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It depends on whether you want to use torrents or have a usenet subscription. You'd do well to look at TRaSH guides, save yourself a lot of headaches if you structure the container's directory structures in the way the guides suggest and then you can just use Prowlarr to manage the actual download requests and send them to your torrent or usenet client.

I use Jellyfin and I suggest you do the same, but honestly you could use whatever you feel like, the *arr stack is going to put everything in the proper folder structure and naming convention so by and large your media server app should be pretty plug and play, just point it at the proper folder and get to scanning.

Do you normally pirate content and have something like Jellyfin setup?

The arr stack is kinda tricky to get started and understand how it all works together, but as soon as it clicks, it's awesome !!

Can't exactly say what, but I kinda got lost and what helped me out was to slowly work one arr service at a time and understand what they actually do. (First only Sonarr after awhile I added prowlarr, then radarr and now slowly testing Seer !)

Trash guide was also helpful specially for custom formats. Just take your time and don't try to much to make your own custom formats... Have seen alot a of people on private trackers blow up their ratio without noticing it.

Best advice I can give you is to just play arround with sonarr or radarr alone and try things out and see what they do ^^ Or try to read and understand the official documentation but you will have a better grasp while doing things :)

Edit: Ohh and forget about asking chatGPT... It will mostly output outdated information an cause you more trouble and leave you even more confused !

Wiki.servarr.com and trash guides for setup. Like the other person mentioned, you'll want qbit with VPN for torrents or sab for usenet, radar and sonarr, prowlarr, and your media server. Lots of apps you can add later, like seerr for request management.

Recommended containers by the servarr folks are hotio (has built in vpn for the qbit container) or lsio.

You should be able to find tutorials on YouTube or follow the TRaSH guide. You don't need to expose this stuff to the internet, only your download client like Qbittorrent. For movies and TV, all you'd need is a download client + VPN, sonarr (TV), radarr (movies), Prowlarr (handles indexers/trackers), and possibly Jellyseer for requests from you or those you share with in a single UI. There are other *arrs for music (Lidarr), books, porn, etc too. Lidarr can integrate with SoulSeek if thats what you're using to fill content for Navidrome, but you would use Jellyfin as the media player.

Yes they'll integrate well with Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin. You just paste API keys from one to another to allow them to communicate.

I haven't tried any out-of-the-box solution or setup script, so I can't talk about them. if you go diy or want to edit any solution to have internet access exclusively over VPN (or not at all otherwise), I can recommend gluetun. Other than that, I just have a simple docker compose file and a reverse proxy. I recommend not exposing it to the www, but to keep it only accessible in your local network, or tailscale, if your use case allows it. Note: if you set up https, you might be leaking your subdomains in permanent certificate transparency records.