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?
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.
IMDb gives recommendations based on your ratings for things you’ve seen.
I usually look at the cast and see what else they’ve been in, some UI like Plex make this really easy if you have a watchlist hook set up.
I usually browse Trakt and look for some decent lists, then add what I like to mine. The lists are hooked up to Radarr/Sonarr so I don’t have to bother manually downloading my media.
Curators are a good way too, some blogs or podcasts do a lot of heavy lifting in discovering new shows, some communities with similar tastes are also good to find content, way better than algos and ads.
Music is my main media and I pay Deezer specifically to recommend me stuff.
For games, I’m on an emulation streak, so top X listicles. Mostly, I’m racking my brain for things I thought were interesting but never played/didn’t finish/want to experience again.
For TV and movies (and new games), I care a lot less about and I mean a lot less, so word of mouth. If all my colleagues, family, and friends are raving about the new hotness I’ll find out.
My favorite website has a Calendar with new shows airing…
trakt.tv via https://github.com/1RandomDev/showly-oss and https://www.themoviedb.org/ I’d prefer a more open alternative but afaik there’s nothing that tracks movies and series at the same time.
For music, there’s https://listenbrainz.org/ but I mostly listen to the old stuff and don’t get flooded with new stuff.
I use showly to add movies to my watchlist with two taps. The watchlist is observed by radarr. 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.
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.
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.
I don’t know if plex can scrobble but showly uses trakt and jellyfin + trakt works
Word of mouth
I use the discover feature on Jellyseer. It makes my life so much easier to see what’s out there now.
Word of mouth. Friends. Internet.
Speaking of which, have you seen Barbie yet? I heard it’s pretty good.
Yeah Barbie is played by this really good actress! Looking forward to seeing her in more stuff!
Either word of mouth or browsing the recently added section on my Plex share
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.
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.
