No you’re right, the hardlinks themselves are not directional. I just misunderstood the advice as meaning that Radarr would create a hardlinked file in my torrent folder, using the existing file in my media library. (It will not)

The part that was tripping me up was that it seemed like I had to manually add the movies to Radarr’s library before it would let me import any of my torrent files. Otherwise it would give me an error saying the movie was unknown.

I think I’m starting to get the hang of it though.

Thanks, that makes sense.

I’ve been going cross-eyed staring at the Trash guides and Servarr wiki trying to get hardlinks and all the file paths working correctly (stupid simple fix in the end), so a little nudge in the right direction is appreciated.

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Sure, that would get all the torrented content into radarr quickly, but I guess I should have stated that my intent is to continue seeding that content from the qbittorrent client on my media server.

Unless radarr is somehow smart enough to hardlink the opposite direction (from the media library back to torrents folder) and let qbittorrent know that content is ready to seed…?

Thanks I will double check that later. Reading the Trashguides, I didn’t catch that the paths had to be that identical.

It’s more than a little annoying that Radarr doesn’t throw any indication that it’s physically duplicating files rather than creating hardlinks!

Wait can you expand on that a little more? I literally was just now getting ready to try and troubleshoot why my hardlinking was not working.

I was under the impression that the torrent storage and media library just needed to be in the same share, but maybe there is more to it…?

Not OP, but I can answer part of your questions:

if I migrate to Jellyfin do I need to fuck around with my folder structures ? No special case just /movie/title | tv/title in my use-case with the usual arr stack for grabbing.

I have Plex and Jellyfin running off the exact same media library no problem at all. So there should be zero need to modify anything–if anything Jellyfin seems a little better at catching “extras” folders than Plex.

I don’t need remote playback for movies/tvs but I have no idea how to replace Plexamp and if you have suggestions, feel free to mention it.

The Jellyfin app plays music–but it’s definitely NOT a music app. I always hear Symfonium highly recommended, but have not yet given it a whirl myself.

Absolutely. They are not going to share metadata or things like played status, but I have been using both simultaneously since almost the first day I spun up my media server.

I definitely prefer Jellyfin overall, but Plex is more convenient for sharing with less techy family so I keep it spun up. Jellyfin also requires some finicky network configuration (so I have heard) to cast media to a Chromecast, so Plex wins out there.

I did the same as you at first TBH, but quickly found that as long as I dumped the files in generally the correct folder structure, Jellyfin would figure it out. And for the few it doesn’t, you can manually identify within the webUI as others have pointed out.

I also stressed a bit about shows, but have found that

/Show (YEAR)/Season 1/whatever garbage naming convention the torrent uses

generally gets picked up with no problems, even if there is an extra folder level beyond “Season 1”.

Thank you, this clears up some misconception i had about how the *arrs work!

Got it, thanks!

If all your current files are still in the “download” folder, you could probably setup the arrs and qbit as recommended in the guides

Yeah, that’s the rub… they are all currently in separate movies, shows, and music folders as Plex/Jellyfin want them to be.

But it’s sounding like the best bet is to leave the existing content alone for now and spin things up per the guides until I have a better handle on how it all works. Appreciate the input!

Yeah, I’m using Unraid, so this would all be in dockers.

I think maybe I had a false understanding that radarr (for example) interposes itself between the actual media files and Plex/Jellyfin… which sounds like a PITA to undo, and was giving me pause.

Thanks, this is helpful!

If I do a “clean” install, can i later identify specific pieces of media within a library to monitor?

I have some ratios in the 500s

o7

I have around 400 items seeding 24/7. No problems at all, except that I am sending from my media server via my desktop,so I need to set speed limits in my torrent client to keep from saturating the wifi connection. (Slowly working to get things migrated over…)

Well dammit, that was it. THANK YOU!

I feel pretty stupid for overlooking something so simple, but since qBittorrent never indicated any kind of connection error, I didn’t even think to dig into such things.

I’m using Proton’s VPN client, which does have port forwarding, but it’s not currently enabled. Could this be causing me issues?

Sounds like if I enable port forwarding, I just need to ensure qBittorrent’s “listening port” is set to whatever active port the VPN client is using.

Well butter my toast and call me Sandy, that sounds almost too good to be true!

Sorry, not sure if this is exactly what you’re asking, but scanning through the peers I’m connected to now it’s around 75% qBittorrent.