Automated_Handprint, 2 years ago

This is a guide someone on Reddit gave me years ago. Hope this will be helpful

<span style="color:#323232;">I imagine most of your integrated torrent searches involve "linux distros" in 1080p and 4k. I'm a step above that because I have not even touched the qbittorrent app in months. It works automatically.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">An *Arr stack is a collection of software that tracks, adds, searches, organizes and downloads your media collection. My stack consists of
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Radarr - For tracking and managing movies.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sonarr - For tracking and managing series and episodes.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lidarr - For tracking and managing music albums, artists and songs.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Readarr - For tracking and managing books.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Prowlarr - Containing torrent tracker information to automatically add to the above 4 apps.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Ombi / Overseer - Requesting media - Movies, Series, Books, Music
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">qBittorrent - Downloading stuff.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">All this runs on a "home server" as Docker containers. Thy all have web interfaces that you can access, even qBittorrent. Your workflow is as follows:
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Say, you want to watch a movie that comes out in 3 months. You go to Ombi and put in a request for that movie. Ombi forwards the request to Radarr where the movie has its metadata downloaded and analyzed from IMDB and TMDB. Radarr tracks its release and once that happens it starts searching torrent trackers for a torrent meeting your search criteria like size, quality, etc. To search torrent trackers you need special queries that are handled by Prowlarr and distributed to all other *arr apps.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Once a suitable torrent is found, it's sent to qBittorrent where it's downloaded automatically. qBit plays very nicely with the *arrs. After downloading, the file is moved, renamed, pampered by Radarr in the media library. A movie is no big deal but imagine you are downloading and renaming a series with 9 seasons.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">You can top that off with something like Jellyfin (like Plex) and you have your own homegrown Netflix. It sounds very complicated but it isn't. Eventually you have to go to Ombi to request and to Jellyfin to consume.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">And it really pays off in the long run. For example The Witcher S02E01 leaked a few days before its official release date on Netflix. I found out about it when I opened Jellyfin and saw a new episode waiting for me. It's set-and-forget.
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