https://trash-guides.info complements the complete *arr stack

The whole *arr suite is excellent. Bit of a learning curve to get it going but well worth the effort. Don't forget to send all your instance's traffic through a VPN.

The idea behind the Servarr stack is great, but not every app is as useful as Radar. I removed Sonarr because I prefer to watch TV shows when full season packs are available (I know you can download season packs, but it's a manual feature anyway). Lidarr rarely finds releases from public trackers. Readarr is the same. I ended up with Radarr + Prowlarr + Torrent.

Fair; I may have been overstating things given I only use Radarr, Sonarr and Prowlarr.

I like the Sonarr UI but yeah it could have more control over which things to get and when. I have a hard time getting it to pick the one I would pick. Profiles and quality are good ideas but a bit hard to wrangle. Most of the time I'd be fine with a substring filter and then whatever has the most sources.

Any suggestions for a VPN?

I've been happy with my Windscribe lifetime sub

Mullvad

Very good VPN but probably not the best for this usage: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forward...

If you want one just for torrenting alone, cloudflare warp should suffice. They don't block BitTorrent traffic.

Don’t forget sonarr for tv shows

As streaming services provide less and less value more and more people are going to discover that torrents are much easier than they were before.

radarr has been around for a long time now. Probably 10 years.

A better URL: https://radarr.video/

I found the whole *arr suite is really good

The only challenges I had were when I had to unpack a movie or TV series. I think there is an unpackerr, but I had trouble with it working properly.

Radarr has made my movie collection/watching experience super easy after some initial setup. Highly recommend

Here's my current setup, all running in docker on a mini PC I bought from ebay for $80. Everything here is managed and deployed from a series of `docker-compose.yml` files, so migrating this setup is just a matter of copying those files and a backup of my settings folder for each application.

* Radarr - Movie downloads * Sonarr - TV downloads * Bazarr - Subtitle downloads * Overseerr - Interface to discover and add new media to the above downloaders * Plex - For consuming all of this * Tautulli - Notifies me when new content is added * SABnzbd - Usenet downloader

I add a new show or movie in Overseer, it automatically gets downloaded and added to Plex, subtitles get added (if missing), and I get a notification on my phone. For TV series the above all happens automatically for new episodes once I've added the series.

No amount of paid services can offer me this level of convenience in addition to not having to worry that something I want to watch was removed over a licensing dispute. I was formerly a paying customer of streaming platforms but the enshittification drove me back to piracy, and now I don't see how they could possibly ever compete with this setup.

I'm also considering adding Lidarr for music and Readarr for audiobooks.

How do you protect yourself from the legal issues? Do you route it though proxies and trust that they won't snitch on you?

Newsgroups. They've been there since the beginning and will be there forever.

I have yet to see any high profile news service be taken down no matter how much they tout that they have "10 year binary retention" - something that's literally only useful for piracy.

Living in a country that doesn't hunt down individuals for piracy helps. In many countries the law enforcement agencies look the other way when you are not profiting from piracy or using it commercially.

For everyone else vpn.

seedbox + syncthing, downloads quickly to a seedbox, syncs locally encrypted, and deletes the torrent at the end

private trackers, secure bittorrent.. generally you're ok. Also -- don't underestimate the power of Usenet, which the *arr's can also utilize.

Good private tracker is usually safe but you never know when it will get compromised. I have active accounts that are over a decade old but still not sure when they will be taken over and become a honey pot.

VPNs, right?

A seedbox in a country that doesn't care is usually cheaper and has a faster connection.

Does it have a ui or is this cli? Any pictures or demo?