Everyone here is talking about how to get the latest and best stuff, but no one is talking about how they actually manage it 😜

So, how do YOU manage your Movies / Shows / Music / eBooks / Games?

I begin:

  • Plex for Movies / Shows / Music
  • Kavita for eBooks and Manga
  • Romm for my Gamecollection and Roms (it supports PC games aswell)
  • myxi@feddit.nlEnglish
    59·
    1 year ago

    I use Prowlarr + Radarr + Sonarr + Jellyfin.

    I have /data directory organised like this:

    /data
├── media
│   ├── books
│   ├── movies
│   ├── music
│   └── tv
└── torrents
    ├── books
    ├── movies
    ├── music
    └── tv

    Files added from Sonarr goes to torrents/tv and that for Radarr torrents/movies. Once the torrent client has downloaded the files, Sonarr and Radarr hardlinks the needed files to media’s respective folders. I have set media/tv for shows and media/movies for movies on Jellyfin. Everything is automated, I love it.

      • Entropy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I have this with a usenet folder as well, sub folder for game roms that I mostly manage on my own by manual hardlinking

    • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Pretty much my method. On an unRaid server so that I can have a flat user space interface and expand as needed.

      My collecting isn’t as automated and only my video media is aggregated into a viewing platform (Plex), but it’s pretty easy to find anything on a moments notice.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Would you happen to have any recommendations for any compete noob UNRAID resources? I have a GSA and I’m very interested in using UNRAID on that, but I haven’t played around with non-Windows or OSX OSes in over 15 years.

        • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          The unRaid forums are the place to go. TBH, it’s so bullet proof I only ever do anything with it when I rebuild my server. The last time was ~3 years ago.

          The management is a nice gui, the docker setup is mostly automatic, but doing anything beyond basics is command line. I almost never use *ix but it’s really not that bad.

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I’ll start there, thank you! That’s the only thing holding me back from having a home server, like I’ve always wanted. Well, that, and having to screw like ten 2.5” SAS drives into sleds. That’s too many screws.

            • nukeworker10@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Look for spaceinvaderone on YT. He has great tutorials for almost everything. One note of caution, the Unraid UI has evolved, so some things ma look different.

              I also run Unraid with Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and Overseer running as dockers. Its a great system.

              • Caboose20@lemmy.caEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I second this. Sapceinvaderone has some great Unraid videos. I’d also recommend checking our IBRACORP, they have some videos about setting up Unraid just like @myxi@feddit.nl

    • PURSUTE@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I have a similar setup but without the hardlinks. Can you explain the benefits/reason for using the them? I think I understand what a hardlink is, but don’t quite get why you’d use it in this context.

      • myxi@feddit.nlEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        The torrent client can get confused about the authenticity of the files if you make any changes to the files that were downloaded. It can also have trouble finding all the files required for seeding, so moving the needed files to media is a no.

        Once the torrent client finishes downloading the files, instead of copying the needed files among them to media’s respective folder, we simply make a hardlink to it to save space and to ensure the authenticity of the files in torrents folder such that the torrent client has no trouble seeding the files.

        The seeded folder which contains the needed files can also contain media that can potentially confuse Jellyfin such that it shows it; furthermore, less useless files also decreases the scanning time taken by Jellyfin. So instead of directly linking the respective folders in torrents we have a separate and more clean directory for Jellyfin media.

        TL;DR: to save space and to ensure your torrent client can keep seeding the files.

      • BitterSweetEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Underneath the file system, files are represented by inodes. (Or is it multiple inodes? Not sure.)

        A file in the file system is basically a link to an inode. A hard link, then, just creates another file with a link to the same underlying inode.

        source: stackoverflow sym versus hard links

        Making a copy simply makes another inode, doubling your storage usage. You can use jdupes to convert duplicate files to hard links.

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Mostly the same over here. I also run Jellyseer for automated show/film request handling, autoscan for faster Jellyfin scanning since my drive is a network drive not directly attached to the server, and unpackerr for auto-unzipping files from the occasional Usenet style download with a movie split into 60 RAR files.