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Personal media system · United Kingdom

A home cinema
that runs itself.

Cryptic Monkey Media is Andrew's self-hosted Plex setup — a personal library of TV and film, kept organised, fetched automatically, and watched over by a dozen small systems working quietly in the background.

Browse the library See the stack

Status: Online

—Titles in the library
—Systems running
—TV series
—Films
—Albums

Catalogued by Sonarr + Radarr + Lidarr · Watched over by Tautulli + Grafana

The Origin

Built by accident.
Maintained on purpose.

“I didn't know what half of this was when I started. A friend mentioned he was building his own media system, during a work conversation about learning new skills — he was using Plex, so that's where I started too.” — Andrew, on how this began

What began as one recommendation turned into a proper stack. Plex needed a library to organise, so Sonarr and Radarr came in to manage TV and film automatically. Downloads needed somewhere to land, so qBittorrent joined. And once there was something worth keeping an eye on, Tautulli and Grafana arrived to monitor it.

None of it was planned in advance — each tool solved the problem the last one created. What's running today is the result of that first conversation: a small, self-maintained system, built and kept alive one piece at a time, instead of one piece of off-the-shelf software.

Infrastructure

Systems. One library.

Every tool here earns its place — added one problem at a time, from streaming to automation to the occasional bit of housekeeping.

Fresh

Recently added

The latest arrivals, pulled straight from real added dates — not a fixed list.

By the numbers

What it adds up to

Real totals, computed straight from the library data — not rounded-up marketing numbers.

Not sure what to watch?

Answer three questions

A quick match against the real library — no genre guesswork, just what's actually on here.

The Library

What's actually on here

Search by title, or filter by type.

Prefer a focused view? Television only · Movies only · Music only · Christmas only

Can't find something?

Request a title

This opens a pre-filled email — nothing sends until you hit send yourself.

Or ask in the Ombi Discord

Community

Where this stack gets its support

Official community servers for the tools behind Cryptic Monkey Media — not run by Andrew, but a good place to ask questions.

Sonarr

TV

Support and release chat for the TV automation tool running this library.

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Radarr

Film

Support and release chat for the film automation tool running this library.

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Plex

Core

Plex's own community for setup help, troubleshooting, and feature talk.

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Tautulli

Monitor

Questions on notifications, statistics, and Tautulli setup.

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Ombi

Requests

Support for Ombi, the request manager that sits in front of Sonarr and Radarr.

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