Two days ago, I posted to this community asking for help with managing subtitles and audio tracks on my media server (and removing the ones I don’t need). @ohulancutash@feddit.uk suggested I try Muxarr which looked promising, so I set it up yesterday.
First impressions were good, the setup was really easy and I set up the profile I wanted in around 10 minutes (only keeping the English and original audio tracks, and only English subtitles). I enqueued all my files (there’s a big green button in the top left which I somehow missed for a few seconds, but that’s on me) and it started doing its thing. It did take a while to process my nearly 3000 files so I left it running overnight. I came back this morning to find it had worked perfectly and all my media had the unwanted tracks removed.
What’s possibly even more impressive though, and something I wasn’t expecting, was that removing all that unneeded data had freed a whopping 135GB of storage!! I only have 8tb available total and with storage prices as they are right now, that’s really quite a significant amount to just be sitting there holding data that will never be used.
I just wanted to take a few minutes out of my day to write this and thank @ohulancutash@feddit.uk and this community for recommending Muxarr to me and spread the word to others who didn’t know about it like me two days ago
Jealous of people with that much storage right now 😅. My setup is small, just an HP mini PC with an m.2 to sata adapter with 2 SSDs in raid0 lol (don’t worry my important stuff is backed up off-site). I have 4 free slots left on the adapter still but this AI bubble needs to burst before I can justify spending money on 4 more drives and setting up a ZFS pool
Some drives are older. My 8TBs are 2019 enterprise SAS and are meant to be on all day. They don’t get much workout cuz once full they’re not doing a ton of writing. So they’ll last. Lady year picked up several 16TBs before the price jumped. Thankful I pay attention and jumped on it when I did!
I’ve ripped all ~2.5kDVDs, ~1.2k BD, and ~600 4K BD (plus several dozen 3D) I keep pretty high quality copies, strip multi lang or auto tracks and stick to higher DTS or Dolby, strip subtitles, etc.
Crazily, I keep a 2nd “older” 7700K for playing the DVD and BD content for friends and family, I do the better stuff for me and a couple friends who actually care about quality. Now I need to add JF alongside Plex and Emby just bc.