I use Prowlarr + Radarr + Sonarr + Jellyfin.

I have /data directory organised like this:

/data
├── media
│   ├── books
│   ├── movies
│   ├── music
│   └── tv
└── torrents
    ├── books
    ├── movies
    ├── music
    └── tv

Files added from Sonarr goes to torrents/tv and that for Radarr torrents/movies. Once the torrent client has downloaded the files, Sonarr and Radarr hardlinks the needed files to media's respective folders. I have set media/tv for shows and media/movies for movies on Jellyfin. Everything is automated, I love it.

For managing my library on disk, I just recently made the effort to set up the *arr apps. I love having the metadata, tagging, organizing, and file naming all consistent and automated. Previously I used mp3tag and filebot to manage them and it was way more manual. Everything is set up with docker-compose and Ansible.

Library file stuff:

• Two Radarr instances, one for 4k and another for lower resolutions
• Sonarr for TV
• Lidarr for music
• Two readarr instances, one for epub/pdf and one for audiobooks
• Jackett
• deluge+openVPN

For library frontend stuff:

• Jellyfin for movies, tv, music, audiobooks
• Plex, for when Jellyfin is acting up
• Jellyseer for TV & movie requests
• LaunchBox for videogames and emulators
• Calibre + calibreWeb for ebooks & syncing to my Kobo eReader

Haven't set up yet:

• flaresolverr
• unpackerr
• audiobookshelf

Doesn't exist yet/wishlist:

• *arr app for emulator ROMs (I'll have to check out romm, looks pretty cool!)

• Jellyfin: Media Center to stream movies, TV shows and music
• sonarr, radar, lidarr: manage collections and download, TV shows, movies and music, respectively
• transmission: torrent client, through VPN connection (NordVPN)
• Jackett: tracker manager
• stash: like Jellyfin, but for linux-iso files /s

All of that runs in docker containers on my NAS, using docker-compose to deploy the stack.

In general just creating folders and keeping everything organized.

I have a pretty stable setup now. I mainly focus on TV and Movies but I have the following:

• Plex for streaming
• Overseerer for media requests
• Radarr and Sonarr for Movie and TV acquisition
• Jackett for indexers
• Gluetun for vpn

From there I basically let radarr and sonarr handle the organizing for the most part. I have a movies folder and a TV folder in my NAS that they save to. I really only have to go in and clean things up every few months or so.

DOOM (see citation) folders mostly

I have a computer running TrueNAS Scale with a network drive accessable on my network from all my PCs and my TVs.

All of my systems can access the drive and play the content via VLC.

Is it efficient? No.

Would I recommend it? Also no.

Citation: DOOM stands for Didn't Organize Only Moved

NAS hosting all media and running:

• Sonarr for grabbing and managing TV shows
• Radarr does the same for movies
• Lidarr just for an overview of upcoming/missing music releases
• Navidrome to stream music (replaces Spotify)
• Jackett to manage torrent indexers
• qBittorrent via OpenVPN

Plus a VM running Nicotine+ (Soulseek client) for music sharing.

• Sonarr and Radarr for getting torrents
• Prowlarr for setting up torrent indexers
• Bazarr for getting subtitles
• Jellyfin for playback
• Tachiyomi (Android app) for Manga

I dump everything into a single folder. Like a junk drawer. Because I really only save junk anyway 🤷🏻‍♂️

Plex and Calibre

• Jellyfin + arrs for Media (TV, movie, music)
• Calibre for eBooks of all kinds

Plex for playback.

Transmission for torrents.

Radarr for movies.

Sonarr for tv.

Lidarr for music.

Bazarr for subtitles.

Readarr for books.

Ombi for discovery and requests.

Tautulli for statistics and newsletters.

Sonarr/Radarr + Plex has been good enough for me.

Plex is the big one. I have a Plex box that also runs qBittorrent and i can set that up to auto download and sorty new anime as they come out. I'm sure sonarr and radarr are handy, but they seem like a pain in the ass to set up. Plus everyone online who talks about them never educate on the pirate side, just the organization side. You just get cheeky nods and winks like ok... Thanks.

So I still very much manually pirate shit mostly. Like a chad.

• Movies / Shows. Self-hosted automated Jellyfin media streaming stack
• eBooks. Calibre
• pictures. Hydrus Network

I hate Calibre and Hydrus because they make copies of files instead of keeping track of them wherever I want them to be.

• porn. Stashapp

Jellyfin for movies/shows,

Calibre for ebooks

Retroarch for ROMs

iTunes for music (so I can put it on my iPod)

I used to maintain a Jellyfin server for my media, but moving to university put a stop to that - the campus network is cringe and makes it impossible to dial in from the outside. So... just boring old folders for video, and Calibre for my ebooks.

(I did make an attempt at moving Jellyfin to my VPS, but transcoding is... not possible on one core, to put it lightly.)

Surprised to see no mention of Playnite. I used to use Stardock Fences to categorize my games on my desktop, then I found Playnite and there was no looking back. It's a big game library with incredible features. Here's what I see when I load it up. (the games listed here are the games I have listed as "currently playing")

Plex for my Movies, TV shows, and music (plexamp for music).

Kavita for books. Also nextcloud to a degree.

Games, honestly I have not pirated in a long time, so no need to manage. Gabe Newell was right in that piracy is mainly a service problem, and to be honest Steam and GoG are convenient enough for me that I don't feel the need to pirate anymore.

With my bookmarks atm. I'm new to self-hosting and stuff like Jellyfin, etc. So at the moment I'm learning and saving websites and guides. Once I have more money I hope to start the next step in this hobby/way of life.

I just use Jellyfin for movies and shows. I don't listen to music or read ebooks, and I buy all my games through Steam because I use Linux.

Launchbox for roms, Komga for comics, calibre for books, kodi and plex for movies. Organizr for the cacophony of webapps.

I used Cloudbox and couldn't be happier.

It's an open source Ansible based repo which helps you setup everything and it's been working flawlessly for me.

Update is essentially a git pull + install command and there are tons of extra tools available on a community repo.

Some of the apps I've setup are ruTorrent + prowlarr + sonarr + radar + plex and rsync to host files on a cloud provider.

I use much of the servarr set for core functionality. Radarr for movies, Sonarr for TV show, Bazarr for subtitles, Prowlarr for indexing. Those are the management tools for the media. If I want to delete something off the HTPC, I delete it from Radarr/Sonarr and let them handle cleanup of the library.

Qbittorrent does the downloading, and the free version of Serviio handles DLNA streaming to display devices. All I want is software that streams to display devices while handling transcoding if needed, and Serviio does that. I've tried Plex and Jellyfin in the past, but I felt like they both attempted to do more than I needed while actually accomplishing less than I wanted. It's been a while since I tried either of those though, so things might be different now.

All of this is running in an old HTPC case containing the parts from the prior incarnation of my gaming PC, plus half a dozen 4TB hard drives. It's wildly over-specced for what I ask it to do, which has given me plenty of headroom to play around with self-hosting stuff like ViewTube and SearXNG.

Jellyfin, Shoko + Shokofin (anime metadata/organizer), separate NAS to store my music and videos. Games are just stored on my desktop.

For movies and TV shows, I store everything on my NAS. Just organised into folders. Then play it back using the Infuse app on my AppleTV4K, by pointing the app to my network folder and letting it build a library.

No server software needed and it supports everything including 4K UHD remuxes with 7.1 lossless audio. Hopefully tvOS adds supports for Dolby TrueHD atmos in the future.

• Emby+Kodi for playing the videos
• *arr for movie and show management
• nzbhydra for nzb meta search
• jacket for torrent meta search
• calibre+calibre-web for ebooks
• mylar for comics

Throw it all in a folder mostly. I normally watch a series or whatever once, then delete it. No point hoarding stuff I know I’m never gonna touch again.

Plex for movies/shows. For music spotify premium.

I use Plex for movies/tv and Playnite for games

I don't keep any media. I use Kodi, a VPN, Real debrid, trakt to keep my lists and the seren repository.

Radarr/Sonarr to acquire most things. Still go around them where needed.

Then I use Kodi for all video. I don’t go off the main device enough to worry about a full server setup for it so I’ll just network share if I need to use another device.

Navidrome and substreamer for music in a proper server config with Tailscale tying it together.

I have like 20TB+ worth of external drives right now that hold all my shit (movies, tv shows, audiobooks, anime, manga, roms, etc.) I want to buy a 4+bay NAS and eventually set it up for streaming. However, right now I just have a an excel file that is organized but each drive and what is contained in each one. I just connect my drive to my Xbox series X and just play it with Kodi. I do have Fen (and I think the Promise) connected to RD. I know I can stream practically stream anything but I really do like having the actual files (I may be a digital hoarder).

I download almost everything using Premiumize. It essentially downloads the torrents for you, so you're only downloading things from them at drastically faster speeds, and never connecting to the actual swarm. You just send them the torrent file.

For the actual organizing, I use TVRenamer mainly. It's an extremely underrated tool that not only organizes your shows and movies, but does a great job of helping you identify what you're missing, like missing episodes or specials.

I use tdarr to reencode all my stuff to x265

Plex is mainly how I watch stuff. I like kodi a lot, but most the time Plex is a lot more streamline.

For comics I use comicrack. Best way to do comic organizing by far