Late to reply here, but I set this up and it's pretty great. The space savings is cool, but what I like is the compatibility with various Jellyfin player apps is much better. I had a number of files with over twenty subtitle tracks all labelled "undetermined". Using subtitles on these episodes on certain (Roku) versions of Jellyfin player was an unpleasant experience. Muxarr cleaned that all up.
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Heck yeah!! Good to know as I have nearing 100TB of storage ๐ . Would be nice to shave that down a little!
Jealous of people with that much storage right now ๐ . My setup is small, just an HP mini PC with an m.2 to sata adapter with 2 SSDs in raid0 lol (don't worry my important stuff is backed up off-site). I have 4 free slots left on the adapter still but this AI bubble needs to burst before I can justify spending money on 4 more drives and setting up a ZFS pool
Some drives are older. My 8TBs are 2019 enterprise SAS and are meant to be on all day. They don't get much workout cuz once full they're not doing a ton of writing. So they'll last. Lady year picked up several 16TBs before the price jumped. Thankful I pay attention and jumped on it when I did!
I've ripped all ~2.5kDVDs, ~1.2k BD, and ~600 4K BD (plus several dozen 3D) I keep pretty high quality copies, strip multi lang or auto tracks and stick to higher DTS or Dolby, strip subtitles, etc.
Crazily, I keep a 2nd "older" 7700K for playing the DVD and BD content for friends and family, I do the better stuff for me and a couple friends who actually care about quality. Now I need to add JF alongside Plex and Emby just bc.
How does this compare to bazarr?
I think they aim to accomplish different things. Muxarr doesn't download any new subtitles or audio tracks, only deletes and renames ones already present in the file
Sounds great in theory, but I always feel bad transforming my data too much so I can no longer seed, hah. Maybe someday
I gave it a shot as well. Agree, it works great!
This sounds awesome. Do you know if it has an option to ignore files that are still seeding?
Not as far as I'm aware. Unless Sonarr/Radarr has the capability to only send a webhook request when a file stops seeding
Iโve been using Unmanic on my unRAID server but good to know what other options are out there.
Ah, the storage part is interestjnf, I might spin it up to try it, thanks for mentioning it!