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Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

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Post by MK2k »

amy-petrik-214 wrote: post #63
diggan wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is not really explaining the purpose. Does it scan video-Files to collect entries? Or is it manual input? Can I import data from somewhere? Does it play files? Does it integrate into netflix&co. to gather new entries? And let's not talk about more special features.. Those are all either answered in the README, answered in files linked from the README or not mentioned in the README/docs (like Netflix integratio…

>Those are all either answered in the README, answered in files linked from the README or not mentioned in the README/docs (like Netflix integration, playing files) so one can feel safe to assume it's not a feature if it's not listed as a feature. Translation for those who can't read between the lines: - it doesn't support media scanning - the authors are going hard on not saying this outright. Figure the idea is mor…

Not sure what you mean by "media scanning", but if you assume that Media Hoarder isn't able to scan directories of your media, then I need to update the README - because it absolutely DOES this.

[Edit]: I read your post a second time, you use the term "media scanning" for two different things:

1/ Scanning in files

2/ Providing Metadata

Both are supported by Media Hoarder, none of the metadata you see in the screenshots and demos are manually provided by the user.

If you want to dig a bit deeper (coming from the README), you can see linked documents that go into detail for both topics:

https://github.com/theMK2k/Media-Hoarder?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

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Post by netsharc »

genewitch wrote: post #59
brap wrote: post #52

From a former obsessive media hoarder of over a decade, to my fellow media hoarders, my sincere advice: give up. Just stop. Delete it all and embrace streaming or ad hoc torrent if you need it. All of this hoarding is just not worth your time.

a decade? no offense, especially if you're a millennial - ten years isn't that long. I have hundreds of compact disks approaching three times that old. "ad hoc torrent" sounds great, but you're at the whims of seeds, and cease and desist letters. This also doesn't take into account monthly bandwidth "caps". There's somethings i have for background noise and visuals that i got on YT - what, i should stream it every ti…

You just made me play the first MP3 I ever downloaded, Tubthumping by Chumbawamba. Downloaded over 56k modem in the 90's.

The timestamp on it is 2006, I guess I edited the ID3 tags on it at that point.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

#73

Post by 8fingerlouie »

brap wrote: post #52

From a former obsessive media hoarder of over a decade, to my fellow media hoarders, my sincere advice: give up. Just stop. Delete it all and embrace streaming or ad hoc torrent if you need it. All of this hoarding is just not worth your time.

I would add, stop setting up these huge RAID 6/10 boxes to store all your hoarded media. Media doesn't need additional redundancy, especially not if it's based on good old "naval aquisition".

If it came from the internet, chances are high that it can still be found there, and there's absolutely no reason for you to add any redundancy to avoid data loss. If it's by some weird coincidence not found on the internet, fear not, most media is mass replicated onto various forms of physical media, and chances are high that a copy of that can be had for very little money.

But before rushing out to empty the local "on sale" DVD/Blu-Ray bins, take a good long breath and consider if you'll ever actually watch said media again, or it's just sentimental value ? Most of the people i know that hoard media will rarely rewatch anything, and simply pile on top of what they already have. Once you realize that you're just collecting digital cruft, it becomes a lot easier to just delete it all.

Also keep in mind that the electricity cost of running a harddrive in europe is around €2/month, and with enough harddrives it actually becomes cheaper to just subscribe to one or more streaming services.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

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Post by gh02t »

unethical_ban wrote: post #66
VTimofeenko wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am thinking about picking up a shield as a client in a similar setup. If you're using subtitles -- does the shield handle them well? That's the part that keeps breaking in the native TV client.

The subtitles I use are most often ones in separate files alongside the video files, named appropriately for the jellyfin server to see it. I think embedded subs work well too, sometimes needing burning in, but my server can handle transcoding.

There are some quirks with using Jellyfin+Kodi with external subs. It used to be solved by the "direct play" feature in Jellyfin4Kodi where it would just pass Kodi a link to the SMB/NFS shares, but the newest releases of Jellyfin have deprecated and hidden the server side feature that enabled that. I had a talk with the devs about it on GitHub and they don't really know if/when it's gonna come back.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

#75

Post by throwaway314155 »

taskforcegemini wrote: post #68
throwaway314155 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is so strange to me when people get downvoted for suggesting a possible solution is to volunteer some effort. HN is all about open source until someone mentions creating a PR or even just a simple issue. Is this forum the definitive spot for complaining about software? Filing an issue on GitHub is the correct thing to do. It has higher visibility for a longer period of time than a hacker news comment and is more l…

isn't "show hn" also meant to get some feedback? responding to feedback with a counterrequest seems off

If it were a product or merely a project, you would be correct. But, open source software has too many users who think they are owed free features as it is. What's more, there's a high possibility that people on this particular forum actually have the skills to implement a proper PR. Finally, their comment clearly wasn't meant as a dismissive counter request but rather as an invitation for mutual excitement, and even an admission that the criticism was correct, but would be better served on the Github repository.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

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Post by mikrotikker »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #73
brap wrote: post #52

From a former obsessive media hoarder of over a decade, to my fellow media hoarders, my sincere advice: give up. Just stop. Delete it all and embrace streaming or ad hoc torrent if you need it. All of this hoarding is just not worth your time.

I would add, stop setting up these huge RAID 6/10 boxes to store all your hoarded media. Media doesn't need additional redundancy, especially not if it's based on good old "naval aquisition". If it came from the internet, chances are high that it can still be found there, and there's absolutely no reason for you to add any redundancy to avoid data loss. If it's by some weird coincidence not found on the internet, fea…

Problem is to watch all the things you want to watch you may need 5 or 6 subs, so you could add a few more hard drives I'd say.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

#78

Post by 8fingerlouie »

mikrotikker wrote: post #77
8fingerlouie wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would add, stop setting up these huge RAID 6/10 boxes to store all your hoarded media. Media doesn't need additional redundancy, especially not if it's based on good old "naval aquisition". If it came from the internet, chances are high that it can still be found there, and there's absolutely no reason for you to add any redundancy to avoid data loss. If it's by some weird coincidence not found on the internet, fea…

Problem is to watch all the things you want to watch you may need 5 or 6 subs, so you could add a few more hard drives I'd say.

just switch between 2-3 subs, rotate them every 1-3 months.

Re: Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

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Post by mikrotikker »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #78
mikrotikker wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Problem is to watch all the things you want to watch you may need 5 or 6 subs, so you could add a few more hard drives I'd say.

just switch between 2-3 subs, rotate them every 1-3 months.

What a pain when popcorn time makes it so much easier and puts everything in one place.
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