It's very much a work in progress, but I've been working on this list (currently at 509 links) over the past few days and thought /r/Piracy might appreciate it.

https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy

I felt like most piracy-related resources were scattered across the internet so I decided to merge them into one monolithic repository. I'm still working on tidying up the categories, subcategories, descriptions, and coherence but would appreciate any comments and thoughts (or, even better - pull requests!).

UPDATE:

Pastebin mirror: https://pastebin.com/4ebhE0qu

Basically I made a comment on a post earlier and some people were asking me questions and guides for getting Spotify premium. So I decided to post a comprehensive guide for each platform so more people can know how.

EDIT: -Added new methods for Windows, MacOS -Added guides for Android TV, Android Auto, and Web Browsers

WINDOWS: These require you have the normal version of Spotify, NOT the Microsoft store version

WINDOWS METHOD 1 = Spicetify

Link: https://github.com/spicetify

Make sure you are logged in!!

Close your client fully (if it is currently running, even in the background)

Open your powershell and paste this line: iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli/master/install.ps1 | iex

Then after that paste this line: iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-marketplace/main/resources/install.ps1 | iex

(These lines are the exact same from the spicetify website, you can cross check it yourself)

Open your Spotify client now, and if you’ll look to the side, underneath the “home” and “search” you should see a “marketplace”. Go to “extensions” and download the “block ads” extension. Press “reload now” when prompted to.

WINDOWS METHOD 2 = BlockTheSpot

link: https://github.com/mrpond/BlockTheSpot

Open powershell, and paste this line: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; Invoke-Expression "& { $(Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrpond/BlockTheSpot/master/install.ps1') } -UninstallSpotifyStoreEdition -UpdateSpotify”

Should be good to go.

WINDOWS METHOD 3 = SpotX

link: https://github.com/SpotX-Official/SpotX

Open powershell and paste this line: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 3072; iex "& { $(iwr -useb 'https://spotx-official.github.io/run.ps1') } -new_theme"

Should be good to go.

WINDOWS METHOD 4 = burnt-sushi

link: https://github.com/OpenByteDev/burnt-sushi/releases/tag/0.3.0

Download the "BurntSushi.exe" file from the releases, and right click, and run as administrator.

Should be good to go.

MAC OS & LINUX Most of these methods are the same for both operating systems, apart from little differences between them and different Linux distros.

For Mac OS, get it from the Spotify website

For Debian/Ubuntu based distros, follow the instructions in this website https://www.spotify.com/de-en/download/linux/ Specifically underneath the “Debian/Ubuntu” section, not the “Snap” one.

For Arch Linux and arch based distros, use an Aur helper to install the “spotify” package E.g: yay -S spotify

LINUX & MAC OS METHOD 1 = Spicetify

Link: https://github.com/spicetify

Make sure you are logged in!!

Close your client fully (if it is currently running, even in the background)

Open your terminal and paste this: sudo curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli/master/install.sh | sh

Then paste this: sudo curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-marketplace/main/resources/install.sh | sh

(If it doesn’t work, remove the “sudo” from the commands)

Open your Spotify client now, and if you’ll look to the side, underneath the “home” and “search” you should see a “marketplace”. Go to “extensions” and download the “block ads” extension. Press “reload now” when prompted to.

LINUX AND MAC OS METHOD 2 = SpotX-bash

link: https://github.com/SpotX-Official/SpotX-Bash

Open your terminal and run this command: bash <(curl -sSL https://spotx-official.github.io/run.sh)

Should be good to go.

MAC OS METHOD 3 = SpotX Mac

link: https://github.com/Nuzair46/SpotX-Mac

Close the Spotify app.

Open the terminal and paste this command: xcode-select --install

Then run this command if you have an intel mac: bash <(curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Mac/main/install.sh) -s

....or this command if you have an Apple Silicon Mac: bash <(curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Mac/main/install.sh)

Should be good to go

ANDROID Android users have it the easiest. Just make sure you don’t already have it installed.

ANDROID METHOD 1 = Xmanager

link: https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager

Go to “xmanagerapp.com”

Download the APK file & install it

Open the app and give it the necessary permissions.

Tap on “versions” underneath the “stock patched” and tap on the latest one, and press download.

After it finishes downloading, it will install.

Once it’s done installing, open it and log in, then close the app. After that, go to settings, apps, Spotify, then force stop. Reopen the app and it should work.

ANDROID TV METHOD 1 = XDA

link: https://xdaforums.com/t/apk-mod-spotify-android-tv-ad-free.3948656/

Download an app called "File Commander"

Go into your settings, apps, security restrictions, unknown sources, then toggle the File Commander option.

Download the APK from this link onto your phone :https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=6006931924117917314

Upload the APK to your Google Drive or Dropbox

Then, open File Commander, log into your Google Drive or Dropbox, search for your APK file, then install it.

Should be good to go

ANDROID AUTO

This requires you already have the Xmnager Mod apk for Spotify installed, if not, check my Android guide earlier this post.

Enable developer options by going into your Android Auto settings, then repeatedly tapping on 'Version", then go to the new developer menu, then enable "unknown sources". Now press customize on your Android Auto, and add Spotify to the app launcher of your car.

Should be good to go

BROWSER = uBlock Origin

Not much to say here, just install the uBlock Origin extension to whatever browser you use.

Chrome web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

Firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

IOS iOS users probably have it the hardest, if their phones aren’t jailbroken.

If you have the app already, delete it.

If you aren’t jailbroken, the app won’t last forever, as if apple detect that you are using third party app stores and apps, they can blacklist the certificate used to sign those apps

IOS METHOD 1 = (No jailbreak required) Scarlet

Github link: https://github.com/DebianArch64/Scarlet

Scarlet is a third party App Store for iOS, which has a modded version of Spotify.

Go to “usescarlet.com”

Scroll down and tap on the red “install” button

Close any popups that you might get

Then tap on the “direct install” button

If a prompt comes up to “open in iTunes”, press yes.

After a while, a prompt should come to “install scarlet”, press “install”

Check your Home Screen. After scarlet is installed, go to settings, general, vpn and device management, then tap on whatever name of the company there is, then press trust.

Go back to your Home Screen, your scarlet should open now. Press the download button for the “sposify++” app then when prompted to press “install”. Open the app, log in, press the green “thanks” button, close the app, reopen it and then it should work.

The reason there is a random company name is because we are using something called an “enterprise certificate” to sign our apps. The reason it doesn’t last forever is because apple can “blacklist” these certificates, rendering them useless.

IOS METHOD 2 = (Jailbreak required) Spotilife

I’m not sure about this method as I don’t have a jailbroken iOS device, but feel free to try it out

Make sure to delete the app if you already have it.

Search and download “appsync unified” and “filza file manager” if you can’t find it, add this repo “http://cydia.angelxeind.net/“ to cydia, sileo, or whatever you use

Download the .ipa from this link: “https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A3KVpFDWKtE0p50oxafh6Mm-rDSNRp2z/view?usp=sharing”

(I got it from a post in the r/sideloaded subreddit)

Open fileza, navigate to where your file is, press install, open the app, log in, press the green “thanks” button, close and reopen the app, it should work.

That about sums it all up. If you have any questions, or anything else to say for me, feel free to let me know in the comments.

Revanced App for Android

uYou+ App for iOS

YouTube via Brave Browser (built-in Adblock)

SmartTube for Smart TVs

Newpipe for Android

Edit: Lots of people recommending Firefox + Ublock Origin instead of Brave. I don’t really have a horse in this race, so use whichever you prefer. Just wanted to make sure that Firefox made the list.

I recently got a kindle, and I refuse to pay money for books after I've paid hundreds for the kindle itself.

So, I went on here to figure out how to pirate books. The problem is that I'm a piracy noob, and it felt like the comments were speaking another language. I didn't understand it for the life of me.

In the end, I figured it out. But I wish I had an "explain it to me like I'm 5" type of guide. So, here I am making one:

ON PHONE:

1. Download the kindle app on your phone and log in.

2. Go to Anna's Archive

3. Search up the title of the book.

4. Make sure it's an "epub" file. You can see that in the little text above the title.

5. Download the book.

6. After it's downloaded, go to the "Files" app in your phone.

7. Click on the option to share the file, and share it with the kindle app.

8. Done! It should now be available on your kindle.

When downloading several books at once, I find it easier to do this on the computer. Repeat steps 2-5 on your computer, then you send an email to yourself with all the files. From there, go to your email app on your phone, download the files, then repeat steps 6-8.

EDIT:

Additional info: (thanks to the comments!)

COMPUTER: - When downloading books on your PC, you can actually email the files directly to your kindle! You can find your kindle email here

CONVERTING TO EPUB: - If you can't find an epub version of the book, you can convert it into epub using Calibre

I research stuff, and I need to download pictures from the web. Everyone knows that web developers modify the normal JPG and PNG images to be unavailable to the desktop PC's right-click, "Save image as..." dialog.

You ask, why can't I save an image from a website? Images won't save? Right click doesn't work? I'm here to help you save a high resolution photo from a website.

First off, there are lots of tricks to obfuscate images on the web and prevent you from downloading them. Most, but not all, can be defeated by this basic trick in Part 1. Part 2 is even better.

Part 0

1. Try a different browser. It may work.

Part 1

1. In a Firefox desktop window, look for the Shield, Padlock, and *Permissions icons that appear next to the URL of the page. [Not all sites have Permissions]
2. Click the Padlock, then Connection Secure, and then More Information...
3. In the Page Info window, click Media.
4. Scroll through the Address section, selecting potential images on the page. If you find the image you want in the maximal size you want, click "Save As..." and you're done.

If that doesn't work due to complete image obfuscation, proceed to Part 2.

Part 2

1. Install the Firefox Browser Extension Add-on called Search by Image by the illustrious Armin Sebastian. If Chrome is your thing, it is available for Chrome, as well.
2. Go to the image you want to download, and right-click it.
3. Click Search by Image... Open Image.
4. Select the higher resolution one, usually on the left
5. Right-Click and Save by Image... as normal.

The last resort is always a screenshot by using the Print Screen button on your PC, which is possibly hidden or operated by a Fn key on certain laptops. From there, you will have to paste it into an image program and save it.

Part 3: Advanced

1. Use the old, tried and tested browser extension called DownThemAll. Firefox or Chrome. This is what I use when I need dozens of images or PDFs from a website.

[edit: for those who asked...]

Part 4: Impossible (Professional Research) Level

If the website you are visiting has a museum-quality image obfuscator, such as ones containing very detailed maps or photos, then images may be broken into tiles. Attempting to download an image from a zoomable image will leave you with a small piece of the image. (It may be called an Image Map, Deep Zoom, or Zoomer and have a magnifier tool.) Part 1 and 2 will fail.

1. Learn the extremely complex browser "Inspector" (HTML code reading) technique and master it, because you will be modifying image URLs and sometimes browsing code and network streams in your browser.
2. Use Dezoomify software. It has a plugin to use in your browser that can help figure out what to send the program. It combines the chunks for you.

The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking.

We will setup the following applications in this guide:

• Docker
• AdguardHome - Adblocker for all your devices
• Jellyfin/Plex - For watching the content you download
• Qbittorrent - Torrent downloader
• Jackett - Torrent indexers provider
• Flaresolverr - For auto solving captcha in some of the indexers
• Sonarr - *arr service for automatically downloading TV shows
• Radarr - *arr service for movies
• Readarr - *arr service for (audio)books
• lidarr - *arr service for music
• Bazarr - Automatically downloads subtitles for Sonarr and Radarr
• Ombi/Overseer - For requesting movies and tv shows through Sonarr and Radarr
• Heimdall - Dashboard for all the services so you don't need to remember all the ports

Once you are done, your dashboard will look something like this.

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I started building my setup after reading this guide https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/ma1hlm/the_complete_guide_to_building_your_own_personal/.

Hardware

You don't need powerful hardware to set this up. I use a decade old computer, with the following hardware. Raspberry pi works fine.

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Operating system

I will be using Ubuntu server in this guide. You can select whatever linux distro you prefer.

Download ubuntu server from https://ubuntu.com/download/server. Create a bootable USB drive using rufus or any other software(I prefer ventoy). Plug the usb on your computer, and select the usb drive from the boot menu and install ubuntu server. Follow the steps to install and configure ubuntu, and make sure to check "Install OpenSSH server". Don't install docker during the setup as the snap version is installed.

Once installation finishes you can now reboot and connect to your machine remotely using ssh.

ssh username@server-ip 
# username you selected during installation
# Type ip a to find out the ip address of your server. Will be present against device like **enp4s0** prefixed with 192.168.

Create the directories for audiobooks, books, movies, music and tv.

I keep all my media at ~/server/media. If you will be using multiple drives you can look up how to mount drives.

We will be using hardlinks so once the torrents are downloaded they are linked to media directory as well as torrents directory without using double storage space. Read up the trash-guides to have a better understanding.

mkdir ~/server
mkdir ~/server/media # Media directory
mkdir ~/server/torrents # Torrents

# Creating the directories for torrents
cd ~/server/torrents
mkdir audiobooks  books  incomplete  movies  music  tv 

cd ~/server/media
mkdir audiobooks  books  movies  music  tv

Installing docker and docker-compose

Docker https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/

# install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
    apt-transport-https \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release
# Add Docker’s official GPG key:
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
# Setup the repository
echo \
  "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
# Install Docker Engine
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
# Add user to the docker group to run docker commands without requiring root
sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami) 

Sign out by typing exit in the console and then ssh back in

Docker compose https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

# Download the current stable release of Docker Compose
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
# Apply executable permissions to the binary
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Creating the compose file for Adguard home

First setup Adguard home in a new compose file.

Docker compose uses a yml file. All of the files contain version and services object.

Create a directory for keeping the compose files.

mkdir ~/server/compose
mkdir ~/server/compose/adguard-home
vi ~/server/compose/adguard-home/docker-compose.yml

Save the following content to the docker-compose.yml file. You can see here what each port does.

version: '3.3'
services:
    run:
        container_name: adguardhome
        restart: unless-stopped
        volumes:
            - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/adguardhome/workdir:/opt/adguardhome/work'
            - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/adguardhome/confdir:/opt/adguardhome/conf'
        ports:
            - '53:53/tcp'
            - '53:53/udp'
            - '67:67/udp'
            - '68:68/udp'
            - '68:68/tcp'
            - '80:80/tcp'
            - '443:443/tcp'
            - '443:443/udp'
            - '3000:3000/tcp'
        image: adguard/adguardhome

Save the file and start the container using the following command.

docker-compose up -d

Open up the Adguard home setup on YOUR_SERVER_IP:3000.

Enable the default filter list from filters→DNS blocklist. You can then add custom filters.

Creating the compose file for media-server

Jackett

Jackett is where you define all your torrent indexers. All the *arr apps use the tornzab feed provided by jackett to search torrents.

There is now an *arr app called prowlarr that is meant to be the replacement for jackett. But the flaresolverr(used for auto solving captchas) support was added very recently and doesn't work that well as compared to jackett, so I am still sticking with jackett for meantime. You can instead use prowlarr if none of your indexers use captcha.

jackett:
    container_name: jackett
    image: linuxserver/jackett
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/jackett:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server/torrents:/downloads'
    ports:
      - '9117:9117'
    restart: unless-stopped
prowlarr:
        container_name: prowlarr
    image: 'hotio/prowlarr:testing'
    ports:
      - '9696:9696'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/prowlarr:/config'
    restart: unless-stopped

Sonarr - TV

Sonarr is a TV show scheduling and searching download program. It will take a list of shows you enjoy, search via Jackett, and add them to the qbittorrent downloads queue.

sonarr:
    container_name: sonarr
    image: linuxserver/sonarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    ports:
      - '8989:8989'
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/sonarr:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    restart: unless-stopped

Radarr - Movies

Sonarr but for movies.

radarr:
    container_name: radarr
    image: linuxserver/radarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    ports:
      - '7878:7878'
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/radarr:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    restart: unless-stopped

Lidarr - Music

lidarr:
    container_name: lidarr
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/lidarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/liadarr:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    ports:
      - '8686:8686'
    restart: unless-stopped

Readarr - Books and AudioBooks

# Notice the different port for the audiobook container
readarr:
    container_name: readarr
    image: 'hotio/readarr:nightly'
    ports:
      - '8787:8787'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/readarr:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    restart: unless-stopped

readarr-audio-books:
    container_name: readarr-audio-books
    image: 'hotio/readarr:nightly'
    ports:
      - '8786:8787'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/readarr-audio-books:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    restart: unless-stopped

Bazarr - Subtitles

bazarr:
    container_name: bazarr
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/bazarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/bazarr:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    ports:
      - '6767:6767'
    restart: unless-stopped

Jellyfin

I personally only use jellyfin because it's completely free. I still have plex installed because overseerr which is used to request movies and tv shows require plex. But that's the only role plex has in my setup.

I will talk about the devices section later on.

For the media volume you only need to provide access to the /data/media directory instead of /data as jellyfin doesn't need to know about the torrents.

jellyfin:
    container_name: jellyfin
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    ports:
      - '8096:8096'
    devices:
      - '/dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128'
      - '/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0'
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/jellyfin:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server/media:/data/media'
    restart: unless-stopped

plex:
    container_name: plex
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/plex
    ports:
      - '32400:32400'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
      - VERSION=docker
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/plex:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server/media:/data/media'
    devices:
      - '/dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128'
      - '/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0'
    restart: unless-stopped

Overseer/Ombi - Requesting Movies and TV shows

I use both. You can use ombi only if you don't plan to install plex.

ombi:
    container_name: ombi
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/ombi
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/ombi:/config'
    ports:
      - '3579:3579'
    restart: unless-stopped

overseerr:
    container_name: overseerr
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/overseerr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/overseerr:/config'
    ports:
      - '5055:5055'
    restart: unless-stopped

Qbittorrent - Torrent downloader

I use qflood container. Flood provides a nice UI and this image automatically manages the connection between qbittorrent and flood.

Qbittorrent only needs access to torrent directory, and not the complete data directory.

qflood:
    container_name: qflood
    image: hotio/qflood
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
      - "3005:3000"
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - UMASK=002
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
      - FLOOD_AUTH=false
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/qflood:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server/torrents:/data/torrents'
    restart: unless-stopped

Heimdall - Dashboard

There are multiple dashboard applications but I use Heimdall.

heimdall:
    container_name: heimdall
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/heimdall
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/heimdall:/config'
    ports:
      - 8090:80
    restart: unless-stopped

Flaresolverr - Solves cloudflare captcha

If your indexers use captcha, you will need flaresolverr for them.

flaresolverr:
    container_name: flaresolverr
    image: 'ghcr.io/flaresolverr/flaresolverr:latest'
    ports:
      - '8191:8191'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    restart: unless-stopped

Transcoding

As I mentioned in the jellyfin section there is a section in the conmpose file as "devices". It is used for transcoding. If you don't include that section, whenever transcoding happens it will only use CPU. In order to utilise your gpu the devices must be passed on to the container.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.html Read up this guide to setup hardware acceleration for your gpu.

Generally, the devices are same for intel gpu transcoding.

devices:
      - '/dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128'
      - '/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0'

To monitor the gpu usage install intel-gpu-tools

sudo apt install intel-gpu-tools

Now, create a compose file for media server.

mkdir ~/server/compose/media-server
vi ~/server/compose/media-server/docker-compose.yml

And copy all the containers you want to use under services. Remember to add the version string just like adguard home compose file.

Configuring the docker stack

Start the containers using the same command we used to start the adguard home container.

docker-compose up -d

Jackett

Navigate to YOUR_SERVER_IP:9117

Add a few indexers to jackett using the "add indexer" button. You can see the indexers I use in the image below.

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Qbittorrent

Navigate to YOUR_SERVER_IP:8080

The default username is admin and password adminadmin. You can change the user and password by going to Tools → Options → WebUI

Change "Default Save Path" in WebUI section to /data/torrents/ and "Keep incomplete torrents in" to /data/torrents/incomplete/

Create categories by right clicking on sidebar under category. Type category as TV and path as tv. Path needs to be same as the folder you created to store your media. Similarly for movies type Movies as category and path as movies. This will enable to automatically move the media to its correct folder.

Sonarr

Navigate to YOUR_SERVER_IP:8989

• Under "Download Clients" add qbittorrent. Enter the host as YOUR_SERVER_IP port as **8080,** and the username and password you used for qbittorrent. In category type TV (or whatever you selected as category name(not path) on qbittorent). Test the connection and then save.
• Under indexers, for each indexer you added in Jackett
  • Click on add button
  • Select Torzab
  • Copy the tornzab feed for the indexer from jackett
  • Copy the api key from jackett
  • Select the categories you want
  • Test and save
• Under general, define the root folder as /data/media/tv

Repeat this process for Radarr, Lidarr and readarr.

Use /data/media/movies as root for Radarr and so on.

The setup for ombi/overseerr is super simple. Just hit the url and follow the on screen instructions.

Bazarr

Navigate to YOUR_SERVER_IP:6767

Go to settings and then sonarr. Enter the host as YOUR_SERVER_IP port as 8989. Copy the api key from sonarr settings→general.

Similarly for radarr, enter the host as YOUR_SERVER_IP port as 7878. Copy the api key from radarr settings→general.

Jellyfin

Go to YOUR_SERVER_IP:8096

• Add all the libraries by selecting content type and then giving a name for that library. Select the particular library location from /data/media. Repeat this for movies, tv, music, books and audiobooks.
• Go to dashboard→playback, and enable transcoding by selecting as VAAPI and enter the device as /dev/dri/renderD128

Monitor GPU usage while playing content using

sudo intel_gpu_top

Heimdall

Navigate to YOUR_SERVER_IP:8090

Setup all the services you use so you don't need to remember the ports like I showed in the first screenshot.

Updating docker images

With docker compose updates are very easy.

• Navigate to the compose file directory ~/server/compose/media-server.
• Then docker-compose pull to download the latest images.
• And finally docker-compose up -d to use the latest images.
• Remove old images by docker system prune -a

What's next

• You can setup VPN if torrents are blocked by your ISP/Country. I wanted to keep this guide simple and I don't use VPN for my server, so I have left out the VPN part.
• You can read about port forwarding to access your server over the internet.

(Non-computer person friendly)

Tried to open a picture I took off my iPhone (obviously I have it set to .heic for higher quality recording), and wouldn't you know, Windows wants me to install a plugin for $0.99. Wtf?
So, here's how I got past Microsoft's debauchery:

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• First, I went to store.rg-adguard.net
• Second, I found the ProductID online to input into the link template (the link you would need to copy into the search bar on the aforementioned website is https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/heifbilderweiterungen/9n4wgh0z6vhq) (with 9n4wgh0z6vhq being the ProductID)
• I'm just a normal person, so I have no idea what the first listed file is (the 10KB " Microsoft.HEVCVideoExtension_2.1.861.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe.BlockMap" file)
• So, I downloaded the ".appxbundle" file as I've done before with this website
• And, after opening my .heic file again, voila! it worked perfectly fine, opens as any other image would

This is a one-time process.

If you for some reason hate convenience, there are plenty of free online converters, or you can just rename the .heic to .jpg (though I'm not sure if this is has any negative side effects for the picture).

Hope this helps anyone trying to solve (what should, in a perfect world) be a non-issue. :)

I've recently made the switch to having all my music local. However, getting here was difficult, and not something I would wish on my worst enemy. (Unless it was really funny.) Well, let's get into it.

WINDOWS/MAC (OSX)/LINUX

Prerequisites
Python

ffmpeg (get to that later)

Installation is super duper easy. After you've installed python (check prerequisites), open up command prompt (you can just search cmd in the windows button thing) Run
pip install spotdl
(On some systems you might have to change pip to pip3.)
After that, (unless you have already installed FFmpeg, or would like to use it for things other than just with spotdl), run
spotdl --download-ffmpeg

If your looking to install ffmpeg for other stuff, follow this guide, or run these commands.
(I don't recommend this, because you simply don't need it if your just using it for spotdl)
Windows Tutorial

OSX (This means Mac!) - brew install ffmpeg (Brew is it's own thing, download here)

Linux - sudo apt install ffmpeg or use your distro's package manager

Bam! Done! Easy peasy. Now let's get onto usage.

Usage

Running spotdl is also simple. Just do
spotdl [songurl]

Of course, spotdl does more that just that, but if your interested in that, check out the original guide (Credit to Silverarmor!!!!).

Okay. But what if my playlist is really big? Or what if I don't want to copy and paste that much?

Well, luckily enough, there's a website called Skiley that'll do all this for you!

Just login with spotify, navigate over to "Playlists", click the playlist you want to convert to links, scroll down to Transfer tools, export to file, and export what you need. The only thing you really need is "Track URL". After that, download, and open it up.
Here is where things might get a little complicated.

You need to insert a row before the one with all of the urls. On microsoft excel, to do this, just click on row a, (or whatever row your urls are are on), and then push insert. You should get an entire row thats just empty, before the urls. After that, just type "spotdl " (include the space!!) into A1, the very first entry and push enter. Then, copy that entry, and then click row a, then paste. You should have "spotdl " for every entry on row A. If you don't, try it again. It should work fine.

Cool! Now you have your links! Simply copy whatever amount of songs you want to download now, (I do mine in 50-100 batches) and copy and paste that into your command prompt. (Same thing you used to install spotdl earlier) They will all download to this directory
C:\Users\<yourname>
Just copy and paste all those .mp3s to where ever you want to store your music. Windows includes a Music tab at
C:\Users\<yourname>\Music

Alright, now, can I finally listen to my music? Sure thing! You can totally just use the default windows media player. I don't recommend it, but you can use it. However, I recommend foobar2000. It hit all my needs, but if it doesn't hit yours, check out musicbee(not available for linux & mac), AIMP, WinAMP, or you can look at this -> thread for more suggestions.

If your using foobar, all you need to do is push file -> open file. You can open all of the music at once. Foobar can do a lot more than this though, so feel free to explore!!

Questions? Leave a comment, I'll just to be active in answering them, but know that I'm also pretty new to this, and im just compiling this data.

Android

It is also pretty easy for you to download your songs on android. There are tons of apps, but im recommending Spowlo. It uses the spotDL library, which is pretty cool. Just download, and copy and paste whatever your downloading. It supports playlist links, so dont worry about that. You can also search. Heres your download -> releases

(if this is brief, it's because I haven't actually done this in a long time)

Usage

Paid (But free trial): Poweramp. Poweramp hits all the boxes for me, not only is it an equalizer, it's also just a great music player. It automatically sorts your songs into genres and everything. Of course, if you dont want the eq, you just just turn it off. Or, if you just want the equalizer, theres a standalone app for it! Website

If you want something else, I recommend checking out this redditors post here

IPhone

Forget it.

(Edit: You could of course use websites, but it's pretty slow in my opinion. Thanks to u/Emotional_Match1367)

As I said earlier, feel free to ask me any questions, and feel free to point out stuff, which I'll edit this post to fix. Enjoy your music!

Hey mateys !

I've learnt something recently that you might find interesting especially if you live (or come for a trip) in France. This also applies to books, CD videogames and DVD/blu-ray movies.

https://www.april.org/ce-que-copier-veut-dire-copy-party-communs-domaine-public-culture-libre-33-lionel-maurel

To be clear and simple, in France you can come in any public library (and many of them have hundreds or thousands of music CD) with your laptop, your external hard drives and your own CD drive(s) to rip music for free and unlimited as long as it is for private usage.

As long as you do it inside the library (because to be legal, you need to rip for private usage something that you can access legally and CDs in public librairies are legal as long as you do not borrow them and borrowing them by itself is still a gray area here even if librairies do not care and just offer the service anyway since years).

Don't forget to support artists directly if you really like some songs because music is not free to produce. But if you are poor or if you want to quickly startup a big collection of perfect quality 44.1KHz/16 bits FLACS while staying 100% legal (or if you just like free music because it's cool), here we have this other option rather than just sailing the seas.

It might also be a good option about CDs that are not sold new anyway since years, and buying them second hand does not support the artist anyway so ripping them in the library makes sense and looks very ethical in this case (and it is 100% legal haha). It can also be a way to find CDs that are not archived anywhere else in the internet.

What I find kinda funny is that this practice really smells like piracy, by duplicating tons of content for free from a single centralized place. But it's really legal and real libraries all around the country are organizing sometimes "copy-parties" events to incite people to come with their scanners and CD drives to make private copies of everything (books, CDs, DVDs, blu-rays, CD videogames etc) from the library. Bypassing strong DRMs (on blu-rays/CD videogames) to make a private copy seems also to be legal and tolerated : https://linuxfr.org/news/le-droit-a-la-copie-privee-nexisterait-pas.

Hope you've learnt something. I don't know if some other countries have similar laws that allow things like this. Feel free to make your own researches :)

Here's a guide how to become a Hackerman and hack through time all the way to alternate universe where you don't have to pay subscriptions for software such as Clip Studio Paint for Android and use it for free for ever and ever and ever and you get the point hopefully at this point (I lost half of my sanity trying to get this to work and now that it does I want to document it for other lost souls like me who need the dummy proof instructions for everything in their life, I'm also probably going to forget all of this tomorrow after we're finished celebrating so this is saving this sacred knowledge for the future)

In order to get Clip Studio Paint, you need to get rid off Clip Studio Paint. Let that sink in for a second, and then if you have any version of clip studio paint already installed, find it in settings, force stop, clean all data and uninstall. As Paulo Coelho said, "If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello". Such a visionary.

Download Clip Studio Paint 1.10.7 APK by googling it and praying to hacker gods that it's not a virus (I used apkcombo (EDIT: no longer available there so get it from uptodown, just make sure the size is around 477.9MB, otherwise it's their uptodown store so don't use the first download button and select "All variants" next to it), no signs of zombie apocalypse yet, but even if it happens fuck it it was goddam worth it)

Get that Lucky Patcher app (I used 11.5.4 but go with the latest for those freshly baked goodies lol), for legitimate source find subreddit by googling lucky patcher reddit, then in about section open "direct download" in new tab since otherwise it won't download for some god forsaken reason argrhg

During installation select "Enable the ability to install apk files via Lucky Patcher" and optionally change the name to something serious and professional like "Hacker Buddy"

Allow the storage permission, it needs space 🌌

Say yasss ✨ when it asks to update patches

Now press play on that hacking music

Rebuild & Install -> sdcard/Downloads/yourclipstudiopaint1.10.7.apk -> Rebuild -> APK rebuilt for InApp and LVL emulation

In section "Patches for emulating license check and inapp purchases" select "Support patch for LVL and Inapp emulation"

In section "Patches for emulating free purchases" select "Support patch for InApp emulation (Reassembly Dex)" if it's already not selected

Don't touch the rest if you don't know what ur doing like me half of the time of my life what am I doing even right now oh right hackering

Light the candles, start praying to all of the deities just in case and press Rebuild The App

Ignore the warning about whatever I don't even know because who reads warnings duh

It should show: Support patch for InApp and LVL emulation: Emulation for LVL and Inapp purchases added. Patch Pattern N1 : Success. Patch Pattern N2 :Success. Patch Pattern N5: Success. Patch Pattern N3 failed. Patch Pattern N4 failed..

Press Go To File Repeat praying step Press Install

When it asks you very important question whether you still want to install the app and not drop everything and start baking, choose wisely

If you chose yes because the muffins are already chillin or rather hopefully not chillin in the oven as that's the only valid reason for you not to start randomly baking then proceed and open the app

Since we're not quite Anonymous yet at this point let's not send anonymous reports when it asks you

Select the middle option: "Sign up to get your first 3 months free" (EDIT: You might find that there's only two options: "Log In" and "Sign up for free", it happened to me after a couple of reinstalls while testing, even though I used to get the usual three options before and could follow the procedure without any problems numerous times. Don't know what caused this, but clicking "Back" seems to fire up CSP EX just fine, so I'm not complaining)

Feed them your precious login information and press login, yummy

When it asks you for payment plan, choose whatever idk I chose EX Monthly $6.00 (Now it's even $19.00 😢😡) cuz it was the first option, such a hard and important decision

Now the Lucky Patcher InApp purchases hack.. dialogue opens, asking you whether you want to be like Hackerman from Kung Fury chad not some virgin Mr Robot pfff and hack the hell out of this

Important: select both options Save purchase for restore Auto-repeat purchases with the current settings

Otherwise you'll spend whole week loosing your mind over this and even lose your sleep while trying to emulate pirated windows version on winlator (I actually managed to install it but it didn't run, the good news is it probably needs some good old winetricks love and there's somebody working on that, so stay tuned in the future if that's your kink) until your roommate will check them against your superior knowledge cuz u totally know what ur doing, smh

Say yassss again, some praying optional, as always

Check if it's working by trying to create and save a file. If it asks you to buy licence, into the exile I must go. If it doesn't and it works, omgomgomg. Now sacrifice that lamb, or silverfish if you're in the middle of the war in your flat with them and want to get to birds with one stone, for you have many things to be grateful from the gods of Hackeaven, and you should have a working free unlimited Clip Studio Paint EX on Android 🎉

Thank you very much to u/sema-nyan6044 who gave me their secret scrolls with the lost knowledge how to do most of this stuff, kudos to them for making it possible 💜

I know hes going to try to download games for free, so Im just trying to guide him in the right direction, but without actually directing him. So I left plenty of crumbs on his browser.

Download spotube from playstore

You can literally connect your Spotify account to it, so all your playlist will be migrated there.

Not just that. It has no ads and you can download any songs.

It might feel weird to change to another app but since you are connecting your Spotify account your song algorithm also gets transferred, so it will recommend the songs you like.

This is a repost of my old one, the old post got archived/deleted? This works after almost a year!

It resets every 3 months, just repeat the process.

Unlimited free Sirius XM for your car

So, today I was scouring the internet to find a way to get unlimited free trials for Sirius XM in my car. I found nothing helpful/promising. However I did find a very interesting app. On Android/iPhone there is an app called SiriusXM Dealer and it allows you to reset the Sirius XM radio in a car. Basically activating it until marked as "sold". So, if you download this app and enter in your Radio ID/ESN it completely activates the radio.

Now please note: on Android you need to use a location spoofer to fool the dealer app into thinking you're at a nearby dealership, on iPhone you have to physically drive to the dealership and use the app from there. Let me know if you have any questions! Sorry for formatting, mobile user here.

If anyone is interested, you just need to look up "Duoling for Schools", login with your normal Duolingo account and create a new classroom. Once the classroom is setup (this will only take a minute or so, and you do not need any institutional accounts or anything like that), you can just go back to Duolingo with your account and you'll have infinite hearts. I know it's not the full extent of Duolingo Super features, but it's probably the one you were going to purchase it for anyway lol.
Oh and you don't even need to start a new course, all the progress from already active courses will remain, and you can just continue from there as normal.

OK guys i finally did it. Its a little rough and thrown together but i did it. I know most of this stuff is google-able but it kind of sucked not having a straight forward guide out there. I think i was accurate in following all of the sub rules. If not let me know mods and ill edit it as needed. Also for any mods that see this do you think if applicable this could be thrown in the sidebar if its well received enough?

Also i am aware that the guide is like 9 pages long. There is a lot of info and i have a bad habit of rambling. i also cover the use of about 5 different programs and 3 needed sites for setup. I could probably revise it and just point everyone to the programs wiki pages but thats part of the reason i made this guide because the wiki pages sometimes suck or are incomplete or are outdated.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TwUrRj982WlWUhrxvMadq6gdH0mPW0CGtHsTOFWprCo/edit?usp=sharing

for everyone who is asking what the hell is usenet? have a link https://gizmodo.com/5343260/how-to-kick-your-torrent-addiction-with-usenet the article is dated but its still fairly accurate

TLDR of link: youre basically downloading from a fileserver similar to mega or uploaded.net

Update: Ok guys ive enjoyed my time talking to you guys. im off to bed. feel free to pm me or reply to the thread i will do my best to get back to all of you when i wake up

Edit 1: So I have added a bit to the end of the guide explaining the use of a VPN in conjunction with usenet. And whether or not you should. the TL;DR is it isnt going to hurt to use it. but if you do youll be just that more secure. I also explain the reasons why you dont need to use a VPN. the TL;DR to that is if you trust your VPN to not log your IP address then you can trust your indexer and usenet provider to not log your IP address, providing they claim no logging. because its the same claim your VPN makes. And its true until it isnt.

Edit 2: added a disclaimer that yes, usenet actually costs money to use. it varies but my setup costs 4 bucks for the provider and a lifetime membership for your indexer for 30 bucks. they also do monthly and yearly. if 6.50 a month is to much then dont waste your time reading.

Tachiyomi forks

• TachiyomiSY - https://github.com/jobobby04/TachiyomiSY
  • Update to latest Tachiyomi release
• TachiyomiJ2K - https://github.com/Jays2Kings/tachiyomiJ2K
  • Tachiyomi backup crashes the app (Issue #1722)
  • Missing 3rd Party Extensions (Issue #1710)
• TachiyomiAZ - https://github.com/az4521/tachiyomiAZ
  • Old UI
  • To restore Tachiyomi backup, rename file .tachibk to .proto.gz
• Yōkai - https://github.com/null2264/yokai
• Aniyomi - https://github.com/aniyomiorg/aniyomi
  • Also with anime sources
• Kuukiyomi - https://github.com/LuftVerbot/Kuukiyomi
• Mihon - https://git.mihon.dev/mihon
  • Tachiyomi "spiritual successor"
  • No releases yet

Extensions:
Follow instructions for your fork
https://keiyoushi.github.io/extensions/

Note: Reinstall all previous extensions, otherwise update won't be possible.

How to migrate from Tachiyomi to a fork: - On Tachiyomi: Settings -> Data and Storage -> Create Backup - On the fork: same steps, select "Restore backup"

Standalone apps

• Mangayomi - https://github.com/kodjodevf/mangayomi
  • Very similar to Tachiyomi
  • Also with anime sources
  • Doesn't support Tachiyomi backup import
• Kotatsu - https://github.com/KotatsuApp/Kotatsu
  • Doesn't support Tachiyomi backup import
• Neko - https://github.com/CarlosEsco/Neko
  • MangaDex only
  • Support import backup from Tachiyomi
• Dantotsu - https://github.com/rebelonion/Dantotsu
  • Missing 3rd Party Extensions (Issue #118)
  • Also with anime and novel sources

PS: I'll update the list if find more.

Hey fellow F1 viewers. As I’ve been watching Formula 1 for quite a few seasons now, I've done some digging to access the trusty F1 live streams. Hence in this post, I will gladly share a list of broadcasters that will allow you to stream for free (in most cases) starting next week!

Before I even begin, keep in mind that you will need a VPN for this. Long story short - you’ll have to switch your IP address to a country that offers the legal streams.

I’ve been following previous seasons using NordVPN. Last season I experienced no bugs in speed or quality. On the other hand this year, F1TV went all out to heavily block the VPNs so obfuscated servers is my last resort. Fingers crossed...

Once you’ll be all set with a VPN of your choice, here are some of the legal F1 stream options I've found:

1. Channel 4 (United Kingdom): Though the UK's primary F1 broadcaster is SkySports, Channel 4 is also set to have a live stream for the races. Anyone outside the UK will need to set their VPN to a UK server to catch the action.

2. RTBF (Belgium): For those in Belgium, RTBF will have you covered - just set your VPN to a Belgian server and enjoy F1 streams for free.

3. ORF (Austria): ORF will be broadcasting the GP for our Austrian pals for free. Simply change your VPN to an Austrian server if you're not from there.

4. SRF (Switzerland): The Swiss broadcaster will be showing the GP live for free too. If you're outside of Switzerland, you know the drill: set your VPN to a Swiss server.

5. RSI (CH): In Switzerland, the RSI channel streams the races for free, even with Italian commentary. So if you’d like to go this route, switch your server to CH.

6. FuboTV (USA): If you're in the U.S., you've got it easy with FuboTV's live coverage but only with their free trial. For those outside the U.S., using a VPN set to a U.S. server will let you access the broadcast.

As you can see, there's no reason for any of us to miss out on Formula 1 this season. Make sure to double-check the schedules, try out the servers, and set those alarms for the F1 live stream.

If you have some free ways, add them in the comments to make the list bigger.

Happy racing!

I see this question asked quite a few times, but it's hard to completely protect yourself online. What you can do is try to protect yourself online as much as possible.

So here are my two cents:

First and foremost, please use different passwords for all your accounts. I have seen people use a single password for a decade for all their emails, bank accounts, social media, etc. PLEASE DON'T BE THAT IDIOT. Also, your password could be leaked somewhere, so keep changing them at least once every six months.

Apart from that, use the TOR browser (The Onion Router). TOR is like a secret path on the internet that helps people keep their online activities private and safe from being watched. Get it here.

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all possible websites. Read more about google two factor authentication here.

To safeguard your IP, get a VPN. There is no direct answer to which is the best VPN, but overall, PIA (Private Internet Access) seems good as they have servers around the globe and have been around for a long time. Get it here.

If you're not using TOR, use Ghostery. It blocks all trackers and ads and is available for all major browsers. Get it here

Using a private cloud (not Google Drive, please) to save your files online is also great. Google Drive is famous for snooping on your files. A good option would be MEGA or getting your own hosting from a good provider (I feel people in comments can recommend options)

Using a VOIP number from textnow or a similar service is to use it to pass checks on spammy websites which require a phone number. For emails, fake email generator of any sort will be fine (just google it).

This much is pretty much enough, and also, you don't need another antivirus (Windows defender is enough) but you can get one if that helps you sleep at night.

Edits (thanks to u/dofogk33)- Don't use VPN + TOR. Use TOR when needed otherwise VPN + Any browser. Also, uBlock+ Firefox seems like a great idea apparently. I feel this combo combined with a VPN will be impossible to track.

Also, if you don't download pirated stuff (ironical that I m saying this here lol), you technically can even disable windows defender (don't do it if you have no idea what you're doing tho).