Sorry to hear that, I'll send you the file so you can watch it at your convenience on any device you wish
-pirated digital media enjoyer
Paying for media AND wasting useful space in your room? No tank you.
seriously, I still have a bunch of DVDs from years ago before media became so easy to download. I downloaded them all already and the convience of having the whole library on your computer or external is so much better than a bunch of disks that you have to pop in and out.
I'm really basic and youtube brained for this but I like the aesthetic of a shelf filled with physical media. I'm too broke to actively try to collect but if I was reasonably well off I absolutely would have a shelf like that.
I like it for books. Maybe vinyl records. Things with an appealing ritual or physical experience to them. But honestly for CDs, movies (or god forbid TV) it's kind of just like ew, why. I don't want to interact with the clunky remote and menu system of the player, I don't want to hunt for a misplaced disk, and it's all digital anyhow so why bother when you could just have "netflix but even more convenient and I can load anything I want onto it"? And physical media heads who just rip everything and save it to a hard drive anyhow just make me think they're too lib brained to pirate.
You can just buy bootlegs really cheap. That's how 80% of people in my town know about the movies they do. I've got a huge bootleg collection alongside pirated digital media as backup.
there are no pirates without the physical media enjoyers, we're all friends here
I don't have any blooooorays because I'm historically poor but I need to retroactively make it sound like I'm principled.
recently torrented a foreign movie because it wasn't on streaming and the DVDs were all out of print, it came with a separate file for the subtitles and I have no idea how to add it so I haven't watched it yet
total ass process wouldn't be a problem if I could just buy a nice 4k blu-ray physical media heads still stay winning
VLC, subtitles, add subtitle track, select file. Like literally you see it when you open the subtitle menu
OK now I find out the subtitles aren't in English so now I've got to find the right track.
But still, thank you for the tip, I appreciate it.
best way is to copy the full name of the video file and search "filename English subs"
If you get really into it and get a NAS or media server, there are scripts you can put in that automate the whole subtitle process. Little bit of work up front to do none later
most modern rips put the subs directly into the media file, and most players can handle both separate srt subs and built in sub tracks, for example on something like plex or jellyfin it would have automatically loaded that file and it would've been one click on the player to turn them on if your settings didn't have them on automatically. But ultimately whether you find physical or pirated copies more convenient is mostly just a matter of familiarity and investment into one or the other.
On one hand if you set up jellyfin or something and some fancy torrent stuff you could have whatever movie you want more or less in pretty short order, and browse the library from a variety of devices with a consistent interface, which can be pretty convenient, or with physical media you can physically peruse which has its appeal, and you presumably already own a nice dvd/bluray player that you are familiar with the interface of, so you won't have to dork with the settings each time. But both require some investment, accumulating a library of physical media takes time, as does storign and organizing it, buying a nice player costs something. But with digital you have to have a computer with a non-trivial amount of hard drive space, and spend some time setting up whatever software you want to run, learning what the options are, etc.
Wife: stop buying Blurays.
Me: Nevar!!!!
internet goes out
Wife: what are we going to do???
a year of one subscription can often be repurposed for a 4TB to 12TB hard drive.
um, you could read one of those harry potters. you know, bunch of long text.
doesnt have to be one written by jk rowling, there's dozens of these things by different authors.
My budget:
Rent: $950
Food: $200
Used books: $3500
Utilities: $150Somebody please help budget this my family is dying
In bad country enthusiasts need to pass physical tapes around to avoid official censorship of media.
You collect thousands of DVDs because you are just afraid one day streaming will end and you'll have nothing to watch.
I collect thousands of
DVDsVHS tapes because I am a snob and I like to suffer while watching old horrible shitty movies from 40 years ago.We're not the same.
:rlm-shining:
I collect vhs tapes because I like adjusting the little tracking knob
they kept making them for a long time so that probably isn't a killer issue yet
It was and remains fucking bizarre that people just handed over all their digital stuff to some anonymous third party that promised not to have too many outages. I use drop box and drive basically for data transfer because never bothered to figure out how to set up one of those data transfer servers, and that's about it.
Idk fuck technology everything went wrong that could go wrong.
Oh yes. At least a couple of my classmates in the computer science department at my university had them. They looked dumb, and IIRC my classmates were not hugely impressed with the tech, either.
when all my friends started insisting on spotify I resisted - I have 14 GB of .mp3s and .FLACs of any songs on my playlist - no ads, no connection issues, easy peasy
I mean I like spotify because it’s more social. Like you can follow all your friends and see all their stuff/ compare each others’ taste, easily make a playlist to share with someone you like, etc. Plus it just seems more instant/convenient in terms of getting new music
no ads, no connection issues
idk if you’re talking about the free version, but with premium you can automatically download all your music offline. I pirate movies/TV but spotify is like the one monthly subscription I’m willing to pay $10/mo for, because it gives me almost any released song there is, compared to streaming services like netflix and hulu which lack pretty much everything.
In theory that'd be nice. In practice I can't get any of my friends to start talking about music even when I send them niche stuff that is hyper-specific to their interests and they tell me it's great.
I use spotify because it takes less effort than pirating shit off youtube.
I use spotify because it takes less effort than pirating shit off youtube.
this takes like no effort, but being able to listen to your collection on the phone when not home is.
I mean pirating shit doesn't take A LOT of effort but certainly more than spotify. I used to pirate and I'm not saying it was crazy inconvenient, but spotify will only take me 2-3 seconds to play something new and add it to my library, can't get that with anything else
It's mainly a habit from the days of when you had to get CDs if you wanted music - I would rip them so that even if I lost the cd or it broke I'd have the songs still, and I don't have to pay anything further.
I really don't like "life as a service" in general. I will still buy music in any way that benefits the artist, like if they put it up themselves for digital download, and I can listen to it whenever without having to pay a middleman a subscription fee.
I use spotify free when it's necessary - when I was in a band, we put together a playlist of songs we wanted to cover that we could quickly reference, but I would tend to just play songs off said playlist on youtube where my adblocker covers any adswe put together a playlist of songs we wanted to cover that we could quickly reference, but I would tend to just play songs off said playlist on youtube where my adblocker covers any ads
In like 2019 I had the free version of spotify and I think my adblocker blocked ads on the web player
Also, I find spotify's algorithm makes it easier to find new stuff and go down rabbitholes through discover weekly, song radios, enhancing playlists, etc.
For some reason unknown to me, at some point I stopped using the web app in favour of the desktop one - I should just go back to it lol.
I don't tend to stay up to date with music; rather, every couple of years I spend a full day chasing up all my favourite bands and checking out new ones and just downloading music in one big batch.
In a nutshell - this is my ethos on services:Show
Oh god this is making me feel guilty for paying for nintendo switch online, I just like all the old games it has to offer
I'm really pissed off because I have an arrangement with my roommate to "split" the major streaming services so I can't cancel in solidarity with the WGA strike. Like I do admit I enjoy having access to my treats and streaming services are more convenient than piracy for me.
My roommate literally ONLY watches stuff on streaming whenever he's not working. Its his only activity. So there's no way he's going to care about the strike more than that. He'd still have the dvds he does have but yeah no. We cancelled cable to switch to streaming (it was supposed to save money but it probably costs the same if not more, lol) and made this arrangement together so we'd have access to as much as possible.
its just an annoying situation.
- AV1 & OPUS Blu-ray encodes for movies/TV
- OPUS for various audio stuff (audiobooks, podcasts, music)
- Various compressed formats for games (ask if you're interested and I'll be glad to elaborate)
- CBZ and CBRs for comics
Everything on 8tb of storage served through Jellyfin/Audiobookshelf/Calibre/Kavita
Infinite respect to the Blu ray rippers, encoders, and uploaders.
Took me a long time to curate and set everything up, but it was completely worth it.
I'm glad that AV1 encodes are picking up steam but sometimes I do wish they'd juice those bitrates just a tiny bit higher. A 4k encode of The Way of Water I recently saw could have done with an extra gigabyte of video or two, and it would've been done. That's all I would have needed forever. But it was just a bit low enough that I have to instead hang onto like a 35GB HEVC 4k encode instead, well more than twice the size of the AV1 encode.
Also every now and then I see an AV1 encode that mangles some finer details. Overall, though, the people who do it do a good job.
I don't even bother with 4k anymore because 4k playback from plex to chromecast is such a shitshow (I really need to try plex alternatives. I really want AMD hardware encoding and a less glitched app). Its not like I have some high end 80" tv with oled blacks or whatever anyhow, and I don't sit 3 feet away from my very modestly sized TV so I can't tell much difference unless I'm really looking, even dropping down to 1080. Plus I got scammed by an ISP so I'm back to dogshit upload speeds, so anything above 1080 isn't going to be viewable from outside of my home.
I only do 4K for action oriented films. Most movies, especially drama ones, do not need to be in such a high resolution. Once I'm enjoying the story the diff between 4k and 1080 does not matter at all.
doing things together is communism and the more things you do together,,
G*mers whining about censorship in remakes while I'm playing the original off the disc.
Boppin to the original GTA sound tracks because I have the physical media and no internet connection.
That's the one that really gets me - Games having music pulled because they lost licensing. Apple deleting all of your music files and replacing them with DRM locked files that can only be used on iTunes. Books getting pulled out of your Amazon account. And dipshits mewling 'But it's just a license, you didn't buy anything, it's a license, a license!" like any person made out of baryonic matter actually gives a shit.
More like: "Really sorry to hear that man. Gimme 5 minutes and I'll get it loaded to the media server so you can enjoy your movie night!"
Yeah pirates stay winning. Download anything you want, no walls full of DVDs.
Imagine still watching things like you have an attention span and shit. Couldn't be me
TV shows? You mean the stuff I put on in the background while I scroll?
My dads CD, DVD, book collection is actually out of this world large. I’m talking most of the house is shelving like this.
He might be a hoarder, but I fucking love it. Everything ever is available, and I got a “librarian” that can point me in the right direction.
Meanwhile my sisters tried to convince him to switch to a music streaming service and the first thing he looked up was an album half removed on Apple Music. He is never switching his ways
pirates with a Blu-Ray burner
