729)

I'm not entirely sure if it was Sonarr, but one of the crawlers didnt support multiple media folders. Which is really annoying.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by kayone on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:28PM (#11306449)

Sonarr supports as many _root folders_ as you want, the only restrictions is that a single show is limited to a single folder, so `tvs1/show1` `tvs2/show2` is completely valid, but `tvs1/show1` `tvs2/show1` is not.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by fromtheoutside on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:53AM (#11304315)

I was really surprised how fast Sonarr renders HTML pages, compared to Sickbeard it felt like it was 10x faster.

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Re:SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader by kayone on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:27PM (#11306438)

Sonarr is a SPA, also our backend is C# vs python, which generally leads to better performance (contrary to what a lot of criticism we get, "why did you go with C# it's so slow" ok...).

The other part is that I did performance work for few years as my main job so I would say that adds a bit as well. right now we are working on refreshed UI which will be even more snappy.

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