Ask HN: What is your streaming setup like?

Re:Ask HN: What is your streaming setup like? by aydio on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:44AM (#36787258)

I'm on a bunch of private torrent trackers where retention is excellent. Jackett is interfacing with those trackers and exposes a unified "Torznab" endpoint that Sonarr and Radarr use to autograb whatever I'm interested in. Those in turn send their match to qBittorrent and get notified when a download is finished, and hardlink (very important to save time and hard disk space) the result to a destination folder in a nicely organized fashion. That folder is observed by Jellyfin, which matches the name with The Movie DB to show cover images of shows and movies.

I used to perform a manual search and pick the right release for me. Nowadays, my filters are good enough that I just add whatever is supposed to be released in the foreseeable future, and the setup is doing the rest.

I'm also archiving whatever I'm watching long term on a local 4x18TB RAID-5 NAS

It's crazy how well this software collection works in unison.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your streaming setup like? by loganmarchione on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:49AM (#36787348)

How do you get invites into private trackers? Any you recommend?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your streaming setup like? by aydio on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:53AM (#36787435)

The canonical way to "work your way up" nowadays is to get into RED. Once you get to a certain user class, you'll find that there's a path to lots of categories. Getting into trackers takes a bit of dedication, but it pays off and does not require your ongoing attention once you're set.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your streaming setup like? by 0x0000000 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:56AM (#36787491)

Usually one of the following ways:

1) know someone who is already on the inside, who has earned enough reputation to get some invites, or

2) Idle in some IRC channel for anywhere from a few days to a few months, and then pass some quiz/interview to make sure you know the basics of torrent etiquette and such

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Re:Ask HN: What is your streaming setup like? by ashconnor on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:23AM (#36787956)

Adding an email address to your HN profile would be a good start.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your streaming setup like? by Thristle on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:37PM (#36789223)

This is exactly my setup. It is SHOCKING how well it works

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