• loathsome dongeaterA
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        11 months ago

        Oh okay. No worries. I thought it was some self hosted software. Looks good though.

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          11 months ago

          Naw that is my PaaS(Piracy as a Service) stack that I use when I need the dirty done on the road. My real home built system is a set of docker containers that have a pipeline to a really good Usenet indexer.

          Ya girl has been around the bend a few times and always want the flexibility of not having my Synology NAS and ESXi servers turned on.

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              11 months ago

              Public trackers are rare these days. I would almost tell you to avoid them. My suggestion if you are trying to stay free and dont care about letters from your ISP in the mail is to wait for iptorrents to open up invites by watching the tracker list here. You can also try for the others on that list that do random open registration events. You can see the open ones by sorting by availability. Be careful if you do get into iptorrents because you have to maintain ratio. They are super ban happy there if you dont.

          • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            11 months ago

            a pipeline to a really good Usenet indexer.

            Are you aware of any good choices with open registration? This was always my piracy tool of choice, to the point that I’ve maintained a download service account over all these years. All my old indexers seem to be gone or shit now though.

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              The only indexer that does open registrations that is worth its salt is drunken slug. Their restrictions for basic accounts is not that bad.

              If you wanted I could send you one of my invites, because getting in took me years of waiting. It would come with a “you know what you are doing and are not gonna cause trouble” clause tho.

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                Is the indexer where you get the nzb files from? I’ve got a jellyfin/arr server going with torrentleech as my main source for movies and shows currently. I was thinking of getting into Usenet again for ebooks and music, but it seems like tech has advanced since the days when I used Forte Agent to manually download things.

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                  11 months ago

                  Yea the indexers really just keep the nzb files then the backbone providers who have the data. So you need an account with say drunken slug then one with a backbone provider like usenetgroupsdirect. That is where it gets a little confusing because you can buy two types of access to bulk data and each has their pluses and minuses.

                  If you are keeping up so far I told you about one backbone provider but its best to actually get in with a few others. That is because if you think about it these backbone providers have kept a log of large chunks of usenet on harddrives. So backbone providers do not have access to all of the data. So what you do is get a subscription with usenetgroupsdirect for a flat monthly fee. Then say you use an nzb file from drunken slug and it cannot find it on there. Well that is where a usage based block account comes into play. You end up paying like $10 for 100GB to newsdemon and your data is probably on there.

                  Since you have your jellyfin/arr setup going all you would need to add is SABnzbd as a the download client and Drunken Slug as the indexer. You want to be careful with this setup if you have a free account because you only have 25 API hits on Drunken Slug a day. You do not want automation banging away at that and you should just use sabnzbd to do your downloads manually. Lucky the unlimited API and downloads is super cheap per year compared to others I have seen.

                  Let me know if you have any questions as I tossed a lot at you at once.

                  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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                    Ah. No, this is great info, thank you for laying it all out. On my own, I’d gotten as far as contemplating installing sabnzbd and then buying some gigs from usenetgroupsdirect but the idea of also paying for an indexer was kind of throwing me. I’m already on a budget so not really in this to spend money, if you know what I mean. straw-hat-pirates Mostly, I was just exploring down this path to automate lidarr and readarr, but it sounds like doing so for free is out of the question. Guess I’ll probably stick to manually using soulseek and irc for music and books when needed. Thank you again, this was very helpful!