GitHub - navilg/media-stack: A stack of self-hosted tools to manage and stream media. Sonarr + Radarr + qBitTorrent + Prowlarr + Jellyfin + VPN
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The setup and instructions helped a lot with setting up. My library is small and local now but the future is bright. Thank you all for writing info answers and docs.

Special thanks for all the devs of Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Torrent clients and nzb360.

Extra special thanks to the devs at Jellyfin. Honestly this whole set blew my mind.

  • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I have been thinking of setting up my own media server for a long time but never got around to researching/doing anything about it. So seeing this post from the main page of Lemmy was very intriguing. Can anybody tell me with simple words what all these tools do?

    Are any of the applications in the list used to stream the media to your devices, or do you need a different app like plex or similar for this?

      • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thanks!

        If I understood the github link correctly the stack is basically for downloading, renaming, moving and keeping track of what media you have watched?

        • FrederikNJS@lemm.eeEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          Correct!

          • VPN - hides that it’s you downloading stuff.
          • Radarr - downloads and organizes movies.
          • Sonarr - downloads and organizes TV series.
          • Prowlarr - allows searching many torrent and usenet sites simultaneously, and makes the results available for the *arr services.
          • qBittorrent - downloads the torrents that Radarr and Sonarr requests
          • Jellyfin - mediaserver that can stream the media downloaded by the *arrs to you smast TV, computers, phones and tablets.
          • Caveman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            To add, nzb360 is a paid app to interact with the services from your phone easily with a killer UI. Worth the money imo.

          • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Cool thanks!

            This was exactly the explanation I was hoping for. Vpn and torrent I have used before, but the rest was new for me.

    • jackpotEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      whats the purpose of a media server

      • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        See this reply to my questions here for a good walkthrough of what this stack of software does. Basically helps you make your own streaming service by downloading what you want to host from different sources and you can access it from your devices. Like your own custom Netflix.

        • jackpotEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          okay but how do you even get media for this ‘custom netflix’? do yiu just pirate?

              • SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Download a torrent file and put it into a torrent client. Let the client download the torrent. Take the resulting file and watch it using the video player of your choice.

              • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                See the other reply I linked to for the tools. In those tools you define what torrent sites you want to download from and if set up correctly it should do the torrent searching and downloading for you.