Make Automated Torrent Media Server with Emby, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, and qBittorrent on Windows!

[@TomSparkReviews]

Newest up to date 2024 guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5anhp6jrKmljbc

[@narg87]

wow that's convenient timing, thanks!

[@nuttalls5]

Can you do a setup for Linux Ubuntu would be really popular thanks for your videos

[@KerbalJoe]

This video is exactly the type of noob guide I needed to get set up with my old PC. Thank you!

[@IOSARBX]

Tom Spark's Reviews, I can't get enough of your videos

[@b33p]

What a great guide. Thank you. I ended up here because an ai chatbot told me radarr and sonarr could do something and it actually looks like it can't, but I'm glad I did all this anyway, great systems! The thing I was trying to do: I have a bunch of media files I downloaded years ago and I want to seed them, and I was told radarr and sonarr could find torrents to match with my old downloaded media files so I could seed them for other people. Doesn't look like there's a way to do that, those ai chatbots making stuff up as usual!

[@BaneWilliams]

Yeah I think you're out of luck there unless you still have the original torrent files to match them. There are some remote applications that can do this but you still need to manually point to where the torrent is for each file so it's kind of pointless. Really I would just search for your files online and see if they exist, try searching for the rarest version of those files. There isn't much the internet has lost in the video and music category unless it's from 80's and earlier non USA/UK television.

[@MarcinMichalik-o5i]

Nice tutorial, the only thing I am lacking is a demo how it works

[@diegonavia1404]

we need this video!!!

[@thomasking2442]

Same here. lol.

[@seetheflow]

Agreed. As is I'm not sure why I wouldn't just search for the torrent from my preferred site.

[@lorcster6694]

Because this is easier. You just select what movie or tv show you want and it automatically downloads it for you.@@seetheflow

[@hellowill]

@@seetheflow yeah he needs to show WHAT sonarr/radarr actually do. Basically you add your movie/show then it finds and downloads it automatically. Benefit over manual: it can upgrade quality as it finds better torrents, it can add new episodes as they come out, it names all the files correctly for you media server to pick up.

[@altokers]

would have been nice to see the final product in use...

[@GroteGlon]

Good tutorial. I put in some extra work and made a Proxmox vm Ubuntu LTS desktop and spun it all up. There was a bunch of extra work with installing and permissions etc but it's working beautyfully.

[@ghostblackout1]

thank you this is what i have been looking for. thank you

[@joonboi84]

My only bone to pick (but I understand why you didn’t mention it) is that you didn’t even MENTION plex.

[@kauegatto]

is plex an emby alternative?

[@joonboi84]

@@kauegatto it is an alternative that seems to be more mainstream. I haven’t used envy or jelly fin, but I do use plex. It seems to be much more widely available (in terms of client apps) but I believe it isn’t open source.

[@GroteGlon]

@@kauegatto lol. Emby is the Plex alternative

[@stephannoyvirt7625]

why didn't he mention it?

[@KableTdi]

@@stephannoyvirt7625 no need, its very easy to set up anyway. Problem with emby is you need to pay and install plugin to watch trailers. So I just stayed with plex for now.

[@ClericChris]

Is there a way to integrate real debrid in the system. Perhaps instead of qbit?

[@cards365]

Thanks, this helped improve my current setup when I didn't know sh#t before. Prowlarr and qb are much better than what I was using. Too bad emby isn't on all my TV's in the house so I still have to use Plex unfortunately.

[@brianblaze3346]

great video! Do you have any that try flaresolverr on Windows or requestrr?

[@Wershingtern]

Seems like you ended this video 5 minutes before you shouldve. After downloading embly and creating the file in Sonar im lost.

[@thedislikebutton1907]

Add show/movie in Sonar/Radar , it will auto download. And it will show up in emby.

[@alanstedman6716]

Interesting method - your requests via prowlarr will be left not secured via either a vpn or proxy though - is that recommended?

[@Ori-lp2fm]

Don’t care please

[@erickaustin7162]

Need Help, keeps popping up when adding indexer on prowlarr "Unable to connect to indexer, please check your DNS settings and ensure IPv6 is working or disabled. No such host is known"

[@Akiraownz]

did you manage to fix this?

[@haleyfirth]

I was finding I couldn’t connect to anything other than a public indexer. Maybe that is also the problem?

[@MrPeoples20]

if i have the proxy on bittorrent, should i need to have my vpn on while downloading?

[@lachuna]

Great tutorial! You forgot to add categories to media management. If you don't set the categories, radarr or sonarr won't copy the downloads to their respective folders.

[@aye_aye_ron_boy]

Got me going without issue on my windows box. Grabbed an asustor NAS thinking it wouldn’t be an issue to get all these items installed, configured, and working in tandem. Boy was I wrong. I may just have to handle the downloads and file renames on windows and then ship them over to the NAS for Plex hosting.

[@BaneWilliams]

There is a windows thing that you can do that allows you to configure network locations as local ones in windows. I'll try and find what it's called for you, but it's arcane wizardry only older folks like me would likely know. Such a thing is easy in Linux, but it did actually originate in Windows first. Search 'Symbolic Links Windows' and it will probably let you do it. I think this is a current gen version of what I used to use.

[@11ELFs]

Why socks5 proxy instead of just network interface bind?

[@boyananakiev4896]

It would've been really cool to start with the or at least show the end product working together and the use case. Like, I'm a bit confused how this is all used? Is it only working on your computer? If I go to jellyfin on my TV I won't be able to fetch anythign or will I have to open the browser on my TV, navigate to local host for sonnarr and search for a show there then go back to jellyfin and load it? I guess it's useful for shows which come out on a weekly basis you want to automatically download but other than that? If so ,it will probably take me less time to just login to a torrent website and download the show to the jelly fin folder on my PC.

[@TomSparkReviews]

The main point is the automation aspect, using a nice UI to find shows, or even using discord to find shows

[@boyananakiev4896]

​@@TomSparkReviews thanks, i guess im not the target demographic for the discover or discord features as I already know ahead of time what I want to watch. That being said thanks to your video I tried the workflow and: - It's useful if you want to start building your library or want to download a lot of stuff (like multiple seasons) at the same time, it will automate that, for one off torrents its not that useful. - Useful to keep track of things that haven't came out yet as they will be automatically downloaded - I don't personally fully get Prowlarr, I like the seperation of Sonarr and Radarr and find it easier to search for stuff seperately, maybe for indexing its better. Overall, it's a cool workflow though I would say it's just the cherry on top if you have Jellyfin, unless you watch A LOT of stuff with multiple seasons etc or you're building a new library, this takes you from 90% to almost 100%.

[@TomSparkReviews]

Fair enough. There are hundreds of ways to do most things online and not everyone needs a full sequence of apps @@boyananakiev4896

[@Lana_Warwick]

I agree great tutorial, but would have been nice to see it all in action. Been fiddling with PCs for 30yrs, never seen an auto setup like this. No idea what discord (which I don't have) has to do with it. Re Socks5, wont isp see traffic vs vpn?

[@khamkeoquest4818]

Thank you! I'm up and running, now to set up through docker, etc.

[@linuxbasics7060]

for anyone following this video, the traffic for socks5 is NOT encrypted..

[@TomSparkReviews]

Doesn’t claim it is. It hides your ip which is what’s needed

[@Gillambryce]

Your ISP will see the traffic and can flag that traffic. No one else cares to monitor p2p traffic

[@sullyTheDev]

Using a VPN is a bit more secure

[@RONNIEAST]

I really appreciate it. Incredibly helpful. You really make as easy as humanly as possible to understand.

[@InsaiyanTech]

all thats next is how to use jellyseer on this setup and this is pretty much perfect i hope you try this next cuz this guide was perrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect got my stuff up and running

[@jaxbom1]

Just what I needed thank you thank you so much!

[@haleyfirth]

I’m having a problem with the trackers on qb? all the downloads are getting stalled. The trackers are getting back an error saying “permission denied” and on radarr, it’s saying “ download is stalled with no connections” I’m at a total loss and I’m probably not even explaining this well. 😞

[@nuttalls5]

Hi thanks for the video is there a tutorial how to install and setup on Ubuntu server rather than windows thanks

[@ThiagoHenriqueDS]

What do I put on host and port if i'm not using VPN? Localhost doesn't work even when I change the port to the one qbittorrent is using...

[@andyturner605]

You can't install the way he has, Ive watched 3 of these videos now but they all fail to mention you need to pay for a vpn, i did install and everything works by following a different tut, but then file paths are messed up because the paths are different if you don't follow the tuts where of course you need to purchase nord in this case.

[@StHabibiJohnsonAhmedFranklin]

Brilliant vid mate thank you!

[@TomSparkReviews]

No problem 👍

[@MrMiiichael]

This was great, thank you very much!

[@salto1994]

Interesting video. i followed the steps on macbook, sadly however when i try to download "White Collar" nothing happens in sonarr or qbittorrent. any idea what it could be? thanks in advance

[@BlueHavenGaming]

Quick Question just to be sure if i set up the proxy inside Qbitorrent as explained, do i need to activate NordVPN or by doing it the way we did were anonymised ?

[@andra1312]

you wouldn't need, the flux goes thru vpn direct when opening the socket

[@BlueHavenGaming]

@@andra1312 thx for the answer, however ive moved my method to usenet making it 100000% better

[@aghiles2893]

Hi@@andra1312, is there a way to make sure qbittorrent is indeed using the socket ?

[@reihanafraser7007]

Any info to add private tracker? Base url, cookie and cookie user-agent? I got part way but test is still red. Great vid by the way

[@lenanaH]

unfortunately the step of linking sonarr and radarr to prowlarr is the problematic part. I get orange warnings that restart is required and api key is invalid

[@87vortex87]

Is there also a docker container available that has all of these apps which you can just spin up en push config data into?

[@lancemcclellan7689]

I used a combination of the Trash guide for initial setup and dockSTARTer, it helped a ton with getting my pathing correct. Don't forget to set permissions on your media folders so that the ARR stack can communicate with them. Permissions and pathing held me back a long time.

[@protacticus630]

Very nice, appreciate it

[@edwardkay]

I get an error saying unable to connect to qBitorrent when trying to connect on sonarr and radarr. I followed all the other steps and everything works except that. Any help would be really good. Edit: turn on Web ui, it then works

[@edwardkay]

The error was because I hadn't turned on Web ui in the qbittorrent app

[@dunnoausernamedunno5533]

@@edwardkay is that all you had to do? Turn on web ui? Nothing else?

[@edwardkay]

@dunnoausernamedunno5533 yeah, in qbitorrent and then I was able to put in the port and keys or whatever was needed.

[@sarupk]

The BEST tutorial. WORKS fine! TY.

[@TomSparkReviews]

You're welcome!

[@ericleiteperuzzo6532]

Thanks a lot, man!

[@charlie_s1625]

Doesn't work when i try add Qbitorrent in sonarr or Rararr "Download clients" it requires a username and password to add it and idk what username its asking for?? Plz help me at 14.01 in the video you say you can leave it and do nothing at all. but it wants username and pass? "username authentication failure"

[@joho1325]

Did you fix this?

[@DiabloMet]

In the same section as webui you can set the username and password for qbittorrent

[@wellco988]

You mentioned disord integration. Is there a telegram integration?

[@Tezhuh]

when trying to add qbittorrent it says Authentication Failure under username

[@LordEthan2]

Can you do a vid on how to setup Real Debrid with all of the above in this video?

[@Pappagar]

you didnt cover emby configuration?

[@SSloath]

"permission denied" on all trackers and cannot download, I followed the instructions exactly

[@bigdan_66]

Because you are only using the vpn on the qbit torrent app. Use the VPN globally on your machine and you'll be fine.

[@dailytransparencywithcovid4666]

Why cant you just turn a vpn on instead of using a socks5 proxy?

[@philippaps44]

why not add the download clients to prowlarr instead of radarr sonarr separately?

[@HeroVax]

I usually use autodl-rssi to autosnatch any file. But the tracker doesn't have IRC announce channel. They only have API and RSS feed. How can I able to do this same as autodl-rssi? I already integrated the jackett correctly, and setup both Radarr and Sonarr with its download client configured. But, whenever there's a new torrent uploaded as freeleech. It won't download it. i don't understand what's the issue. Idk where to set up the filter to get any movies and I don't want to specify each movie. Any thoughts?

[@223richmond]

how do you reset Sonarr user and password I did it once but I forgot

[@KeltonNickerson]

Can you have it so only bittorrent is on proxy or VPn and all other apps are noy effected ?

[@shadowmich]

Bro please help me :p , I don't use the vpn and I came here to find out what I need to fill in for the host in radarr AND qbit in the webui tab..

[@the-papaw]

Very Nice video, thank you. Any chance of doing something installing flaresolverr?

[@mp57ca]

Hi when I download Prowlarr and start it up it is asking for login at webui. I have tried all sorts of possible default logins but none work. do you have a fix for this? or work around?

[@zerma6]

I have a stupid question, do make the first visual presentation with the logos of the software. What app/software did you use ? 😅 Thanks for all mate

[@thereisno_e9935]

It's an extension (I forget the name but you can find it easily) for the Obsidian app

[@CBTBGAMING]

is there a reason why you didn't use the download client within Prowlarr?

[@Ori-lp2fm]

He misse the point of it oollolol

[@MrTemplefugate]

Hey guys and dolls, I need some help. I have a couple Chromecast Ultra's for viewing video files mostly from PC. I was playing one with VLC player casting it from the PC using VLC on my android phone. It started stuttering the video and I uninstalled VLC. Now I can't see the video files on my phone. Is there a better free app that plays "ISO" files on Android and can remotely cast and view network files from the PC? Thanks in advance for any help...

[@ProtoPropski]

Where was this when I setup my 100+ Anime collection (>; - ;)>, seriously I managed any new season/episode releases, rotated subs, into dual audio as they came out, and organized them all neatly one by one into a Anime Name - S##E## format without this.... Well, except for One Piece I left the naming convention alone for the 1,071 episodes I have so far, but man I could have used this much sooner. still thank-you I guess this will make short work of the new anime I'm managing, and anything I might miss along the way, heck I might even be able to get another 100+ anime from my back catalog into my dragons treasure trove

[@prkrprkr6170]

hey i have done everything but i keep getting errors

[@dunnoausernamedunno5533]

I cant connect to qbittorrent with those instructions.

[@nuttalls5]

Plz plz need toturial for same but on ubuntu and not windows thanks hoping for your reply

[@NightviperMT]

Do you have this for NAS Synology ?

[@arnoldassileika9057]

Hello, would it be possible for you to create this tutorial for Linux Ubuntu users wia ssh

[@mroualidm2341]

Is it normal that the movies are duplicate now? both in download and movie? or download and tv shows

[@afhamibrahim]

Same bro.

[@afhamibrahim]

Same bro.

[@bykez4rhil]

one for Bazaar will be much appreciated

[@ThePickledancer]

How do I know the proxy is working?

[@YannMetalhead]

Good guide, thank you.

[@KrispKiwi]

Is there a way to auto convert flac to mp3 with lidarr.

[@Chris-dc9ok]

How comes you don't show how to setup Emby?

[@kevgames21]

do i now need to download the movies from Radarr and the tv from Sonarr or can i just Downlaod them from prowlarr

[@chiquito003]

Hello Sir. I can't manage to set qBittorent as the Download client in any of the applications. Any suggestions?

[@joho1325]

Did you get it to work?

[@KaisUK]

do you have a guide with Autobrr?

[@NightviperMT]

Any Tutorials for Nas Synology "?

[@outl1t]

Do I use Nord's SOCK5 proxy list even if I went with Torguard?

[@TomSparkReviews]

No

[@JD-pw5yv]

thanks tom👍

[@TomSparkReviews]

You are welcome!

[@nuttalls5]

Would like to see this tutorial but installed on a ubuntu server

[@redpineapple8362]

Can you please help me , When I download stuff it stays in the download folder and also where to serach from prowler itself or Sonarr or Radarr?

[@redpineapple8362]

Oh ok , apparently it organizes only the video files and not the whole folder maybe I can change it from qBittorent so it only downloads the video without the folder , but please answer my second question thanks for the video!

[@NaRCSalty]

I ran into an issue where when i go to add Download Client it wants a Name Username and password but i dont remember setting one up. Like i remember bnacking usernames tonight but i dont thinki did one for Radaar or sonaar and the one i did tonight isnot working an i doing something wrong? Help advice pls!

[@NaRCSalty]

it turned out Qbit has a default username and password. Also the clipping of the top of the screen is really annoying.

[@ElDaumo]

is there a way to get this running on an android device?

[@nikgrid]

Only problem is that emby is NOT free. They say it is on your browser but it doesn't appear to be and on the XBOX? forget it. What's another option?

[@nomercyriding]

Jellyfin would be the alternative to Plex and Emby. I'm unsure of Xbox support.

[@nikgrid]

@@nomercyridingYeah thanks I installed Jellyfin, and it's working great.

[@Myspacemeta]

Qbittorrent has changed with their recent update, so the settings no longer match what you are showing. i'm on step 9 and I'm getting authentication failure, any ideas of what went wrong?

[@andra1312]

I'm staying on lower Qbit version cause latest don't include all features compatibility

[@TheSizzleBeans]

Can i do this on batocera?

[@TheSizzleBeans]

Do you know? I really want to set up a games console/media centre. I can do the research if you don't :D

[@TheSizzleBeans]

I have been waiting ages for the time to set this up! i have watched your video on different accounts loads to keep reminding myself

[@tylerkrieter]

Using nzb and newsgroups are way better and faster

[@jimster1111]

in sonarr i get "name must not be empty" when linking to qbittorrent.

[@iphone2web]

just give it any name, i'd call it sonarr-qbitorrent

[@shanefrazier5511]

I was looking at the TG pro option and saw the 10GBit option as an add on and was wondering if it was worth it in your opinion

[@TomSparkReviews]

Ive heard mixed things from others, so not sure

[@KN-592]

what about jackett?

[@TomSparkReviews]

It’s outdated

[@KN-592]

​@@TomSparkReviews if prowler works with the qbittorent manual torrent search bar plugin then it is good to go. afaik at least jackett is possible to work with this plugin. thank you for this tutorials, your last video still holds up just saying

[@erichlf]

NordVPN doesn't suppoert port forwarding, so your connectivity will be problematic.

[@TomSparkReviews]

port forwarding isnt really supported by any good VPNs anymore.

[@erichlf]

@@TomSparkReviews PIA still supports it.

[@TomSparkReviews]

@@erichlf like i said, any good vpns

[@erichlf]

@@TomSparkReviews and what makes pia not good? They have good speeds, port forwarding, support for wireguard, no log policy, cheap, etc.

[@TomSparkReviews]

@@erichlf got bought out by an inferior company, havent done anything to product in years really

[@kach0937]

ha, first time trying, i had jellyfin set up and working, could watch tv in my room, then i found out about sonarrr, but it wasnt doing anything .. so i needed prowlrerrrr too .. cool

[@kgstories405]

Do you need a vpn? What would happen if you did this without one

[@Gpeagasus246]

You get an email your isp saying to stop or risk termination of your internet

[@sk081]

Do you think its best to have some cheap PC dedicated just as a media server for this?

[@TomSparkReviews]

it can be useful yes, mainly you want to always have ur main comp on whenever u want access

[@Grand_Alchemist]

Just pickup a raspberry pi and run everything in docker containers.

[@level0wizard]

"I do not condone piracy" first indexer is 1337x

[@goodcitizen4587]

Those are the best Linux ISOs ever.

[@PeaceOfTruthNews]

you must use vpn / proxy and such? can you use it without it? (Would like to test this on a laptop before prouchesing a hardware for it,)

[@TanCoyote1]

qbittorrent has a status of stalled when it attempts to download anything? Any solution?

[@gibbs_fka_leroy]

same, did you ever find a solution?

[@TanCoyote1]

I switched to using nzbget. Way better experience

[@redrabbit9999]

Any guides on how to do this in CasaOS?>

[@rdsii64]

If I want to run windows server 2022 will this still work?

[@HarryLemChem]

Yes, I've got it running on Windows Server.

[@Regius_]

Why was Overserr not included?

[@Youtubeusermann]

Why is mulvad C tier?

[@TomSparkReviews]

Look at the data table

[@manuelnovovarela6719]

para linux debian ¿?

[@ALiLSpiderr]

Good now make one for Jellyfin

[@GEOFORCEDATA]

Thanks Boss

[@miguelestevez2997]

This is great! But how does the storage works?? When is downloaded they don’t move around. I’m using Plex and the libraries go to “movies” and “shows” directly, but obviously everything is downloaded in “downloads” how is that managed?

[@Big_Kahuna]

If you have set it up properly, it should be in both downloads and movies/shows folder using hardlinks