BearJCC

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.

Does anyone know of a self hosted media streaming service similar to Plex that will allow me to stream videos as audio only? Or better yet, to be able to sync/download them as audio only?

I have been going through and ripping hundreds of discs and hosting them on Plex, but my gf likes listening to shows while she sleeps and I like listening to movies while I commute.

Having the ability to use less data, less phone storage, and not have the screen on would be great.

Our solutions so far are: For movies, use external player of vlc and select audio only. For TV shows this will not play the next episode so I have a batch file I run that uses ffmpeg to extract the audio tracks and relabel them such that TV franchises are "Artists," TV shows are "Albums," seasons are "Discs" and episodes are "Tracks"

But this is still a bit of pain, I was wondering if anyone knew of apps that could do this natively.

Anybody know of an alarm clock or timer I can put on my Steam Deck? I play during my lunch break and would like to set an alarm when it is time to wrap up and go back to work.

I would also use the alarm function to limit myself to a certain amount of time per session on the weekend.

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