Torrent Client

Put in a chat/message feature, uTorrent had it long time ago. Was lekker, people could say if the video quality was kak/good etc.
 
Rickster said:
Put in a chat/message feature, uTorrent had it long time ago. Was lekker, people could say if the video quality was kak/good etc.
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That was eons ago, was it a general channel for people using the client ?
 
Qbt would be a good benchmark. Zero gripes with it
 
Rickster said:
Put in a chat/message feature, uTorrent had it long time ago. Was lekker, people could say if the video quality was kak/good etc.
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Ext has some comments on the major stuff. Helps a bit.

But yes. Good idea
 
semaphore said:
That was eons ago, was it a general channel for people using the client ?
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Not a general chat per se but it was a per torrent chat, so you can make comments on the actual file/torrent you are downloading.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
All I can say is to go and see what QBittorrent does right and then adopt that to your liking. Transmission is basic, though I have never used it. The only client I use is QBittorrent, so I can't speak to the others. The main advantage is its having a built-in search.
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I like Transmission BECAUSE it’s basic where every other torrent client seems to be bloated with kak.

A nice feature for me would be an easy way to remote drop files into my torrent client by just sending it a link to the file.

As much as I have remote access now it’s still a pretty laborious process for anything I need to do manually.

Another thing that could be nice is just making all the Sonarr/Radarr/*darr integrations simpler.

Or maybe even some automatic built-in intelligence to filter tv/movie/music/other to different folders.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I like Transmission BECAUSE it’s basic where every other torrent client seems to be bloated with kak.
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Feature rich apps aren’t a problem, clunky unintuitive ui design is.
SauRoNZA said:
A nice feature for me would be an easy way to remote drop files into my torrent client by just sending it a link to the file.
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How would that differ from remote client access via http? I.e web based viewing access.

Curious so I can see if there’s a difference,

SauRoNZA said:
As much as I have remote access now it’s still a pretty laborious process for anything I need to do manually.
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But copying a link is a manual process.

SauRoNZA said:
Another thing that could be nice is just making all the Sonarr/Radarr/*darr integrations simpler.
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I was looking at pvr type functionality. I just don’t like any of the available solutions so never used them.

That being said I may add that. I started preliminary ground work for plugin architecture running in an isolated sandbox this evening. But yeah, just need to pace everything.
 
semaphore said:
Feature rich apps aren’t a problem, clunky unintuitive ui design is.
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True true.
semaphore said:
How would that differ from remote client access via http? I.e web based viewing access.
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I don't have an exact answer but I was thinking a plugin or something almost like a drop box where I just throw it the link or the torrent file and it just does it's thing to a default folder without more questions.
semaphore said:
But copying a link is a manual process.
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I mean I don't expect a miracle, but maybe some kind of "Share to X" integration.

Copying a link isn't so painful, it's copying it then finding the other App/Web then pasting it then defining a folder etc etc.
semaphore said:
I was looking at pvr type functionality. I just don’t like any of the available solutions so never used them.

That being said I may add that. I started preliminary ground work for plugin architecture running in an isolated sandbox this evening. But yeah, just need to pace everything.
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I mean I set it up so long ago and it just keeps working but I know it was pretty painful between having to define the labels and setup relevant paths for those and it requires a lot of config on both sides.

I feel it could be make much easier and also one-sided with some more auto configuration and/or discovery.

Not thinking of this so much for myself but really from a new user perspective.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I don't have an exact answer but I was thinking a plugin or something almost like a drop box where I just throw it the link or the torrent file and it just does it's thing to a default folder without more questions.
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So this would be for remote? i.e. you drag the link into a browser of sorts?
SauRoNZA said:
I mean I don't expect a miracle, but maybe some kind of "Share to X" integration.
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I mean that is doable, but it's an additional modification to the user's OS to allow for it. Doubt many people would be open to that.

SauRoNZA said:
Copying a link isn't so painful, it's copying it then finding the other App/Web then pasting it then defining a folder etc etc.
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Yeah, it can be a pita. But there are limitations with certain things; a context menu integration would require a new application to be installed on the remote machine, so it could potentially set up file sending automatically. It would turn one app into two. The actual client installed a sending service for another machine. I mean it's easy enough, but is the effort worth the result?

SauRoNZA said:
I mean I set it up so long ago and it just keeps working but I know it was pretty painful between having to define the labels and setup relevant paths for those and it requires a lot of config on both sides.
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That was always my issue. I'm lazy. If setting up the app is considerable effort, I get bored and move on.
SauRoNZA said:
I feel it could be make much easier and also one-sided with some more auto configuration and/or discovery.
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Agreed.
 
I use Tixati. It also has groups you can search.

One useful feature is if it can be given a webaddress and it just lists the torrent links (some will go to a separate page where the actual link is).
 
Quixotic said:
I use Tixati. It also has groups you can search.'
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Things like this only work when there is big adoption, so you can almost create a synthetic chat network, potentially using peer node information per torrent into a group and then into a chat system.

Quixotic said:
One useful feature is if it can be given a webaddress and it just lists the torrent links (some will go to a separate page where the actual link is).
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Page scraping, websites love that :P
 
semaphore said:
So this would be for remote? i.e. you drag the link into a browser of sorts?

I mean that is doable, but it's an additional modification to the user's OS to allow for it. Doubt many people would be open to that.
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Yeah look I'm approaching this logic from a non-developer so I realise it's not as easy as it seems. On iOS I wonder if it could be achieved by some kind of web wrapped bookmark type app without even needing to involve the Appstore and such.

Maybe something infinitely simpler would be just a unique endpoint that allows dropping files/links.

I mean it was just an idea around things that I find annoying on the off chance I need to go manual. Right now I need to download a quick file it's...

1. Go to my own URL.
2. Login with username / password
3. Click Add Torrent.
4. Paste the Link / Upload the File.
5. Manually define the location (although I guess the default here could be altered on my part)

It's a few and far between scenario but I can't help but think it could be simpler.

semaphore said:
Yeah, it can be a pita. But there are limitations with certain things; a context menu integration would require a new application to be installed on the remote machine, so it could potentially set up file sending automatically. It would turn one app into two. The actual client installed a sending service for another machine. I mean it's easy enough, but is the effort worth the result?


That was always my issue. I'm lazy. If setting up the app is considerable effort, I get bored and move on.

Agreed.
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Yeah re-thinking it some sort of magic link that is authentication-less in a one way drop box style makes more sense.

Maybe a Telegram integration of some sort would be easier and more secure, but that assumed you are using Telegram.
 
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