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Zuluuk1

Media horders how to save space with unmanic

Hi Everyone, there are a lot of new members joining the unraid family. I just wanted to welcome and share with
you a quick and easy methods on how to save lots of disk space on your media.

1. Get the application unmanic from the CA,

2. Add the filters as shown in the pictures
3. Apply that to your media folder and let it run.

Result is instant saving with less not no effort.

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redwolfxd1 • 3h ago •

Why aac audio? Makes no sense

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monkey6 • 2h ago •

I too was curious about audio formats from the 90’s battling it out

https://blog.brlogic.com/en/what-are-the-differences-between-aac-and-mp3/

“AAC was also developed by the Fraunhofer Institute, this time in 1997 as an alternative to MP3, with
superior audio quality and more efficient compression.

AAC quickly became popular in the music industry, especially after the launch of Apple’s iTunes in
2001. iTunes was the first digital music service to adopt AAC as the standard format, and the
popularity of the service helped drive the adoption of AAC in other music services”

It appears Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) provides a balance between file size and clarity.

You could always configure your setup differently.

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You could always configure your setup differently.

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destruction90 • 2h ago •
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I always make sure there is an aac audio file in every item on Plex. A lot of clients struggle with some
codecs like EAC3 so aac is a simple fallback.

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Zuluuk1 OP • 1h ago •

AAC is for compatability, there will be other superior quality format. But I feel AAC is good enough for
my ears. I don't have any fancy truehd setup.

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TraditionalMetal1836 • 2h ago •

Until Nvidia makes a new shield tv with av1 support this seems pointless. (or another reputable brand
makes a decent android tv based streamer with av1)

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malaysian • 46m ago •

Why does it seem pointless to shrink your media in size?

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Altheran • 34m ago •

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Because right now, you would almost always transcode any media being streamed, requiring
hardware support in you server (arc GPU, 4xxx etc) and the bandwidth required would rise
significantly.

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The-Nice-Guy101 • 26m ago •

What do you mean by that? I don't get it

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Altheran • 23m ago •

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Av1 is so new that very not many, maybe none? Not sure, streaming devices support
decoding it. If the client devices don't support it, your server will have to transcode the Av1
content into a format that is supported by the client. Since PLEX only does h264 encoding,
it would take the super compressed AV1 video transform into a much larger h264 format
for the same quality, then stream it, using much more bandwidth.

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Altheran • 20m ago •

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I would add, for now ? Encode your stuff in h265 if you want to save space. It ain't
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THAT much worse (av1 still better) than av1, but much more supported.

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isogreen42 • 13m ago •

The $20 onn 4K Android tv box from Walmart supports av1

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TheWhitePolarBear1 • 2m ago •

There's also a $40-50 option that does Dolby vision as well. Crazy if that's a
smooth UI and use.

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ZionDaWolfo • 4h ago •

Does the transcoding work on an inter arc card?

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Zuluuk1 OP • 4h ago •

If you have the latest unraid rc you can use it.

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ZionDaWolfo • 4h ago •

Great!

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lunchplease1979 • 3h ago •

I haven't run this in such a long time but really do need to get my A into G to do....I've got quite a lot of
space free at the moment and being summer it's so hot I might wait for winter

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Ok_Tone6393 • 3h ago •

ive been looking for something like this to transcode my massive library into av1, i can prob save a huge
amount of space.

how does this compare to say, tdarr? i currently use handbrake but i think under the hood, that uses
ffmpeg, so i would prob need to convert my presets to ffmpeg commands direct.

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Zuluuk1 OP • 3h ago •

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Zuluuk1 OP 3h ago
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Easier to config r/unRAID Create

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Aretebeliever • 3h ago • 

Easier is an understatement.

Tdarr is SO complicated.

You will constantly read ‘initial setup takes awhile but once you get it it’s not hard’ but I have tried
twice and that initial setup is a slog.

Last time I set it up it was to try and get it to automate formatting my music from FLAC to mp3 in
a different folder and it just made my brain hurt.

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sy029 • 3h ago •

More like "initial setup is trial and error until you get it to work, and then you can never touch
it again for fear that it will break."

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Aretebeliever • 2h ago •

Accurate

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Zuluuk1 OP • 3h ago •

I have a flac to mp3 script if you still need. It doesn't use tdar

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Aretebeliever • 2h ago •

Thanks I appreciate that. What I ended up doing was just downloading it to my PC and let
it do the transcoding.

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Zuluuk1 OP • 2h ago •

This is how I did it, it's simple addon to lidarr.

https://github.com/TheCaptain989/lidarr-flac2mp3

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/92210-guide-lidarr-auto-convert-flac-files-to-mp3s/

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Tdarr is better than unmaic in the sense that it can do much more and give you full control
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over what you do. Under the hood both use ffmpeg to transcode and alter Create
media. The
constraints that come by default in unmanic seem to have less safeguards compared to tdarr
and doesn’t expose any of the knobs for tuneables.
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I ran into many issues with unmanic specifically with files that were ripped from very old DVDs
that I went back to tdarr since it was much easier to set up and get errors to be handled. The
scripts didn’t play nicely with unknown timestamps or missing timestamps with .wmv files.

I would be curious as to what was difficult for you setting it up. Something like having it dump
a post processed file in a finished directory should be pretty straight forward and has a gui
option for it. The UI for version 1.X was awful, but the 2.X iterations has gotten much better
and less reliant on custom scripting.

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tibsie • 2h ago •

The "Reject File if Larger than Original" sounds like it solves the problem I had with Tdarr. Most of the stuff
I threw at it ended up being 160% larger so not only was the whole process completely pointless but I
ended up with less free space than before.

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DrPandemicPhD • 1h ago •

This isn't a tdarr problem, but a transcoding one. When I first started ripping my owned media, I often
had settings I'd mess up and end up with a file bigger than the rip itself

tdarr has the same flag, as a note, but both apps can end up spitting out larger files if not set up right.

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Ok_Emotion9841 • 1h ago •

Remux only

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Evildude42 • 42m ago •

AAC will reduce if the audio is still in Wav format. But if it’s already in like, I don’t know one of the mpeg
formats, it’s not gonna do much and it just adds complexity to the decoder because if you don’t have it,
you gotta get it yada yada yada. And my ears are still good so I would rather have as much uncompressed
audio as I can get.

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