Like others I’ve seen been torrenting my episodes instead, but man… I miss the convenience.
Don’t get me wrong - torrents are great, but for me they’re the best when I want to binge watch a complete series and/or keep it indefinitely. I’m typically following ~10 series/season = episodes/week; I need to find the series in a certain torrent site, then download it, watch it, seed it… it’s a bit of a bother, you know.
It got a .deb version, not just appimage. Installed without issues.
The interface is clean, and I could easily find series that I enjoy, both on- and off-season. (Tested with DanMachi V and Hikaru no Go). For neither it felt like I was watching it from torrents, there was no stuttering at all.
I use MAL instead of AL, but importing the list was easy enough. It’s less one thing to do, great - now I don’t need to update the anime list manually!
I busted off my convenience for a little bit when setting up Plex + Riven + Zurg (the same could be said about my Arr stack) after that huge learning curve it is all about convenience baby, I get all my stuff in all my devices with one single account, keep the progress of the full library even pair it up with services such as Trakt, and I can even share the love.
I know there are ways to have torrents automatically download when they appear, so you could set it up to have your episodes download as soon as they’re ready and you can watch them at your convenience. I don’t recall how, but I know I’ve read about that, but never needed it myself. I’m sure it’s easy to find the resources online.
I ended picking Miru (from another comment) up to watch anime, so I won’t automatise the system - I’ll use the RSS just to warn me when there are new episodes. That said, this extension (to allow transmission to download from rss) plus this site (to sift the RSS feed, so you don’t download e.g. individual episodes alongside batches) could help.
For currently airing/weekly stuff, you can use RSS to get all the episodes as they come out. Just make sure your search is only getting the episodes you want before you add it to your client. That means asides from the show title, also add the sub group and bitrate if they release more than one.
It’s a tiny bit more work to set up, but once it’s done, episodes just show up as they come out. :)
I use Taiga for tracking anime, and it can auto download torrents, my torrent client can auto add torrents downloaded by taiga. For airing stuff I don’t auto download things using taiga though, as it will usually take the first and best torrent it finds, so I opt to just check what’s foud and double click the matches when they are the right version.
Sonaar with Plex/Jellyfin is about as convenient as you can get. The only thing missing from torrents, usenet, and now even Crunchyroll itself is comments.
Like others I’ve
seenbeen torrenting my episodes instead, but man… I miss the convenience.Don’t get me wrong - torrents are great, but for me they’re the best when I want to binge watch a complete series and/or keep it indefinitely. I’m typically following ~10 series/season = episodes/week; I need to find the series in a certain torrent site, then download it, watch it, seed it… it’s a bit of a bother, you know.
Hey.
Want convenience?
Miru is more convenient than even crunchyroll from what I experienced.
https://miru.watch/
Awesome, thanks!
Going to test this later, thank you!
Any updates?
I liked it. I really liked it.
It got a .deb version, not just appimage. Installed without issues.
The interface is clean, and I could easily find series that I enjoy, both on- and off-season. (Tested with DanMachi V and Hikaru no Go). For neither it felt like I was watching it from torrents, there was no stuttering at all.
I use MAL instead of AL, but importing the list was easy enough. It’s less one thing to do, great - now I don’t need to update the anime list manually!
My biggest issue with it was how it didn’t work well unless it was a flatpak, and even then apparently the dev has issues with the flatpak leaking ram
Flatpak is now EOL, I might have to take care of that myself unfortunately
(If you want to support the dev, the app is being sold on android, you can use it on your android TV)
What the fuck this is how I discovered fate strange fake anime released I just wanted to take a screenshot
Anyway, here’s the screenshot
If this becomes even more popular you can have watch sessions with others all together too, it’s all built in
I busted off my convenience for a little bit when setting up Plex + Riven + Zurg (the same could be said about my Arr stack) after that huge learning curve it is all about convenience baby, I get all my stuff in all my devices with one single account, keep the progress of the full library even pair it up with services such as Trakt, and I can even share the love.
I know there are ways to have torrents automatically download when they appear, so you could set it up to have your episodes download as soon as they’re ready and you can watch them at your convenience. I don’t recall how, but I know I’ve read about that, but never needed it myself. I’m sure it’s easy to find the resources online.
I ended picking Miru (from another comment) up to watch anime, so I won’t automatise the system - I’ll use the RSS just to warn me when there are new episodes. That said, this extension (to allow transmission to download from rss) plus this site (to sift the RSS feed, so you don’t download e.g. individual episodes alongside batches) could help.
Setting up Sonarr is pretty easy, and using it is even easier. I definitely recommend it. Works great for me with Plex/Jellyfin.
If you want convenience, go for jellyfin/plex, radarr, sonarr, browlarr, usnet/torrent indexer and jellyseer.
Nothing is more convenient.
For currently airing/weekly stuff, you can use RSS to get all the episodes as they come out. Just make sure your search is only getting the episodes you want before you add it to your client. That means asides from the show title, also add the sub group and bitrate if they release more than one.
It’s a tiny bit more work to set up, but once it’s done, episodes just show up as they come out. :)
I just tested this now. This is brilliant, thank you for the idea! I wasn’t even aware that the torrent site could generate RSS for search queries!
For now I’m simply following those RSS feeds through liferea, but later on I might even automate it further.
I use Taiga for tracking anime, and it can auto download torrents, my torrent client can auto add torrents downloaded by taiga. For airing stuff I don’t auto download things using taiga though, as it will usually take the first and best torrent it finds, so I opt to just check what’s foud and double click the matches when they are the right version.
Sonaar with Plex/Jellyfin is about as convenient as you can get. The only thing missing from torrents, usenet, and now even Crunchyroll itself is comments.