Does anyone have recommendations on configuration for qbit? I’m a casual user and I have been using out of the box for years now, but I’ve been wondering how it could be improved.
Transmission does have network binding. At least, i’m pretty sure it does. At least on Linux. It also has a cli interface and is a “full” client so it should at least be on par with rTorrent in that sense. It’s not a great cli interface but it works.
Transmission is good precisely because it does one thing and one thing really well - download torrents. No other crap, spam and non-related garbage required.
It does not do it very well (no sequential downloads, tracker scanning etc) and others like qBitTorrent also do not come with spam nor unrelated garbage, only μTorrent does that.
I get what you mean, but none of those downsides to Transmission are just “downloads torrents”. So yes, it does do that very well, outside of special circumstances…
I have some custom scripts which kinda do what the *arr apps do.
I download torrent files into a folder. My script picks it up, identifies whether it is movie, TV, music, Games, ebooks, or something else. Based on this it selects the right folder. Then calls Transmission API and adds the torrent with the relevant path.
In case of movies and TV shows, it then calls the transmission APIs to rename the files properly. This way I can have my folders well organised and continue seeding without the need of creating duplicates.
This setup works quite well. The only fear I have is the transmission remote GUI for Windows hasn’t been updated in 4 years. It works quite well, but it’s only a matter of time before it stops working.
Yeah. I wrote this script wayyy before I found out about the *arr apps. After almost 4 years of tweaking and fixing, now it works so well, I don’t really want the hassle of configuring the *arr apps. Also, I download everything from just a couple of trackers, so there’s no searching involved.
I switched from Transmission to qBittorrent a while ago, and I have some regrets: mainly that the qBittorrent web ui is extremely hard to navigate on mobile. Everything is tiny, and I can’t zoom in and navigate around the page without right-click menus popping up
I really like biglybt, but why is it so… slow to add torrents or shut itself down? It seems as if the app does so many different things simultaneously that it doesn’t do them seamlessly or instantaneously. I mean, why does it need ‘up to twenty seconds’ to close after you’ve downloaded something? Is it bloat? Is there a way to streamline its running?
I run it headless in a small pc in my basement that I use as server. it also has an http api so other systems can integrate with it (eg another program that looks for torrents and pushes the torrents into it.
I run Transmission on a VM that is permanently connected to a VPN. It dumps the completed files on an NFS share. I’m open to trying something different. Transmission seems like the best option.
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Does anyone have recommendations on configuration for qbit? I’m a casual user and I have been using out of the box for years now, but I’ve been wondering how it could be improved.
You are bullying my client of choice here, Transmission… :P
I don’t think qbittorrent could choose what files to download from inside a torrent, and which to ignore, or which to prioritize?
I thougt this is a standard feature, at least deluge and qbittorrent can do it.
Yeah I could be wrong… I just remember looking for that before and couldn’t find it. In transmission I doubleclick on a torrent to get that view.
Sure it can, I use that feature all the time.
It can and has since I started using it about 3 years ago.
Ok i will look again… Thank you.
No problem! It’s actually part of the add torrent dialogue and is extremely convenient!
Oh, so I wasn’t going crazy after all, when my antivirus started getting hostile at uTorrent.
How come tixati is banned, lol. I use qBittorrent.
Transmission does have network binding. At least, i’m pretty sure it does. At least on Linux. It also has a cli interface and is a “full” client so it should at least be on par with rTorrent in that sense. It’s not a great cli interface but it works.
It’s got a web interface too.
Transmission is good precisely because it does one thing and one thing really well - download torrents. No other crap, spam and non-related garbage required.
It does not do it very well (no sequential downloads, tracker scanning etc) and others like qBitTorrent also do not come with spam nor unrelated garbage, only μTorrent does that.
I get what you mean, but none of those downsides to Transmission are just “downloads torrents”. So yes, it does do that very well, outside of special circumstances…
I have some custom scripts which kinda do what the *arr apps do.
I download torrent files into a folder. My script picks it up, identifies whether it is movie, TV, music, Games, ebooks, or something else. Based on this it selects the right folder. Then calls Transmission API and adds the torrent with the relevant path.
In case of movies and TV shows, it then calls the transmission APIs to rename the files properly. This way I can have my folders well organised and continue seeding without the need of creating duplicates.
This setup works quite well. The only fear I have is the transmission remote GUI for Windows hasn’t been updated in 4 years. It works quite well, but it’s only a matter of time before it stops working.
Should I consider another client?
But that’s like the main thing the arrs do for you and you are doing it manually.
Yeah. I wrote this script wayyy before I found out about the *arr apps. After almost 4 years of tweaking and fixing, now it works so well, I don’t really want the hassle of configuring the *arr apps. Also, I download everything from just a couple of trackers, so there’s no searching involved.
Meh. uTorrent version 2.1.8 works fine, and has no adware.
I switched from Transmission to qBittorrent a while ago, and I have some regrets: mainly that the qBittorrent web ui is extremely hard to navigate on mobile. Everything is tiny, and I can’t zoom in and navigate around the page without right-click menus popping up
I use qBitController to check my torrent status, it works quite well for my needs. If you’re on Android you could try it out…
I use Tansdroid, I don’t know how it compares to alternatives but I like it.
Try the VueTorrent web UI. I use it on both mobile and desktop
I’d like to give PicoTorrent a shout-out on Windows. Small, lightweight, and open source.
https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
I really like biglybt, but why is it so… slow to add torrents or shut itself down? It seems as if the app does so many different things simultaneously that it doesn’t do them seamlessly or instantaneously. I mean, why does it need ‘up to twenty seconds’ to close after you’ve downloaded something? Is it bloat? Is there a way to streamline its running?
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Deluge has so much potential but it just crashes so often on windows.
Transmission can run as a daemon, that alones makes it S tier.
What are the advantages to running it as a daemon outside of the obvious malicious ones?
I run it headless in a small pc in my basement that I use as server. it also has an http api so other systems can integrate with it (eg another program that looks for torrents and pushes the torrents into it.
So can rTorrent
should be S tier also, then.
I run Transmission on a VM that is permanently connected to a VPN. It dumps the completed files on an NFS share. I’m open to trying something different. Transmission seems like the best option.
BiglyBT having a chat feature boggles me, why would anyone want that in their torrent client?
I believe Tixati also has a chat feature
To get in those private trackers
Pretty much. It’s the “hey we’ve been chatting for a while now. Happen to have an invite?”
Also once in, it’s used for automatic downloads. So you immediately get the latest episodes of your shows.