Gilgeam @ Gilgeam @lemm.ee

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I'm super old school and just started finding my way back to torrenting. Would you have a recommendation on how to read up on these arrs? So far I still manually pull my torrents from a search engine and run it through my vpn hardened Pi in the cellar. It works, but I do wonder if there's a more streamlined approach.

Thanks for creating this thread! I was struggling with exactly the same thing!

Oh no, apologies, I didn't mean to cause emotional damage! I realized way too late that the thread was discussing streaming while I was going off in download for archiving, so I deleted the whole thing. I'm confused how it still ended up on your screen!

Anyhow, i guess it depends on your system, but.. you might have a point, I might be picky. It just sounds so obvious to me, but that's my ears and doesn't mean anything about your ears. You do you, man 😅

You make a great point! From the standpoint of archival, that system makes a lot more sense.

One the one hand, I absolutely get where you are coming from, but going to higher resolutions is a way of future proofing your backups.. to some extent.

When we started out with mp3s back in the day, 128 kbs was all the rage. Then slooooowly it went up to 192 as a standard, then 320.

Now? If you listen back to 128, it's really hard to endure. Our systems are just a lot better now, and you notice. So now it's lossless codecs.

So if you get higher res today and dump it on your NAS, it will potentially still be watchable in 7 years with your new device. Good luck doing that with 480p.

I mean, it all depends in your use case. I store very little content I don't intend to re-watch again, so I mostly have evergreen stuff and just stream the rest. I will only devote my storage space to it if I genuinely feel something for it, lest I start managing stuff I don't care about. For that, high resolutions make sense.

I didn't know about Anna's torrents and got super excited, then looked it up and got really confused. How am I supposed to know which of these torrents hold which books?! There's probably a guide or search I didn't find, but I'm genuinely unsure how to use these thousands of torrent files.

I mean, given the mission to preserve a large amount of humanity's knowledge, that's bound to be a complex system, so I'm definitely not surprised it isn't immediately straightforward. A guide would definitely be useful, though.