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Adding proper metadata to releases. Why are we still trying to decipher release titles, why not add a little metadata JSON file to every release and make the info available to the search API?
Also keeping multiple different versions of a release in Arr apps, like ebook and audiobook in different languages. Right now I'd need 4 Readarr instances to get the English and German audiobook and ebook versions of a book, and don't even think about letting them manage the same root folder!
and following proper naming conventions too. why can't releasers decided to choose one single naming convention together so it makes our job better to automate things?
Have you tried maintaining a standard at work?
Now imagine if several thousand people try to decide on a common standard.
Several thousand people who tend to be less likely to follow the path most traveled, no less
I actually like the release titles. It's encoded in the name that way, there's a somewhat good standard for it, and it's one file. I rarely need more info than what's in the release title. And I would dislike having to carry a separate json with me.
That dubbed audio tracks of movies could be downloaded separatey and easily merged in the audio, in a way similar to subtitles. This way, the audio track in non English languages would be downloaded very quickly, even with just one seeder, and the whole movie in original language has way more seeders than dubbed ones.
Would be great for commentary tracks too.
Honestly my biggest thing is for affordable 10 or even 20 TB SSDs to hit the market.
Unfortunately you'll be waiting for a while. SSDs were at the lowest last year to the point that manufacturers were almost losing money. So they reduced production. We will only see the prices going up from now, at least for a while.
You can't really even find a 10+ TB SSD easily right now let alone anything approaching 20, so it's a moot point for now anyway. All that pricing stuff is cyclical though. There was a big spike in SSD prices a couple years ago prior to that huge price drop we just saw. It'll come back down again eventually.
We just moved over to a HDD setup recently because I had run out of space on SSD and the amount of space is great, but I forgot how much I hate HDD seek and transfer times and I'm not gonna invest in RAID for now so I guess this is my life.
Might be smart to maybe keep my most active shows on an SSD and the rest of the catalog on the HDD.
An HDD's sequential transfer speed is good enough. If seeking is a problem, don't do whatever you did.
what's the point of SSD for archival purposes? seem like less safe option than HDD and speed is not really issue for long term archiving or watching TV shows/movies, I don't really see point in SSD besides running OS/apps
To each their own. I don't care for the bulk of RAID setups or the transfer and seek time of individual spinning disks.
I've been waiting for that for over ten years now. I thought it would take two at most.
Samsung is selling some somewhat affordable 8TB drives but I feel like that's kind of an odd spot for size where it'll hold a lot of stuff, but when you get to that level of kinda semi-deranged collector mentality file hoarding, you're gonna blow past 8 pretty easily. I'm hoping it'll actually happen in a few years.
What's the current price roughly?
I have not seen a consumer SSD of 10 or more TB for sale anywhere and absolutely not 20. So the answer is, I have no idea.
Samsung has started selling 8TB drives for around 500-600 which is really not that bad, but I'm just gonna wait a couple years for larger capacities to hit the market and skip 8. It's in my opinion kind of a middling size if you're archiving a lot of video.
For now I'll just stick with the high capacity HDD setup I'm using.
Last time I checked:
500GB = 50-70€
1TB = 60-80€
2TB = 110-150€ (depending on product tier like samsung evo or pro models)
4TB = 250-400€ (same here)
8TB = >600€
Obviously different pricing for M.2/SATA/SAS drives.
sci-hub doesn't get new research papers any more, and the new alternatives are all much less user friendly. As far as I can tell, wosonhj.com is what's currently recommended, where you have to post in a forum and wait for either a bot or a human to send the paper to you. Other alternatives, like annas-archive, nexusbot or STC all didn't have the paper I was looking for.
I just want old sci-hub back, honestly.
You can maybe try your local library or Wikipedia’s
Being able to find, download and seed old series and movies.
Nobody ever stays seeding anymore because big private trackers make it all about ratio and small ones simply don't have to userbase to support "old" series.
Back with RARBG I had every season of that 70's show and had around a ratio of around 50. For old scooby doo, red green show, Mr. Rogers, Tom & Jerry, some cartoons from when I was a kid, etc... Now it is difficult to even find a lot of that media, much less have a good ratio from it on smaller private trackers where it might get 1 download per 6 months or so. There is absolutely no incentive for keeping around older media. If you want to get in good in trackers, you HAVE to pump and dump the most popular torrent of the week once a month or so to get a good enough ratio.
For example, on SceneTime I have a ratio of like 0.1 because it simply doesn't have users. However, they assign bonus points based on how long your torrent is seeding, if I am not mistaken, so my site "effective ratio" has gone up to 2 because you can spend the bonus points to add "upload GB" to your account if you are keeping alive "unpopular" torrents.
I like the trackers I'm in that have a point system that awards indefinite seeding and makes it possible to have a decent ratio even if you can't ever actually seed because of people with seedboxes.
Currently seeding
Tom & Jerry Collection 1940 1080p BluRay WEBRİ H265
Looney.Tunes.and.Merrie. Melodies.HQ.Project.v2022
Pretty big in size for my rented seedbox though... :(
Which tracker is this on?
I don't know what to do with my stuff from RARBG anymore because nobody can connect to it, but I don't want it to go to waste.
Maybe I should repackage it is AV1 and put it on a tracker or something.
As this tracker is always talked about: TL
The other tracker is much smaller and I prefer to not mention the name in public. If interested send me a PM.
Edit: The RARBG stuff should still be connectable over DHT and other trackers.
I also share the rarbg db so users searching for the rare unicorn in the database might choose to connect to yours over a magnet link.
Continued losses, in the billions, for ad-riddled streaming services is all I can ask for.
A way to fairly pay the original content creator.
If I really enjoy a movie, series or music, I often actually want to send the actual creator some money to reward their creativity. May be just a dollar, may be ten. But I can't.
I wish anime/manga/etc studios were transparent about their costs and profit. I want to see if my favorite show has so far made enough money to afford the next season or for the team to afford their next project.
Kickstarter/Patreon should have shown creators that people will support what they like and even if they have made enough money people will continue to buy/donate to creators they love.
Arr service that links with SoulSeek, automatically downloads music, passes it through beets, calculates ReplayGain values and the rest of the missing metadata and then organizes and renames it
This is the fucking dream. Lidarr is serviceable to get a library going, but we could do so much better.
I need people to submit more of the research papers that I need to be able to read to lib Gen or sci hub
More I2P torrenting support
Arr software for YouTube with Sponsorblock built in.
A way to use Sponsorblock on podcasts.
You wouldn't want the Sponsorblock to be part of the download process, but rather the player. Being crowdsourced, it's not immediate and often gets improved/corrected over time, so a video's least likely to have good Sponsorblock timestamps right after being uploaded (when an automated program would likely be downloading it).
We need a Plex/Jellyfin/etc. metadata provider with the Sponsorblock info included. Could keep the data up to date, even after the videos are downloaded.
You can use sponsorblock with yt-dlp, if that helps at all.
Interesting. Just need it to work on a server with an interface as effortless as sonarr.
Better music support. Movies and TV do great through the *arrs and Jellyfin, but music is a big mess.
A live broadcast open p2p protocol
I wish I could watch sports matches on demand, not just live. And I wish ad-free podcasts were available to pirate. It’s an unrealistic dream.
Would love to find old Canadian sketch comedy. CBC doesn't release much in the way of physical media. Thankfully, most if not all of Red Green is on youtube, but the vast majority of Royal Canadian Air Farce, Wayne & Shuster, 22 Minutes, etc is rotting away in the CBC archives. Maybe there's a couple episodes here and there on archive.org but there are zero torrents.
Don't forget the hilarious house of frightenstein
More VR porn 😸
I want self-sovereign identity. I want to control who gets what information about me from my ID, and how that data is hosted. I'm aware that there are some really hostile attitudes about blockchain, but I'd like if a public blockchain could be used to host the information, so that the identity info could be decentralized and decoupled from any given provider.
I want control of my digital identity back, dammit.
postscript someone kindly pointed out this is c/piracy, not c/privacy, which I thought it was. Off topic; my bad.
Wrong sub
Piracy, not privacy.
In my defense, it was my last comment of the night, on my phone. I thought I was answering the otheg c/. Oh, well.
The ability to financially support those one would leech off of (both bandwidth & sourcing)... Nothing mandatory, but perhaps being able to post a bounty for particular hard-to-find material, or for someone to seed a dead torrent.
Some equivalent to *arr services for IRC dcc'ing, lol. I just prefer dcc'ing over torrents, but it's a hassle to manually do it..