In that case, do the exact same thing and ignore Usenet.
You can still automate everything and do everything I said with torrents!!
Btw, there are excellent Usenet discounts. I currently pay approx… 50ish dollars a year for both providers and indexers? But I understand it may not be feasible. Just sharing the options.
You can definitely still integrate the whole stack with both public and private trackers
May I a recommend a change in approach?
Ditch the torrents for Usenet. Faster downloads, fully encrypted, none of the risks of torrents.
I used to torrent the old fashioned way (and still do for some obscure stuff), but I switched over to usenet.
The arr stack fully supports usenet natively.
You can check out https://trash-guides.info/ for a massive amount of information.
The TLDR is:
get a usenet subscription. I use easy news, viper news and one more I cannot recall. Easy news unlimited, the other two are “block” accounts from an entirely separate usenet provider to “fill in the blanks” if any files are missing from my main provider.
sign up for several indexers. DrunkenSlug is my favorite. I am subbed to a few more as well. The more you have the more you’ll have access to.
set up your arr stack. Use Prowlarr to configure your indexers, which will propagate them to Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr.
set up your download client with your provider configuration. I used SABnzb
fine tune your Sonarr and Radarr. Try to prioritize releases/codecs/encodes/remuxes based on your needs. I just try to grab h265/x265 or HEVC to reduce storage consumption as much as possible. You can even specify if you want 5.1 audio, Dolby Atmos, HDR, etc. it’s all there in trash guides.
set up your Jellyfin. There is where I cannot help because I use Plex. I did set it up and it scanned my library quite well but it’s just not there yet for normal users (friends and family)
This is just a very high level overview. Feel free to ask tho I am not a Usenet/Arr guru by any means but my setup works.
Edit: you can still incorporate torrents into your workflow but you really don’t need to. In the off chance you can’t find something on Usenet and you find a torrent, just download it normally and throw it in your library. Jellyfin will pick it up and pull the relevant metadata for you. I do the same thing using YT-DLP for videos.
Did you try yt-dlp? It might work.
Skull Knight = upvote ❤️❤️
Credit where it’s due! Thank you so much for what you are doing!
🫡 Mad respect. Well done and thank you ❤️
Done. Please ask your friend to check my other comment 🙏🏻
His name is Peregrin Took. The falcon is called a peregrine falcon and it’s quite the fast animal.
I hope this helped your friend. If not, I can offer more support and guidance
Took me a second to get it. Well done 👏🏻
How tf have I never made that connection?!
Yes! Preaching to the choir here, but just in case someone finds this useful: JDownloader is your one stop shop for any DDLs you might have. Take a few minutes to look it over. It’s great.
And you know what? I do tend to agree with your view. It’s just that I’ve reached a point where I can’t be bothered with private trackers and some of the weird rules some of them have. Specially now that I migrated away from a seed box to an in-house (literally) server.
The convenience is top notch tho!