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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?

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.

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.

glad_cat , (edited )

I don’t have a big NAS but it’s easy to fill a bunch of hard drives. I was born in the 80s which means that I want to watch a lot of comedies and action movies from the 70s (old stuff), 80s (childhood), and 90s (“teenagehood”). Also a lot of current movies because there is a lot of good stuff (I watched the Dune 2021 with my wife and we both agreed that it’s fucking awesome, there are a billion good movies out there). I only have a thousand movies but it’s already weighing more than 1 TB (each movie is 1 GB in 1080p because I don’t want 4K stuff on my shitty TV). Most of those movies are what I consider “good movies” that I want to watch again in the future, the same way people had VHS libraries in the 80s.

Now add TV shows. Each TV show has approximately 20 episodes for 10 seasons. It’s an additional 3 or 4 TB of stuff that I may want to watch in the future. You can easily get a few interesting TV shows whatever your preferences are. Any kind of video that you may want to watch twice in the future. For example, I always wanted to watch the X-files when I was younger but I didn’t had the time to do it. All the X-files episodes add 80 GB on my NAS. South Park: 50 GB, Bewitched (1964-1972, yes, I love that old stuff): 80 GB!

Also don’t forget cartoons (I have 500 GB of cartoons and anime), it can be big.

Music is a smaller issue because I compress everything from FLAC to the Opus codec at high quality and, while the files may be small, it still counts. Every album weighs 100 MB, a discography is 1 GB. If you like a hundred artists, you have 100 GB of additional data.

As for finding stuff, I don’t use Sonarr or stuff like this, I only note what I remember from the past (or new movies) and get it later from TPB.

the_kalash ,

I love that old stuff

Same. I have all the season of Night Rider, Golden Girls, MacGuyver, Family Matters and old cartoons like Doug, Hey Arnold!, The Flintstones or TaleSpin, to name a few.

My biggest single show is the Simpsons, with 1.1TB. Bones, The Sopranos, StarTrek TNG … all in the 400-500GB range.

glad_cat ,

Knight rider, Family matters

Oh shit, new stuff for my NAS that I was watching a long time ago. Thanks!

vildis OP ,

Biggest series i have are Better Call Saul at 123GB, Breaking Bad at 65GB, Mr Robot at 44 GB and Stranger Things Seasons 1-3 at 38GB

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

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.

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.

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.

another_kbin_addict ,

Letterboxd.

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

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