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      • HTTP_404_NotFound
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        81 year ago

        Eh, one they get radarr/sonarr/lidarr setup- it does EVERYTHING for you.

        The only downside, you do need a usenet account, which costs a few bucks. But- once you go usenet, you will never go back.

        • RandomLegendM
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          121 year ago

          “once you go usenet, you will never go back.” true.

          Been a torrent kiddie since the old days and thought this was the end all be all of online availability of stuff i want.

          Friend of me got an unlimited account on fastusenet and let me hook into it. 20€/y for a very nice german & international newsgroup forum with unlimited API access that was made with sonarr / radarr in mind.

          I can and don’t want to ever go back…it’s blazing fast, whenever i find something, i can be certain that it’s there and ready for download; Unlike torrents… just bcs u got a magnet doesn’t mean there are enough seeders. And then it takes sooooooo long. On usenet i get my 350mbit/s and it can even be unpacked while being downloaded.

          That way i can request a movie and watch it in ~20min even if it’s a BR-REMUX that is like 80~90GB

          I happily pay for that!

          • HTTP_404_NotFound
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            The only time I ever even consider using torrents, is for an obscure piece of content which I cannot find on usenet.

            And even then, I do it all manually. There is too much “bad” content hosted there.

            Edit- Please ignore my random downvote. nohbdyuno really… loves downvoting my comments for some odd reason.

          • @0bscur3@feddit.de
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            21 year ago

            Which German forums can you recommend? Would like to check it out as I cannot find any German content on public trackers.

            • RandomLegendM
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              11 year ago

              I am only using Usenet, so now idea about good german torrent trackers.

              but for usenet its:

              houseofusenet scenenzbs

            • RandomLegendM
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              11 year ago

              The forums I use have APIs and I can enter those in the indexer settings of either prowlarr or directly in sonarr/radarr

          • @float@feddit.de
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            11 year ago

            Does that forum/indexer also have spanish content? German seems to be rare also. But that’s for both Usenet and BitTorrent.

        • Usenet is very nice for home use. I used it for years. SSL encrypted, no need to use Bittorrent over VPN. Always max download speed. The parity part was annoying on a HDD but now that I have a Gen5 NVME it is incredibly fast.

          I’m back using the same setup on a Seedbox and private trackers. I share access to my media library and I have Ombi setup so my family can add their own things to Sonarr/Radarr. Since it’s on a 50Gb connection it can handle bittorrent with no issue so I don’t bother paying for Usenet.

    • @JasDawg@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      31 year ago

      I just started using Usenet in March. I use FrugalUsenet as my Provider and NZBGeek as my Indexer. Anything better I should consider?

      • HTTP_404_NotFound
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        31 year ago

        My only recommendations- look for usenet providers hosted in the netherlands. They have been the most reliable.

        Also, if you use multiple providers (improves reliability), make sure to get providers from different parents.

        https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Usenet_Providers_and_Backbones.svg (I don’t know how old that image is)

        Lots of the providers are just re-sellers, and will be hit with the same DMCAs equally. By- choosing providers from different “roots”, you can mitigate this issue.

            • HTTP_404_NotFound
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              You were able to see who downvoted you?

              Yup. It’s all public information, easily accessible.

              Nothing on lemmy is really private.

              Comes in handy. Especially to determine that ONE USER who downvotes literally every comment i make on some servers…

              And- yes- it was @nohbdyuno@sh.itjust.works who as usual, also downvoted this comment.

              He/She/They is my dedicated follower I suppose.

              • @jack
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                how do you access it, though?

                • HTTP_404_NotFound
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                  11 year ago

                  Easy way- just look at the post on kbin. It shows upvotes/downvotes.

                  Harder way- just query the database.

      • I’m pretty sure you’re meant to copy the “Hash” (long string of letters and numbers) and input it into your torrenting software of choice. On qbittorent you do this by clicking the “add torrent link” button in the top left. However I’ve only got a few things to load by doing this, but that might be a me thing.

  • @Manuel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    141 year ago

    I use TorrentGalaxy to know about the new releases and RealDebrid + Stremio. I think nothing else is actually needed.

    • Blxter
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      Yea I’ve been using torrentgalaxy aswell. They seem to have a newish release group called “infinity” I think. There releases are very similar to the HEVC ones RARGB used to do. Still miss there clean layout tho.

      Edit: new to me at least.

  • Use Jackett to search many free trackers at once. BTDig is also good, but as just a simple DHT search engine, it won’t tell you the health of the torrent.

    • cccc
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      61 year ago

      Jackett or prowlarr. I’ve used both and prowlarr has been easier and more reliable for me.

      You can also use qbittorrent’s in-build search.

  • @spiritedpause@lemmy.world
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    Torrent search engines that crawl the DHT seem like they’d be the least likely to be taken down, as they don’t host any torrent files or run their own trackers, they simply crawl the torrent DHT directly for magnet links.

    Here are my two favorite DHT-based torrent search engines:

  • @Flicsmo@rammy.site
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    111 year ago

    I’ve recently started using Rats Search, basically a p2p torrent indexer. I don’t want to bother with private trackers so this is pretty much perfect.

  • I use TorrentDay and 1337x. For the weird things that aren’t on either one, I’ll check aiosearch and grab it from whatever has what I’m looking for.

    • @0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      31 year ago

      I used to care about that (when I did recodes and releases), but I haven’t been active on that front in years. Do they have just rips? And what trackers?

      • BustedPancake
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        21 year ago

        I haven’t been active in encoding either in years, I just like to have the highest quality I can possibly find, and REMUX you can’t really go wrong with that. Where I download they have full BluRays ISO or the main feature only remuxed in MKV. Trackers I use are mostly IPT, HDBits, TL, TS, and a few others.

  • Mr_1077
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    81 year ago

    I usually go to 1337x or TorrentLeach. It depends on the release date and type of movie though.

  • @Kribensis@lemm.ee
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    61 year ago

    I gave up on visiting torrent sites. They’re all horrible to navigate. I just use the built-in search in qBittorrent (including Jackett).

    To figure out what I want to get, I use metacritic.