Everyone here is talking about how to get the latest and best stuff, but no one is talking about how they actually manage it 😜
So, how do YOU manage your Movies / Shows / Music / eBooks / Games?
I begin:
Plex for playback.
Transmission for torrents.
Radarr for movies.
Sonarr for tv.
Lidarr for music.
Bazarr for subtitles.
Readarr for books.
Ombi for discovery and requests.
Tautulli for statistics and newsletters.
I use Prowlarr + Radarr + Sonarr + Jellyfin.
I have
/data
directory organised like this:/data ├── media │ ├── books │ ├── movies │ ├── music │ └── tv └── torrents ├── books ├── movies ├── music └── tv
Files added from Sonarr goes to
torrents/tv
and that for Radarrtorrents/movies
. Once the torrent client has downloaded the files, Sonarr and Radarr hardlinks the needed files tomedia
’s respective folders. I have setmedia/tv
for shows andmedia/movies
for movies on Jellyfin. Everything is automated, I love it.For managing my library on disk, I just recently made the effort to set up the *arr apps. I love having the metadata, tagging, organizing, and file naming all consistent and automated. Previously I used mp3tag and filebot to manage them and it was way more manual. Everything is set up with docker-compose and Ansible.
Library file stuff:
- Two Radarr instances, one for 4k and another for lower resolutions
- Sonarr for TV
- Lidarr for music
- Two readarr instances, one for epub/pdf and one for audiobooks
- Jackett
- deluge+openVPN
For library frontend stuff:
- Jellyfin for movies, tv, music, audiobooks
- Plex, for when Jellyfin is acting up
- Jellyseer for TV & movie requests
- LaunchBox for videogames and emulators
- Calibre + calibreWeb for ebooks & syncing to my Kobo eReader
Haven’t set up yet:
- flaresolverr
- unpackerr
- audiobookshelf
Doesn’t exist yet/wishlist:
- *arr app for emulator ROMs (I’ll have to check out romm, looks pretty cool!)
Why multiple instances instead of using quality profiles?
AFAIK you can’t have different qualities (4k/1080) of the same movies/series on the same instance.
I dump everything into a single folder. Like a junk drawer. Because I really only save junk anyway 🤷🏻♂️
Surprised to see no mention of Playnite. I used to use Stardock Fences to categorize my games on my desktop, then I found Playnite and there was no looking back. It’s a big game library with incredible features. Here’s what I see when I load it up. (the games listed here are the games I have listed as “currently playing”)
sadly playnite is not on linux…so it’s out for me 😥