Media Stack¶

The media stack provides automated media acquisition, organization, and playback. It consists of seven applications working together in the media namespace.

Architecture¶

flowchart LR
    subgraph Indexers
        PR[Prowlarr<br/>Indexer Manager]
    end

    subgraph Management
        SO[Sonarr<br/>TV Shows]
        RA[Radarr<br/>Movies]
        AB[Autobrr<br/>IRC Announces]
    end

    subgraph Download["Download Clients"]
        QB[qBittorrent<br/>Torrents]
        SAB[SABnzbd<br/>Usenet]
    end

    subgraph Storage
        NAS[(Synology NAS<br/>/volume1/media)]
    end

    subgraph Playback
        JF[Jellyfin<br/>Media Server]
    end

    PR -->|Manages indexers for| SO
    PR -->|Manages indexers for| RA
    AB -->|Grabs from IRC| QB
    SO -->|Sends to| QB
    SO -->|Sends to| SAB
    RA -->|Sends to| QB
    RA -->|Sends to| SAB
    QB -->|Downloads to| NAS
    SAB -->|Downloads to| NAS
    SO -->|Imports from| NAS
    RA -->|Imports from| NAS
    JF -->|Reads from| NAS

Application Summary¶

Data Flow¶

1. Prowlarr manages indexer configurations and syncs them to Sonarr and Radarr
2. Autobrr monitors IRC announce channels for new releases and pushes matching torrents to qBittorrent
3. Sonarr (TV) and Radarr (movies) search indexers for wanted content and send downloads to qBittorrent or SABnzbd
4. qBittorrent and SABnzbd download content to the NAS at /volume1/media/downloads/
5. Sonarr and Radarr import completed downloads, renaming and organizing files into the library
6. Jellyfin serves the organized media library for playback with hardware-accelerated transcoding

Shared Storage¶

All media apps mount the same Synology NAS export:

persistence:
  media:
    type: nfs
    server: data
    path: /volume1/media
    globalMounts:
      - path: /data/nas-media

This ensures a single unified path structure across all applications, allowing Sonarr/Radarr to hardlink or move files from download directories into library directories without additional copies.