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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?

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.

CorrodedCranium ,
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Typically I’ll check IMDb for the More like this section and go from there. It’s how I found out about Jeff and Some Aliens and The Life and Times of Tim.

Some media is also hard to come by so people might fear deleting content that might not be easy to get back in the future.

Look at all the semi-lost media where there’s only a segment of it that exists on YouTube

Wooly ,

I’ve only got a out 1.5tb but if I ditched Netflix I’d need to download 10+ shows with hundreds of episodes. I’ve already got a few 6+ season shows on my Plex but it’s mostly 1-2 season newer shows because everything has segregated so much in the past few years. If you don’t have Disney+ and want to see all the marvel shit, it’s adding up quick. It’s not like I’m rewatching all this stuff, I have 300 movies and rewatch one or two maybe once a year. I just keep everything because it’s not very expensive to me. If I need more space I’ll drop £100 and have storage for the next 5+ years.

Then there’s the people who download 25gb 4k movies and shit, I will occasionally but I don’t like to do it.

JoeKrogan , (edited )
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What is easy to find today could be difficult tomorrow. Also original versions could be lost or edited to be more PC and the original stops being sold or streamed.

Disney is removing media from its service for tax breaks. Game servers go offline all of the time making lots of games fully or partially unplayable. Bungie deletes dlc that people have paid for and I’m sure others will be able to chime in with more examples… The point is it better to save it if its important to you.

CriticalMiss ,

I store everything that I pull, my aim is to be a Netflix replacement for my family. Just have whatever you want to watch at the snap of your fingers or doom scroll until you find something.

How I get more content? Easy, I don’t. I have a telegram bot that my user can request additional content from. Usually my users have good taste so I just watch whatever they pull.

ravachol ,

Is there a GitHub for the bot?

CriticalMiss ,

github.com/Waterboy1602/Addarr

I think this is the one I use, otherwise I’m fairly certain it’s only a search away.

the_kalash ,

Well, I have around 1600 movies, 300 TV shows and 4000 albums of music. That takes some space. And I don’t really delete anything.

I’m in a DDL group for most of my usual content and evreything else I get from public torrents.

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