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Have been using Jellyfin on my synology server for the past 2 years. It's a dream, but you do need to name your files/directories per their naming convention: h
by https443 3y ago
Have been using Jellyfin on my synology server for the past 2 years. It's a dream, but you do need to name your files/directories per their naming convention: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/ https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/ -- https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/ https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/
- snapplebobapple 3y agoYou can automate that with sonarr/radarr/lidarr. Works like a dream.
- nicoco 3y agoAdd prowlarr and bazarr for the full win.
- croutonwagon 3y agoWhat do prowlarr and bazarr do
- JadoJodo 3y agoBazarr seems to be a subtitle downloader, and Prowlarr an “Index Manager” (though I’m unsure what that means).
- trhr 3y agoMeans you can say "Here's my API key for these private trackers" in one spot instead of 8. "Indexer Manager" is probably a better description.
- heyoni 3y agoOoooooh.
- wernercd 3y agoProwlarr is also important if you do multiple *arr. Sonarr, Radarr, Readarr. instead of configuring your indexers (multiple) in multiple places? You point the searches at Prowlarr and then keep it updated. I personally run a fairly modified version HTPC on a QNAP (was synology but upgraded earlier this year - better base board + dedicated graphics card) https://github.com/sebgl/htpc-download-box https://github.com/sebgl/htpc-download-box
- politelemon 3y agoProwlarr is a deitysend. Instead of having to configure indexers in Sonarr, it does the heavy lifting for you. Goes in, configures an indexer, and that's your search setup done.
- snapplebobapple 3y agothe full win would also include 2 instances of readarr, once for ebooks and one for audio books, whisparr for your 18+ needs, stash for your 18+ needs frontend, and I think audiobookshelf and kavita to play the audiobooks and ebooks respectively. If you're into comics you might also want to throw mylar3 in there and if you have multiple users (aka a spouse and/or offspring) you may want to throw ombi in there too.
- midasz 3y agoSome may prefer Overseerr to Ombi.
- snapplebobapple 3y agoIndeed there are probably multiple paths to the full win. I like to use airsonic-advanced to feed music to my legacy sonos systems (can somebody please make an easy to use, pretty opensource alternative to the sonos multiroom software stack that can output to hifiberry's or ideally a cheaper alternative? even better would be an included best at each price level alternative speaker to double sided tape the hifiberry to). I also prefer to use beets and a cron job to convert my whole music collection into decent quality opus files and syncthing to get them onto my phone rather than using a frontend and mobile data to stream the flac files from my house.
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- gadders 3y agoReadarr is weird. Turned it off after I started get messages from it saying it was deleting my ebooks. I don't know why it can't just work like Sonarr.
- Cyph0n 3y agoSome additional recommendations: - Setup two Radarr instances (normal and 4K) and two Sonarr instances (TV and anime) - Follow the TRaSH guides to improve media quality - Komga to read manga and comics - Readarr Calibre integration to delegate parsing & metadata to Calibre - Jellyseerr or Overseerr instead of Ombi - Unpackerr to catch and handle compressed media - autobrr if you’re looking to build ratio
- Remmy 3y agoToss in RDClient for real-debrid support via the qbitorrent plugin in sonaar/radarr and it's fantastic.
- Cyph0n 3y agoI use Prowlarr as it’s tightly integrated with the *arr stack, but Jackett is another great option if you don’t need that.
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoI use the full stack and all very grateful for the products. The remaining annoyances are: - lack of multi language support - there is no connection between the systems when you want to remove a movie (you remove it in one place and everything knows about that and acts accordingly) - I still did not make to fully grasp how and where to say "I do not want this particular release". I think I saw that in radarr but it never is obvious to me where it is.
- j1elo 3y agoYeah I was initially surprised when learning about the *arr stack for the first time, as my intuition was very insistently telling me: "I must be gettint it wrong, these ought to be all a single service!!" They all definitely feel like small parts of a single package, don't look like they merit being their own thing. But it's not my thing, so what do I know.
- tetris11 3y agoI have no idea why Radar and Sonarr are seperate programs. Surely the difference in searching for Movies vs TV is a single line of a query search string.
- seanp2k2 3y agoThe architecture of how they work together is a lot more functional than lots of the software at Fortune 500 companies
- faangsticle 3y agoFor some reason the developed hate symlinks, which would fix most of the issues.
- lavezzi 3y ago> there is no connection between the systems when you want to remove a movie (you remove it in one place and everything knows about that and acts accordingly) Not following this. Settings -> Connections in Sonarr for example.
- ufish235 3y agoWhich model Synology? I am looking into one of the dual/quad core Celeron models because I heard the iGPU is critical for any kind of transcoding.
- syntaxing 3y agoNot OP, but you pretty much have to run the Celeron ones. I don't think the docker image would work with the Realtek ones (the ones that end in j). I have a DS220+ (J4025 with dual core only). It works ok, you pretty much max out one of the cores running a 4K stream. I would recommend separating the storage and server if you can afford it. The price difference between the quad core (4 bay) and 2 core (has 2 bay) is enough to get a 2 bay + a N95 mini pc that can handle 4 streams of 4K.
- seanp2k2 3y agoAnother idea is to get a thin client with an i7 or i9 (you probably want at least 10th gen at this point) and either an external enclosure for a few SSDs or if you find one with a PCIE slot, a PCIE card to fit maybe 4x m.2 SSDs. Some good deals are out there on U.2 SSDs if you look as well, like 8TB for $400 from Intel or WD good. Don’t forget that Asrock Rack and Supermicro sell Atom and Xeon-D boards, as well as some Ryzen AM4/5 models if you want to DIY. There are great cases out there (eg Fractal Node 304/804) these days that support full-size modular PSUs with 80+ Titanium ratings to sip power. That’s been my biggest gripe with x86 over ARM: idle power usage for something I expect to have on 24x7 with PG&Es 50c/kWh. I just rebuilt my old desktop 5950x into a NAS using a Silverstone RM44 with air cooling, but it’s made to support liquid as well. That’s got plenty of room to fit 4X full-size GPUs and a power supply to match if you dabble with AI on the side. RTX 4060s are coming soon for $300 and that should be more than enough power for transcodes for the whole family.
- syntaxing 3y agoI actually think buying a first gen Mac Mini M1 is a better idea with a thunderbolt drive storage. I have friends in California that does this for the reasons you mentioned. The utility price has made homelab servers and 3D printing pretty much non viable unless you want to pay a $300+ electricity bill.
- zackify 3y agoI’ve been using it for a year. I don’t name anything in a special way, and it just works.
- quaintdev 3y agoYup running it on RPi with external hard drive. No need to name anything.
- seanp2k2 3y agoAs rPi 4Bs are hard to get still / overpriced, unless you’re absolutely married to the rPi, check out OrangePi 5B for a much faster CPU, more RAM, eMMC, and good wifi OR get the 5+ for the same minus wifi (it has an E-key m.2 to add it) but adds a 2280 m.2 so you could throw a 4TB m.2 SSD on there (which are about $200 now) and now you’ve got a pretty dang good little NAS that’s fast and fanless for about $350-400 all-in. Did I mention the 5+ has 2x 2.5G Ethernet?
- HumblyTossed 3y agoFor less than that much you could get a tiny N100 computer.
- randomluck040 3y agoHow would you rate the performance? Is it sufficient for 4K HDR streams over your network?
- itsrobforreal 3y agoMy pi3b with 3 512GB flash drives streams perfectly in 720p and uses less power than the lamp next to the sofa, what a time to be alive
- metadat 3y agoI've always wondered why Jellyfin doesn't have better support for parsing Scene release names, which follow strict naming conventions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez) https://scenerules.org/t.html?id=2020_X265.nfo https://scenerules.org/t.html?id=2020_X265.nfo 99% coverage is achievable via a few straightforward regexes. Don't get me wrong though, I really like and appreciate Jellyfin, especially on Apple TV with Swiftfin, it's my daily driver for big screen entertainment and it's amazing, 10e9 times better than Chromecasting from a laptop to GoogleTV, which is just a horrible UX (no pause button on the TV) and also would randomly freeze for 5-30 seconds every few minutes. Plex was nice too, and works great if you are okay with being at the mercy of a closed system for your media center. Though I sure don't miss those pointless forced UI "downgrade in functionality" updates!
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- deadbunny 3y agoJellyfin parses scene naming conventions fine. I have thousands of films and hundreds of TV shows (with thousands of episodes) all in scene name format and I can think of a handful of matching errors on Jellyfish but it's usually due to a commonish film name and a wrong year or something similar.
- metadat 3y agoI agree it works most of the time, but sometimes falls flat on it's face. Especially for TV episodes and even entire seasons.
- majkinetor 3y agoThe same. I basically never edit metadata. I rarely add IMDB id when slip happens.
- coldacid 3y agoIt was the same thing with Emby.