Just wanted to share my feelings about the arr* stack, will keep it short !
First, thanks to all those beautiful people giving their free time to work on all thoses services ❤️ !
At first I wasn’t that impressed and didn’t understood all the hype arround all thoses services and only used sonarr to rename my files I had manually imported. It did a great job as a file renamer service, however I was still managing everything manually from hard links to qbittorrent organization creating in the end a total messed up file system with a lot of duplicated hardlinks and files scattered in different directories, renamed differently, etc…
Also, after the most known french piracy tracker had been hacked and shut down (finally !), a lot of new trackers opened like wildfire and had over 10 trackers to keep an eye on. Searching the web, I came across Prowlarr and seeing how It connects directly to sonarr I got curious.
That’s the exact moment when I finally unsterstood what’s all the hype about the ARR stack ! My god, what an amazing piece of software stack…
First came jellyfin, sonaar, then prowlarr, radarr, seerr and now I discovered profilarr. It’s amazing to see how everything perfectly communicates with each part of the stack and everything is perfeclty automated and god does it work well… I’m impressed and still baffled how something so good is free and open source !!
Im still scratching the surface of this powerfull stack, but does it feel good to just ask seerr and after a few minutes having my media perfectly organized in qbittorrent, filesystem directories, renaming scheme, hardlinks, quality profiles, config synchronization… 💥🤯
It does have it’s own quirks right and there, and can become kinda weird if you do not know what you are doing (thanks Trash guides ❤️❤️) and seeing from all the issues the arr stack seems to hit a wall with the current code implementation. But IDK, i’m not a programmer so I may be wrong here.
And there seems always something new to complement the arr stack !
So that’s it :) Just wanted to share my feeling and appreciation with all of you ! Happy self-hosting !!
I love piracy as much as anyone, but I got to be honest, I am a bit irked by how much of a hardon you have for the amazing people who develop these beautiful tools in their free time driven by nothing else just an outbursting of love from their hearths. In reality, while I am sure there are innocent enthusiasts, many of the people who run private trackers, usenet servers, and I’m assuming are developing client architecture, are basically criminals who make a living off stealing protected IP and selling it to people who prefer a subscription for a tracker or server over a streaming service or over purchasing audiobooks, games, or porn directly from publishers. The arr stack is the infrastructure for hosting industrial scale streaming services using pirated content. So that’s part of the reason why the free piracy software is good. There is a very real paying market for it.
Edit: I’m putting a link here so I don’t sound like bullshitting. This is the type of illegal streaming I am talking about, which basically operates as an international organized crime group, with ties to other illicit activities independently of pirating. While I don’t know anything about their tech stack, they need a massive automated system to obtain the media they pass on to their subscribers. It’s not the need to organize the movie library of a middle age dad which justifies configuring a massive stack of services.
https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/successful-operation-against-illegal-streaming-services-millions-users-worldwide
You’re in the wrong tracker if that is the case. No trustworthy tracker has a subscription.
Well, even if you don’t partake, there are trackers with subscriptions and they have subscribers.
I don’t dabble but I just thought the cognitive dissonance was thick.Didn’t down vote but damn…
There exists multiple types of people who upload pirated stuff. One of these types is the person who, instead of getting a day job, makes a living on selling content that they don’t own. I don’t know what to call that person other than a criminal. And it’s not too far fetched to assume that some people in that scene resort to pretty nasty techniques to obtain content, and that can be way more problematic than sharing torrents.
First, I don’t really care if you pirate whatever. I don’t, but I don’t preach at others who do. I figure, you’re all fully autonomous adults, capable of making your own decisions and living with them. I just found the statement ‘I love piracy as much as anyone’ while calling those that profit from piracy ‘criminals’, rather dichotomous.
The duality of man.