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yt-dlp for downloading videos from various websites.
This one is amazing, especially when you realise various websites means, nearly any streaming platform. SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Bandcamp etc, it knows them and can download whole archives of files. As we watch Twitter and Reddit totter and crumble it's time to realise this will happen with the sites that host your favourite podcast, unless you make offline copies
Recently found out about Stacher which is a GUI for yt-dlp
I use this one. Extremely fast and easy to use once you figure it out.
qBittorrent for a lightweight and open-source BitTorrent client.
undefined> QBitorrent
Okay, question that hopefully doesn't make me look too stupid - please be easy on me! I followed the instructions for Firefox + uBlock + paid VPN. However qTorrent is recommended but the list of browser specific downloads, does not include Firefox. Very confused right now.
Not sure what you are asking for, but one thing I can recommend is that for qbittorent to go to settings > Advanced > Network Interface to tie your VPN to the client. This will help in the event your VPN cuts out reducing chances of your IP address leaking.
Is that the "network interface"setting?
Bit new and clueless to this
Yes. Usually your VPN will be something akin to the name of the vpn or the vpn client.
Qbittorrent is not a browser extension. It's a gui application.
You don't install it specifically for our into Firefox.
If you're trying to use the web interface, just use that. No need for anything specific.
Not really the correct place to be asking about this
I don't understand, I suggest you create a separate post and explain better what you are trying to do.
Audiobookshelf for a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server.
Any experience with Readarr, how do the two compare?
Readarr is akin to Sonarr/Radarr. Audiobookshelf is like Jellyfin/Plex
Thanks, that makes sense.
Calibre for organizing, converting, and syncing eBooks.
Absolutely vital for anyone who uses an ebooks.
I personally dislike it. It has a poor appearance and instead of copies books instead of tracking them wherever I want them to be. However, it is currently the best option available.
Jellyfin for a free and open-source media server and suite of multimedia applications.
Sonarr for a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users that can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite shows.
Radarr for an independent fork of Sonarr reworked for automatically downloading movies via Usenet and BitTorrent.
Transmission for a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client.
Tachiyomi for an Android app for reading manga from various sources.
Stremio + Torrentio for a media center that allows you to watch movies, series, live TV, and more with the help of torrents.
RetroArch for a frontend for emulators, game engines, and media players with support for various platforms.
Musicbrainz Picard for fetching music metadata and standardizing file naming schemes.
Nicotine+ for a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network.
gallery-dl for a command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites.
Readarr for a fork of Radarr for eBooks and Audiobooks.
Prowlarr for a meta-indexer that integrates with other applications like Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr.
Just go to be sure the download the clean adware free version from what I remember. Easy for Linux though since it is available in the repo. On windows I think you go to the page https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2
Been a long time since I used it on Windows.
ffmpeg the Swiss army knife for everything video and audio.
Overseer for a request management and media discovery tool built for the Plex ecosystem.
Plex. I know it’s not the open source option, but I love it.
With plex pass it detects intros and let’s you skip them. This silly feature got me to buy a lifetime pass.
Navidrome for a self-hosted music server and streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic clients.
mkvtoolnix create/edit mkv files. Very useful to remove or add subtitles or audio tracks amongst others.
Lidarr for managing music collections for Usenet and BitTorrent users.
Bazarr for managing and downloading subtitles as a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr.
Media Center Master the free version is a cool utility for organizing movies/TV shows that will find and attach metadata. The premium license unlocks torrent/Usenet integration and will automatically find download new episodes or movies as they come out based on your preferences
Spotiflyer downloads playlists from Spotify and many other services.
As the post said, it's got a lot of details and options you can fiddle with. qBittorent's got it beat with its search option though. Tixati has that, but afaik, that search only looks for files between Tixati users.
Romm for game collection and roms (it supports PC games aswell)
eiskaltdcpp for a cross-platform program that uses the Direct Connect and ADC protocols.
hydrus for a desktop application for managing a personal collection of images, videos, and other files.
Mylar3 for an automated Comic Book (cbr/cbz) downloader program for use with NZB and torrents.
digikam for image and video collection management and viewing (also does duplicate detection)
Fopnu for a P2P file-sharing system with no ads, no spyware, and no bundled software.
eMule for a classic P2P file-sharing software with a large user base.
FrostWire for a BitTorrent client and media player with built-in search functionality.
SuperTag for a command-line tool to manage files using tags instead of folders.
LazyLibrarian for following authors and grabbing metadata for digital reading needs.
Am I the only one that has never gotten this software to work worth a damn? The interface is impenetrable and it never finds what I want.
Maybe it's because I'm not searching for Steven King or whatever super-popular author? Either way, I've yet to find anything that is as easy as just going to library genesis and downloading manually.
Stash for organizing and serving adult video and image files.
mediarepo for a media manager similar to image boards (boorus), allows tagging media and searching using those tags.
LaunchBox for a game launcher and organizer for Windows.
TMSU for a command-line tool for tagging your files and accessing them through a virtual filesystem.
Ombi for a self-hosted web application that allows users to request content for Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin.
Sonarr, Radarr, qBitorrent, SabNzbd, Jackett and frontends like Kodi and Jellyfin. Jackett can interrogate a whole bunch of public and private torrent trackers for you, fetch a .torrent file given a set of criteria (like are there seeders) and put it in your torrent client for you. It does all this automatically from Sonarr/Radarr once set up in them.
I set all this up in my server using my phone and an Android SSH client from my bed while recovering from nasty painful surgery and it's been pretty solid once I worked out the kinks since.
yt-dlp for downloading videos from various websites.
This one is amazing, especially when you realise various websites means, nearly any streaming platform. SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Bandcamp etc, it knows them and can download whole archives of files. As we watch Twitter and Reddit totter and crumble it's time to realise this will happen with the sites that host your favourite podcast, unless you make offline copies
Recently found out about Stacher which is a GUI for yt-dlp
I use this one. Extremely fast and easy to use once you figure it out.
qBittorrent for a lightweight and open-source BitTorrent client.
undefined> QBitorrent
Okay, question that hopefully doesn't make me look too stupid - please be easy on me! I followed the instructions for Firefox + uBlock + paid VPN. However qTorrent is recommended but the list of browser specific downloads, does not include Firefox. Very confused right now.
Not sure what you are asking for, but one thing I can recommend is that for qbittorent to go to settings > Advanced > Network Interface to tie your VPN to the client. This will help in the event your VPN cuts out reducing chances of your IP address leaking.
Is that the "network interface"setting? Bit new and clueless to this
Yes. Usually your VPN will be something akin to the name of the vpn or the vpn client.
Qbittorrent is not a browser extension. It's a gui application.
You don't install it specifically for our into Firefox.
If you're trying to use the web interface, just use that. No need for anything specific.
Not really the correct place to be asking about this
I don't understand, I suggest you create a separate post and explain better what you are trying to do.
Audiobookshelf for a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server.
Any experience with Readarr, how do the two compare?
Readarr is akin to Sonarr/Radarr. Audiobookshelf is like Jellyfin/Plex
Thanks, that makes sense.
Calibre for organizing, converting, and syncing eBooks.
Absolutely vital for anyone who uses an ebooks.
I personally dislike it. It has a poor appearance and instead of copies books instead of tracking them wherever I want them to be. However, it is currently the best option available.
Jellyfin for a free and open-source media server and suite of multimedia applications.
Sonarr for a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users that can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite shows.
Radarr for an independent fork of Sonarr reworked for automatically downloading movies via Usenet and BitTorrent.
Transmission for a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client.
Tachiyomi for an Android app for reading manga from various sources.
Stremio + Torrentio for a media center that allows you to watch movies, series, live TV, and more with the help of torrents.
RetroArch for a frontend for emulators, game engines, and media players with support for various platforms.
Musicbrainz Picard for fetching music metadata and standardizing file naming schemes.
Nicotine+ for a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network.
gallery-dl for a command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites.
Readarr for a fork of Radarr for eBooks and Audiobooks.
Prowlarr for a meta-indexer that integrates with other applications like Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr.
jdownloader2 for a free download management tool.
Just go to be sure the download the clean adware free version from what I remember. Easy for Linux though since it is available in the repo. On windows I think you go to the page https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2
Been a long time since I used it on Windows.
ffmpeg the Swiss army knife for everything video and audio.
Overseer for a request management and media discovery tool built for the Plex ecosystem.
Plex. I know it’s not the open source option, but I love it.
With plex pass it detects intros and let’s you skip them. This silly feature got me to buy a lifetime pass.
It really surprised me the first time I saw the Skip intro button on a series I downloaded. It seems to work by analyzing the audio and comparing it between episodes from the same season.
Bulk Rename Utility
Calibre-Web for a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading, and downloading eBooks using an existing Calibre database.
aria2 for downloading files.
Pair with https://ziahamza.github.io/webui-aria2 for a good UI
ShareX for capturing and sharing screenshots, recordings, and other files.
Jackett for a single indexer API for multiple torrent trackers.
deluge
Czkawka for finding duplicate files and similar images.
mediainfo Know everything about your medias.
Navidrome for a self-hosted music server and streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic clients.
mkvtoolnix create/edit mkv files. Very useful to remove or add subtitles or audio tracks amongst others.
Lidarr for managing music collections for Usenet and BitTorrent users.
Bazarr for managing and downloading subtitles as a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr.
Media Center Master the free version is a cool utility for organizing movies/TV shows that will find and attach metadata. The premium license unlocks torrent/Usenet integration and will automatically find download new episodes or movies as they come out based on your preferences
Spotiflyer downloads playlists from Spotify and many other services.
mldonkey cross-platform multi-network p2p daemon
Deluge run headless. Great Android mobile app.
rtorrent great to download torrents especially on a server.
(didn't see you posted this one as I was posting it)
yt-dlp youtube-dl fork that is more current and works better for tons of sites to download media.
Plex for Movies / Shows / Music.
Tautulli for monitoring and tracking your Plex Media Server usage and performance.
Kavita for eBooks and Manga
beets music library management and tagging for geeks
Tellico for a KDE application for organizing your collections, including books, videos, music, and more.
DupeGuru for finding duplicate files on your computer.
Tixati is an alternative torrenting program that I switched to from QBitorrent.
Why use Tixati over qBittorrent?
As the post said, it's got a lot of details and options you can fiddle with. qBittorent's got it beat with its search option though. Tixati has that, but afaik, that search only looks for files between Tixati users.
Romm for game collection and roms (it supports PC games aswell)
eiskaltdcpp for a cross-platform program that uses the Direct Connect and ADC protocols.
hydrus for a desktop application for managing a personal collection of images, videos, and other files.
Mylar3 for an automated Comic Book (cbr/cbz) downloader program for use with NZB and torrents.
digikam for image and video collection management and viewing (also does duplicate detection)
Fopnu for a P2P file-sharing system with no ads, no spyware, and no bundled software.
eMule for a classic P2P file-sharing software with a large user base.
FrostWire for a BitTorrent client and media player with built-in search functionality.
SuperTag for a command-line tool to manage files using tags instead of folders.
LazyLibrarian for following authors and grabbing metadata for digital reading needs.
Am I the only one that has never gotten this software to work worth a damn? The interface is impenetrable and it never finds what I want.
Maybe it's because I'm not searching for Steven King or whatever super-popular author? Either way, I've yet to find anything that is as easy as just going to library genesis and downloading manually.
Stash for organizing and serving adult video and image files.
mediarepo for a media manager similar to image boards (boorus), allows tagging media and searching using those tags.
LaunchBox for a game launcher and organizer for Windows.
TMSU for a command-line tool for tagging your files and accessing them through a virtual filesystem.
Ombi for a self-hosted web application that allows users to request content for Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin.
Sonarr, Radarr, qBitorrent, SabNzbd, Jackett and frontends like Kodi and Jellyfin. Jackett can interrogate a whole bunch of public and private torrent trackers for you, fetch a .torrent file given a set of criteria (like are there seeders) and put it in your torrent client for you. It does all this automatically from Sonarr/Radarr once set up in them.
I set all this up in my server using my phone and an Android SSH client from my bed while recovering from nasty painful surgery and it's been pretty solid once I worked out the kinks since.
Please, read the post. Nobody asked you this.
You're not my dad.
To be fair, he is right. You would be better to comment on https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/584842.
Didn't ask for this either. Would have been better if you had posted nothing. Take your bickering elsewhere.