4 apps Usenet
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Bindery

Stop wrestling with dead scrapers and scattered reading folders by orchestrating your digital library through Bindery, an automated ebook and audiobook management platform that tracks favorite authors, monitors release schedules, coordinates indexer searches, and organizes media collections. Users can configure monitoring profiles to automatically track author bibliographies across OpenLibrary, Google Books, and Hardcover without fear of dead endpoints breaking their library. Dual-format tracking allows each book entry to hold separate digital ebook and multi-part audiobook files in distinct directory roots. The integrated search engine evaluates Newznab and Torznab indexers in parallel, scoring releases by edition tags, audio bitrate, narrator names, and release year to grab the highest quality versions. Download jobs pass seamlessly to background clients like SABnzbd, NZBGet, Transmission, or Deluge, moving completed files into custom library folder structures with hardlinks. An interactive release calendar highlights upcoming publications, while the manual metadata editor locks custom titles, genres, and series ordering against upstream refreshes. Readers can browse curated collections directly through the built-in OPDS feed on mobile reading apps or export organized media straight into Calibre and Audiobookshelf. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

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Mediarium

Find a title tonight and wake up to it named, filed, and ready to play: Mediarium is a self-hosted media manager that finds, downloads, repairs, and organizes movies, TV, music, ebooks, and audiobooks from one web page on your own server. Search once and it queries your Usenet and torrent indexers together, grabs the best release, unpacks it, applies your naming rules, and places it where Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby expects it. Quality profiles with upgrades and fallbacks keep hunting better copies automatically, while delay profiles, a blocklist with retries, and tags such as Kids or 4K keep the wrong releases out and collections tidy. Subtitles are matched to your exact file, with a timing fix when one runs out of sync. Family accounts carry permissions of their own: relatives who cannot add titles send requests you approve, and watch history read from your media server drives statistics and optional cleanup rules. The built-in Books app reads ebooks, plays audiobooks chapter by chapter, remembers your place everywhere, and even opens Kindle books. Torrents can run behind a built-in WireGuard VPN with a kill switch, downloads repair and unpack themselves, and notifications, backups, and a post-import script keep the routine invisible. Moving over reads your Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, SABnzbd, and other existing setups without changing them. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

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NZBfast

NZBfast is a drop-in SABnzbd and NZBGet replacement that downloads from Usenet at line rate and hands you finished jobs verified and extracted. Point Sonarr, Radarr, LunaSea, or nzb360 at it and they keep working untouched, because the APIs they already speak are the ones it answers. The dashboard charts live throughput and resource use beside a drag-to-reorder queue with per-job detail, a provider leaderboard, and data-usage history. Fetching, PAR2 verification, and unpacking overlap in a single pass, so archives open in the stream and a job needs about its own size in free disk. RAR, 7z, and zip sets, encrypted archives, password chains, and nested archives all go through that pipeline, with automatic PAR2 repair when articles arrive damaged. The poster wall turns your newsgroups into a browsable media library with cover art and metadata, and videos preview with real seeking mid-download. Switch on the optional built-in indexer and it scans your groups into a local index behind a Newznab endpoint your other tools can query. Watchlists grab new postings and chase quality upgrades, while RSS automation, Smart Folders, and a weekly scheduler keep recurring downloads hands-off. Every setting is editable in the browser, the log streams into the UI, and a crash-safe journal resumes an interrupted job article by article. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

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Nzbget

Written in optimized C++ where competitors use Python or Java, NZBGet saturates fast connections while idling on CPU and RAM - which is why the performance-obsessed Usenet downloader has long been the client of choice for NAS boxes, Raspberry Pis, and routers as much as full servers. The engineering shows in the recovery pipeline. Instead of shelling out to par2cmdline, NZBGet integrates the par2 source directly and exploits its knowledge of exactly which articles failed - quick par-verification checks only what needs checking, and its own multicore repair implementation runs 2-3x faster than the external tool on the same hardware. Fast par-rename deobfuscates scrambled filenames in seconds without a full verification pass, and rar-rename recovers names for multivolume archives even when no par2 files exist. DirectWrite assembles articles straight into sparse destination files, skipping temporary-file churn entirely, with an article cache and queue-pausing options to eliminate disk contention. Automation is complete: a remote web interface, full JSON-RPC API, RSS feeds with duplicate detection, scheduling and prioritization, and an extension manager for Python and Bash scripts triggered by download events. Sonarr, Radarr, and every major indexer integrate natively.

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