To be clear, this is just a joke, and I don’t look down on direct downloading. It absolutely has its place, and sometimes I do it myself if it’s just faster to download a file directly. Torrenting is just so much more convenient, though, especially when using Jackett’s manual search.
And Prowlarr is even better if you’re also using Radarr/Sonarr/Lidar.
I’ve considered switching to this program, but from what I’ve heard, its manual search isn’t as good as Jackett’s, and I only use Jackett for manual searching. Apparently Prowlarr is more suited for use with the .arr suite, which is why its manual search isn’t as good, and it doesn’t have as many available indexers. I heard all this a while ago, though. Is this all still the case?
They’re mostly functionally equivalent, but prowlarr supports usenet indexers in addition as well as having a better interface.
Jackett shows if torrent is freeleech. Prowlarr doesnt. Shame because prowlarr is more reliable
Prowlarr properly shows if a torrent is freeleech for me. Maybe the feature was added after you tried it?
Ah. Well, I don’t use Usenet and Jackett’s interface suits me fine. Guess I’ll stick to Jackett then. Thanks for the info!
They aren’t using any of those programs though. That’s the point of the meme and they have explained this in the comments. Last I used those programs waste far more time than they ever saved, and OP agrees with me on this.
Today I learned that some torrent clients provide a built-in torrent search engine.
See, I was hoping this meme would inform at least one person that Qbittorrent comes with an in-built search engine. That’s how I found out about it in the first place, through a meme lol
I use to use qbtorrent search, but it stopped working a few years ago.
Huh, it works on my end. I tested it just the other day.
Today I learned that people actually use this. I always thought it didn’t work right.
Limewire was like that. It was heavily abused and unsafe to find shit with but it was like living in the future.
Jackett is pretty good, but you should really check out the *arr suite of apps. And when you do, you’ll find Prowlarr is quite a bit better than Jackett for finding just the stuff you want.
As I mentioned in a different comment here, I’m already familiar with the arr suite. It’s how I found Jackett in the first place, and I’ve already determined that setting up the .arr programs isn’t worth it for me. Stremio suits me just fine, the .arr programs appear to be better suited toward those with the time and money to setup a whole dedicated server for their media needs. I only consume media on my personal computer, so I have no need for that.
I have tried Prowlarr though, just yesterday in fact. I didn’t really find its manual search feature to be any better than Jackett’s, and in fact it had some issues. In any case, since I don’t use the .arr programs, I’ve no reason to switch. Thanks for the suggestion though.
I’ve learned a lot here on Lemmy
Your meme is missing one more picture where everything explodes with full servarr setup
I don’t use .arr programs, so not really, lol. At least not in my case, anyway. Stremio fills the niche for all my media needs quite nicely, and Qbit and Jackett cover everything else.
Edit: Really, downvoting someone for using Stremio instead of the .arr suite? Lol. Stay classy, c/Piracy.
Oh ma gaaahh REALLY??? Qbittorrent has a search engine???
You guys are not using radarr/sonarr?
nope. Every time I try them, they fuck up my movies / series categorization. They have bad support for multilingual content (or maybe the releasers should use better naming). To be honest I never understood why radarr and sonarr is useful. How many movies are you watching that downloading becomes a time wasting effort? For TV series, why don’t you download packs that contain the entire season?
For each movies I spend less than a minute for the torrent search, for tv series less than 5 minutes just because I am picky on quality. Given how many problems people have with the -arr stack, I think my time is better spent like this. Maybe stuff would be different with usenet
Because not every movie and episode that I want to watch is already released. Radarr/sonarr lets me subscribe and downlod the correct movie/episode when available in the quality profile that I want.
Also automatically sorting everything in a useful structure when I share my plex libraries with friends and family.
Gotta say, in over 2 years of using this program, I’ve never had that happen even once.
Been using it for about a month-ish and it did it to me today, looked up the issue and github said reinstall. Now I can’t use it until I do, but thankfully I just got on usenet so I can be lazy for a week or so.
but i dont wanna pay for a vpn…
Jackett doesn’t require a VPN to use? Unless you mean torrents in general, in which case yeah, you do kinda need a VPN for those if you live in a country that prosecutes torrenting. Fortunately, you can just direct download stuff in that case.
dont most countries not allow it though? something about there being pressure from the country/copy right holder that the product is associated with? so like even if uganda dont care if their citizens all rip the new taylor swift, if they dont enforce then usa or copyright holder is going to be mad and uganda dont want that.
i could be wrong im not sure but i think i read that somewhere. so like essentially its illegal everywhere depending on what content is torrented, which a lot is from usa. and probably south korea lol and i know they have strict copyright laws
Well, no, actually vast majority of countries do not care at all. There are only a few countries like Germany for instance, where you have to use vpn for torrenting
I just started sailing again and all the torrents i want for my fav bands are stuck at 0. So i’ve started getting songs one by one from that website that takes them from deezer i found on here.
Soulseek for music. And yt-dlp.
What is Jackett’s manual search? Never heard of it.
Jackett is a program that allows you to configure multiple indexers (torrent sites, like 1337x, EZTV, RuTor, Nyaa.si, etc.) in a single interface, that way you can search through all of them at the same time. Jackett, and another program just like it called Prowlarr, is usually used in conjunction with the .arr suite of programs (Radarr, Sonarr, etc.), but it includes a manual search function that allows you to query all the indexers you have set up in the interface at the same time. That’s exclusively what I use it for.
So, for example, I have 22 indexers set up in my installation of Jackett. I can use the manual search function to search through all of them at once, then I can sort the results by seeder count, publish date, and file size, and I can filter through the results to find exactly what I’m looking for. Once I’ve found the file I want, I can copy the magnet link directly from the search results and paste it into Qbittorrent. It’s an extremely easy way to find files quickly, and it’s much more efficient than manually going to a bunch of different torrent sites to search for a file that might not even be available there. With Jackett, I’ve literally never once had a case where I wasn’t able to find what I was looking for. That’s how good it is.
