TLDR; I’m wondering if there’s ever a time you cant find content via usenet and have to use torrents instead? Looking for peoples personal experience.
I’m getting fed up with torrenting. Not many results, slow speeds, pain in the but config (port forwarding headaches).
Im wondering if I should just focus on usenet instead or if folks here still find torrenting useful along with usenet?
For more background, Ive just gotten setup and I’m using free indexers only for torrents only right now. Everything was painfully slow, my setup isn’t letting me seed without a process I don’t have my head wrapped around yet.
It seems to me, not having used usenet for 10-15 years, based on my recollection that usenet (public indexers) had better results, much faster downloads and maybe better quality vs torrenting on free indexers.
Trying to plan out my approach to usenet vs torrent or usenet & torrent, any input and personal experience would be appreciated. …
I saw a couple of Usenet VPN offers, and after searching this sub a bit, I still can’t find out much about other people’s experience with it. Do you actually use the VPNs that came with the deal? I get that we usually don’t need them with Usenet but are they a good choice overall? Any reccomendations?
Hey, I’m wondering whether I’m doing something wrong here. I got the NGD Grand Slam deal Black Friday last year. It came with access to 4 servers – NGD, Viper, Farm, and Super.
However in practice I’m finding I get somehwhat decent completion out of NGD (~70%), and the rest are useless. The majority of my Usenet downloads fail because of missing articles.
Is is just not a great backbone? Or maybe I just messed up my config somehow if others are having good luck?
Thanks!!
I have noticed for the past weeks the download speeds on Eweka are very low, i haveg a 1gbps connection and have been up until April dedicating 400mbits for downloads, but i am only mustering 3 MB/s to 13 MB/s when it should be closer to 40-50 MB/s, has anyone else been experiencing this ?
I’m trying to figure out what plan to use. Some indexer limits number of api/grab/download.
What is a grab vs a download? Is a grab just a part of a set? For example, a file may have many parts. So is a grab/download the part or the whole file?
As Plex pass hike deadline approaches, I thought I’d share my experience for those trying to make up their minds.
My setup is mid tier & amataur & works well. It’s no NAS, but it has basic hard drive backup & other redundancies builtin. Mac mini is running Ubuntu server. My use case is primarily 1080p TV content & movies, with occasional 4k remux for classics.
Note 1 - statistics are strictly representing ME, and your stats may vary slightly (or drastically) depending on how you want to use Plex. That said, I’m probably somewhere near the median both for costs and content usage.
Note 2 - content retrieval cost & methodoly is left out in this breakdown. Where and how you get your content is up to you.
I am considering the Lifetime Plex Pass, and while I still love Plex and use it daily, I can’t shake this creeping fear that one day… they’re gonna drop some new tiered subscription system that makes the current pass feel like a glorified trial.
Like, you’ll wake up one morning and suddenly there’s Plex Pass+, Plex Ultra, Plex Quantum — each with “exclusive” features that somehow weren’t even a thing last week. Want to watch your own movies in 4K? That’s a Plex Max Pro feature now. Skip intros? Sorry, only with the Intros+ Expansion Pack™. Offline sync? Oh, you mean Offline Sync Deluxe?
It’s giving Black Mirror, last-season energy — where every basic thing you used to do now costs a little extra and you slowly watch your “lifetime access” turn into the bottom rung of a ladder you didn’t know you were on.
I know this hasn’t happened yet, and maybe I’m just being dramatic but the trend with streaming services and apps lately is to milk every single feature into its own …
TL;DR at bottom. Ever since I got started with Plex, my Apple TV seemed to hate the application. Every single piece of content I watched would have microstutters which drove me nuts. After tons of reading through forums, I finally figured out what fixed it for me.
What’s weird is that other streaming apps (which I no longer have) never had this problem, so I was sure it was a Plex app issue. Using my Chromecast 4K also didn’t have any microstutters, so I used that any time I wanted to watch content on Plex, which was not ideal because my Chromecast is a buggy, slow mess.
I have an Apple TV 2023 model. I started with switching the video format to 4K SDR 60Hz, and then 50Hz, which helped but did not make the microstutters go away.
Next, I enabled match content range & frame rate in the Apple TV settings. Again, it helped but I still had microstutters.
One day I noticed that the Apple TV playback on Plex seemed smoother than on my Chromecast, kind of like the soap …
Hey Team,
NOTE: UPDATE 5.3 Now has new dashboard live dashboard for hunt data and supports Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, and Whisparr - See the screenshot @ https://imgur.com/a/zzXrgTM and had to deploy Whisparr to test… don’t ask!
I’m excited to announce a major update to Huntarr, a tool designed to help you complete your TV collection by automatically searching for missing episodes and quality upgrades. This update brings a completely revamped interface and adds dedicated support for both Sonarr and Radarr (with Lidarr and Readarr coming soon).
Huntarr continually scans your media libraries to find TV episodes that are either missing or below your desired quality cutoff. It then automatically triggers searches for these items at intervals you control, helping you gradually build a complete collection with the …
Hey Team,
NOTE: UPDATE 5.3 Now has new dashboard live dashboard for hunt data and supports Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, and Whisparr - See the screenshot @ https://imgur.com/a/zzXrgTM and had to deploy Whisparr to test… don’t ask!
I’m excited to announce a major update to Huntarr, a tool designed to help you complete your media collection by automatically searching for missing items and quality upgrades. This update brings a completely revamped interface and adds dedicated support for both Radarr and Sonarr (with Lidarr and Readarr coming soon).
NOTE: v5.1 out with support for Lidarr: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lidarr/comments/1k726uf/huntarr_v51_lidarr_support_to_hunt_music_app/
Huntarr continually scans your media libraries to find content that’s either missing or …
Hey folks, Been tinkering with a little side project called Sponsarr, and I’m curious if anyone else would be into this idea.
The concept is: when you watch a show or movie in Plex or Jellyfin—especially stuff originally from places like Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, etc.—Sponsarr can show you an estimate of what the writers, actors, and crew might be getting per stream. Spoiler: it’s usually pennies, if that.
Then, if you feel like it, you can match that amount, pay more, or support their unions or funds directly. It’s not about guilt-tripping—just giving people an easy way to tip the people who made the thing you just enjoyed. Especially now, with strikes, underpaid creatives, and all the backend folks who don’t get recognized at all.
It uses a community-powered system (currently a public Google Sheet) to connect titles with creators, unions, and donation pages, and it’ll stay open-source.
Would anyone actually use something like this? Even if just occasionally? I’d love …
tl;dr: a release with a score of 160 (in this case) is happily sitting there, already downloaded, Sonarr downloads a release with a score of 140 and then acts surprised that it’s lower when it comes to importing it.
Is there some different behavior that kind of ignores the score when it comes to repacks? I go for the DV HDR10 releases and the one Sonarr insists it wants until it comes to importing is a repack of just the DV…
This is how I’ve got the relevant custom formats and this is what it says on the activity page after it’s downloaded the release. Surely Sonarr should be making the decision to reject it before it proceeds with the download, right?
Edit: So I just saw the “prefer propers and repacks” option, which answers my question as to why it’s doing it but then why, when that was set to “prefer and upgrade”, would it download the release and then refuse to import it?
No point to this post really lol. Just set up sonarr a few days ago. And I keep finding shows to add that are ongoing. I did not realize I had so many shows that I was keeping up with manually for so long.