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Adding proper metadata to releases. Why are we still trying to decipher release titles, why not add a little metadata JSON file to every release and make the info available to the search API?
Also keeping multiple different versions of a release in Arr apps, like ebook and audiobook in different languages. Right now I'd need 4 Readarr instances to get the English and German audiobook and ebook versions of a book, and don't even think about letting them manage the same root folder!
Sorry, best we can do is some unrelated ASCII art.
At least they sometimes include insane rants.
and following proper naming conventions too. why can't releasers decided to choose one single naming convention together so it makes our job better to automate things?
That dubbed audio tracks of movies could be downloaded separatey and easily merged in the audio, in a way similar to subtitles. This way, the audio track in non English languages would be downloaded very quickly, even with just one seeder, and the whole movie in original language has way more seeders than dubbed ones.
Would be great for commentary tracks too.
I'd love that!
How do you approach the challenge (of getting the movies / series in English and non-English) at the moment?
Do you download two versions of the same movie?
Do you use Radarr/Sonarr and Plex? How did you set them up to be "bilingual"?
I've always only torrented movies "manually" until a few weeks ago, when I set up my first media server with jellyfin and sonarr/radarr, and set the language to italian only. often however I see that the requested movies not downloading automatically because no italian torrent is found with the required resolution (1080p), and/or the ones actually available have 0 seeds, while there's plenty of English torrents with loads of seeders
Ditto for audio in general. I notice wild differences between encodings in dialogue clarity and volume. If this were standard we could all mix and match whatever audio is best for our equipment.
Continued losses, in the billions, for ad-riddled streaming services is all I can ask for.
Being able to find, download and seed old series and movies.
Nobody ever stays seeding anymore because big private trackers make it all about ratio and small ones simply don't have to userbase to support "old" series.
Back with RARBG I had every season of that 70's show and had around a ratio of around 50. For old scooby doo, red green show, Mr. Rogers, Tom & Jerry, some cartoons from when I was a kid, etc... Now it is difficult to even find a lot of that media, much less have a good ratio from it on smaller private trackers where it might get 1 download per 6 months or so. There is absolutely no incentive for keeping around older media. If you want to get in good in trackers, you HAVE to pump and dump the most popular torrent of the week once a month or so to get a good enough ratio.
For example, on SceneTime I have a ratio of like 0.1 because it simply doesn't have users. However, they assign bonus points based on how long your torrent is seeding, if I am not mistaken, so my site "effective ratio" has gone up to 2 because you can spend the bonus points to add "upload GB" to your account if you are keeping alive "unpopular" torrents.
I like the trackers I'm in that have a point system that awards indefinite seeding and makes it possible to have a decent ratio even if you can't ever actually seed because of people with seedboxes.
Honestly? Resurrection of Rarbg. That site was gold.
That was the cleanest and most curated movie site I have ever come across, honestly a big loss to have them gone. Consistent naming scheme, amazing torrent video quality (unlike low bitrate YTS), icons/logos to show what medium the rip was from. Literal gold
A way to fairly pay the original content creator.
If I really enjoy a movie, series or music, I often actually want to send the actual creator some money to reward their creativity. May be just a dollar, may be ten. But I can't.
But I can't
You sure?
I don't pay for movies or series of (I just don't). But when I like some music (bands, producers, or even a record label) I end up buying some physical records or merchandising. If you don't care about that, the most direct way is to go to Bandcamp and buy something on friday. People often want to put a price on their work, and not just "a dollar" like it's your spare change, but there are several options and websites to do it.
With games I do the same but in Steam.
I wish anime/manga/etc studios were transparent about their costs and profit. I want to see if my favorite show has so far made enough money to afford the next season or for the team to afford their next project.
Kickstarter/Patreon should have shown creators that people will support what they like and even if they have made enough money people will continue to buy/donate to creators they love.
Arr service that links with SoulSeek, automatically downloads music, passes it through beets, calculates ReplayGain values and the rest of the missing metadata and then organizes and renames it
This is the fucking dream. Lidarr is serviceable to get a library going, but we could do so much better.
More people to get in to I2P.
What is I2P?
Fully anonymouse and FREE P2P network great for torrenting and somewhat encouraged even.
filenames following the standards of library apps like jellyfin, plex, etc.
i don't want every file to be named "[ASDF]some.shitty.show.S3E7.MULTI(360p h264 7.1 dual audio).mkv"
jellyfin can't identify most of these, and the relevant information can be found out easily by tapping properties (in windows, anyway)
Errrm, sonarr/radarr can sort that out perfectly
Give FileBot a try. I liked it so much, I even bought the license. It works really well.
i don’t want every file to be named “[ASDF]some.shitty.show.S3E7.MULTI(360p h264 7.1 dual audio).mkv”
That file name contains the S3E7 bit, which is enough for it to get parsed by plex. Seems to be a jellyfin issue.
Better matching with dubbed versions of non-English shows. I have to manually search, since the "language" isn't English in the original, even though there's an English dub. Using Sonarr
I need people to submit more of the research papers that I need to be able to read to lib Gen or sci hub
You might know this already, but try emailing the primary authors directly and asking for a copy, it's often the easiest way to get them if you haven't got any other way to access.
Arr software for YouTube with Sponsorblock built in.
A way to use Sponsorblock on podcasts.
More I2P torrenting support
Better music support. Movies and TV do great through the *arrs and Jellyfin, but music is a big mess.
Well, unlike TV/Movies, typically ALL music is available on ALL platforms, so there isn't a service problem. Spotify and others are still really nice to use for consumers.
For TMDB to end their stupid policy of setting broadcast episode order as the default. Any app that uses them for metadata to match files names ends up with wrong episodes because obviously nobody wants broadcast order.
Yeah I want to watch my shows in alphabetical order.
Haha. What I mean is that some TV series have a different episode order on DVD/bluray than what they were originally broadcast in. “Firefly” is the classic example. The TV networks broadcast them out of order and the DVD order is the “correct” one and the order in which pirate TV packs will use. But by default many tools (which use TMDB.com) have the wrong metadata for the episodes.
More VR porn 😸
I really want IPFS to go mainstream. It solves a lot of problems with piracy and the internet in general. But people started thinking it was a blockchain thing, and I haven't heard much about it since then. Libgen uses it but that's the only place I've seen it be embraced.
A different, better protocol for sharing. Torrent is cool but files on it tend to die off, and also can't be updated. I'm thinking something like syncthing might be the future.
Yeah, ensuring availability over time requires dedicated infra. That's basically what it comes down to. Torrents for the most part lack dedicated providers ensuring file availability. Web seeds exist, but the uploader or the tracker needs to have the resources to back their torrents with bandwidth and storage. Other decentralized solutions, like say IPFS, don't solve the resources problem, because it's not technical, so although you can pay to have content "pinned" in place on IPFS, or you can pin it yourself, that "pinning" requires a server, running off electricity, using someone else's uplink to serve the content, all of which costs. If you don't have your own server, and don't pay someone else to pin it for you, it could easily fall off IPFS.
Syncthing could honestly help, I've thought about this a fair amount, although you'd still have the resources issues. Availability of content over syncthing or something like it would likely still be tied to popularity (how long are uploaders going to keep their syncthing folders full of specific content? how long will downloaders? In order for it to really work people would have to get in the habit of building out NAS's and putting their libraries on syncthing forever, basically). It still has some of the same basic issues with torrent, but the dynamicness is cool for sure.
I wish I could watch sports matches on demand, not just live. And I wish ad-free podcasts were available to pirate. It’s an unrealistic dream.
Being able to find and complete certain torrents. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong anymore, but I used to be able to copy and paste the hash into a search engine and complete seeders for a torrent that got stalled. Now it seems like it does nothing and I'm stuck forever. :(
Would love to find old Canadian sketch comedy. CBC doesn't release much in the way of physical media. Thankfully, most if not all of Red Green is on youtube, but the vast majority of Royal Canadian Air Farce, Wayne & Shuster, 22 Minutes, etc is rotting away in the CBC archives. Maybe there's a couple episodes here and there on archive.org but there are zero torrents.
Not always, but occasionally I have issues with playing a video and the language not being my preferred (English). Either the video doesn't have English audio or it's not the default. Not a biggie but it can waste some time if there's no talking for the first few min and my family isn't used to navigating audio settings.