~70TB, ~2500 movies, and ~250 series with , varying quality, I'm still trying to replace lower quality stuff with better versions
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My library is almost cracking 18TB. Backing up all documents, pictures, videos and profile/settings dumps for apps and laptops. Also have plenty of moving Linux ISOs, 1359 longer isos and 269 smaller iso series.
My Linux ISO collection take up around 12TB, 268 of smaller ISOs, and 751 big boi ISOs.
Nowhere near as big as yours. I haven't bothered checking, but probably something like 100 movies and about the same number of TV shows (only a handful of series). It consists pretty much only of what I've ripped from physical media, plus a handful of things my SO uploaded. Total storage is about 2TB, and mostly DVDs w/ a handful of Blurays. Rips are full quality, and mostly ripped from MakeMKV, with a handful ripped w/ Handbrake.
We don't watch a ton, but I do order new stuff periodically, so it slowly grows (most recent addition is Adventure Time).
150 shows, 4000 movies. 25k songs. Tightly curated, playlists, mostly 1080p with truly important stuff 4k.
About 18 TB.
Like 7
Why start anew instead of forking or contributing to Jellyfin?
The short answer is because it's a fun project, and I wanted to see if I had it in me to make exactly the media server I want.
The longer answer is that I wanted something dramatically and fundamentally different from what either Jellyfin or Plex have to offer.
- Can run without breaking a sweat on junk/old/cheap hardware like a Raspberry Pi or old laptop.
- Can be safely Internet-facing -- no anonymous access, and no web-based admin features or API.
- Hyper-lean and minimal. All-in, I wanted something on the order of 1MB for client app, server, all dependencies, everything.
I don't see either of those goals happening with a contribution or fork, because achieving them would require some dramatic feature deprecation.
Does it not need to transcode then if it runs on cheap hardware?
Yep, transcoding is the main reason I had to buy any new hardware when getting my library going with Jellyfin.
For me, the main draw of Jellyfin wasn't the transcoding. It was being able to browse and stream my library from anywhere. My partner and I would alternate weekends hanging out at each other's places, and we just wanted access to the library from wherever we were and whatever device we were using.
I was willing to put up with weeks of encoding to get everything into a web-compatible format. But that's just me and I know it's not for everyone. I'm curious where the palatibility for that is on the spectrum more broadly.
All-in, I wanted something on the order of 1MB for client app, server, all dependencies, everything.
Okay that's gotta be radically different!
Mine is sitting around 10TB, mostly podcasts and a few videos like graduations.
650 shows, 1400 movies, 1450 anime. Take up like 130TB or something
You got them all in uncompressed 8K or something!? How on earth does it take up that much space?
1450 anime
Since you listed them separately from shows does the count also include anime movies?
Still, if I add up both my shows and movie I'm at 1447. Damn you!
13200 movies 1200 shows
Over a 1/4 PB of data.
OK Netflix, you don't count 🤣
Haha. Thanks. I really didn't want to pay Netflix or any other streaming service. But it might have been cheaper than hdds and electricity.
This is something I've been building for over 10 years at this point. I've gone through so many iterations of servers and storage architecture. I've lost my entire TV and movie library multiple times. (I don't back it up because a. It's expensive at this scale and b. this data is easy to rebuild over time.)
It's been a part of learning about hosting and data management that I've brought to/from my work.
and b. this data is easy to rebuild over time.
You say that, but some shows and movies are getting very hard to find these days. I lost one show to an external HDD that died, and I have never been able to find it again :(. That's part of the reason I recently went to a DAS in my setup instead of a NAS - backblaze backs the entire 40TB DAS up for ~$90 a year!
What did you lose?
And there are plenty of shows that I've had to manually recover at times. And plenty more that I can't find a copy of at all. I don't get too attached to much, and those I'll usually be seeding on multiple machines myself at that point.
I'm in a similar place with books and comics. Of course, nowhere near the Jupiter size collection of media you have, but easily 2.5TB+ of just books and comics.
My wife, my kids and I are all avid readers, so we are always sharing some book or comic arc. We're all rerunning all of Lobo's arcs, it was Deadpool a couple of weeks ago (that should tell you all anyone needs to know about our family 😜)
2.71Tb/515 series for TV, 6.28Tb/1176 titles in Movies.
Almost everything in MKV because that's what I prefer.
I use Plex so it's organized according to their requirements.
Everything is stored with a redundant backup on a Synology NAS with 6/9 HDD bays filled, totaling 48Tb in total storage space.
I run two servers (one on the Synology, one on a NUC-type Asus box) along with all my other systems.
Oh, and I have dual antenna tuners connected as well for live TV, DVR and playback.
Nice try FBI Agent.
My Jellyfin library:
1,152 - Movies
552 - Shows
37, 062 - Episodes
491 - Albums
6,558 - Songs
362 - Music Videos
14 - Concert Films
Files are a mix of 1080p and 4K. 264 and 265. Standard and REMUX.
Total space used is currently 149.90TiB
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Sometimes I hear about other people's storage setups and I think, "that is overkill, no one really needs that." According to this thread, I am quite mistaken about that. 😳
I have 2,057 songs, taking up a measly 51 GB, on a Funkwhale server. No movies or TV shows.
That should get a little larger soon. I have about 100 vinyl records that I want to make digital rips of.
I have single movies that are larger than your entire song library.
I'm kind of surprised that it's only 51 GB. They're all FLAC files ripped from CDs -- I was expecting like 300 GB at least.
So apparently this 1TB SSD is going to last me a while. :P
The Lawrence of Arabia 4K remux is so fucking crispy.
Nice try Universal Studios!
12.8TB. Mostly uncompressed rips from Blu-rays, some DVDs, some from iTunes Store. Some from the high seas, but not in a long time because the market solved that problem with streaming.
I use Tdarr to transcode everything in VP9 (can play in a browser and doesn't need transcoding from Jellyfin).
Audio is AAC 2 channel (I keep the original audio track and add the new AAC). Subs are in SRT.
Everything is made for play from a browser without issue. I use Infuse on my Apple TV and ether never the web player but when my family watch something form Jellyfin wathever the device no trancode needed.
TV Shows : 172 | Movies : 394 | 7.2 Tib
Actually, not all files are transcoded the process is very slow. All files are stored on my NAS (Synology DS918+) with SHR-1 (hybrid RAID with 1 drive fault).
I use Janitorr, he removes old files when I run low on space. This is why my library is not big.
Feel free to ask if you have questions.
Sorry for my English.
Could you share your plugin setup/flow? I'd like to have tdarr do exactly what you have it doing.
Wow, thanks for suggestion of Tdarr — that project indeed looks very nice. What is. your experience using it? Any quirks?
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4TB mostly TV, then movies, then a distant third is music. Novice at all, tried remuxing a few things that didn't work. Everything works on jellyfin android and PC. Android TV jellyfin is frustrating, some things don't play so well
cries in broke
I have 4x3TiB drives in a currently-degraded RAIDZ1 due to a hard drive failure. I have a replacement coming, and my fingers are crossed that I don't lose another drive beforehand.
1911 TV shows (65728 episodes)
2294 Movies
5051 Albums (66644 songs)
65.37 TB total.
My ~~porn~~ media library is roughly ~500GB right now.
Emby Server
382 Shows
30130 Episodes
1703 Movies
24740 Music Albums
Most are downloaded with *arr apps and are random quality. I shoot for 1080 for shows and movies but for the really good stuff that I personally like I will get the 4K version.
Movies 1127 TV Shows 96
Just started with YAMS using Plex 2 months ago:
Movies: 241 TV Shows: 30
About 3.5 TB on an 8 TB drive
about 8TB
4 direct tv boxes worth
~2000 movies ~200 tv shows
Many English only, many German and English, some German only. A few in different languages, if it’s the original language.
~50TB
Mostly 1080p h264. Lately, due to free space running out, I have started prioritizing and redownloading accordingly. Low bitrate h265 1080p for less important stuff, 4K h265 for important things and normal bitrate h264/265 (preferably the latter) 1080p for everything else.
Save yourself time on downloading and look into tdarr
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