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MEDIA SERVER

Pixel City Entertainment District

Active Windows Sonarr Radarr Lidarr Plex

A fully automated personal media library — TV, anime, movies, and music, all self-managed and ready to stream.

The Library

346 TV & Anime Series 8,759 files · 6.1 TiB

2,087 Movies 1,932 files · 4.6 TiB

138 Music Artists 7,269 files · 248 GiB

~11 TiB Total Library Across dedicated drives

The media server runs entirely on the main PC, managing a library that spans anime, TV shows, films, and music across dedicated storage drives. Everything is automated — new episodes and releases are found, downloaded, sorted, and renamed without any manual intervention.

Prowlarr acts as the central indexer hub, feeding search requests to Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr. qBittorrent handles all downloads. Plex sits on top and serves everything to any screen in the house.

The anime collection is particularly large — the bulk of the 346 series and 6.1 TiB of TV content is anime, spread across genre, era, and format.

9,225 Episodes Tracked

15,148 Tracks Tracked

303 Completed Series

43 Airing Now

The Stack

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Sonarr

TV & Anime Manager

Monitors and automatically downloads TV shows and anime. Tracks airing schedules, grabs new episodes as they release, and organises everything into a clean folder structure.

346Series

8,759Files

6.1 TiBOn Disk

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Radarr

Movie Manager

Manages the movie library — monitors upcoming releases, grabs films as they become available, and keeps the collection organised. Watchlist doubles as a release tracker for upcoming sequels.

2,087Movies

1,932Files

4.6 TiBOn Disk

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Lidarr

Music Manager

Tracks 138 artists and automatically grabs new releases. Taste runs across J-rock, metal, electronic, indie, and experimental — BABYMETAL, BAND-MAID, The Cure, Grimes, Iron Maiden, FKA twigs, Jinjer.

138Artists

7,269Files

248 GiBOn Disk

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Prowlarr

Indexer Hub

Central indexer manager for the entire stack. Connects once to all indexers and syncs them to Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr automatically — no per-app indexer configuration needed.

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Plex

Media Frontend

Serves the entire library to any screen — desktop, TV, phone, tablet. Handles metadata, thumbnails, watch progress, and playback. Jellyfin is on the roadmap as a local-first alternative.

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qBittorrent

Download Client

Handles all downloads for the stack. Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr send requests directly to qBittorrent, which downloads and seeds. Files are moved to their final library location on completion.

How It Works

Add to Watchlist

Add a series, film, or artist to Sonarr, Radarr, or Lidarr. It's immediately monitored — new releases will be grabbed automatically from that point forward.

Prowlarr Searches

When a release becomes available, Prowlarr queries all connected indexers simultaneously and returns the best match based on quality profile settings.

qBittorrent Downloads

The matched release is sent to qBittorrent. It downloads, seeds, and signals back when complete. No manual torrent management needed.

Library Updated

The file is moved to the correct library folder, renamed according to naming conventions, and Plex is notified to scan. It appears in the library ready to play.

Storage

Dedicated Drives

Each media type has its own dedicated drive in the JBOD caddy on the main PC. No RAID — pure individual drives, each managed separately. The setup is simple and expandable: need more space, add a drive.

Total managed storage across the three media libraries sits at around 11 TiB, with headroom remaining on each drive. The NAS (HP MicroServer Gen8, planned) will eventually take over as the central storage point, with Plex and the \*arr stack pointing there instead.

DRIVE LAYOUT

Main PC — JBOD Caddy
  F: Radarr
    Movies collection
    7.27TB drive
    4.6 TiB in use

  K: Sonarr / E: Anime
    TV shows + anime
    7.27TB drives
    6.1 TiB in use

Planned
  HP MicroServer Gen8
    TrueNAS SCALE
    40TB+ RAIDZ2
    Central NAS target