It reduces your available peers. You can’t connect to other people with closed ports, one side needs to be open.

It isn’t a huge deal with popular torrents, but it can cause problems with unpopular/old stuff.

This is the fucking dream. Lidarr is serviceable to get a library going, but we could do so much better.

Lidarr is the corresponding program for music, setup is almost identical to what you’re already running. And if you use Prowlarr to manage your indexers, it also works with Lidarr.

If you go to your torrent client and disable the missing file, it should get reported as “complete” to the *arrs. Manual and annoying, but it works.

You don’t even need to purchase a domain, free dynDNS services (DuckDNS or similar) are good enough for Jellyfin and the like.

I’ve had this happen a couple times, and contacting the seller directly has gotten it sorted out. Even if they seem sketchy, they don’t want to take a hit to their reputation. If they don’t want to help, I’d escalate to eBay support.

If neither of them work out, then I’d try contacting WD. A refurb with no warranty is better than nothing at that point.

A Zero would probably be way underpowered for the job. I’ve used a Pi 4 in the past and it worked ok, but choked occasionally.

My actual recommendation would be a small x86 box, something like a Lenovo Thinkcentre Tiny. You can get them used for about the price of a Pi, and they’ll be much more reliable.

It isn’t just the cover art, they also A/B descriptions. And some of them are so different they’re basically lies.

Same here. But on the bright side, at least data hoarding doesn’t take up a ton of physical space.

I’ve had a lot more luck running it in Docker with gluetun, along with qbittorrent in Docker. That way you can bind the whole qbit container to the VPN, which is basically bulletproof. All config options are available as Docker commands, you just need to use Proton’s website to check the server list and pick your favorite p2p-enabled server.

It does take a little fiddling, but it’s solid once you get it running. Port forwarding works too, once you figure out how to enable it.

Yup, it’s called Lidarr. It isn’t quite as nice as the tools for movies/TV, but it gets the job done.

Install them, point them to your media folder, tell them what your preferred quality level is, and they’ll handle everything else.

The Trash Guides are probably the best resource to get running.

Unless you’re also running a torrent client, you don’t really need a VPN at all. The *arrs aren’t doing anything that needs to be hidden, and Usenet is fine with just SSL.

Jellyseerr doesn’t do music, but Ombi does. I run them both, with Ombi set for music only.

Readarr goes through fits of not working very well, usually linked to issues with the metadata provider. My tip would be to ditch it entirely and use LazyLibrarian instead. It’s a lot more reliable, and has all of the same functionality.

I prefer private, but only a few that aren’t to crazy with the rules. Ratio is easy enough to maintain with some freeleech torrents set to seed forever, all other torrents get set to whatever the minimum seed requirements are. The selection, quality, and speed are so much better that I don’t mind putting in that little bit of effort. Public trackers are my last resort.

That said, any torrents are secondary to Usenet. That subscription is worth every damn penny.

The easiest/safest way would be to adjust your plan, even though it would cost a bit more and feel kinda shitty. I’m pretty sure they offer an unlimited bandwidth “upgrade” for residential plans at like $10-15/mo, and all business plans should be uncapped.

You could try to spoof your traffic somehow, but I could never get that to work reliably when I had caps. And the overage fees were worse than just paying ahead of time.

FileBot isn’t really necessary, the *arrs can handle renaming just fine with custom rules and formatting. It’s just turned off by default. The only thing you’d need to add is subtitle downloading, and Bazarr does a better job of that anyway.

Frequent enough that I’ve gone back to LL, even though I like Readarr better when it works. Goodreads isn’t going to change the API, Readarr probably isn’t going to change providers.

You have some options here. Your new internet doesn’t mean you can’t torrent from home. If you’re using a VPN (you really should be) then your ISP port forwarding doesn’t even matter. You just choose a VPN provider that offers port forwarding on their end, like Proton, and use that port for qbit. The only real advantage to setting up at your parent’s place would be if their connection was faster or more stable.

As for the server, the arrs can handle everything. They have settings (off by default) to rename and tag all of your files, based on rules you define. It’s pretty easy to set it up to fully automate all of that processing busywork, so you just request things and wait for them to show up in Jellyfin.