>>4211
>What dumb things did you do on your computer today anon?
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>>4211
>What dumb things did you do on your computer today anon?

powered it up
opened the browser under cicada chorus
opened this thread desu.

watched ninkoro and then gamed a game

Up to day 3 of scanning anime archive. Nowhere near done. Banned from anidb. Over 7,000 files to be manually fixed. :(

>anidb

What's that, some alternative to mal or anilist?

>>4225
You're not going to get me with that.

>>4226
No, I'm just asking cause I don't use any such websites. Guess I could google, and I did, but I thought that asking will be faster. Sorry to bother you, carry on.

>>4227
It's the oldest database of anime series on the internet. It's also the first one that tracked fansub group releases and still does. All the others like MAL removed that type of content because they sold out. They also initially scraped anidb to get their own databases started.

When you have a massive library and want to pull meta data for it anidb is still the best place to use. But it employs a cool down on your IP address so after you've pulled thousands of images from it they ban you for 24-48 hours (well your IP) until you can start pulling data from it again.

>>4211
not today but killed a motherboard by fucking up the pins in the LGA socket.

>>4228
Library, you mean, the anime you have downloaded and stored on your drive(s) over the years?

>>4231
Yeah. I didn't think I had a hoarding problem but we're up to 4 or 5 days and I still haven't gotten halfway through the entire library. After this finishes I'm going to try to go through and delete some seasonal stuff I don't plan on ever watching. For the last few years I've been downloading every episode of seasonal stuff with reckless abandon and maybe watching 2-3 shows total in each season. So I now have a lot of stuff that either needs to be deleted or replaced with BDs instead of the webrips I currently have.

I also filled a lot of my backlog with encodes I did myself from newer sources combined with scripts from older fansubs. Which aren't in any database and I can't add them unless I go through the trouble of releasing them somewhere. I would release them if it wasn't such a pain but these days there is only one tracker that still accepts uploads from anonymous sources where people might download and seed them.

I nuked my existing database because I was finally getting rid of my Plex server. But Jellyfin's default metadata process was pretty bad. So I tried something else and I'm kind of regretting it now. It seems decent enough but it obviously wasn't designed with a library as large as mine in mind. It'll probably be sometime next month before I have everything tagged and sorted again.

Then once that's done I have to go back and do the same thing with my manga collection. Since I'm trying to move that over to being able to access it remotely. I can access the files now from my PC but I'm thinking about buying some kind of tablet for reading manga and books. So I'm trying to make a somewhat decent interface for manga like I have for anime. Emacs is okay for tracking my reading progress with bookmarks but I'd like to have something that could be used by my friends that don't share my emacs autism.

Life was more simple when I just watched anime in media player on PC. But now I'm lazy and spoiled and want to watch it on TV anywhere I go and have my watch history tracked. It's a big pain to maintain my own server but no one really offers anything comparable to it and even if they did there is no way they'd host some of the older shows I like or plan to watch in the future.

>>4235
I've been thinking about opening my server up to some friends on the internet in the hopes they'd help with maintaining it/filling backlog of requests with decent releases/helping sort meta data. Now that I have fiber at home it's viable to bring on more viewers. I see a lot of people offering worse servers for $10+ a month and people paying for them for some reason. So I thought some people might be interested in helping out in return for access.

I'm surprised it isn't more people with how common streaming websites filled with ads are now. I basically have better service than netflix and CR offer from my humble home servers. My friends and family really enjoy it and a bunch of them stopped paying for streaming services after I put it up. Although most of them don't even bother with the anime library.

I'm moving everything over to a nice ZFS RAID pool once I pick up another batch of cheap HDDs. When I do that I'll probably buy a couple of cheap VPSs for relays and a domain name. Then I'll open up to new people and see if anyone is interested in helping me manage it. I really need someone with good taste to help me fill in holes in the backlog with decent fansub releases along with grabbing BD sources for a lot of stuff released in the last 5 years or so.

I'd like for it to eventually become something like seadex+netflix. Basically, "Here is the best release for this show and you can stream it from here directly or download the files if you want".

I recently added live TV option for some local channels. I'd like to add another live channel where any viewer I give a key to can live stream to everyone with access. I think it'd be fun.

8 days later and my server is still fetching meta data from anidb.

dumb meta datard

Update. I thought this was close to being done because it was up to the Ys when I last posted. But when I checked this morning it started over in the Ps for some reason. I thought it was close to done because it was getting close to the number of series I was hosting on Plex. But it turns out it now lists each season/cour as its own series like anidb does. So now I think it's only about 1/4th of the way done.

If that's true I'm looking at 2-3 more weeks until it's finished. On the upside, it seems to be finding the correct match for several files so the number I should have to manually fix has dropped from 8,000+ to less than 3,000 at the moment. But it has also mistakenly found duplicate episodes for files I know aren't related. So I'm not looking forward to sorting all that out.

I have no idea why it's taking so long and the only thing I can think of is it's limiting the amount of requests per second that it's sending to anidb to avoid getting my IP banned. Which happened once already but hasn't since.

This dedicated server for metadata seems nice but I absolutely hate the fact that the only interface for managing it is through the web browser. But that's most modern software these days I reckon. After it finishes and I manually sort the files it didn't find automatically I'll give it a proper review.

I have no idea why it's so damn complicated to properly fetch metadata for anime. The several different places like tvdb, tmdb, anidb and MAL all list it differently for some reason. Some group by seasons. Others by cours. It's a real mess. You'd think someone would have made a proper metadata database for this by now but it seems no one is interested in sorting out this mess. Anidb still seems to be the best because it actually lists fansub/rip releases when all the others like MAL dropped support for that in an attempt to 'go legit'.

Its been over a week now coming up on 2 weeks and I'm still not to the point where I can actually test my new Jellyfin server. I tried using its native metadata fetcher for my anime library and it's garbage. In addition, it has littered all my directories with .nfo files and images which I'm now going to have to manually delete. Not looking forward to that. Will probably have to get creative and write a script for that since there is no way I'm doing it manually through a GUI.

scared

>>4300
Show CPU. This system been churning away at 20-30% for almost 2 weeks now. Still nowhere near finished fetching metadata. By the time it's done I'll have an entire new season of seasonals to fetch.

>>4301
here's the CPU graph

>>4211
>What dumb things did you do on your computer today anon?
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