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Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

EL BROMANCE posted:

Thinking of doing this too, just hope I don't lose anything with regards to functionality. I still have MyNZB on my iPhone from years ago and it still works and is so useful when out and about, the NZBS.org site is a bit of a mare to navigate in Safari on the phone.

Also how much of a mare is it getting nzbdrone to read from old SickBeard folders? I presume it's fine with them given the amount of people who undoubtedly have moved over.

Having just switched I don't think I'll ever got back to Sickbeard. You gain a ton of functionality. Most importantly, failed download handling.

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Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Thermopyle posted:

That's because you're using the not-recommended 2.x version of Mono. I don't know why it's not-recommended.


edit:

Or not. Maybe 14.04 fixed it and when I tried it recently it was just before I upgraded to 14.04. Let me test it out...

edit2:

OK, if you're on Ubuntu 14.04+ you're good as the repo version of Mono finally is at 3.2+.

Yeah latest version of Ubuntu makes it as simple as adding the Nzbdrone repo and installing it. It'll auto snag all the pre-reqs and required zero effort on my part to install.

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

B-Nasty posted:

For any other Sonarr noobs, make sure you go into Season Pass and turn off the old seasons. I use it only as a new episode downloader and recently got 5 old seasons X 20 episodes when someone posted them.

Unless you want all the old seasons.

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
I tried Astraweb for 3 months and while it's cheap my experience has been less than stellar compared to Giganews (which I've since switched back to). Even with 20 connections Astraweb could barely break 13MB/s whereas Giganews easily breaks 35-40MB/s with half the connections.


I also found Giganews to have MUCH better completion of posts, even with things going back 1000 days+. I guess you get what you pay for here. I use tweaknews.eu as my block backup.

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Boris Galerkin posted:

I noticed I still have to login to nzbs.org via their 'forums' page. It's been like this for years, am I safe to assume that it's just on purpose at this point? Do they still have most* things I'd ever want to download or should I really look for other options? Don't wanna be left in the dirt.

They're still like the best indexer out there for TV/Movies/Porn :)

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Godinster posted:

I've never used Spotnet but it seems like NZB.cat is the consensus on a good option for people needing a new home. I use it as a backup to nzbs dot org when it's down and it's worked quite well.

If you're going to recommend something at least make sure that registrations are open :)

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Godinster posted:

I think you can pay to register? Most of the good sites now are paid anyway and at least Cat is a one time deal... for now.

Like I said:

Registrations are currently invite only.

:shobon:

I've been wanting to get a backup for nzbs.org in case it ever goes down. I don't know what I'll do if that happens.

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

prom candy posted:

Is there any reason to switch to Sonarr if I have a working Sickbeard install?

Sonarr is several magnitudes of order better. Much better error handling, much better UI (my wife can add her own drat shows), ...

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Dongattack posted:

Anyone got a Plex home server running sabnzbd, sonarr, radar, etc? Which OS did you use for it?

Running Plex + Sab + Sonarr on Arch Linux + ZFS. (8x10TB) + (8x4TB) Mirrored Zpools. Been running this setup (minus the mad amount of HDDs) for about 8 years now. It's been rock solid and ZFS has made it through complete rebuilds of the system :).

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Dongattack posted:

I'm running Plex on a Synology NAS DS218+. I'm not sure what you mean by client setup. The client(s) are wireless. I'm also not sure what you mean by local or remote, the NAS is in the same building as me connected wired to the router.

Edit: I wonder if maybe the bitrate is just too much sometimes. Cause the episodes that are below 4 gigs play fine, but once they hit 5 gigs it starts to act up.

The CPU on your NAS is also somewhat weak. It's a dual core Celeron @2.0GHz. On a 1080p stream you might be hitting a CPU bottleneck as well as a limitation with your Wi-Fi. You'll actually have to fully transcode VC1 files to h264 if you don't want your server to transcode on the fly. For one of the problem files you can let plex fully transcode one and see if it plays better.

That being said, Plex can be finicky with files. My NAS server is a Ryzen 7 1700 and the client is an Nvidia Shield and I can still get odd stuttering at times even though my server can handle 6 1080p streams at a time.

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Evil Trout posted:

Which is what is surprising to me. It looks like it received the missing articles from my block account and extracted the file, however the extracted file was somewhat corrupt. The file I was downloading looks like it had a DMCA style takedown, so maybe it happened while I was downloading it?

I'm still confused as to how SAB was able to extract it if it was corrupt though. I'm on the latest release.

Sometimes people post broken things on Usenet as well so that could be a thing happening here.

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
That seems like an awfully complex setup. I've always wondered how Google doesn't shutdown people using the service that way.

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

EL BROMANCE posted:

I will never forgive the Dutch for their obsession with hardcoded subs.

At least stuff is a bit better these days. I remember a few years back things weren't labelled well and you'd end up getting stuff not only with hardcoded subs, but non English language as well.

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

salted hash browns posted:

Why would anyone use an unlimited account? With block accounts you pay ~$0.01 per GB in a 500GB block, and unlimited is ~$10/mo. It would take 1TB/mo+ to recoup that cost with a unlimited monthly account.

edit: math

Some of us download more than 1TB / month :clint:

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
You might want to edit out that last part.

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

lordfrikk posted:

But how big are your home NASes anyway? I've seen that one video of a guy having 70 TB storage complete with an enterprise-level server housing but I'm thinking there's not many people who go all out on storage like that, right?


Yeah, I could understand if people download, watch and delete. Storing all that stuff is pretty mindboggling to me, though :v:


15 + 64TB ZFS arrays. Never. Delete. Anything :shobon:

Data hoarding is a thing I guess :(

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Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Trustworthy posted:

Good god, it's been so long since I've had to touch my wonderfully reliable set-up... I'm going to have to relearn so much. :smith:

:yossame:

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