I currently have a very comfortable lil home server with the arrs and plex (would like jellyfin but it’s not there yet for me, currently fielding emby given how Plex is going), basically all sources are usenet.
I’m nearing a point where I either have to delete some stuff or expand space, which is not cheap, and some of my older drives are likely due for some failures too. So after seeing the popularity of debrid I’ve been wondering if it’d be worth to instead spend the money on it, but would like to ask some questions. I spend maybe around $70/year on the various bits for Usenet and I expect I’d have to spend around an average of $80/year on drives for just expanding storage (obviously assuming I don’t just delete stuff). And that’s with avoiding 4k just for storage reasons (my internet could take the streaming tho)
Even just the price of Usenet seems to be more than the price of a debrid subscription though and from what I understand I’d not need new disks with it either.
From what I understand debrid is a shared download space for Torrents/direct downloads where if someone adds something it’s available for everyone (presumably it gets deleted if noone accessed it for some time and would have to be re-downloaded?). It’s possible to mount the content via WebDAV to make it accessible to clients/media servers to stream directly from debrid.
My questions are…
- Is there still a point to sonarr/radarr with debrid?
- How is the quality? (both in terms of media quality and in terms of file organisation so things are discoverable and accurate, e.g. chances of things explicitly named wrong so you think you’re about to watch Brooklyn 99 and instead get porn)
- I would likely go the path of using zurg and keeping with Plex/emby - any experience with how well does this work (any recommendations for or against)? What’s the mechanism for picking what is available in the mounts to the media server… or is it just… everything on debrid?
- I don’t really use any torrents at the moment, from what I understand that’s primarily how you get things on debrid. Would I have to start looking for good trackers to get content or is there no need because chances are someone will have downloaded/shared most things?
- I guess, am I assuming this works very differently to how it actually does? Any experience from people who did the swap from Usenet/arrs to some debrid + media server?
Many questions in a wall of text, I’d be grateful for any answers to any of them! Thanks!
It’s a bit nitpicky to be fair but:
I do think eventually I’ll end up on jellyfin, probably once the chapter API arrives and skipping credits and intro has first party support tho.
There’s also Findroid on Android and Delfin on Linux. I use both of those clients and I think they’re much better than the official one.
Findroid is not available for android TV as far as I know so couldn’t try it, my other option there would be to use Kodi with a plugin but I’ve never really been a Kodi user so it’s less appealing to me.
Findroid does lack Chromecast support and theme music in the library it seems. Other than that it does look good!
Those things can be added tho. It’s not something I need but if you do, you should definitely open an issue.
Chromecast support is on hold because F-droid doesn’t allow gms proprietary libraries: https://github.com/jarnedemeulemeester/findroid/pull/139
The creator deems theme music to be “annoying” so they won’t add it: https://github.com/jarnedemeulemeester/findroid/issues/105
So no dice, it seems.
The android tv app is why I switched to Emby. I mostly liked jellyfin everywhere except the one place I would use it the most.
A few of the fixes for things that strongly turned me off were added as feature requests, but the devs seemed to blow them off as unnecessary or “impossible” (even though the “impossible” is done in every other android tv app, including Emby). Their perceived attitude really turned me off of it.