• incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    Thank God we have torrents, but what makes me most sad about this is that many of these sites have unique catalogs that torrents don’t have or that you can never get seeds from… being honest, I would 100% migrate to torrent if it didn’t have this small big problem.

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    23 hours ago

    My favorite anime website is down; good thing FMHY has a bunch of great ones to choose from. Migrating sucks, though.

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    1 day ago

    Like others I’ve seen torrenting my episodes instead, but man… I miss the convenience.

    Don’t get me wrong - torrents are great, but for me they’re the best when I want to binge watch a complete series and/or keep it indefinitely. I’m typically following ~10 series/season = episodes/week; I need to find the series in a certain torrent site, then download it, watch it, seed it… it’s a bit of a bother, you know.

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      13 hours ago

      Sonaar with Plex/Jellyfin is about as convenient as you can get. The only thing missing from torrents, usenet, and now even Crunchyroll itself is comments.

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      13 hours ago

      If you want convenience, go for jellyfin/plex, radarr, sonarr, browlarr, usnet/torrent indexer and jellyseer.

      Nothing is more convenient.

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      17 hours ago

      I know there are ways to have torrents automatically download when they appear, so you could set it up to have your episodes download as soon as they’re ready and you can watch them at your convenience. I don’t recall how, but I know I’ve read about that, but never needed it myself. I’m sure it’s easy to find the resources online.

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        13 hours ago

        Setting up Sonarr is pretty easy, and using it is even easier. I definitely recommend it. Works great for me with Plex/Jellyfin.

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        14 hours ago

        I ended picking Miru (from another comment) up to watch anime, so I won’t automatise the system - I’ll use the RSS just to warn me when there are new episodes. That said, this extension (to allow transmission to download from rss) plus this site (to sift the RSS feed, so you don’t download e.g. individual episodes alongside batches) could help.

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      1 day ago

      I miss the convenience.

      I busted off my convenience for a little bit when setting up Plex + Riven + Zurg (the same could be said about my Arr stack) after that huge learning curve it is all about convenience baby, I get all my stuff in all my devices with one single account, keep the progress of the full library even pair it up with services such as Trakt, and I can even share the love.

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            18 hours ago

            I liked it. I really liked it.

            It got a .deb version, not just appimage. Installed without issues.

            The interface is clean, and I could easily find series that I enjoy, both on- and off-season. (Tested with DanMachi V and Hikaru no Go). For neither it felt like I was watching it from torrents, there was no stuttering at all.

            I use MAL instead of AL, but importing the list was easy enough. It’s less one thing to do, great - now I don’t need to update the anime list manually!

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              18 hours ago

              My biggest issue with it was how it didn’t work well unless it was a flatpak, and even then apparently the dev has issues with the flatpak leaking ram

              Flatpak is now EOL, I might have to take care of that myself unfortunately

              (If you want to support the dev, the app is being sold on android, you can use it on your android TV)

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                18 hours ago

                What the fuck this is how I discovered fate strange fake anime released I just wanted to take a screenshot

                Anyway, here’s the screenshot

                Screenshot

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      For currently airing/weekly stuff, you can use RSS to get all the episodes as they come out. Just make sure your search is only getting the episodes you want before you add it to your client. That means asides from the show title, also add the sub group and bitrate if they release more than one.

      It’s a tiny bit more work to set up, but once it’s done, episodes just show up as they come out. :)

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    Do streaming sites actually work for others? Like reliably? At least for me, sometimes they work okay, and I can watch a movie without any buffering, but most of the time I have to deal with lots and lots of buffering. Sometimes every few seconds even. Maybe it’s because of the VPN? Never tried it without. But then again, even with a VPN, I get around 75Mbps.

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    1 day ago

    So. What android apps and extensions are still best? Dantotsu with extensions seems hit and miss. Probably due to these takedowns.

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    2 days ago

    I feel like all people recommending torrenting here are not really understanding the users of those streaming portals. I use them because I dont want to torrent the newest anime epiaode every week and I dont want any automated torrenting setups, because every mistake/fuck up might result in a 3 to 4 digit fine.

    I torrent when it actually makes sense for me (high quality or offline viewing) and stream the rest. I am grateful for all those that provide me with those streaming sites and I regularly recommend them to friends after I install an adblocker for them.

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        23 hours ago

        I use one, but its a cheap legacy contract and I literally just torrent there, seed till I have a ration if 1 and then download to my own hardware

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      1 day ago

      You could do a semi-automated system where you have all your currently airing in RSS, but still need to manually start them. It’d at least save you from having to go searching every time.

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        23 hours ago

        Sounds like streaming from a streaming site with extra steps. But yeah when I torrent I use a cheap seedbox and then download from there to my own hardware.

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          15 hours ago

          Except that such an extra step is way better in quality and streaming speeds, compared to streaming sites, if you care about this or 1080p/4K high bitrate media.

          As a matter of fact, since you can stream and also download torrents with a debrid service, I’d say paying a cheap seedbox (debrid services are cheap as well) is torrenting with extra steps… Without the ability to stream.

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        1 day ago

        I am gonna give you a couple answers for that based on what I have read in other places such as Reddit, perhaps OP does not agree with them.

        1. RD or debrid services in general are paid services and it goes against their piracy beliefs (This is the silliest thing I could ever read… It only makes sense if you don’t care for quality and/or you haven’t tried a debrid service in your life).

        2. Streaming torrents even paired with debrid services or VPNs (not needed when using a debrid service, or in some countries for bare torrenting) is more cumbersome than just using a website (even in this day and age when Stremio exists), which I kinda agree with them… But you get what you pay for… Am I right?

        3. They just don’t have a clue of what a debrid service is.

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      1 day ago

      Where are you that you could face such a steep punishment? Setting up safe, automatic tormenting is really easy