bless your heart. i bet youve learned a lot!

i found containers helpful… it was simple to spin up a VPN container (gluetun), and push through any services/access/other containers (like pihole) through that. i really appreciated this because if the vpn goes down i’m not suddenly leaking my ip.

what kinda storage ya runnin?

if its a spinning rust drive, it could be failing. ive seen behavior like this after a big data change (like an OS install) on a drive thats on its way out. its spinning its wheels re-reading data.

prolly not the issue if its an SSD

decentralized cloud storage

isnt that kind of an oxymoron?

i manage all files and metadata outside of jellyfin/kodi using mediaelch… it scrapes, renames and sets up all the local metadata files for ingestion perfectly into both my media services.

i dont get this… im technically still usin emby, but user management is beyond simple and requirs no upkeep. no one has asked me to reset their passwords and ive got a few dozen people usin my instance.

coool, thank you!

very simple

//library/Movies/$movie_title //library/Series/%Series_title/%series_season

that sounds easy enough, i’ll give it a try. i heard transmission was on the outs though…

id prolly be happy with it at the series level even, not necessarily the seasons… but one torrent seems like a pain to create… thousands seems arduous. without a lot of scripting that is. i’m checkin out retroshare also, thanks!

im at ~36000 episodes and ~2800 movies in a hierarchical library primarily used for kodi and jellyfin. each series/movie is in its own folder… season of series are in their own folders… all have xml data regarding each file, created by mediaelch.

i already have a deluge container running over a vpn container so upload/download shouldnt be an issue… except i get a different ext address on the tunnel when i reconnect every once in awhile.

it just feels stupid i have this beautiful thing i cant share with the world without a mess of scripting

this sounds promising. ive already got a vpn container (gluetun) to proton.

the xml is just the media data usually ingested by kodi/jellyfin. its all already well structured in files and folders.

ill prolly start looking into a script i can use to generate the torrents and feed into my deluge container, but you have proven my point.

its not ‘easy’ to create and seed a library of files.

im all linux, and have a deluge container already working through a vpn… a scripted solution with symlink to an attached, read-only volume of my library kinda sounds like a start.

if anything, this all proves my point. its not easy to ‘just create a torrent and upload it’ as mentioned upthread

what are the best tools to automagically create 40k torrent files from their xml metadata. are there tools to automatically bundle seasons/shows/collections?

ive not had any leaking since i setup my torrenting container(deluge is my fav) to use the openvpn container(gluetun) for its internet. theres zero chance it can leak, nothing to ‘forget to turn on’… kinda idiotproof, which i needed

gluetun is your friend

is this the one where some moron was suggesting a vpn for torrenting on a vpn service not designed for torrenting?

very interesting. i use mint as a default workstation and i put it on a lot of older machines for older people as a windows upgrade. it just seems to work except for a very occasional audio issue.

cool, thanks for the info!

Ubuntu was pushing snap,

interesting… ive not seen anything regarding snaps in mint… flatpak is the other option in the software manager