Subj : Arch btw
To   : Accession
From : DaiTengu
Date : Wed Nov 26 2025 08:45:48

  Re: Arch btw
  By: Accession to DaiTengu on Tue Nov 25 2025 05:05 pm

 >> I generally avoid torrents if I can. Very rarely do I have to torrent
 >> anything, everything I want is available in newsgroups.

 Ac> Ah, ok. So is there specific newsgroups for each separate show or is it
 Ac> like a small handful of super popular ones that shit out new releases of
 Ac> every genre that your 'arr' group has to sift through and grab the ones
 Ac> you're interested in?

 There are generally a handful of popular newsgroups, but thats what the Indexers are for.  I don't know the newsgroup names, If I was looking for a movie, I'd enter it into Radarr.  Radarr would makes an API call to an indexer (NZBGeek, for example), and the indexer returns a list of items that match, similar to searching for a torrent. Radarr would select the best based on total size, reported video quality, age, etc. and then download the .nzb file generated by the indexer.

The NZB file contains all the information your newsgroup downloader needs to download the movie. The full list of "articles", along with the parity chunks in case there are any missing articles on your newsgroup provider, so they can be reconstructed.  It'll then download and assemble all of that. 

With the indexers you don't need to know newsgroup names or subscribe to newsgroups. It's as easy as looking up a torrent and adding it to your torrent client. In this case the client just goes out to your newsgroup provider and downloads the individual articles.   

Think of a .NZB file like a .torrent file.  the .torrent isn't the file/files you want,, it just tells your bittorrent client where to get it. 

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