Exactly the title. I'm researching having a jellyfin server and downloading media seems like it would be tedious (the way I've done it once or twice previously). I could use some clarity on what Sonarr is, what it looks like (like is there a GUI?? I'm too stupid to run something off of a terminal), and how it works. I'm familiar with torrenting but not with usenet, and I use the megathread from this community. Can someone explain Sonarr/Radarr to me in a way that would be understandable to someone at my level of understanding?

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[–] dunidane@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The other comment has a pretty good explanation. But its important to know that its really difficult to get it working without access to some private trackers. The normal free ones will start giving you issues with file quality, naming, or not finding anything. This only gets worse if you want anime and even worse again for dubbed.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago

Sonarr/Radarr were originally designed for Usenet, and work best with it.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

You can eliminate low quality, cams, and other crappy files by tweaking the quality profiles and setting exclusion filters. I mostly use private trackers but occasionally still get stuff from places like TPB and hardly ever encounter issues this way.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 2 days ago

I beg to disagree, except maybe for the naming of some files on some trackers.

With the right settings all this can be avoided even on free trackers