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?
If you want to automate look into the “Wikiarr” but to answer your question I think many of us are just data hoarders. I try to delete stuff I’ve watched but I also tend to keep stuff that I’ve had trouble finding good versions of. I am also building a large music library (currently around 200-250gb) and that’s entirely around avoiding crappy streaming services. Most of this collection I either already owned (used to rip ipods id repair for people) or used soulseek/other tools to build.
Personally I’d replace that 10 year old drive as it’s probably limited on remaining life even if only lightly used.
What is your preferred format for music? I use Opus at 192 kbps since I prefer open-source and it supposedly is “near-perfect” quality, but I know a few people who store FLACs instead.
that’s entirely around avoiding crappy streaming services
I think it’s important for OP: I too do store music that I like because I want to avoid to continuously pay for crappy streaming services. Most of my music is bought from Bandcamp, or ripped from CDs that I had previously bought. It needs some tweaking to make those files available on a smartphone, but it’s worth it.
Definitely data hoarding is a big part of it for me. I seem to be instinctively getting myself setup for some sort of doomsday scenario where the Internet is gone, but power still works and I have enough leisure time to binge watch movies lol.
But yeah I also have things like offline Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg with Kiwix, and I don’t pirate books but I do DRM strip them so I can keep a permanent archive and stuff like that.
I’d second that last paragraph. At least download a tool to check your HDD out- I saw crystaldiskmark used in an LTT video and decided to install it and check out my drives. Turns out one of them has 60,000 hours on it and it’s seems to be starting to fail.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Besides that: Reddit r/movies, random posters I see in day to day IRL or online or with NZB360 (which utilizes Trakt and TMDB)
Storing stuff:
7TB external HDD plugged into an Intel NUC acting as a makeshift NAS with OMV.
What I store is mostly what is of interest.
Movie: ~ 3.3TiB (419 movies)
Anime and TV: ~2.7TiB (133 shows total)
I have currently about 500GiB free storage and if I am ever short on something I will delete what I deem unworthy to keep or not worth the quality (like a 1080p BluRay instead of a 4K Remux)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
If you want to automate look into the “Wikiarr” but to answer your question I think many of us are just data hoarders. I try to delete stuff I’ve watched but I also tend to keep stuff that I’ve had trouble finding good versions of. I am also building a large music library (currently around 200-250gb) and that’s entirely around avoiding crappy streaming services. Most of this collection I either already owned (used to rip ipods id repair for people) or used soulseek/other tools to build.
Personally I’d replace that 10 year old drive as it’s probably limited on remaining life even if only lightly used.
I will be changing the drive out some time soon since storage is so cheap nowadays and the disk has almost ~35k POH
What is your preferred format for music? I use Opus at 192 kbps since I prefer open-source and it supposedly is “near-perfect” quality, but I know a few people who store FLACs instead.
I think it’s important for OP: I too do store music that I like because I want to avoid to continuously pay for crappy streaming services. Most of my music is bought from Bandcamp, or ripped from CDs that I had previously bought. It needs some tweaking to make those files available on a smartphone, but it’s worth it.
Usually only FLACs for future proofing my collection.
Most is may be fake FLACs but whatever.
If you’re worried about fake FLACs, why not test them?
Throwing your songs into a spectrum analyzer is just super fun too
Anything you can recommend?
I use https://github.com/alexkay/spek
Anything you can recommend?
Definitely data hoarding is a big part of it for me. I seem to be instinctively getting myself setup for some sort of doomsday scenario where the Internet is gone, but power still works and I have enough leisure time to binge watch movies lol.
But yeah I also have things like offline Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg with Kiwix, and I don’t pirate books but I do DRM strip them so I can keep a permanent archive and stuff like that.
I’d second that last paragraph. At least download a tool to check your HDD out- I saw crystaldiskmark used in an LTT video and decided to install it and check out my drives. Turns out one of them has 60,000 hours on it and it’s seems to be starting to fail.
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.
Is there a GitHub for the bot?
https://github.com/Waterboy1602/Addarr
I think this is the one I use, otherwise I’m fairly certain it’s only a search away.
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.
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.
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
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.
Oh shit, new stuff for my NAS that I was watching a long time ago. Thanks!
A lot of the new stuff I download I don’t actually watch right away, I wait for lulls in programming(such as a writers strike) to binge watch them.
Also I like old movies (the Marx Brothers, etc.)and old, hard to find TV shows (still looking for Strange Luck from the 90s).
Found TV Rip of that show! New to Lemmy so don’t know how to DM. :-(
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.
Finding stuff to watch:
Honestly:
Ads on Youtube
Besides that: Reddit r/movies, random posters I see in day to day IRL or online or with NZB360 (which utilizes Trakt and TMDB)
Storing stuff:
7TB external HDD plugged into an Intel NUC acting as a makeshift NAS with OMV.
What I store is mostly what is of interest.
Movie: ~ 3.3TiB (419 movies)
Anime and TV: ~2.7TiB (133 shows total)
I have currently about 500GiB free storage and if I am ever short on something I will delete what I deem unworthy to keep or not worth the quality (like a 1080p BluRay instead of a 4K Remux)
What I keep:
I use adblock on all my devices so i don’t see ads and even if i did, most of the shows advertised here in Finland don’t really interest me.
I love how this is my same routine except I only have 600ish Gb to work with total, the rest is for gaming.
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.
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
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.
I tend to find the best recommendations from the good old YTS. Sites like bestsimilar or IMDB advanced search can also find good stuff.
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.
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.
Letterboxd.
And space is a bit funny because you don’t always know how much space is taken by redundancy.