Do you have a script to replace TV versions with BD releases or do you manage that manually? Either way, how about Godonnar? Or GaoGaiGar if you don't have it already. Actually probably the Getter OVAs as well if I assume you don't have stuff. Crusher Joe is a good time as well.

Also do you have AB? It's pretty great for setting up your own personal storage collection since it has near everything.

>>116444
Thanks for suggestions I'll check them out for sure. I manually replace TV versions with BDs. Sometimes I'd rather have the TV version. It's easy to swap things out because of batch releases. If it isn't airing right now I typically get the BD or DVD versions.

I set this up for myself but ended up giving a lot of people access. I'm going to have to update my package with the ISP soon because 15 more people will be added to it after Christmas. Most episodes in HEVC only require about 500kbps for each client. More complex content takes about 1-5mbps. I've gotten multiple people to cancel Netflix, youtube and CR subscriptions because our server offers more content in better quality.

>>116445
I don't use private trackers right now because I don't agree with them (making .torrents private is stupid). I've ghost leeched from it a few times. The only reason I'd want access to something like that is for sourcing raw BDs, DVDs and vintage fansubs or VHS raws.

I should probably join because it doesn't look like the situation will change anytime soon and I need access to raws because I help fansub some stuff from time to time.

So far I've been able to get everything I've needed from XDCC bots if I take the time to look around. There have been a couple of times where I had to request stuff. But someone always shows up to send it via DCC.

you need to dl megazone 23

>>116456
second this rec

What do you like? Any interest in niche topics?

How are you and your friends watching this all? Plex? Or something else?

>>116464
Plex+Jellyfin. But I'm phasing out Plex on the server starting Jan 1st. For Jellyfin I bought a VPS to use as account management / log-in / reverse proxy. It sends the current IP address of the server to clients. I also restrict clients that can't directly connect or direct play media. That way the server doesn't have the transcode and I don't have to maintain a high bandwidth proxy server.

I standardized all video media on the server to: HEVC video+Opus audio. We have some stuff with the odd AVC or AC3 encodes. Anything FLAC is converted to opus. Most AC3 gets converted to opus when I find it. AVC is only kept around for non-HD content. This prevents the server from having to constantly transcode FLAC for clients that do not support it (which is most of them). I would have kept AC3 but people using AppleTV and some other set-top devices can't decode it without paying extra money. Where Opus is supported everywhere for free. HEVC is used because it's typically better quality at lower bandwidth.

All my non-Apple hardware clients are using KODI due to it having .ass support. Apple clients are using Infuse for .ass support. The one guy I have on Roku watches raws or uses .srt subtitles. Not sure what he uses on there to access it. For Christmas I'm giving away small Android boxes with kodi pre-installed with the Jellyfin plug-in already configured.

>>116463
I watch most everything. Just post whatever you like. Most of the content on the server isn't things I like but I've warmed up to some series because I get bored of watching the same old cyberpunk or CGDCT stuff.

>>116485
Forgot to add that none of these home streaming options are built with anime in mind. It took us many months to land on a configuration for media and clients that actually worked. The main problem is the lack of .ass support in most client software. The offical PleX client doesn't support it at all. It prefers to "burn-in" subtitles aka transcoding everything. It also transcodes video to a horrible config by default (720p AVC on extra-fast settings). So it isn't just hogging the server it's sending out video that looks like an early DivX fansub.

By restricting transcoding access and using kodi/infuse on the client side the server can simply send video+audio+subtitles over the network and the client can decode everything on its end. For most series this comes to about 1-2mbps bandwidth required for each client. It allows me to host the server on a small computer like a Pi (though I'm using an old laptop) and the main expense becomes HDD space. I'm currently hosting about 10TB of content over two HDDs. Server lives at my home on the server rack in my closet where I keep modem+router+firewall+other misc things.

If you use PleX you won't need to set-up a VPS or manage accounts for users. But PleX datamines the crap out of everything your clients are doing and constantly phones home with data. It also breaks fairly often. For example, if my ISP is down I can't stream content on my own LAN because PleX can't phone-home. Jellyfin doesn't have these problems. PleX server constantly breaks when you update it to along with being exploited in the wild fairly often.

I use ffmpeg to batch convert content that isn't already in HEVC+Opus. Takes about 3 hours per 12 episodes on my workstation assuming I'm doing audio and video. For audio-only batch convert it takes like 5 minutes for a 12 episode series.

The problem I run into most often with anime is the fact that a lot of releases aren't tagged in the mkv container. Big issue with dual-audio releases. For most dual-audio releases I simply drop the English tracks+Signs and Subtitles .ass track. But since nothing is standardized and people place English tracks as defaults these days it requires a lot of manual re-muxing. No real good way to automate it with a script. I try to get releases that come with a script for this when possible. Or stick to non-dual audio releases when possible. None of my clients care about having the dub and I don't either.

As of last week we're coming up on a year of having the server online. I think we've had about 6 days of down time in the last year. All were due to my ISP being offline, power outages in the area or Plex upgrades breaking the server for a few hours. We've had no issues with Jellyfin at all since adding support for it a few months ago. I have 2 clients left to convert over then we're ditching Plex support forever.

>>116486
>none of these home streaming options are built with anime in mind.
This is what always makes me give up. I'm not going to autistically go through and rename every file and make arbitrary season folders just because the default content identification things are too retarded to recognize that the folder I have titled "Code Geass R2" isn't Cowboy Bebop.

>>116488
This bothered me a lot at first to but I've managed to get around it. You can list episodes in "absolute order" to get around needing to break things into seasons. For OVAs/movies and related specials you can maintain a "specials" directory within the main directly and rename those as needed (usually just have to tag them with something like S00E01).

There are bots that claim to automate the renaming but ime they all suck. They don't have proper interfaces either you'd expected to interact with them through a web browser. I gave up on all of that and just started manually renaming things as needed.

This morning I added about 10 new episodes from currently airing series. Out of all of those I only needed to manually rename one file. Most people are getting better about conforming to the way these servers expect files to be named. Even "S3 - 08" works as well as "S03E08". Although I agree it sucks for anyone that wants the old-style file names where episodes are numbered by total number of episodes.

What I do is keep absolute orders for old series or series with a hundreds of episodes (e.g. Bleach, One Piece) and use seasons for seasonal stuff airing now or things released with PleX-style file names.

There is nothing requiring you to keep everything related to one series in the same area either. For example, whatever that new series of Bleach is called is separate from the original series on our server. I do the same thing with a lot of movies.

Then there are series like pic related. Where manually renaming and properly ordering things would be a huge pain in the ass. In those cases I keep them in separate listings and manually re-order them using "sort order titles". In the case of pic related they are mostly in the intended watch-order and I supply a playlist in the correct watch order for anyone interested in watching them for the first time. Not that it helps me. I explained the playlist/series to someone multiple times. They still randomly picked up one of the OVAs and were confused about everything going on. At that point I showed them the playlist for like the 10th time and they promptly dropped the series to go watch something else after seeing how many days it would take to get through everything.

All that said I find this much better than the way I used to watch stuff because I can access the library from anywhere in the world as long as my home internet connection is up. It's very useful to only have to lug around a small set-top device instead of a laptop with data I've copied to the HDD before hand (or an external HDD). I keep all my music on the server as well. So my music library can go with me everywhere.

>>116489
It's a complete non-starter for me. I'm not going to arbitrarily rename things and move files around because that'd break torrents.

>>116490
>because that'd break torrents.
Look at "Monster Rancher" in the screenshot I posted. Notice how it says "73 episodes" instead of "3 seasons"? It's because nothing was renamed at all. It was copied over into the video directory as-is. It was manually matched to the correct series on anidb (actually probably automatically matched). It can be seeded as-is from the server right now if I wanted.

Why are you still seeding torrents from a personal machine anyway? Do that from an external server outside of your home network. I don't care about the structure of directories on my media server because all it does is server media to clients. Any thing I care about seeding it on a VPS far away from my home network.

Not that I care about torrents that much anyway considering how awful the "community" has become as of late. I do distro through XDCC and only resort to torrents when I can't find things on xdcc bots. I don't have to post torrents myself anymore. Someone always mirrors things there for me.

>>116491
>It was manually matched to the correct series on anidb
I know it works with some series, but with others it doesn't play well at all and I don't want to go through the headache of finding out which it tolerates and which it doesn't. For example, for whatever reason Jellyfin detects that Legend of the Galactic Heroes has 4 seasons (even though they're not proper seasons because it was OVA), and instead of properly dividing episodes by season it just put the NCOP and NCED into the season 2, 3, and 4 and then only did like 20 episodes in season 1. There are so many cases like that that it would take ages to try and figure out why it gets stupid that I don't want to expend the effort. I'm also not really keen on messing with it because it takes forever to re-scan series if I want to experiment with different content ID things (idk what they're called) like whether it's using AniDB, or IMDb, or the other anime one. It's just annoying. I also set up transcoding for fun and yet now, regardless of whether the device supports the native files, it transcodes to 720p for some reason... I don't get it...

>Why are you still seeding torrents from a personal machine anyway?
They're not on a personal machine, but it's still an enormous pain to go through something like 300 series and try and restructure everything to appeal to the autistic tendencies of Western TV fans who do not understand how anime is distributed.

>>116495
For NCOP and other extras you need to write an .ignore file. Then it will ignore those files globally. It's really easy to set-up check out the documentation.

For LOGH I don't bother splitting them into seasons. I have them in absolute order and only list the episodes. I don't worry too much about breaking things into seasons unless they come that way.

>Torrents
I understand what you mean but I haven't had any problem with this since I started matching against anidb instead of tvdb. Most series just work. I was frustrated by this as well until I figured it out. The TVDB database is a cluster fuck of bullshit.

You can keep your current file structure without any problems. Worse case it doesn't match titles/descriptions for each episode. Who cares. Most of them aren't very good anyway.

You can force a series match + order when you initially add the series. I know it seems like a pain but it's one of those things that only takes like 1-2 hours to set-up. Once you're used to how it works it isn't a big deal.

I don't worry about distro anyway. I have stuff for distro on my work HDDs. My media server HDDs are exclusively for hosting content. I know not everyone is blessed with having more than one computer. But this same set-up worked for me fine when it was being hosted from my workstation. It would do its thing in the background and never bothered me.

I encourage you to try it. It's pretty comfy once you have everything set-up correctly

Nyaruko is super fun and is basically 2000s in spirit

>>116443
Have you watched Azumanga Daioh?
Its really good

Do not read the above post, read the manga

>>116443
Search the phrase "Boku No Pico"

watch ane log

>>116443
What kind of 60s era anime can you possibly care about?

>>117088
Speed Racer and Astro Boy, maybe?

>>117088
Yamato?

>>117090
That's 70s, as are Harlock, and Galaxy Express 999.

>>117088
I have two shows from the 50s. The Kitten's Doodles and The Kitten's studio. I have about 6 shows from the 60s including Speed Racer.

I like old animation. It's cool to see how the styles developed over the years. I have a lot of stuff from the 30s-60s but most of it is American and admittedly not very good. Some of the 50s stuff from America is fun though. I watched a lot of animation in the 90s as a child that lampooned it. Ren and Stimpy did it all of the time.

I think I've mentioned it here before, but I recommend the cartoon OK K.O. It's from the 2010s, but it's very much stylistically in line with Cartoon Network shows from the late 2000s like Chowder and Flapjack