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c/selfhosted · by tatoko556@reddthat.com · 249d

Looking for Software to Track Watched Shows

Is there software that tracks movies and TV shows I've watched and lets me manually add them to my library?

I use Jellyfin, but it lacks this feature. I'm looking for a solution that allows me to create placeholders for shows or seasons I've watched elsewhere, without having to download or create empty MP4 files.

It would be even better if this software integrates with Jellyfin.

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rayf@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 249d (1 reply)

Ticket Booth. Avaible on Linux. https://github.com/aleiepure/ticketbooth

Automatically fetch data from tmdb. Tag movies / show watched or not. Even episode by episode. I use it and I'm very pleased.

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 249d

Trakt was popular in the past, and has integrations with Jellyfin, although some people may have left after their pricing/feature changes earlier this year.

Here is a relevant thread you might find helpful: https://lemmy.ca/post/38746526

Thank you

mbirth@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 249d (12 replies)

After Trakt changed to a subscription, I’ve went with NeoDB. This is a federated network, so you can also host it yourself if you like. All entries there can be published into the Fediverse, too. It tracks movies, shows, books, and games. And it automatically imports from IMDb, TheMovieDB, Amazon, Steam, and many more. There’s just one little quirk: since this app started out in China, many actors show up with their Chinese names - but can be easily edited to their English names.

There’s also eggplant.place which is the development build of NeoDB and might be unstable but has more English content.

https://neodb.social/@mbirth/posts/522457362146719720/

73ms@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 249d

Another vote for NeoDB. It's been very useful for me and more people on fedi need to know about it.

octobob@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 249d (6 replies)

Why is damn near everything in Chinese?

mbirth@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 249d (5 replies)

To quote myself:

There’s just one little quirk: since this app started out in China, many actors show up with their Chinese names - but can be easily edited to their English names.

The author of the app is Chinese (but speaks English, too).

The actors get imported upon the very first import of a movie/show. And when a movie is imported from Douban first, the actors will all show up with their Chinese transliterations. If you import a new movie from TheMovieDB, they'll show up with their English names. But as mentioned above, you can edit the names - which is what I usually do for US-movies. Descriptions support multi-language, though. Once an English description has been imported, it should show up for you while Chinese people will continue to see the Chinese description.

And the more English-language users start to use NeoDB, the more initially-English content will pop up.

ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 248d (4 replies)

It may be "easy" to edit the names, but unless it's a one-time universal toggle, that'd be a dealbreaker to me.

mbirth@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 248d (3 replies)

You can always join one of the mainly English instances like Eggplant.place or ReviewDB or host your own. But as long as the majority of NeoDB.social users are Chinese, the dominant language there won't change.

OTOH it's easy to use the API - so, instead of doing it manually, I'm tempted to write a small tool that you can throw a link to a movie or show at and it'll change all Chinese actor names to their English counterparts.

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 248d (2 replies)

I think there may be an issue with language support here. It seems that once a movie is fetched and stored on the instance, the metadata stays permanent. It would be easier if every item were tracked using a universal identifier, such as IMDb.

mbirth@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 248d (1 reply)

Items are tracked using IDs. But if a movie was imported from Douban, NeoDB only knows the Douban ID. Same with IMDb. However, since TheMovieDB records often have IMDb IDs as well, it’ll import both identifiers if you import from there.

And there’s a feature to merge duplicate imports into one. This will make that resulting record available under all the different IDs.

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 246d

Thank you

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 248d (2 replies)

This seems great, but I don’t fully understand how it works with the Fediverse. Instead of everything being local, can I now share what I’ve watched with others and see their comments as well?

mbirth@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 248d (1 reply)

Yes, whenever you mark a movie or an episode as “to watch”, “watching” or “watched”, this gets published like a Mastodon post. You also have the option to automatically retoot this from your main Mastodon account. Others can follow you from Mastodon and react to your events. (For some reason, they don’t properly show up here, though.) And, of course, it all shows up for other users on NeoDB.

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 246d

Seems great!

FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 248d

!neodb@lemmy.zip

otter@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 249d (1 reply)

Trakt was popular in the past, and has integrations with Jellyfin, although some people may have left after their pricing/feature changes earlier this year.

Here is a relevant thread you might find helpful: https://lemmy.ca/post/38746526

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 249d

Thank you. This is helpful

El_Quentinator@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 249d (1 reply)

I've been using watcharr for this purpose. It's fairly simple but fits my needs perfectly (I also really like the ability to change the rating system to be 0-100). It also has a rudimentary import from jellyfin (needs a few clicks, no builtin scheduled imports unfortunately).

Fair warning the last update was 5 months ago but I'm not personally missing anything apart from jellyfin scheduled imports.

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 246d

Thank you. Looks very similar to https://github.com/FuzzyGrim/Yamtrack

kokesh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 248d (1 reply)

My Jellyfin does that.

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 248d

Could you share a guide

SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 249d (1 reply)

Trakt.tv

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 249d

Trakt was popular in the past, and has integrations with Jellyfin, although some people may have left after their pricing/feature changes earlier this year.

Here is a relevant thread you might find helpful: https://lemmy.ca/post/38746526

Thank you

ieGod@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 248d (1 reply)

Curious on the use case here. How do you make use of this information specifically from Jellyfin?

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 248d

Writing reviews for movies and have them displayed in jellyfin even the movie is not downloaded

speq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 248d

Tellico is a general collection database for many things (books, movies, shows) and keeps track of many kinds of status (watched, borrowed etc.).

https://tellico-project.org/

GentleWay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 246d (2 replies)

I self-host Yamtrack and find it really useful: https://github.com/FuzzyGrim/Yamtrack

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 246d (1 reply)

Thank you. Seems very similar to https://watcharr.app/

GentleWay@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 234d

I tried that too. The things I like about Yamtrack is that it does books too. It also does imports well and integrates with Jellyfin and Plex

ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 249d (1 reply)

I have all my watched shows at myepisodes. Maybe need to move to a service that i can connect to jellyfin and more.

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 246d

better alternatives I found so far

baconsunday@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 248d (1 reply)

I use Jellyfin, but I also track them with an app on my phone called Next Episode, there's another I use called TV Time. I haven't decided which I like more.

I can see how long until a new episode airs, what day, it gives a description and title, and I can click watched when I have seen it.

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 246d

open source alternatives I found so far

superpowersurfer@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 249d (2 replies)

The best one I know of is JustWatch. Its an app you can install on your Phone or on your Smart TV. It tracks TV & Movies you have or haven't watched and you can simply ✅ them off as you watch them. There's a free version and a paid version. You can mark off entire season's in one go if you've seen them instead of episode by episode. It's available on the Google Apps or iPhone store

GentleWay@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 234d

I used to use JustWatch before self hosting. They don’t make it easy to get you data out of their system (last time I tried)

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 246d

better Open Source alternatives I found so far

Marty_TF@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 249d

jellyfin has a rudumentary tracking plugin, i however use yamtrack which can get activity directly from jellyfin

Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 248d (1 reply)

Does Tautulli work with jellyfin?

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 246d

alternatives I found so far

cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 249d (2 replies)

Interested in this too. I’ve been using the app TV Time for years now, but I’m not married to it. It works. Would be nice to have something that integrated into my self hosted apps tho, that isn’t Trakt cause I’m not paying for that.

tatoko556@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 246d (1 reply)

alternatives I found so far

cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 246d

Appreciated, thanks!