I was a happy Netflix user until 2018, before that I haven’t really pirated any movies (with very rare exceptions) for almost a decade but I recently started again. I’m was doing my monthly budgeting and realized I was paying for too many subscription services. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Shudder, Disney+, Hulu and Crunchyroll.
My family likes to watch different types of content that is distributed on many different platforms.
I was never subscribed to these many services until a couple years ago. I was thinking which service I should cancel when I realized I had the option to cancel all of them this entire time.
I’m torrenting again and I started saving a considerate amount.
The only service I’m paying for is Spotify which I think it’s fairly priced and offers all the music my family listens too (and it’s convenient). All the competitors pretty much offer the same content and that’s how streaming services should be.
I remember back in the day using eMule and BitChe (to look for torrents). Now I’m using Deluge as my torrent client and I I get my torrents from 1337x. What sites are you guys using?
yts, again the original went down but I’ve been using https://yts.mx/ which is fantastic.
stremio. set it up with some plugins and it’s pretty useful.
this one is a little weird but https://databasegdriveplayer.xyz/player.php?imdb= I have a browser extension to pop up the relevant link on the imdb page, so I can just click that. not always best quality, but for some rarer titles it really does end up helping.
for client I’ve always really used transmission. it’s small, comfy, works.
I’d honestly be willing to spend $30-$60 a month for 2012 netflix. It’s the content loss that really killed things for me. Stupid-ass copyright holders.
You can configure Deluge so that it can only use the VPN interface and nothing else. This way if the VPN drops even just a second, you’re safe. You set this by entering the VPN IP in the the “Outgoing Interface” box in the Network settings. If the VPN IP changes, you need to update it (which can be automated using a script).
Make sure you aren’t downloading things manually unless you have to. Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr can be configured to download the latest media for you automatically. It’s not 2004 anymore :)
I was mainly torrenting before Netflix but ever since NF has gone to hell I’ve been on the lookout for a more family-friendly way to stream. After trying out a few options (Kodi, fmovies, Stremio etc) I’ve found that nothing beats the Stremio+Torrentio+Real Debrid method. You do have to pay subscription for Real Debrid but it’s really cheap and not compulsory.
That’s what I just setup a few days ago following another thread on here and can confirm, it’s so simple and works really well.
I also started using Trakt along with it and adding user lists on stremio to fill up the feed.
Now my only problems are handling language (we watch stuff in original version but would like French versions for the kid). I set up torrentio for it but seems a bit hit or miss.
The other part I still need to figure out is when there’s no streams found for more obscure stuff, I read I can fetch magnet links myself and put them in real DB but haven’t tried it yet, not sure where best to go get these links and also don’t understand if it’s then going to work like normal for shows (like do I just search the titles again in stremio after putting the link in real DB and can I just do it for s01ep01 and then it’ll autoplay the next episodes as normal?).
I prefer much more to pay for Real Debrid even when their servers are not as perfect as Netflix or alike, they are cheaper and have all the content that you’d normally want to see.
If you want to share those downloads in an easy netflix-like way you should consider a small homeserver with Jellyfin. Even a newer raspberry pi is strong enough for streaming to 2 or maybe 3 people at the same time, unless files need transcoding to different codecs.
Iptv, stremio, real debrid and torrentio ftw! I’m paying for things, but it’s a fraction of what we paid for all the subscriptions. And I can actually find things I want to watch!
Same here. I was actually pretty okay with just going with Netflix and then maybe HBO. But then every one of their mothers has their own streaming service.
If you are into self hosting, I suggest you look into unraid, from there look at sonnar/radarr/libarr (tv/movies/music), run these in radar as dockers. I recommend looking a spaceinvaders videos on YouTube to get you started.
These three dockers will help with automating your torrent downloads.
Once you get comfortable with this I would suggest looking into seedboxes to host your download clients outside of your local network. And I would also suggest looking into nzb downloads to help pull more content. There are some excellent nzb sites to sign up for.
Same. I have no idea what’s going on rn lol. I just use justchill or ee3 to stream and if I really like something I’ll torrent it from yts to keep it. That’s about as complex as my system gets
The arr apps such as sonarr (TV), radarr (movies), lidarr (music), readarr (books), etc automate the search, download and organization of content. So for TV you go into sonarr add a show you like such as Friends and say you want all episodes, or just new episodes, setup the quality you want and it will monitor the torrent sites or your Usenet you added and download the content when it is available. It takes a bit of time to setup but once you do it a few times it becomes easier and all the arr apps have a similar interface, settings and setup. There’s a good wiki out there if you search “servarr”.
Edit to add: unraid is an OS you can use for virtual machines and containers. I personally use proxmox, but windows will work, probably less efficient, if you’re comfortable with it.
I haven’t yet jumped into this, because of the amount of Node in some of those, but I’ve been thinking about it.
One question I have is: is it obvious that a given search result is pirated or legal? There’s a lot of “legal” content, and if a user is concerned with legality, can they still very value from the *arr tools? Can they get access to only-legal content, or is it only the usual torrent services, and the usual legal ambiguity?
This is what I do. I have a truenas server and it runs docker containers for couch potato, medusa, transmission, and plex. When shows are released they just show up in plex as if it were Netflix. Easy. No red tape on finding out which streaming service etc. It will just arrive all in one place. Best of all there’s a good app to manage it all from your phone. Nzb360
Very similar situation here. Around 2017/2018 I had Netflix and Prime Video. I was able to watch 95% of the content I wanted to watch and only had to download some obscure 90’s SciFi series they didn’t have.
But the industry had to fuck it up and create too many platforms. We have Netflix, Prime, Disney+, HBO, Paramount Plus, Apple TV+ and many more. I am not subscribing to your service because one or two titles might interest me. It’s way too much cost for a lot less value I had in 2018.
I even wanted to make an exception for Apple TV+ because their series are absolutely amazing. But they force you to buy an expensive Apple device to watch the content in 4K on the Safari Browser. Go fuck yourself, Apple. It’s not even a technical issue, because they play the trailers in 4K but then switch to 480p with a terrible bitrate.
Don’t go to the big media outlets and start crying that piracy is too damn high if you make it more inconvenient to watch your programs legally than just downloading an MKV file from somewhere.
It’s like the old cable tv days where you had to get hundreds of useless channels and multiple packages and pay a fortune just to get the 3 channels you actually want.
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Even when I subbed to netflix, I still downloaded what I enjoyed.
I like having an offline copy of my media.
Online content always seems to provide sub-par quality, even on good connections. Don’t need to worry about that with downloaded media.
Plus, if the internet goes down for whatever reason? External HDD > Laptop > HDMI > TV. Boom. Offline Netflix.
It’s also nice for traveling and staying in hotels. Most hotel TVs have at least one accessible HDMI port, and that’s all you need.
My family still has netflix so I use that sometimes. But… most of the time I’ll download from a few places for movies:
for client I’ve always really used transmission. it’s small, comfy, works.
Therargb is a good one, thx! Sadly I cannot (yet) add it to jackett.
I think a lot of us are in the same boat. The early days of Spotify and Netflix killed piracy for me.
Convenience and a fair price? Not on my watch! - Greedy corporate assholes
I’d honestly be willing to spend $30-$60 a month for 2012 netflix. It’s the content loss that really killed things for me. Stupid-ass copyright holders.
Too many shitty streaming services. Just pay for a reliable VPN and torrent to your heart content. I’m using qbittorrent and transmission.
I have surf shark vpn. Are they reliable or who do you recommend?
Surfshark is okay for torrenting but I don’t really trust surfshark when it comes to my sensitive info.
Deluge leaks your ip address if you use a VPN, I use QBittorrent for this reason.
You can configure Deluge so that it can only use the VPN interface and nothing else. This way if the VPN drops even just a second, you’re safe. You set this by entering the VPN IP in the the “Outgoing Interface” box in the Network settings. If the VPN IP changes, you need to update it (which can be automated using a script).
Oh cool. I have no reason to switch back now that I have something that works, but it’s good to know
Make sure you aren’t downloading things manually unless you have to. Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr can be configured to download the latest media for you automatically. It’s not 2004 anymore :)
Thank you, I needed this! Now I need to get these set up
It’s so bad, that I’ve gone almost a decade without watching a movie outside of public television.
I was mainly torrenting before Netflix but ever since NF has gone to hell I’ve been on the lookout for a more family-friendly way to stream. After trying out a few options (Kodi, fmovies, Stremio etc) I’ve found that nothing beats the Stremio+Torrentio+Real Debrid method. You do have to pay subscription for Real Debrid but it’s really cheap and not compulsory.
That’s what I just setup a few days ago following another thread on here and can confirm, it’s so simple and works really well.
I also started using Trakt along with it and adding user lists on stremio to fill up the feed.
Now my only problems are handling language (we watch stuff in original version but would like French versions for the kid). I set up torrentio for it but seems a bit hit or miss.
The other part I still need to figure out is when there’s no streams found for more obscure stuff, I read I can fetch magnet links myself and put them in real DB but haven’t tried it yet, not sure where best to go get these links and also don’t understand if it’s then going to work like normal for shows (like do I just search the titles again in stremio after putting the link in real DB and can I just do it for s01ep01 and then it’ll autoplay the next episodes as normal?).
I prefer much more to pay for Real Debrid even when their servers are not as perfect as Netflix or alike, they are cheaper and have all the content that you’d normally want to see.
I still buy CDs for the highest possible bitrate and album art. That’s how willing I am to pay for content.
I started torrenting movies again about a month ago. This shit is ridiculous. They made the situation absurd. I paid until it turned stupid again.
Good sound quality but shame about the loudness and compression on a lot of CD releases of the last 15 years or so though.
CD’s are 16 bit, 44kHz, and can not go higher. There are higher mediums, tho I agree with your sentiment.
I use Musi and it has everything for free (I have no spotify) and acts like youtube red. No account needed. One ad if u don’t pay.
24/192 rips from a half inch tape are the way to go.
You don’t do anything with those though without a DAC that can play that without downsampling and an operating system with a sensible sound service.
And the right genre and good ears.
Going back to my Steely Dan collection ->
If you want to share those downloads in an easy netflix-like way you should consider a small homeserver with Jellyfin. Even a newer raspberry pi is strong enough for streaming to 2 or maybe 3 people at the same time, unless files need transcoding to different codecs.
That combined with the servarr docker containers beats any streaming service hands down
Iptv, stremio, real debrid and torrentio ftw! I’m paying for things, but it’s a fraction of what we paid for all the subscriptions. And I can actually find things I want to watch!
Same, got tired of shit service.
If a fucking piracy website is better than the cooperate that should make people question why they even pay a single cent to them.
Same here. I was actually pretty okay with just going with Netflix and then maybe HBO. But then every one of their mothers has their own streaming service.
Back to the salty seas for me
I think the phrase you were looking for was “everyone and their mothers” 😅
If you are into self hosting, I suggest you look into unraid, from there look at sonnar/radarr/libarr (tv/movies/music), run these in radar as dockers. I recommend looking a spaceinvaders videos on YouTube to get you started.
These three dockers will help with automating your torrent downloads.
Once you get comfortable with this I would suggest looking into seedboxes to host your download clients outside of your local network. And I would also suggest looking into nzb downloads to help pull more content. There are some excellent nzb sites to sign up for.
Everything you just said went over my head. Can you clarify what you are describing? Or simplify it?
Same. I have no idea what’s going on rn lol. I just use justchill or ee3 to stream and if I really like something I’ll torrent it from yts to keep it. That’s about as complex as my system gets
The arr apps such as sonarr (TV), radarr (movies), lidarr (music), readarr (books), etc automate the search, download and organization of content. So for TV you go into sonarr add a show you like such as Friends and say you want all episodes, or just new episodes, setup the quality you want and it will monitor the torrent sites or your Usenet you added and download the content when it is available. It takes a bit of time to setup but once you do it a few times it becomes easier and all the arr apps have a similar interface, settings and setup. There’s a good wiki out there if you search “servarr”.
Edit to add: unraid is an OS you can use for virtual machines and containers. I personally use proxmox, but windows will work, probably less efficient, if you’re comfortable with it.
I haven’t yet jumped into this, because of the amount of Node in some of those, but I’ve been thinking about it.
One question I have is: is it obvious that a given search result is pirated or legal? There’s a lot of “legal” content, and if a user is concerned with legality, can they still very value from the *arr tools? Can they get access to only-legal content, or is it only the usual torrent services, and the usual legal ambiguity?
“Legal,” not “ethical.”
This is what I do. I have a truenas server and it runs docker containers for couch potato, medusa, transmission, and plex. When shows are released they just show up in plex as if it were Netflix. Easy. No red tape on finding out which streaming service etc. It will just arrive all in one place. Best of all there’s a good app to manage it all from your phone. Nzb360
Very similar situation here. Around 2017/2018 I had Netflix and Prime Video. I was able to watch 95% of the content I wanted to watch and only had to download some obscure 90’s SciFi series they didn’t have.
But the industry had to fuck it up and create too many platforms. We have Netflix, Prime, Disney+, HBO, Paramount Plus, Apple TV+ and many more. I am not subscribing to your service because one or two titles might interest me. It’s way too much cost for a lot less value I had in 2018.
I even wanted to make an exception for Apple TV+ because their series are absolutely amazing. But they force you to buy an expensive Apple device to watch the content in 4K on the Safari Browser. Go fuck yourself, Apple. It’s not even a technical issue, because they play the trailers in 4K but then switch to 480p with a terrible bitrate.
Don’t go to the big media outlets and start crying that piracy is too damn high if you make it more inconvenient to watch your programs legally than just downloading an MKV file from somewhere.
It’s like the old cable tv days where you had to get hundreds of useless channels and multiple packages and pay a fortune just to get the 3 channels you actually want.