So there's the "official" set of tools from servarr.com, but there's a few "unofficial" tools as well, but they all function similarly in that they glue several things together to make workflows nicer.
A downloader (either a Bittorrent client or Usenet, but I will focus on Bittorrent).
An Indexer, some remote site (like thepiratebay.org) or BitMagnet (local DHT scraper) for searching for torrents. Prowlarr is the generic indexer component, so it can provide Indexer's to other components (Sonarr, Radarr, etc.), but you don't need to use Prowlarr if the site
A downloads folder.
A media library folder.
After adding your media library so the component knows what you "have" already, you tell the component (say "Sonarr" for TV shows) what you "want" and it's added to a wanted list. It also knows what you already have. When you add a new show to your wanted list it can immediately download it, or it can wait for new episodes to be released and only download those. When downloading it will download to the downloads folder and then copy (you can change settings so it uses hard links, so these copies don't take up extra space). It will only copy the media files and ignore .nfo/readme.txt style files, and it will change the format to the one Plex/JellyFin want (with //S__E__ - Episode title.mkv) By default it will seed for a certain amount and then delete the files from the downloads folder/remove from the torrent client, but this is configurable. It can also look for higher quality versions like if you have 480p versions of a show and 1080p versions become available it can download them and replace the lower quality versions with higher quality (it does not do this by default).
But that's fundamentally how they work, they have a media library with certain things, and a list of things you "want" and then a way to download things to get from the want list into the media library without needing to do any manual intervention (except manually adding things to your wanted list)
BitTorrent does seem to be completely dead. bt4gprx is a very thorough DHT search, so it will find basically anything on a public server that's actually being seeded, https://bt4gprx.com/search?q=Craig+Kilborn and it has no hits for the Late Late show, (but a few other appearances by Craig Kilborn on other shows.)
I do this, but with keepass (keepass on all devices and then sync with nextcloud). Saved my butt a few times, I can go into the file history and pull an old version of the keepass db out of it, and then keepass has a merge feature, so I can pull the old file out, and merge with current to find missing records.
worldcat lists the institutions with this book https://search.worldcat.org/title/1048005393, you'll probably have to show up in person. You may be able to do an inter-library loan if your local library doesn't have the book, you could get it from a sister library. However, the only public library that lists having the book is the Austin Public library in Austin, Texas.
Alison also made a compilation of all the tik-toks of people reacting to the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNa-8tFoUxs which I think adds a fair amount of humor (but I'm sure some people will feel this is beeting a dead horse)
Right, only one side of the connection needs an open port (and most clients will let that be either seed or leech side)... this is why having an open port on your end is useful if you're downloading, since you can download from seeders that don't have an open port.
If you want the instances to sync, you just need to sync the directory. (I currently use nextcloud sync for this, but in the past I used synching and before that btsync)
If they dont try to modify the files at the same time (with sync delay) there won't be any issues. If they do grow out of sync, you can fix pretty easily with db repair.
the mastodon spam that's mostly died down... we'll see how that ends up. we saw similar things where admins got told to turn on approvals for all new accounts... which isn't super scalable.
Anyway, Fediverse is finally important enough to send spam to, we'll see how well devs can make solutions for spam on a federated platform.
But yeah generally agree, there's no conspiracy here, it's just fighting spam is hard... and having an account with X amount of Karma is hard for a bot to pull off (without leaving a really obvious paper trail of bots upvoting each other)
Something like that is probably technically possible, but you'd need to do a bunch of work.
Plex Plugins can't provide media sources anymore, so you need to do the trick plex_debrid is doing where you add stub sources to the plex server library and serve the files from a virtual filesystem.
You might be able to re-use the plex_debrid code but use youtube-dl instead of rclone
When the program aired originally, VH1/Viacom would have bought time-limited, media-specific licenses (i.e. you can play my song on cable tv on this program for 5 years if you give me $x dollars flat fee.)
If they wanted to release the thing again on a different medium (say internet streaming, or DVD) they'd need to find who owns the rights (it could have changed if the rights were bought or whole companies were bought or whatever) then they need to pay them all more money, for a DVD they could offer like .25 cents per $15 DVD sale or whatever, but for streaming that's a monthly subscription so the royalties all need to be re-evaluated (for ad-supported)
Anyway, paying lawyers/accountants to sort it all out is an expense in and of itself, (in the like 10s of thousands of dollars range) for like maybe 100s or 1000s of dollars in revenue, and it just doesn't pencil out.
This uses ffmpeg under the hood and muxes the file into a .m4a file without transcoding. Basically keeping whatever compression youtube used for the audio (which is some sort of mpeg4 compatible audio, probably depends a little bit)
This still recompressed, but it's the best you can do using youtube as the source.
uploader (almost certainly, but theoretically you could skip this step if you encoded your video well) compresses audio
uploader uploads to youtube
youtube re-compresses the audio again (almost certainly transcoding into a different codec)
So there's the "official" set of tools from servarr.com, but there's a few "unofficial" tools as well, but they all function similarly in that they glue several things together to make workflows nicer.
After adding your media library so the component knows what you "have" already, you tell the component (say "Sonarr" for TV shows) what you "want" and it's added to a wanted list. It also knows what you already have. When you add a new show to your wanted list it can immediately download it, or it can wait for new episodes to be released and only download those. When downloading it will download to the downloads folder and then copy (you can change settings so it uses hard links, so these copies don't take up extra space). It will only copy the media files and ignore .nfo/readme.txt style files, and it will change the format to the one Plex/JellyFin want (with //S__E__ - Episode title.mkv) By default it will seed for a certain amount and then delete the files from the downloads folder/remove from the torrent client, but this is configurable. It can also look for higher quality versions like if you have 480p versions of a show and 1080p versions become available it can download them and replace the lower quality versions with higher quality (it does not do this by default).
But that's fundamentally how they work, they have a media library with certain things, and a list of things you "want" and then a way to download things to get from the want list into the media library without needing to do any manual intervention (except manually adding things to your wanted list)
How did you search archive.org? I see several hits on https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Craig+Kilborn%22
For example this full episode: https://archive.org/details/kilborn.-0743
A fair number of them are "streaming only" due to them being some sort of agreement between archive.org and CBS.
I also see some on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR1fJIqpVrI
BitTorrent does seem to be completely dead. bt4gprx is a very thorough DHT search, so it will find basically anything on a public server that's actually being seeded, https://bt4gprx.com/search?q=Craig+Kilborn and it has no hits for the Late Late show, (but a few other appearances by Craig Kilborn on other shows.)
I do this, but with keepass (keepass on all devices and then sync with nextcloud). Saved my butt a few times, I can go into the file history and pull an old version of the keepass db out of it, and then keepass has a merge feature, so I can pull the old file out, and merge with current to find missing records.
Anyway... backups good.
worldcat lists the institutions with this book https://search.worldcat.org/title/1048005393, you'll probably have to show up in person. You may be able to do an inter-library loan if your local library doesn't have the book, you could get it from a sister library. However, the only public library that lists having the book is the Austin Public library in Austin, Texas.
I received a notification to use Door Dash yesterday, to order food... while I was cooking soup.
Alison also made a compilation of all the tik-toks of people reacting to the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNa-8tFoUxs which I think adds a fair amount of humor (but I'm sure some people will feel this is beeting a dead horse)
No thanks, I think I'll install Linux onto a dead badger
Right, only one side of the connection needs an open port (and most clients will let that be either seed or leech side)... this is why having an open port on your end is useful if you're downloading, since you can download from seeders that don't have an open port.
If you want the instances to sync, you just need to sync the directory. (I currently use nextcloud sync for this, but in the past I used synching and before that btsync)
If they dont try to modify the files at the same time (with sync delay) there won't be any issues. If they do grow out of sync, you can fix pretty easily with db repair.
the mastodon spam that's mostly died down... we'll see how that ends up. we saw similar things where admins got told to turn on approvals for all new accounts... which isn't super scalable.
Anyway, Fediverse is finally important enough to send spam to, we'll see how well devs can make solutions for spam on a federated platform.
But yeah generally agree, there's no conspiracy here, it's just fighting spam is hard... and having an account with X amount of Karma is hard for a bot to pull off (without leaving a really obvious paper trail of bots upvoting each other)
Something like that is probably technically possible, but you'd need to do a bunch of work.
Plex Plugins can't provide media sources anymore, so you need to do the trick plex_debrid is doing where you add stub sources to the plex server library and serve the files from a virtual filesystem.
You might be able to re-use the plex_debrid code but use
youtube-dlinstead ofrcloneWhen the program aired originally, VH1/Viacom would have bought time-limited, media-specific licenses (i.e. you can play my song on cable tv on this program for 5 years if you give me $x dollars flat fee.)
If they wanted to release the thing again on a different medium (say internet streaming, or DVD) they'd need to find who owns the rights (it could have changed if the rights were bought or whole companies were bought or whatever) then they need to pay them all more money, for a DVD they could offer like .25 cents per $15 DVD sale or whatever, but for streaming that's a monthly subscription so the royalties all need to be re-evaluated (for ad-supported)
Anyway, paying lawyers/accountants to sort it all out is an expense in and of itself, (in the like 10s of thousands of dollars range) for like maybe 100s or 1000s of dollars in revenue, and it just doesn't pencil out.
This uses ffmpeg under the hood and muxes the file into a .m4a file without transcoding. Basically keeping whatever compression youtube used for the audio (which is some sort of mpeg4 compatible audio, probably depends a little bit)
This still recompressed, but it's the best you can do using youtube as the source.
Seriously, you could yeet it at least 300m that way, maybe more since they're less than 90kg.
Churning through senseless trends is a time honoured tradition. Just like beef stroganoff.
I mean people said this about SponsorBlock, but it turns out you can crowd source the timestamps... If you built an easy enough UI.
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Right, I generally use these to determine how far you can jump without a roll, and then require an athletics check to jump further/higher than that.