[–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago

You can only rely on ready availability for certain shows/movies that are popular at the moment. Lots of stuff fades away over time. There's some shows/movies that sit in the download queue for months (or still counting) for lack of seeds, and re-searching finds nothing. Sometimes even finding a single torrent is difficult or impossible. My Wanted lists in sonarr/radarr have many items where no torrent is ever found. Nobody is interested in them I guess. I'm sure they're out there somewhere. Once I finally get my hands on them, I will only want to delete if it's crap. I'd say about half my collection is fairly easy to replace and the other half was some kind of effort/luck to track down and might not be found again.

And I don't feel like watching things right away after I get them, or doing work and waiting every time I want to watch something. Sometimes I hear about media, download it, then don't watch for a while.

But it's fine not to keep drives full of media if you don't want to. Especially now with streaming torrents and stuff, it is very flexible. If your taste is coinciding with people who seed torrents, then you are in luck. There have been millions of TV shows and movies produced, it is much broader.

And I guess it is kind of a hobby. :)

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    I'm trying to reduce the size of my video collection because I'm running out of storage.

    My strategy is to look for smaller sized files to replace very large ones. When that fails, I am using handbrake to rencode. Its working, but very slowly due to my ancient computer. Redownloading is the much faster method.

    Some titles, which were originally released as non-english, have existing small files, but the English audio is only available less commonly as a huge file.

    Is it possible to redownload the non-english video and map the English audio onto it? It might be too much fooling around to get syncing correct.

    Extra question, does anybody know how to set up sonarr/radarr to try to reduce filesize automatically? Ive been doing all the downloading by hand.

    [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I found a few threads where people were loving it but they were from a few years back.

    I installed it but the configuration was not straightforward. Thats why I was wondering if these things are all compatible, because the other client felt totally different.. If its still a good choice I'll need to go back when I have the concentration to read about what it is wanting for set up.

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    A while ago, I saw people suggesting Navidrome for self hosted music streaming.

    I don't understand what's the relationship between Subsonic and Navidrome. Navidrome makes some use of Subsonic API. What does that mean?

    Subsonic looks like a proprietary software. How does Navidrome, an open source (MIT) package, use their API? Is the API licensed for this?

    Do I expect any Subsonic app to work perfectly with Navidrome? Or is it partial inter-compatibility?

    Extra questions:

    • Recommended android app? I would like to have good offline support to select and sync music that will then be available on my phone without network

    • Podcast/audiobook support? Am currently using audiobookshelf, is this compatible at all? Not sure if any benefit even if theoretically possible.

    [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago

    You you are on my wave length. Here was my actual playlist:

    I went to sleep with that and when I wake up either in the middle of the night or the morning, it is still playing some other episodes of TNG.

    There is a setting and I configured it in the obvious way:

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/69816290

    How do I set jellyfin to stop playing TV shows after a while? Like a "sleep" function.

    Tried creating a playlist with only limited number of episodes but it just keeps playing other episodes of same show.

    Settings > Playback > Play next episode automatically is UNchecked.

    Using the Jellyfin official app on android phone. Don't mind using a different client, especially if it's available from f-droid.

    Is there a separate android app? (Halt any playing media + turn off screen on a timer.) When watching on TV set, there is a feature that does this.

     

    How do I set jellyfin to stop playing TV shows after a while? Like a "sleep" function.

    Tried creating a playlist with only limited number of episodes but it just keeps playing other episodes of same show.

    Settings > Playback > Play next episode automatically is UNchecked.

    Using the Jellyfin official app on android phone. Don't mind using a different client, especially if it's available from f-droid.

    Is there a separate android app? (Halt any playing media + turn off screen on a timer.) When watching on TV set, there is a feature that does this.

    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Without knowing any technical details, anybody can see by looking that it will be be harder to build and maintain something like is pictured with those fragile individual car covers. A strong wind would take them away.

    Why not build a proper roof to put them on?

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    For holiday gift I was thinking of making USB/microSDs full of TV/movies. The intended recipients are not tech savvy types. They would be using windows computers, normal TVs etc.

    What kind of file formats/encodings would be good to package the files in? What is safe and universally usable? And which ones are to be avoided? I'd like to guarentee they'll play without any fooling around with drivers or software.

    And I want them to be as small as possible so that I can fit more stuff.

     

    Is there any simple vector drawing application that can let me make rough sketches with arbitrary units?

    For example, I want to be able to draw a rectangle that is exactly 2'6 x 12".

    If I scale it by 50% it should be 15" x 6". I want to be able to measure distances. I don't want to keep track of a scale/conversion/ratio in my head, that's a perfect job for computer.

    In the old Sketchup software (RIP) you could type the measurements in while drawing or manipulating objects. It was extremely fast and intuitive. I don't need 3d modelling; it was just a great UI.

    All I can find is CAD and it is way overkill. Not gonna design a cotton gin or a circuit board. I just want to make a simple floor plan to see if the furniture would fit the way I want to arrange it. Or estimate material requirements for projects.

    Desired features: Layers, customizable/smart keyboard shortcuts, colors, rectangle circle lines, transform/scale/skew/rotate, group/lock objects, rulers grids guide snapping.

    anything?

     

    Why is it that on social platforms, the date stamps are obscured? It there some sort of security or other technical reason for this? Is it user oriented somehow that I am failing to consider?

    I want to see, select and copy the dates associated with posts. Ideally everywhere on the web. Bypass? Can ublock origin do anything about this?

    On dbz for example, you get a relative time only unless you hover to see the specific time:

    Piefed and reddit both do this.

    Additionally, the text that displays the relative time is often not normal and cannot be selected and copied. "Select all" skips it:

    Here's how dates look in the source. lemmy.dbzer0.com:

    <span class="moment-time pointer unselectable" data-tippy-content="Sunday, August 31st, 2025 at 3:58:32 AM GMT+00:00">6 hours ago</span>
    

    I see there is class unselectable. I don't know what exactly is going on.

    On PieFed you can select/copy the relative time stamp, like "2 years ago", but still not the actual date.

    Mastodon displays recent posts with a relative time like "12h" but at some point things get old enough to graduate to just the date: "Dec 9, 2023". And you can select the text as normal.

    edit: title "why do web developers want to make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments?"

     

    I went to https://selfh.st/ because someone posted a link to a github repo that had some tracking appended to the URL (?ref=selfh.st). OK your marketing worked on me I'm a mark.

    I still have an aversion to this kind of tracking. Maybe considering how old-fashioned it it compared to the undetectable and nearly impossible to evade tracking methods currently deployed, that's wrong. Maybe this is just charming and quaint.

    Disregarding the above, I liked the site enough to subscribe to their RSS feed https://selfh.st/rss/. Well that was pointless, as there is no content in the feed. Each entry like this:

    Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, August 1, 2025

    Continue reading on selfh.st...

    I kind of expect a meaningful RSS feed these days. It sign of participating in the Libre internet.

    Workaround: I have used Kill the Newsletter! (which kicks ass) to convert the email newsletter to an Atom feed which appears to work. Got the confirmation email, now need to wait for a post to be made.

    What do you all think?

    1. Link tracking: yay or nay?

    2. Placeholder RSS: Rude or acceptable?

     

    With Lidarr being not very functional due to the Unable to communicate with LidarrAPI - Lidarr API "Internal Server Error" 500 | Invalid response received from LidarrAPI | HTTP Request Timeout · Issue #5498 · Lidarr/Lidarr I have been thinking about getting rid of it altogether. I have only started using it recently and don't like it.

    What I use Lidarr for:

    • Find metadata for music
      • organize files in a consistent way base on metadata
      • obtain album art
      • create .nfo or other files
    • Identify desired music and instruct download utility to get it (this is optional for me--- I can handle myself if needed)
    • Do the above via a web interface which can be browsed nicely

    I don't like about Lidarr:

    • The not-really-open-source nature of it, e.g. this current problem, where you are reliant on their external server to run your own home server. I feel this might be a more pervasive issue in the Arrs but not sure of all the implications
    • How unsupported it is to include work that the lidarr servers don't know about. There will never be a metadata database which includes all music. There is just too much music in the world!
    • no audiobook/podcast support

    I also have Jellyfin going for the actual serving/streaming of the music. Am not sure if it is able to fully manage the metadata and files?

    Lots of options in the awesome-selfhosted list.

    I could use a linux desktop app if it was better than a selfhosted server.

    Thoughts?


    UPDATE after 2 days and 16 total comments on the thread

    As suggested by many people, I gave MusicBrainz Picard a try. It is actually quite straight forward functionality-wise. You do have to babysit it for sure, but it gets fairly close a lot of the time.

    It would be very much improved by coming with more presets for file naming. Constructing them is obtuse python stuff. Something like how Trash Guides gives you naming schemes that account for many possibilities. No reason the user should need to do all that on their own from scratch.

    Being native linux applications is a big plus, it is smooth to run. Would be nice to have some workflow aides like keyboard shortcuts available.

     

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47871600

    (I am not affiliated with the project at all, just an end user.)

    Announcement: Retirement of Readarr

    We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project's metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.

    Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we're not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.

    Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.

    Key Points

    • Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
    • Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
    • Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
    • Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
    • Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.

    Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.

    Sincerely,
    The Servarr Team

    The github repo has been archived.

     

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47871600

    (I am not affiliated with the project at all, just an end user.)

    Announcement: Retirement of Readarr

    We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project's metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.

    Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we're not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.

    Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.

    Key Points

    • Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
    • Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
    • Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
    • Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
    • Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.

    Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.

    Sincerely,
    The Servarr Team

    The github repo has been archived.

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