I’m still liking DS Get. I choose torrent files on my phone then hand off the download to the NAS.
This is also possible using QBit’s webui though I mostly just have radarr/sonarr handle everything these days.
My little NAS is too feeble to run the 'aars :-(
You might consider pulling the drives and sticking them into your own pc case. That way you can add more or upgrade the hardware if needed without having to buy a whole new NAS.
Transmission is awesome because it’s simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.
Given the community we’re in, majority of us are power users and transmission is just way too feature light for most of us
CLI controls are the ultimate power user feature :)
If you need extra features you use extra programs which are tailored to those features. Unix philosophy.
I’m supposed to use an extra program to download a torrent in sequential order?
Depends why you want it. If you want it to reduce fragmentarion, then just enable fallocate. If you want it to download files in sequence, then XML RPC. If you want file to be downloaded in very inefficient way, then be patient.
Or, I just right click and select sequential download so I can start watching a movie immediately. This logic of breaking everything down into the tiniest possible bits is how we ended up with ridiculousness like the lpad debacle.
Well, torrent client should leech and seed very fast and very efficient, watching videos is not on this list. XMLRPC also makes it convenient and expandable.
And sequential downloads are bad for swarm, please don’t do this.
Just because your use case is different from others does not invalidate all other use cases.
Also, there’s a reason no clients support sequential download as a default option. Having the very occasional download where I would like to start watching immediately upon starting the download is not going to break the swarm, or even affect it.
if the community we’re in puts rtorrent in C tier because it’s “UNIX only” then you and I have a different meaning of “power users”.
Given I was replying to a comment in a totally different context, sure, whatever floats your boat.
Being a power user does not automatically mean you need to use Linux. Not trying to defend any other OS out there, just don’t like this gate keeping attitude.
Being a sports car enthusiast does not automatically mean I hate Lamborghini because I own a Ferrari.
You are totally right, what I mean is you don’t have to use Linux to be a power user, but despise it it’s not a power user attitude.
I’m caught between the dual urges of “reject tierlist, embrace tradition” and “I’ve been sleeping on over a decade of FOSS torrent client development, maybe it’s time to up my game”.
Nah, someone is just using their torrent client as an F grade *arr and nbz360 solution.
All the “features” listed as Pros is just bloat.
Yeah, I’m comfy with my torrent workflow as it is. I don’t pirate enough volume to make it worth the time to revise something I spend 0.0006% of my overall time on.
I will say, as someone who used rTorrent some time ago to automate torrent downloading and whatnot, it was awesome. I’m glad to see it still going and gaining popularity.
Stable software doing its job out of the way is what I want.
And if you wanna put on your naughty shoes you can theme transmission just drag flood-ui files in and tada
How come tixati is banned, lol. I use qBittorrent.
This post made me nostalgic for the days when uTorrent was the shit. Man, how the mighty have fallen.
Qbit has been around almost as long and has almost always been better. Qbit got apl the nostalgia i need lol
Oh, so I wasn’t going crazy after all, when my antivirus started getting hostile at uTorrent.
I only use Torrent with Transmission because that’s what is sitting in my server.
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On android I’m currently using Libretorrent, how does biglybt’s android app compare to it ?
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?
This triggers me. Transmission is perfect.
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Deluge has so much potential but it just crashes so often on windows.
I have seen this same image circulated for years. We need a new one because transmission in D tier is unacceptable.
Yeah “it does nothing but downloads torrents” is the selling point. It’s the reason I exclusively use Transmission.
Transmission used to be my preferred app hands down but recent updates have negatively impacted its performance on my end. If all it needs to do is download torrents, why does it now sometimes seem incapable of connecting to a given (popular) swarm ?
Particularly unfortunate is that once it does connect, the download speed has now become arbitrary: it keeps alternating between ‘incredibly fast’ and ‘surprisingly slow’ and takes three or four times as long to complete. I’ve become so exasperated with it that I’ve been forced to move on (deluge instantly connects and consistently downloads at five times the speed).
Transmission can run as a daemon, that alones makes it S tier.
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.
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.
I’ll never understand the FOSS mentality of “There’s already a quality project out there with active development and most of the user-share. Perfect, so I’ll utilize my off-time to create my own inferior competitor and fragment the users instead of contribute to the existing one”.
I mean, I get it if the existing project maintainers start acting with shady interests - the threat of the fork can be a powerful tool. But it seems like many of these alt projects do it right out of the gate. Meanwhile, it took linux desktop how long to get a functional wifi driver out of the box??
A lot of it is just difference in vision. FOSS projects often have an owner and they might not be open to switch the direction of their project or be willing to maintain a large feature that someone wants to contribute.
there is also the “I rewrote it using Rust/Go/whatever because that makes it better” people.
Likely what happens is that while the existing options are fine for the masses, a power user has a specific use case that is not covered by said options, so they create their own program to fit their specific needs. Eventually this new program evolves into something that is also useful to the masses, and that’s how we get to where we are now with several good FOSS options.
I’m still on utorrent2, can get it oldversion.com or something like that. It’s too well made, never found a reason to switch.
2.2.1. For 15 years.