I like qbittorrent's search engine, it has a bunch of sites built in and searches all of them at once.
I paid for a 4k screen on my Dell laptop with Ubuntu and nobody will let me stream in 4k because of DRM HDCP 2.2 requirements, so anything in 4k I have to torrent. Virtually everything that's available in 4k is on the torrent sites so it's not like the DRM is doing them any good.
From what I gathered online, software to crack the 4k streams has been developed but the scene teams are keeping it private so it doesn't get patched, which is fine by me as long as they keep releasing stuff.
I've never used qbitorrent, but from the filenames in the source repo, it also appears to support Jackett, which provides a standardised search API by sitting between a torrent client and individual sites.
One of the issues you’ll hit at some point is disk space. The most common way of data-hoarding these days seems to be a GSuite account (even 1 user in their mid-tier payment plan actually allows for unlimited space currently) with a number of fuse filesystens layered on top of each other for encrypting (rclone), caching folder toc (plexdrive), and merging the remote disk with what you are currently downloading (unionfs).
The other thing you might want to invest in is a good usenet indexer and provider (I forget the actual terminology). Torrents are very painful when the stuff you are looking for are older than a year or so. Both radarr/sonarr support usenet out of the box and the difference in content quality and availability is insane.
Finally there are a couple projects that bring all these together, one of the most interesting I’ve seen so far if you’re looking for ideas is cloudbox [1]
Owh I forgot about ombi [2]. It’s a frontend for your radarr/sonarr/lidarr that your plex users can access and request shows and movies to get downloaded. If you want to share this with friends and family it reduces the spam of “could we get x added to plex pls”.
Thanks for the feedback; usenet newsgroups really do seem to be the next frontier for me with this stuff. Sounds like I should get ready to change my tune about private trackers and BT as a whole once I get into it, but I've hemorraghed enough time on this hobby already for the time being, so I may have to save that step for later.
I paid for a 4k screen on my Dell laptop with Ubuntu and nobody will let me stream in 4k because of DRM HDCP 2.2 requirements, so anything in 4k I have to torrent. Virtually everything that's available in 4k is on the torrent sites so it's not like the DRM is doing them any good.
From what I gathered online, software to crack the 4k streams has been developed but the scene teams are keeping it private so it doesn't get patched, which is fine by me as long as they keep releasing stuff.