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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Overseer if you use plex and jellyseer if you use Jellyfin.
Makes the content browsing experience pretty fantastic.
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.
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.
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.
I use showly to add movies to my watchlist with two taps. I can hide items on showly, rate a movie quickly and comment on it quickly. I can sort movies. It provides a nice overview, imo. if trakt is enough, don’t use showly.
Yeah, I was doing pretty much all that with trakt already, but wasn’t sure if I was missing anything. I do like the ability to hide shows though.
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.
I don’t know if plex can scrobble but showly uses trakt and jellyfin + trakt works
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IMDb gives recommendations based on your ratings for things you’ve seen.
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
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.
Other, real people talking about it on sites like this. Finding groups with similar tastes as myself and seeing what they’re talking about. I also just read descriptions while I’m scrolling on the service or whatever and if it sounds good, I might check it out.
i have enough… uh… ‘archived’ content that i don’t need to ‘discover’ anything new for years.
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…
Based on that let me recommend you “Brooklyn 99”, “The Good Place” and “Archer”.
Completely finished Brooklyn and the good place but archer seems awesome from the first episode I saw… appreciate you bro
How I envy you to be able to watch Archer for the first time.
I must have watched the whole thing a dozen times.
And yet I can’t stop
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.
Jellyseer is great.
https://github.com/Fallenbagel/jellyseerr
Yup, based on overseer. It’s a great selfhosted way to see what’s new and popular.
https://github.com/sct/overseerr/raw/develop/public/preview.jpg
Whats the difference than using this as opposed to the *arrs
They’re not the same thing.
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.
It complements the arrs. You can request shows and movies in seer and it adds it in the arrs.
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.
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.
Yeah i check my played count on Tautulli once in a while and see what’s hot.
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.
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.
