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Originally Posted by dobbles
Ok, what the actual f%&k are you guys talking about??!?! I thought I was doing good with my plex server the last few years.... I backed up my physical media and then a buddy and I merged our together so we'd have more and then I'll rip movies from the library or redbox to grow my collection.
But I am apparently an ignorant toddler compared to all the complexity you guys have! Oddly, just this week I stumbled on this article: https://dailysysadmin.com/KB/Article...-media-server/ which I think talks about a lot of the same things you guys are talking about. I bookmarked it so I could come back and digest at my own pace in the future!
Do you guys have any basic learning I can do? Heck, I'd settle for a good place to get content as getting stuff at the library takes forever! |
The two big pieces to upgrade a Plex server are Radarr and Sonarr
Radarr - Movie library management service with automatic downloading and importing into Plex. Basically once you have it setup, you search for a movie to add and it will search through all of your configured indexers to find it at the quality you want, download it, rename the file per your settings, then move it into your Plex library. It will even re-download items once better quality rips are available, so for instance you can have a webrip 1080p movie that gets upgraded to a full Blu-Ray rip once it's released. It's a set it and forget it method for adding movies
Sonarr - Like Radarr but for TV shows. The greater value here is that once you add a TV show, it will automatically download and add every newly released episode to your Plex server
Basically both of those services turn your Plex server into an automated DVR system. The catch is that you need some sort of knowledge of either torrents or usenet, as those are the download options for radarr/sonarr. You also don't really want to just dive in and start downloading torrents if you've never done it before as it's a quick way to get nasty emails from your ISP and potential legal action, you need something to mask that traffic like a VPN
If all of this sounds brand new to you, definitely do a bunch of reading before diving in