Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

meant to automate grabbing content from torrents or usenet, sending them to your torrent client, and also moving or linking the dowbloaded files

the available settings, filter for formats, etc. are pretty complex and the usecase is broad

So there's the "official" set of tools from servarr.com, but there's a few "unofficial" tools as well, but they all function similarly in that they glue several things together to make workflows nicer.

1. A downloader (either a Bittorrent client or Usenet, but I will focus on Bittorrent).
2. An Indexer, some remote site (like thepiratebay.org) or BitMagnet (local DHT scraper) for searching for torrents. Prowlarr is the generic indexer component, so it can provide Indexer's to other components (Sonarr, Radarr, etc.), but you don't need to use Prowlarr if the site
3. A downloads folder.
4. A media library folder.

After adding your media library so the component knows what you "have" already, you tell the component (say "Sonarr" for TV shows) what you "want" and it's added to a wanted list. It also knows what you already have. When you add a new show to your wanted list it can immediately download it, or it can wait for new episodes to be released and only download those. When downloading it will download to the downloads folder and then copy (you can change settings so it uses hard links, so these copies don't take up extra space). It will only copy the media files and ignore .nfo/readme.txt style files, and it will change the format to the one Plex/JellyFin want (with //S__E__ - Episode title.mkv) By default it will seed for a certain amount and then delete the files from the downloads folder/remove from the torrent client, but this is configurable. It can also look for higher quality versions like if you have 480p versions of a show and 1080p versions become available it can download them and replace the lower quality versions with higher quality (it does not do this by default).

But that's fundamentally how they work, they have a media library with certain things, and a list of things you "want" and then a way to download things to get from the want list into the media library without needing to do any manual intervention (except manually adding things to your wanted list)

Follow-up question: Can someone explain it in a goofy pirate accent?

https://wiki.servarr.com/

they are tools for automating the grabbing, downloading, and organizing of media such as movies, tv, and music.

It can be overwhelming or straight up not worth it for people, but I didn't mind the setup (setting up my VPN on my ubuntu server with port forwarding was more of a headache for me) and it makes it way easier for my wife to make requests with jellyseer, also for automatically getting requested new releases or new episodes of shows

I have a high tolerance for technical stuff, but quite honestly I am overwhelmed by the *arr tools. I have never been able to understand exactly what they each do, how to make them work together, and what the prerequisites are, e.g. a Usenet account.

I setup a tdarr server/node today, it automatically sets up videos to be transcoded. I'm using it so my mini pc hosting jellyfin doesn't have to. This means the videos should direct play, saving significant resources on the mini pc. That should allow me a handful of streams at the same time if it happens.

I put the node on my main desktop pc with a GPU, so when my server sees new videos land in my jellyfin folder it should have the windows pc grab the video, transcode it over on it's own ssd, then replace the original video on the server.

A lot of unnecessary work.