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?

  • ratman150@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Crampon@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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.

  • Sean@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • eggdaddy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Corroded@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    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

  • TheControlled@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • slugger@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

    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
      • slugger@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        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”.

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • ComptitiveSubset@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    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:

    • Hard to aquire
    • Favorites
    • Rewatchable stuff like short cartoons