This is a very niche meme. I love it.
The worst I’ve experienced so far is Panty And Stocking S2. Here’s a copy paste of what I explained to someone using my plex asking why it was so fucked.
E01 is a single episode
E02 and E03 are one episode in the west and on japanese streaming(E02), but it airs on TV as two episodes in japan
E04, E05, E06 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E03), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan
E07, E08, E09 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E04), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan
E10, E11, E12, are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E05), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan
E13 is a single episode, but it’s episode 13 for TV broadcast, and 6 for streaming…
E14 and E15 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E07), but airs on TV as two episodes in japan
I recently switched to using shoko to handle scanning/metadata etc instead of hama/ass and it’s been working pretty well.
My main issue is that I use Sonarr which uses tvdb as backend.
If an alternative to sonarr existed that could also integrate with Overseerr I’d be on that instantly, but sadly there is nothing like that.
Having to manually handle shows my friends and family want to watch us not happening.
If an alternative to sonarr existed
Flexget, Medusa
Overseerr
Ombi
The *arr stack is an abomination.
Having to manually handle shows my friends and family want to watch us not happening.
Your providing a free service, right?.. Dont forget to enjoy it yourself. Unless you serve 100 “friends” like everyone else. Then enjoy the money.
Flexget, Medusa
Neither of these have a backend that would improve on sonarr for Anime. I assumed it was obvious with the context that I meant one that used something like AniDB as a backend for anime.
Ombi
I don’t like ombi, it’s always been jank af for me. (also I use jellyseer not overseer to be fair)
The *arr stack is an abomination.
100% facts.
Your providing a free service, right?.. Dont forget to enjoy it yourself. Unless you serve 100 “friends” like everyone else. Then enjoy the money.
Ofc it’s a free service strictly for friends and family, people who profit from piracy are cunts and should fuck right off.
Edit: huh, so medusa does support using AniDB as a backend. I seem to remember it didn’t or that there was some issue with it.
I’m so glad I don’t catalog my downloaded stuff.
I don’t see the problem. If the files are named properly, software like sonarr will have no problem organising it. You just name the file S02E4-E6 etc.
That is indeed the right way to do it, unfortunately Plex doesn’t handle it well. It’ll show all the episodes separately, but each one plays the entire file (fair, it doesn’t know for sure where the breaks are, but could be done better), and watching the whole thing marks only the one you selected as watched, so you have to mark all the other “episodes” as watched manually (this is annoying, if it knows you watched the whole file, it should know that you’ve watched all the episodes it covers).
Usually if an episode is a 2 parter in one file, I’ll just name it for part 1 since you’d watch them together anyway, but for cartoons the two parts are usually entirely unrelated, so it really only works properly if the file’s split. It’d be better if the interface at least showed that a range of episodes are combined so you could, say, start it and know that the episode you want needs to be scrubbed through to find it, and also if it marked them all as played when you watch the whole thing.
Did you mean Jellyfin?
I know Lemmy is obsessed with Jellyfin, but alot of us have lifetime memberships to Plex, and will switch when hell freezes over.
Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.
So Jellyfin… How hard is it to migrate from Plex?
It took me just a few minutes to set up. 4 folders, TV, Videos, Movies, Music
Sorry, did you mean a lifetime membership to Jellyfin? Because I don’t think there is such a thing…
The lifetime membership to Jellyfin is on Github in the form of a GPL license and the source code. I’ve got a lifetime membership to Jellyfin and it didn’t cost me a dime.
Erst vor kurzem gewechselt. Geht schon gut, diese Geleefloße
I (partially) blame tvdb for this mess. SpongeBob has every story listed as a separate episode, but good luck finding any source that doesn’t bundle these up.
Meanwhile, the list for Kaguya just bundles all stories aired together in a single episode (thankfully).
Thing os: Many companies and countries have different orderd releases.
I raise you multi-language content or a mixed Australian/US-Broadcast Mythbusters collection 😐
And I raise you Pokémon. Holy mother of fuck that’s messed up. Some episodes switched around for foreign distribution, some removed, and two seasons put into one, making the entire ordering one season and three episodes off. Had to manually edit nearly everything after Sonarr tagged them because Sonarr used one distro but my source used another.
Feast your eyes on this shitshow (use desktop mode if on mobile)
Ouch, my condolences.
It’s fascinating that it took me longer to scroll through that than most people have or ever will spend on watching the show.
Just give up and get streamlined mythbusters. Easier to watch anyway.
What’s the difference?
Sounds like a fan cut release
My demons are all Doctor Who. I had it mostly straight in plaques and when I moved over to jelly fin, nothing was right.
Haruhi Suzumiya has entered the chat
Futurama is also a pain to organize.
Because of the movies split into episodes?
I have the French dub, which has a very different broadcast order.
S03E12 in French might be S02E22 in English, while S03E13 is part one of a special episode (so… S00E04, p1).
No one had published a conversion guide yet,so I ended up playing each file up through the title credits, to determine the new watch order.
Beavis and Butthead.
jellyfin?
I took the effort to split every episode S1-S3 in davinchi
The bane of my existence before it hit Paramount+
Now you can find individual episodes as WEB-DL
Also in the original aspect ratio or was it cropped?
Original
Ooohhh…That’s nice!
Now I only need it in dubbed form to be useful for me.
American dad being screwy is what got me to finally setup Jellyfin. I was just using Stremio for everything but the jumping around because of season misnumbering was bad
