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I love not being bombarded by ads thanks to pihole and adblockers. I don't have cable TV either. But without browsing netlifx/Hulu/etc. how do you actually find stuff to watch and discover worthwhile shows and movies to rent from my library?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The 'popular', 'trending new shows'/'up comming movies', and 'most anticipated' lists in NZB360 (android app for managing the whole 'arr stack and more)

User requests via Ombi (it also has lists like above to look through)

Random titles I find on Lemmy.

Word of mouth.

Oh yeah: and IMDB lists added to radarr. Lists for various studios, and a big standup comedy list.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you add the IMBD list by hand?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The imdb lists are monitored by Radarr, but aren't created by me.

I just found a few public lists I like and now whenever new content is added to those lists by their maintainers, Radarr adds+downloads it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's what is mainstream popular. How do you find stuff you actually like ?

Only a system that you have trained with like/dislike and can compare with other sets of content preference similar to yours will find that precious "content similar to your preferences but you haven't seen yet"

That's a content recommendation engine.

Now the questions is, how can we each run our owm self hosted recommemder engine which will share our list to others automatically so that we can pool it all together and create a useful recommender engine.

Without that, we have to rely on the artificial mainstream mush like marvel movie #27

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's what is mainstream popular. How do you find stuff you actually like ?

Is it impossible to like mainstream stuff?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well letting other people choose for you is not really discovery. When too many people abdicate this responsibility, art becone whatever profitable mush advertisers shovel in our face.

That's how we get avengers 23 and batman 15.

You can also try random selection, or choose by the first letter of the title. Or decide with the cover.

Or you can have a system that considers what you actually like, finds people that like the same stuff as you, and then suggest other stuff that they like which you have not heard.

That's how "the algorithm" works for youtube & netflix.

I want that, but running offline on my computer, disconnected from the internet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well letting other people choose for you is not really discovery. When too many people abdicate this responsibility, art becone whatever profitable mush advertisers shovel in our face.

Critics and mainsteam media has existed for as long as media has. They don't choose for you. They just help judge whenever a movie might be worth watching.

It's not like I watch a movie just beaucse it's mainstream. I watch some mainstream movies because they specifically are good.

And isn't really the most highly rated and well liked movies in existance mainstream by definition?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it impossible to like things outside the mainstream?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Word of mouth. Friends. Internet.

Speaking of which, have you seen Barbie yet? I heard it's pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah Barbie is played by this really good actress! Looking forward to seeing her in more stuff!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Overseer if you use plex and jellyseer if you use Jellyfin.

Makes the content browsing experience pretty fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

trakt.tv via https://github.com/1RandomDev/showly-oss and https://www.themoviedb.org/ I'd prefer a more open alternative but afaik there's nothing that tracks movies and series at the same time.

For music, there's https://listenbrainz.org/ but I mostly listen to the old stuff and don't get flooded with new stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't know about showly and gave it a try, syncing it to trak.tv. What does this get me that I don't get through trakt.tv by itself? What am I missing?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does showly oss scrobble watched Information for free. I was going to use trakt.tv awhile ago but am not paying a subscription just for that feature so I use another site? Is is showly just a way to view the data feed by trakt.

Edit: Should clarify scrobble watched data from Plex in my case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know if plex can scrobble but showly uses trakt and jellyfin + trakt works

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

i have enough.. uh... 'archived' content that i don't need to 'discover' anything new for years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I had a system like that running for the family. 3000 movies, they watched about 20 and they keep asking me if there's anything new.

I scraped the system on the 10th rerun of Airplane!

Without a proper recommendation system, the hoard of content is useless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And yet I can't stop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yo, shoot a list bro cause im dry af... I mostly watch community, it's always sunny in Philadelphia, that 70s show, 30 rock etc...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on that let me recommend you "Brooklyn 99", "The Good Place" and "Archer".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely finished Brooklyn and the good place but archer seems awesome from the first episode I saw... appreciate you bro

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How I envy you to be able to watch Archer for the first time.

I must have watched the whole thing a dozen times.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Word of mouth

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started using JustWatch as a means to find which streaming service had the thing I wanted to watch. Then I started using it to track what I had watched. And now that I’m completely moved over to stremio+torrentio I use it to find what’s popular and new.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same, JustWatch is really great imo. It lets you browse by streaming service, sort by popularity, and filter by rating or genre. You can also browse recently added titles to different streaming services.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I setup Radarr/Sonarr/Overseer and shared my Plex server with some friends. They do the heavy lifting, and know when something's probably good when several of them are watching the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah i check my played count on Tautulli once in a while and see what's hot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I usually browse the "what are you watching" threads on the trackers I'm on, get suggestions from friends and co-workers, and my wife who still watches network TV to know what to put into my rss feed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use the discover feature on Jellyseer. It makes my life so much easier to see what's out there now.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought the app nzb360 it has popular, trending new shows and most anticipated sections for TV shows. And something similar for movies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Love this app so much. Sonarr, radarr, BitTorrent, etc all accessible in nzb360

I never buy apps, but this one was worth it

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Curators are a good way too, some blogs or podcasts do a lot of heavy lifting in discovering new shows, some communities with similar tastes are also good to find content, way better than algos and ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IMDb gives recommendations based on your ratings for things you've seen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My usual method - see what's trending on 1337X, then go to IMDB and see what is under "more like this"

And yeah, once you start rating stuff, some of the recommendations are pretty accurate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Whats the difference than using this as opposed to the *arrs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It complements the arrs. You can request shows and movies in seer and it adds it in the arrs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They're not the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The 'arrs handle actually finding/managing media files

Overseer/Jellyseer/Ombi are interfaces for you and your users to request media to be added to the 'arrs. Either directly, or after approval by an admin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I usually browse Trakt and look for some decent lists, then add what I like to mine. The lists are hooked up to Radarr/Sonarr so I don't have to bother manually downloading my media.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I usually look at the cast and see what else they've been in, some UI like Plex make this really easy if you have a watchlist hook set up.

[–] Fedegenerate 2 points 1 year ago

Music is my main media and I pay Deezer specifically to recommend me stuff.

For games, I'm on an emulation streak, so top X listicles. Mostly, I'm racking my brain for things I thought were interesting but never played/didn't finish/want to experience again.

For TV and movies (and new games), I care a lot less about and I mean a lot less, so word of mouth. If all my colleagues, family, and friends are raving about the new hotness I'll find out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Back in the day I used to follow this site for entertainment news, but now mostly from YouTube. O like to watch a lot of trailers so there is always a lot on my feed. I also like vídeo lists like "Top sci-fi movies from the 90s" . Cinefix is a really good channel with that type of content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I get quite a few reccomend actions from the sci-fi/fantasy rss feeds I'm subscribed to. I also get some from suggestions on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

im not tapped into commercials/the zeitgeist either.. i tend to look at the 'new' sections of the 'rent sites.

if others are going through the effort, it might be worth takin a look.

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