Selfhosted

38768 readers

151 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Media Organizer Recommendations - not a pirate (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

What software do you recommend to automate or assist organizing digital media?

My household has a lot of discs that I have been tasked with making available on the local network. Movies, TV shows, music, audio, and even photo negative scans. We live in an area that torrenting is not an option, but making copies of discs you own for personal use if legal. Also, many of these discs are not mainstream media.

I often see recommendations to use radarr or lidarr, but I assumed the "arr" means pirate and that's not what I'm looking to do.

Currently I am using a mix of MakeMKV, Handbrake, DVDFab, Filebot, and Plex. DVDFab is pretty good with movies, and Filebot is pretty good with TV shows, but it's still a lot of manual work and even still sometimes Plex grabs the wrong episode. I'm also underwhelmed with the way Filebot treats forced subtitles, and my overall ability to access and label special features off these discs.

I've run across a few software that will analyze music to identify it, is there anything similar for movies or TV shows?

I have about 30TB of media scanned in and compressed to HEVC or opus already with another few thousand discs to go. I'd be interested in options to backup/stream ISO's for movies, but only if I can delete the ads and other junk.

I'm currently using Windows 11 and TNAS, but I can setup my desktop to dual boot Linux if I need to. (Must retain Windows for work). I'd be open to something along the lines of Zappiti but all the links on their website are broken so I assume they are out of business.

top 7 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Use the -arr tools for organizing/renaming/tagging, and Plex or Jellyfin for playing. You don't need to connect them to any downloader.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Jellyfin (unlike Plex) is 100% free and doesn’t have any ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I have already paid for Plex lifetime and Jellyfin doesn't run on TNAS (or at least my TNAS).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Runs on docker so it should run fine on your system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Core or Scale ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip! Looking into it now that you recommended it. It looks like it is auto renaming files based on their existing names and not based on "fingerprint." How would this differ from FileBot? If I had a folder that I ripped to (local harddrive) would it watch it, rename and move it to the media server automatically (given I named the episodes appropriately)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Afaik you dont even need episode names. You can import manually and sonar should recognize episodes just from numbers.

By default it doesnt move files, it makes hard links so you end up with 2 files, but they take space only for 1.

Im not sure is there any other way, but you probably need source files on the server.

Create folder data/source/movies and data/media/movies, set data folder as root folder in radarr, then add movie you want and import file manually from data/source/movies