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This is part of why I bought my own NAS. All my movies and TV are downloaded to the NAS before I view them. Once Lidarr has support for Spotify imports I’ll be

This is part of why I bought my own NAS. All my movies and TV are downloaded to the NAS before I view them. Once Lidarr has support for Spotify imports I’ll be hosting all of my own music too. I can stream all this content too - the experience is not much different from Netflix or Spotify and the content is usually much higher quality (lossless audio and higher bitrate video). The experience is more private too - no analytics on what you watch, no one harvesting you for ads. I feel so much secure truly “owning” my content than having it bound to some service that can disappear at any time, along with the content on it. I’ve lost countless songs and videos due to Netflix or a music service’a contract ending. For data resilience and redundancy, just perform encrypted backups to your cloud service of choice.

conradev 8y ago
> All my movies and TV are downloaded to the NAS before I view them > I feel so much secure truly “owning” my content Do you actually purchase the content? If so, where do you buy it from? Is it even possible to purchase DRM-free content from major studios online? For music, I can purchase music DRM-free from the iTunes Store or Bandcamp and actually own it, which is awesome.
- cocacola1 8y ago
  I just rip my Blu-Rays and stream them through Plex.
  - gruez 8y ago
    considering nearly all commercial blu-rays are protected with AACS (which you have to bypass to rip), what you're doing violates the DMCA. also, there's a growing amount of content from streaming services (netfilx/prime originals) that's not available on blu-ray and is not trivial to rip.
    - shakna 8y ago
      However, many regions allow format shifting, which can overrule that particular part of the DMCA. Though the rules are, again, regional.
    - paulie_a 8y ago
      Who cares if it violates the dmca? And honestly it is simply easier to just pirate the content vs ripping it, there are literally no consequences. And yes it is trivial to rip from streaming services.
      - wolco 8y ago
        Be kind, rip and share where possible. The Dmca only applies in the US. The 2600 campaign against dmca feels like it was yesterday. Netflix let's you download a lot of content. Great for when you aren't connected.
        paulie_a 8y ago
        Even in the US, the dmca is irrelevant to individuals for the most part. You can outright throw the notices in the garbage without consequence. I've been doing that since it was passed. Some were legitimate violations, some were not. Either way the company wasted printing and postage. Hell you can ignore DHS letters in some cases.
        SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
        Rip, yes, but share? Really?
        robryk 8y ago
        Disclaimer: not a lawyer. In some countries there are exceptions to copyright for non-software that allow making copies for use of friends.
        jamespo 8y ago
        Which countries are those?
        robryk 8y ago
        E.g. Poland Reference: https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/observatory/faqs-on-copyright-pl#7 https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/observatory/faqs-o... I think this reference is partly inaccurate; I was under the impression that the legality of the original copy doesn't matter (and Polish Wikipedia seems to agree: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozwolony_u%C5%BCytek_prywatny#Legalno%C5%9B%C4%87_kopii_%C5%BAr%C3%B3d%C5%82owej https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozwolony_u%C5%BCytek_prywatny...)
    - celticninja 8y ago
      DMCA only applies in the US, making copies of items you own for personal use is legal in the UK for example.
      - Mindwipe 8y ago
        No it isn't. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/17/high-court-quashes-regulations-copy-cds-musicians https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/17/high-court-q... And even when it was, you weren't allowed to break encryption to do so. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140328/07561926719/uk-finally-legalizes-cd-dvd-ripping-youre-still-not-allowed-to-circumvent-drm.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140328/07561926719/uk-fi... Indeed, in some cases even importing (i.e downloading from a foreign server) software to do so is a criminal offence in the UK and carries a potential prison sentence. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/296ZB https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/296ZB
namanyayg 8y ago
I am trying to set up my own such NAS, currently using Plex to manage movies & TV and for streaming on my PS4. Haven't figured out a solution for music and just use Spotify. Any software you can advise to help me create a better setup?
- ryandrake 8y ago
  I use a computer running FreeNAS with a shared NFS amount for the audio and video content. You can use SMB (Windows shares) too. I use a low powered set top box and a Mac Mini both running Kodi as clients. Works great.
- xvector 8y ago
  Movies: I use Radarr. Radarr searches public movie databases for movies, and then talks to another piece of software I use called Jackett to actually initiate the download. Jackett searches for and obtains torrents from your favorite (completely legal of course) trackers. The end UI is super simple. Search for a movie. Click Add. The software takes case of the rest. It automatically downloads the movie and replaces it with a higher quality version when one is available. TV: Switch out Radarr for Sonarr above. Music: Still working on this, but set up an MPD server on the NAS and listen using an MPD client on mobile. A good client seems to be Rigelian for iOS. All super easy to set up. All the software is dockerized (check the linuxserver docker repo for most of this) and secure to access - set up a VPN server on your NAS and use a client like Tunnelblick on Mac or OpenVPN on iOS to access it. So now I can have lunch with my coworkers, and if we're talking about a movie that sounds interesting, I open up Radarr on my phone (it has a nice mobile web interface), search and click download. It'll be ready for viewing in all its Blu-Ray HDR10 7.1 surround-sound glory by the time I get home. Some Docker images you might find useful: 1. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/sonarr/ https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/sonarr/ 2. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/radarr/ https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/radarr/ 3. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jackett/ https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jackett/ 4. https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn/ https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn/
- 29083011397778 8y ago
  I've been using Airsonic for music and podcasts, hosted on a headless Linux server. Supports caching, gapless playback,and more. DSub is a pretty solid client for android, with the Play Store version supporting Android auto and casting to chromecast. Everything's FOSS, too
wrboyce 8y ago
Just a minor thing, but I’m pretty certain Plex are performing all sorts of analysis on your usage.
Xunxi 8y ago
There are other opensource projects with no mothership https://github.com/streamaserver/streama https://github.com/streamaserver/streama

conradev 8y ago

> All my movies and TV are downloaded to the NAS before I view them > I feel so much secure truly “owning” my content Do you actually purchase the content? If so, where do you buy it from? Is it even possible to purchase DRM-free content from major studios online? For music, I can purchase music DRM-free from the iTunes Store or Bandcamp and actually own it, which is awesome.

cocacola1 8y ago
I just rip my Blu-Rays and stream them through Plex.
- gruez 8y ago
  considering nearly all commercial blu-rays are protected with AACS (which you have to bypass to rip), what you're doing violates the DMCA. also, there's a growing amount of content from streaming services (netfilx/prime originals) that's not available on blu-ray and is not trivial to rip.
  - shakna 8y ago
    However, many regions allow format shifting, which can overrule that particular part of the DMCA. Though the rules are, again, regional.
  - paulie_a 8y ago
    Who cares if it violates the dmca? And honestly it is simply easier to just pirate the content vs ripping it, there are literally no consequences. And yes it is trivial to rip from streaming services.
    - wolco 8y ago
      Be kind, rip and share where possible. The Dmca only applies in the US. The 2600 campaign against dmca feels like it was yesterday. Netflix let's you download a lot of content. Great for when you aren't connected.
      - paulie_a 8y ago
        Even in the US, the dmca is irrelevant to individuals for the most part. You can outright throw the notices in the garbage without consequence. I've been doing that since it was passed. Some were legitimate violations, some were not. Either way the company wasted printing and postage. Hell you can ignore DHS letters in some cases.
      - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
        Rip, yes, but share? Really?
        robryk 8y ago
        Disclaimer: not a lawyer. In some countries there are exceptions to copyright for non-software that allow making copies for use of friends.
        jamespo 8y ago
        Which countries are those?
        robryk 8y ago
        E.g. Poland Reference: https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/observatory/faqs-on-copyright-pl#7 https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/observatory/faqs-o... I think this reference is partly inaccurate; I was under the impression that the legality of the original copy doesn't matter (and Polish Wikipedia seems to agree: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozwolony_u%C5%BCytek_prywatny#Legalno%C5%9B%C4%87_kopii_%C5%BAr%C3%B3d%C5%82owej https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozwolony_u%C5%BCytek_prywatny...)
  - celticninja 8y ago
    DMCA only applies in the US, making copies of items you own for personal use is legal in the UK for example.
    - Mindwipe 8y ago
      No it isn't. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/17/high-court-quashes-regulations-copy-cds-musicians https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/17/high-court-q... And even when it was, you weren't allowed to break encryption to do so. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140328/07561926719/uk-finally-legalizes-cd-dvd-ripping-youre-still-not-allowed-to-circumvent-drm.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140328/07561926719/uk-fi... Indeed, in some cases even importing (i.e downloading from a foreign server) software to do so is a criminal offence in the UK and carries a potential prison sentence. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/296ZB https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/296ZB

namanyayg 8y ago

I am trying to set up my own such NAS, currently using Plex to manage movies & TV and for streaming on my PS4. Haven't figured out a solution for music and just use Spotify. Any software you can advise to help me create a better setup?

ryandrake 8y ago
I use a computer running FreeNAS with a shared NFS amount for the audio and video content. You can use SMB (Windows shares) too. I use a low powered set top box and a Mac Mini both running Kodi as clients. Works great.
xvector 8y ago
Movies: I use Radarr. Radarr searches public movie databases for movies, and then talks to another piece of software I use called Jackett to actually initiate the download. Jackett searches for and obtains torrents from your favorite (completely legal of course) trackers. The end UI is super simple. Search for a movie. Click Add. The software takes case of the rest. It automatically downloads the movie and replaces it with a higher quality version when one is available. TV: Switch out Radarr for Sonarr above. Music: Still working on this, but set up an MPD server on the NAS and listen using an MPD client on mobile. A good client seems to be Rigelian for iOS. All super easy to set up. All the software is dockerized (check the linuxserver docker repo for most of this) and secure to access - set up a VPN server on your NAS and use a client like Tunnelblick on Mac or OpenVPN on iOS to access it. So now I can have lunch with my coworkers, and if we're talking about a movie that sounds interesting, I open up Radarr on my phone (it has a nice mobile web interface), search and click download. It'll be ready for viewing in all its Blu-Ray HDR10 7.1 surround-sound glory by the time I get home. Some Docker images you might find useful: 1. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/sonarr/ https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/sonarr/ 2. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/radarr/ https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/radarr/ 3. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jackett/ https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jackett/ 4. https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn/ https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn/
29083011397778 8y ago
I've been using Airsonic for music and podcasts, hosted on a headless Linux server. Supports caching, gapless playback,and more. DSub is a pretty solid client for android, with the Play Store version supporting Android auto and casting to chromecast. Everything's FOSS, too

wrboyce 8y ago

Just a minor thing, but I’m pretty certain Plex are performing all sorts of analysis on your usage.

Xunxi 8y ago

There are other opensource projects with no mothership https://github.com/streamaserver/streama https://github.com/streamaserver/streama