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why is seeding/creating torrents so hard? (moist.catsweat.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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every once in awhile i get a bug up my butt about sharing my massive, curated library.. but every time i get distracted by the volume of steps it would take to create the necessary shit to seed and then find a place that would even take those seeds to index.

ami doin it wrong? why is it so hard? napster was easy.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Hmmm, is your goal to share each season folder separately? Is that why you would need scripting?

Or are you looking to share everything at once without worrying about creating individual torrents? If this is what you're looking for, then maybe Retroshare is what you're looking for? I don't know if stuff using eDonkey, Gnutella, or Kademlia are still around, but retroshare has file-sharing similar to those where you point the client at a folder and it just shares the entire thing.

IPFS would've been great for this, but they honestly screwed the pooch on that (it hogs resources, doesn't have good clients, and doesn't have a bridge to torrents or other networks i.e you can't go "oh, I have a torrent file, let me see if the files for this are on IPFS and download them from there").

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (8 children)

id prolly be happy with it at the series level even, not necessarily the seasons.. but one torrent seems like a pain to create... thousands seems arduous. without a lot of scripting that is. i'm checkin out retroshare also, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Hmm, creating torrents isn't that hard.

for folder in * ; do
  transmission-create -o "$folder.torrent" "$folder"
done

You can add a tracker by adding the --tracker "$trackerUrl" option. There isn't much more scripting involved, AFAIK, unless you want to upload them to the tracker too. But if you join the DHT and share the magnet links somewhere, you should be done. Or is there more to the process I'm missing?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

that sounds easy enough, i'll give it a try. i heard transmission was on the outs though..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can use transmission just for creating the torrent. You don't have to use the actual client. If qbittorrent is your client, it's possible to add the torrents to the list at the same time with

for folder in * ; do
  transmission-create -o "$folder.torrent" "$folder"
  qbittorrent --save-path="$folder" "$folder.torrent"
done

Then you create the torrent and start seeding it immediately. If you've already created the torrent files

for torrentFile in **/*.torrent ; do
  folderName="$(basename -s .torrent "$torrentFile")"
  folderParent="$(dirname "$torrentFile")"
  folderPath="$folderName/$folderParent"
  qbittorent --save-path="$folderPath" "$torrentFile"
done

Depending on the setup, you could also just sym link the folder into qbittorrent's download directory and copy your torrents into a folder that qbittorrent listens to. There are many ways to skin the cat. Check out the command line parameters for your torrent client.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

coool, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Good luck! I hope it all works out for ya 🙂

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