wouldn’t trust that tbh

I’m with you here, i find it infuriating and i never ever had the situation where this was beneficial.

Like who tf actually creates a File.txt, file.txt AND FILE.TXT in one place and actually differentiates them with that.

And i hate it being case sensitive

We should give you some honorary title for that

Havent found a good solution for me aswell.

I used to use spotify and let it create similar playlists to what I already had but ofc they killed that feature in favor of their useless smart shuffle…

Its said in the very first sentence though?

This isn’t really the right place to ask this. You’d be better off in some networking community

You should mabye open a [W] Post on that community where i crossposted it from. Maybe someone reacts there.

Sonarr / Radarr move the files out of the finished downloads folder into the respective media folder.

If they don’t have the right permission for that you should check your setup. Everything in my guides run with user 1000 and they should all have permissions to move each others files around.

Regarding your second question: I don’t quite understand what you mean here? Imo Jellyfin doesn’t have to be in a VPN. It doesn’t do anything in the grey area. If you plan to stream media FROM jellyfin over the internet to some other PC. You should at the very least configure proper SSL or let it go through the VPN.

Sonarr & Radarr should be in your VPN computer.

The file access management is in good enough shape with the setup i have here.

The *arrs can access all the media files, yeah you could trim that down by allowing radarr only /mnt/arr-stack/media/movies and nothing else. But that isn’t necessary.

I could maybe do something for reverse proxy via NGinx Proxy Manager in the future…

No, an invite is just so you can register. You still have to pay for most indexers. Or atleast you have to pay if you want to use their API access; And that’s what you’d do if you use *Arr

I don’t think they are less popular.

But their whole system works different. There is not a single file there that’s called Inception.h265.HDR.mkv for example

Its all just billions of g24hg54j2k7j6nb2n1n5b5j files with absolute gibberish as content. So you need the nzb files to actually get stuff out of it.

But the nzb files also don’t hold any copyright infringing material in and of itself.

So copyright holders have to fight two thing at once

Yeah i stumbled across that a couple times but never really put much thought in it… i’ll check it out right now and maybe i update my guides :)

usenet was used before the world wide web really took on. Nowadays it’s mainly used to host & download movies, shows, games, etc. etc. It’s basically like one of those direct download hosts where you simply download a file. So unlike torrent it is NOT peer to peer and you don’t have to hope someone still seeds it.

But unlike direct downloaders the whole system is split into two parts. You have your “Usenet Providers” which are the host servers where all the files are stored. You cannot interact with those files directly however. They are all encrypted and fragmented and completely randomly named. What you need to actually download those files are Indexers. Those are sites like Drunkenslug, nzbgeek, etc. They will provide you with tiny little “textfiles” that contain a list of decryption keys and a list of filenames corresponding on the host server.

You then put those “textfiles” into a usenet download program, here i used SABnzbd, and it will take this list + keys, go to the usenet provider and starts to download those random files. After that it will unpack them, put them all together and ét voilá you have your fully assembled media file.

Most usenet providers are incredibly fast and can match your gigabit internet if you have it. The one i use for example goes up to 950Mbit/s. That combined with the fact that the files are either there or not, but nothing in between like it could be on torrent is a really really reliable and fast way to download stuff.

I’d make a little test run if i were you.

Add something via Jellyseer, take a note on what exact release it grabbed and stop the download and remove the whole job. Then add it via *arr again but don’t do a interactive search. Let it do it’s thing and take a note what exact release it grabs. If it takes the same release it did when using jellyseer, then you know somethings not good with your *arr profile here. Because jellyseer basically just prompts *arr to automatically search for something.

Interactive search is a manual process. If *arr’s automatical search result is bad, there are ways to finetune it. Though i don’t use *arr with torrents so i don’t know exactly where / how.

Sounds like it, because jellyseer itself does NOT search for anything. All it does is tell sonarr/radarr that something was added and they should start the search.

However you also have to select your sonarr/radarr profile inside Jellyseer. So if you maybe have an old profile that is set to default on jellyseer it might be it.

Just a random guy on the internet ;)

I have tried it like that before writing the guide and it didn’t cause issues. But yes, if it does one could simply mount the whole base folder and navigate from there

1. Thank you :)
2. I like to keep them seperate. Makes it easier to troubleshoot if some path goes haywire or what not. Also makes it easier to update one without stopping the other
3. Yeah i will go through them and remove the version