qbittorent vs utorent?

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Originally Posted by masonos

Interesting topic. I've been using utorrent at home as well and reading the comments here it looks like qbittorrent has a bright future ahead of it. So i have a couple of questions for qbittorrent users which mainly have to do with full automation.

1. Does it have a flexible RSS downloader? And by flexible i mean as robust and user friendly as utorrent's
2. Does it offer an option to run a file/app/batch upon torrent changing state?

I know i can install it and find out but i would like to hear opinions as well.
PS. Sorry for hijacking the thread

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Follow this order to get RSS Reader open up
View > Check RSS Reader
And for GUI heres SS for you.
https://i.snag.gy/2xeboc.jpg
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Follow this order to get this feature
Tools>Options>Downloads than below image.
https://i.snag.gy/n7CXKJ.jpg
Only one problem you can't set program for every torrent file you can only set one for every one of them.

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Originally Posted by AlphaDreamer

Maybe you don't know how trackers work with .torrent files or how torrent files work in such cases that you mentioned.
Most simply, if you change the folder name of a torrent, its .torrent hash will be changed. You can not seed it on the originally-downloaded tracker, not to mention seeding on a target tracker where you want to cross-seed. Those trackers will send a message notifying that the folder-changed torrent not registered (because .torrent's hash changed).
A tracker tracks a .torrent file's hash, when a hash number not registered, tracker will considered that torrent as not registered. Sure that, if you change the folder name and create a new .torrent file, the hash of that newly-created torrent will be different to the hash number of those previously created with the same content (the original folder). (Even with a folder, you create .torrent files with different piece size, each .torrent file will have a different hash number)
So the only way that works in such cases is that torrent client supports seeding with a different folder name without changing anything related to a .torrent's hash.

P/S:
- I'm not good at listening to English. But from what I understand from the video above, that tutorial does not help me in this case.
- However, changing the tracker announce link of a .torrent file does not change the hash of that torrent.

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Please tell me if I'm wrong and there are different ways that I've not found from the tutorial.
Sorry if I'm wrong with something else too.

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I don't know that well how trackers works like you but the method I learned from Reddit can solve this problem for Linux but I searched Internet for Windows OS as well and there is same solution avaible for Windows as well however bit hard than Linux

Heres how you can do this.
https://superuser.com/questions/2557...s-in-windows-7

PS. Haven't tried Linux solution yet because I don't have file to seed with 2 trackers

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Originally Posted by masonos

Interesting topic. I've been using utorrent at home as well and reading the comments here it looks like qbittorrent has a bright future ahead of it. So i have a couple of questions for qbittorrent users which mainly have to do with full automation.

1. Does it have a flexible RSS downloader? And by flexible i mean as robust and user friendly as utorrent's
2. Does it offer an option to run a file/app/batch upon torrent changing state?

I know i can install it and find out but i would like to hear opinions as well.
PS. Sorry for hijacking the thread

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1. Yes it has very good RSS downloader, and I am using it successfully. Having used autodl-irssi recently, I would say that it is somewhat similar to autodl-irssi filters including RegEx support. However, I haven't used uTorrent in a while so I can't say how it compares. Take a look at this screenshot here:

Attachment 5351

2. It can run external apps when torrent finishes downloading, but not on state-change.

3. It has some automatic torrent management features which I am not using currently, but they look interesting. (https://www.ghacks.net/2016/06/20/qb...ng-management/)

1) "The only glitch is that magnet links don't work for me; it stalls every time while downloading torrent metadata."

It's not a glitch, it's how magnets work; they do not need to contain trackers (see the spec). So, you can increase success by adding your own curated trackers, also do not rely only on DHT ;)

2) "Skip hash check" in uT is not the same as qT. qT applies logic to decide when it does not need to hash check, better than uT on or off.

3) Cross seeding in a client is a bad idea. Do not try to use the same data or the same torrent for multiple trackers; doing this is a very good way to get an account banned. Instead create a tracker specific folder, make a copy of data inside the folder, fetch .torrent, set location to the new folder, do a "recheck", seed to the one tracker only. Buy as large storage as you can for this process.

4) "Only one problem you can't set program for every torrent file you can only set one for every one of them."

No, not a problem at all. Use the parameter "category", with one master pre-script. In the master pre-script, say...

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Set category = script_input_qtParameter_category
If "abc" == category then do action 1
If "def" == category then do action 2
If "ghi" == category then do action 3

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Instead of 'category' you could use the 'Root path', 'Save path' or 'Tracker' parameters to automate selecting an unlimited number of different scripts for one or many torrents. This can be done in a DOS batch file, or any language you choose.

Seriously, uT has sucked for a long time - an alternative was needed, qT is a good one.

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Originally Posted by pew

"The only glitch is that magnet links don't work for me; it stalls every time while downloading torrent metadata."

It's not a glitch, it's how magnets work; they do need to contain trackers (see the spec).

Add more trackers to make it work, and do not rely only on DHT ;)

"Skip hash check" in uT is not the same as qT.
qT applies logic to decide when it does not need to hash check, for this reason, the function is better than uT.

Cross seeding in a client is a bad idea. Do not try to use the same data or the same torrent for multiple trackers; doing this is a very good way to get an account banned. Instead create a tracker specific folder, put a copy of data inside folder, fetch .torrent, point location to new folder, do a recheck, then seed to the one tracker only.

Seriously, uT has sucked for a long time - an alternative was needed, qT is a good one.

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Somehow I couldn't get those magnet links to work in qbittorrent, and that too after lot of trials and tinkering. It almost always stalled on "Downloading metadata...". Did my share of googling to solve the problem and found that I am not alone. Then I installed Deluge and voila...those very same magnet links that stalled in qbittorrent worked without any problems in Deluge, that too out of box and without port forwarding. In fact I downloaded those "magnetic" .torrent files with help of Deluge and then added them to qbittorrent.

I think I'm gonna switche back to utorent.What version do you guys use?

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Originally Posted by nomad2

I think I'm gonna switche back to utorent.What version do you guys use?

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Even though usually newer is better some trackers banned 3.x.x versions.
I believe 2.2 1 is the one that all trackers accept.

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Originally Posted by masonos

Even though usually newer is better some trackers banned 3.x.x versions.
I believe 2.2 1 is the one that all trackers accept.

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Yeah that's the version I used before switching to Q.

qBitorrent has its pros but I personally prefer uTorrent 2.2.1 over it. Mostly because of I've been using uTorrent since 2006. Nowadays I have a seedbox :P

Back to Utorent and man I am glad to be back.Much better than Q except the search featyre.Does utorent has such a plugin whre you can search multiple trackers at once?

I prefer qBitorrent, it doesn't have ads like the new versions of uTorrent.