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?

  • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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    The ‘popular’, ‘trending new shows’/‘up comming movies’, and ‘most anticipated’ lists in NZB360 (android app for managing the whole 'arr stack and more)

    User requests via Ombi (it also has lists like above to look through)

    Random titles I find on Lemmy.

    Word of mouth.

    Oh yeah: and IMDB lists added to radarr. Lists for various studios, and a big standup comedy list.

      • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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        The imdb lists are monitored by Radarr, but aren’t created by me.

        I just found a few public lists I like and now whenever new content is added to those lists by their maintainers, Radarr adds+downloads it.

    • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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      That’s what is mainstream popular. How do you find stuff you actually like ?

      Only a system that you have trained with like/dislike and can compare with other sets of content preference similar to yours will find that precious “content similar to your preferences but you haven’t seen yet”

      That’s a content recommendation engine.

      Now the questions is, how can we each run our owm self hosted recommemder engine which will share our list to others automatically so that we can pool it all together and create a useful recommender engine.

      Without that, we have to rely on the artificial mainstream mush like marvel movie #27

      • @lud@lemm.ee
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        111 months ago

        That’s what is mainstream popular. How do you find stuff you actually like ?

        Is it impossible to like mainstream stuff?

        • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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          Well letting other people choose for you is not really discovery. When too many people abdicate this responsibility, art becone whatever profitable mush advertisers shovel in our face.

          That’s how we get avengers 23 and batman 15.

          You can also try random selection, or choose by the first letter of the title. Or decide with the cover.

          Or you can have a system that considers what you actually like, finds people that like the same stuff as you, and then suggest other stuff that they like which you have not heard.

          That’s how “the algorithm” works for youtube & netflix.

          I want that, but running offline on my computer, disconnected from the internet.

          • @lud@lemm.ee
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            Well letting other people choose for you is not really discovery. When too many people abdicate this responsibility, art becone whatever profitable mush advertisers shovel in our face.

            Critics and mainsteam media has existed for as long as media has. They don’t choose for you. They just help judge whenever a movie might be worth watching.

            It’s not like I watch a movie just beaucse it’s mainstream. I watch some mainstream movies because they specifically are good.

            And isn’t really the most highly rated and well liked movies in existance mainstream by definition?

            • @wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi
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              …and that’s why the person you originally replied to asked their question. General popularity is generally a bad proxy metric for personal preference.

              • @lud@lemm.ee
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                Popular movies are more likely to be liked than random movies. How can you not see that?

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        That’s what conversions conversations with actual people are for.

        I collect vast amounts of media of all sorts, then look through it based on recommendations from friends/family, as well as looking at actors/studios/genres I enjoy.

        I don’t need everything fed to me by a computer, I’ll explore my own interests.

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    Word of mouth. Friends. Internet.

    Speaking of which, have you seen Barbie yet? I heard it’s pretty good.

    • DM_Gold
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      Yeah Barbie is played by this really good actress! Looking forward to seeing her in more stuff!

  • @notannpc@lemmy.world
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    Overseer if you use plex and jellyseer if you use Jellyfin.

    Makes the content browsing experience pretty fantastic.

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      I didn’t know about showly and gave it a try, syncing it to trak.tv. What does this get me that I don’t get through trakt.tv by itself? What am I missing?

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        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.

        • themadcodger
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          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.

    • Blxter
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      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.

      • Display Name
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        I don’t know if plex can scrobble but showly uses trakt and jellyfin + trakt works

  • ares35
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    i have enough… uh… ‘archived’ content that i don’t need to ‘discover’ anything new for years.

    • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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      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.

    • @Darkncoldbard@lemmy.world
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      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…

  • quirzle
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    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.

    • Bakkoda
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      Yeah i check my played count on Tautulli once in a while and see what’s hot.

  • @inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    I started using JustWatch as a means to find which streaming service had the thing I wanted to watch. Then I started using it to track what I had watched. And now that I’m completely moved over to stremio+torrentio I use it to find what’s popular and new.

    • @tswiftchair@lemm.ee
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      Same, JustWatch is really great imo. It lets you browse by streaming service, sort by popularity, and filter by rating or genre. You can also browse recently added titles to different streaming services.

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    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.

    • @matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      This. Plus, when I’m watching something I like, I’ll usually look up actors in it and see what else they’ve done.

  • @7u5k3n@lemmy.world
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    I bought the app nzb360 it has popular, trending new shows and most anticipated sections for TV shows. And something similar for movies.

    • @4lan@lemmy.world
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      Love this app so much. Sonarr, radarr, BitTorrent, etc all accessible in nzb360

      I never buy apps, but this one was worth it

    • @harry_balzac@lemmy.world
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      I pretty much do the same. I’ll check the recently added and see if something stands out to me, especially when it’s time for new TV seasons to start.

      I use Lemmy and ad-blocked YouTube to hear about new things through the communities and channels that cover my interests.

      Setting up all these lists, etc isn’t for me - I don’t always know what I’m going to enjoy so seeing everything being added to the Emby share I’m on is fun.