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How do you find media to watch?

I’ve seen many people have insane setups to download things automatically and NAS’ with tens of terabytes of capacity, which i don’t understand at all.

I have a 1 tb drive from 2013 of which I’m using ~850GB and most of the space is used by series i have already watched and haven’t bothered to delete.

What are you storing to need so much space and how are you finding so much good content that you actually want to save?

beefbaby182 ,
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I really don’t do much pirating anymore. I have a terabyte that’s almost full that I’ve been curating for around seven years. I have my collection of favorite films and movies that I just rewatch all the time. For new stuff, just have a folder full of bookmarks to pirate streaming sites. I used to do Kodi add-ons for streaming, but that got to be a pain in the ass.

borlax ,
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I’m just a data hoarder who likes to re-watch things.

DidacticDumbass ,

Honestly, a terabyte can be filled up pretty quicky just with video games. High resolution films add up quicker than you think.

The library is good if you have the hardware to rip.

Not to mention stuff from the Internet Archive, which has all the things you definitely have never seen. It is nearly bizarre the gems one can find in the public domain.

dustojnikhummer ,

Space is why I only have about 50% of my GOG library in offline backups.

vildis OP ,

I use linux as a daily driver and most of the games that hog 100’s of gigabytes space don’t work on linux and I’m not interested in them

ComptitiveSubset ,

That really depends on how you treat the media you download. Is it just a temp buffer that you delete after watching or is it a collection you grow and curate over time.

Mugmoor ,
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I’ve been building my collection for about 15 years or so. It adds up, and thats after a few hdd failures too.

TheControlled ,

I have 50TB of capacity, 30TB used, for Movies and Shows (mostly movies). I get maximum quality 4K Blu-ray rips called Remuxes. For 4K they can be as large as 110GB each movie but never lower than 25GB.

Where I find it is private (torrent) trackers. These places are utopic is what they have available to download and organized to find everything super easy, and the trackers I’m with have a good community and we all talk and hang out in the IRC chat.

eggdaddy ,

Usually what happens is a simple set up of a laptop with Kodi and a 1tb external drive turn into a hobby and you end up with huge NAS set ups with docker stacks. It’s so much less about about the actual content and more about the hobby. At least for me it’s become that.

Crampon ,

Justwatch.com

See what’s trending, check the score. Is it streamable? If no. It’s stealable.

vildis OP ,

Thanks for the tip, never heard of this site since i usually just browse imdb

Crampon ,

IMDb is great if you want to confirm that Shawshank redemption still is the top rated movie. I think IMDb is bad to find new fresh content.

slugger ,

I have a seedbox on which I store stuff but I just stream everything from real debrid.

For new content, I check daily:

  • trending torrents categories (movies, tv packs) on a few public trackers to see what people are watching
  • check the “what’s on tv tonight” recommendations on the guardian uk website
  • I use trakt tv for recommendations
gemew26 ,

Netflix has a top shows section you can check for free as well

slugger ,

Found it. Just checked out their 10 top tv for US. Says a lot about Netflix content that users have nothing else to watch but Suits “re-runs”.

Pulp ,

Offline access is a must. Don’t rely on others to store stuff for you

vildis OP ,

Agree, after some blog posts i read were taken down due to fraudulent DMCA requests, I’ve been downloading all blog posts i read with a simple wget command

another_kbin_addict ,

Letterboxd.

And space is a bit funny because you don’t always know how much space is taken by redundancy.

UnixWeeb ,
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Initially it was just using overseerr and letting everyone that use my server just request what they wanted. I would also just explore overseerr once in awhile to see whats new.

Now though, I have several lists configured in both radarr and sonarr that are made by mdblist that will add the latest popular films/shows. Due to this usually I can just check my server and I’ll already have either the show or the movie without doing anything.

matey ,

I have Jellyseerr set up so that I and my friends can request things that will automatically get pulled down. It also has trending and upcoming content, so I sometimes find stuff there. Also, generally, I just see/hear people talking about stuff and want to check it out.

I had 2TB of space when I got my NAS, and that was more than enough for my lab, until I started downloading media. Then I bumped it to 4TB and then recently 12TB.

I want to have content for myself and my users. I will occasionally delete things if I don’t think anyone else will want to watch it and I won’t want to rewatch it. That’s usually nothingy action flicks.

t_uxio ,

I tend to find the best recommendations from the good old YTS. Sites like bestsimilar or IMDB advanced search can also find good stuff.

t_uxio ,

If there is a movie that you like, you can use some services like bestsimilar.com to get similar movies and also if you are searching for a particular niche topic you can use IMDB’s advanced search function or the bestsimilar’s search function.

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