Shoutout to this guy on github

github.com GitHub - navilg/media-stack: A stack of self-hosted tools to manage and stream media. Sonarr + Radarr + qBitTorrent + Prowlarr + Jellyfin + VPN

A stack of self-hosted tools to manage and stream media. Sonarr + Radarr + qBitTorrent + Prowlarr + Jellyfin + VPN - GitHub - navilg/media-stack: A stack of self-hosted tools to manage and stream m...

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.

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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?
- Jellyfin is the media server. (Like Plex but free open source, and a cleaner interface.)
  
  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?
  
  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.
  
  To add, nzb360 is a paid app to interact with the services from your phone easily with a killer UI. Worth the money imo.
  
  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.
- whats the purpose of a media server
  
  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.
  
  okay but how do you even get media for this 'custom netflix'? do yiu just pirate?
  
  Yes but don't tell anyone.
  
  how
  
  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.
  
  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.

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