this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2025
201 points (95.9% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

64418 readers
159 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

🏴‍☠️ Other communities

FUCK ADOBE!

Torrenting/P2P:

Gaming:


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 42 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I know Lemmy is obsessed with Jellyfin, but alot of us have lifetime memberships to Plex, and will switch when hell freezes over.

Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.

So Jellyfin... How hard is it to migrate from Plex?

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, did you mean a lifetime membership to Jellyfin? Because I don't think there is such a thing...

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago

The lifetime membership to Jellyfin is on Github in the form of a GPL license and the source code. I've got a lifetime membership to Jellyfin and it didn't cost me a dime.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] cm0002@piefed.world 3 points 4 days ago

Jellyfin, unfortunately failed the spouse test when I last tried last year.

Besides, I don't think for this particular case it would help much, they both pull their data from the same places iirc

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] vodka@feddit.org 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

The worst I've experienced so far is Panty And Stocking S2. Here's a copy paste of what I explained to someone using my plex asking why it was so fucked.

E01 is a single episode

E02 and E03 are one episode in the west and on japanese streaming(E02), but it airs on TV as two episodes in japan

E04, E05, E06 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E03), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan

E07, E08, E09 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E04), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan

E10, E11, E12, are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E05), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan

E13 is a single episode, but it's episode 13 for TV broadcast, and 6 for streaming..

E14 and E15 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E07), but airs on TV as two episodes in japan

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't see the problem. If the files are named properly, software like sonarr will have no problem organising it. You just name the file S02E4-E6 etc.

[–] chaos@beehaw.org 6 points 3 days ago

That is indeed the right way to do it, unfortunately Plex doesn't handle it well. It'll show all the episodes separately, but each one plays the entire file (fair, it doesn't know for sure where the breaks are, but could be done better), and watching the whole thing marks only the one you selected as watched, so you have to mark all the other "episodes" as watched manually (this is annoying, if it knows you watched the whole file, it should know that you've watched all the episodes it covers).

Usually if an episode is a 2 parter in one file, I'll just name it for part 1 since you'd watch them together anyway, but for cartoons the two parts are usually entirely unrelated, so it really only works properly if the file's split. It'd be better if the interface at least showed that a range of episodes are combined so you could, say, start it and know that the episode you want needs to be scrubbed through to find it, and also if it marked them all as played when you watch the whole thing.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

The main issue is automation. Now it's not a problem now that theXEM has stuff properly scene mapped, especially since I use proper private trackers.

The numbering is still a fucking mess though, and the fact that different index websites have different rules makes it really annoying.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 5 points 4 days ago

I'm so glad I don't catalog my downloaded stuff.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

Oh god, I love the anime but yeah I can understand that their super loosey-goosey style of episodes would be p bad if you wanted super detailed organizing. The place I've been watching them just groups the content into a single episode, since they effectively are broadcast as one single piece, just with (potentially) multiple chapters.

load more comments (8 replies)
[–] polakkenak@feddit.dk 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I (partially) blame tvdb for this mess. SpongeBob has every story listed as a separate episode, but good luck finding any source that doesn't bundle these up.

Meanwhile, the list for Kaguya just bundles all stories aired together in a single episode (thankfully).

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Thing os: Many companies and countries have different orderd releases.

load more comments (1 replies)

This is a very niche meme. I love it.

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I raise you multi-language content or a mixed Australian/US-Broadcast Mythbusters collection 😐

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

And I raise you Pokémon. Holy mother of fuck that's messed up. Some episodes switched around for foreign distribution, some removed, and two seasons put into one, making the entire ordering one season and three episodes off. Had to manually edit nearly everything after Sonarr tagged them because Sonarr used the UK tvdb ordering iirc (the UK removed a couple episodes) but my source used Japan (scene) and Emby used US tvdb. Something like that

Feast your eyes on this shitshow (use desktop mode if on mobile)

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 5 points 4 days ago

Feast your eyes on this shitshow (use desktop mode if on mobile)

Ouch, my condolences.
It's fascinating that it took me longer to scroll through that than most people have or ever will spend on watching the show.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Wait until you have to match foreign to english naming to match the release name.
I did that for the first 3 seasons of a dvd pack I ordered and ripped to get the dub iny language (and the 2 rips on trackers were of a too low quality)

[–] blueworld@piefed.world 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Just give up and get streamlined mythbusters. Easier to watch anyway.

I've heard they're called smyths on reddit and there's a complete collection in some thread over there.

r/smyths/comments/8gix4w/streamlined_mythbusters_complete_may_2018_update

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

That sounds interesting, I'll have a look!

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's the difference?
Sounds like a fan cut release

[–] blueworld@piefed.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Each myth is contiguous in each episode rather than being interweaved. Much more satisfying.

Also, repetitions are removed and some of the fluff (though sometimes a bit too much of the fluff has been removed according to some opinions I read once upon a time on reddit). To make up for it, replace the missing fluff with the stupidly long fluffy tail of content which this comment is now somehow turning into. Fluffing the fluff. And also, repetitions(!) are removed but also the fluff.

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Futurama is also a pain to organize.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because of the movies split into episodes?

I have the French dub, which has a very different broadcast order.

S03E12 in French might be S02E22 in English, while S03E13 is part one of a special episode (so... S00E04, p1).

No one had published a conversion guide yet,so I ended up playing each file up through the title credits, to determine the new watch order.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same with Kitchen Nightmares (Gordon Ramsay)

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Censed@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I took the effort to split every episode S1-S3 in davinchi

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Personally, I don't care enough. Mostly my kids watch SpongeBob, and I can tell when vaguely paying attention as they watch it that I've seen every episode in seasons 1-3 (the only seasons I bothered to load) multiple times, which would specifically have been when I was a kid watching live TV. And half the time it's on shuffle anyways so the order doesn't matter at all

Edit to add: not sure if the issues people are describing are Plex specific but Jellyfin required zero manual effort when I injested the rips. All episodes have correct metadata (as two parters, so for example I have "S1E10-11 Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple" as a single episode)

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I am too much of a lerfectionist (metadata) to not care. :(

Edit:
Thing is, not every release respects the aired or the DVD-order that TVDB uses.
So you might have some episode which deviates from the current order and suddenly it doesnt work anymore.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

My demons are all Doctor Who. I had it mostly straight in plaques and when I moved over to jelly fin, nothing was right.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 9 points 4 days ago

Haruhi Suzumiya has entered the chat

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

I thought I had downloaded bad releases and the episodes were messy..glad to see is not just me having trouble to organize sponge Bob to have episode preview right

[–] JawnZ@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago

American dad being screwy is what got me to finally setup Jellyfin. I was just using Stremio for everything but the jumping around because of season misnumbering was bad

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The bane of my existence before it hit Paramount+

Now you can find individual episodes as WEB-DL

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also in the original aspect ratio or was it cropped?

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Ooohhh...That's nice!
Now I only need it in dubbed form to be useful for me.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Repair Shop was a real pain in the ass to import since they apparently run multiple seasons concurrently for some reason.

Beavis and Butthead.

load more comments
view more: next ›