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I'm wondering about what your piracy workflow looks like.

  1. Where do you find what shows/films to watch?
  2. Do you stream for convenience or download for superior quality?
  3. Where do you store media?
  4. What software are you using to watch it?
  5. How do you keep track of your watchlist, which episode you already watched or where you left off in a movie?

I have Netflix and Disney+ (through family) and it already drives me crazy to remember where which show is available, download quality sucks, shows get delisted halfway through watching them. Sometimes multiple seasons even are across multiple streaming services. (I was very sad before I discovered there were more than 4 seasons of Adventure Time). I even want to pay for the production of good media, but streaming services make it a really hard sell 🤬

I know that the -arr suite with jellyfin is a pretty nice workflow, but I'm not into self hosting (yet).

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[–] roux@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago
  1. Mostly movies from yts . mx, and movies and tv shows from watchsomuch . to.
  2. Mostly for convenience and I think information should be free. I cam back to the high seas after they decided to have 4,758 different streaming services and kind of hate exclusive as an excuse to get you to pay for one service over another.
  3. I have a dedicated 6TB hard drive(wish I would have paid a bit extra for an 8 or 10 though). I also used it for rsync back ups but that's it.
  4. I switch back and forth between Jellyfin and Plex. Jellyfin is a bit fiddly but open, Plex "just work" but is closed source. I try to use free software as much as I can.
  5. Both JF and Plex will keep track, but I've had issues with JF if a movie or show doesn't want to run(I think it's a transcoding issue) sometimes I lose progress of my most recent watched stuff. Kind of sucks. I've had more issues with JF than with Plex which sucks.