Member Mini Survey: What bit torrent client are you using, Fall 2019
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Trying to get a sense of what everyone is presently using as of Fall, 2019, for their bit torrent client.
Please answers these 5 brief questions:
1. What bit torrent client are you presently using?
2. What features does your current torrent have that you like?
3. What features does your current torrent not have that you wish it did?
4. What other torrent clients have you used in the past?
5. How many torrents are you presently seeding with this client?Thanks!
in2unow
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I use uTorrent v2.2.1
It's the last uTorrent before it became full of bloatware.
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Trying to get a sense of what everyone is presently using as of Fall, 2019, for their bit torrent client.
Please answers these 5 brief questions:
1. What bit torrent client are you presently using? RTorrent 0.9.6
2. What features does your current torrent have that you like? Too many features to mention. Main feature I love, Sonarr/Radarr integration.
3. What features does your current torrent not have that you wish it did? Decompress ISO files.
4. What other torrent clients have you used in the past? Utorrent, Qtorrent
5. How many torrents are you presently seeding with this client? 11-AOS
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1. What bit torrent client are you presently using? Transmission
2. What features does your current torrent have that you like?
In order:
It is open source software and is updated regularly if not frequently. I strongly believe in open source software, co-ops, sharing resources, free, open access to information, etc.
It has a lot of features and is easy to use.
It doesn't use a lot of GPU or memory and can handle thousands of files as easily as a few.
It is native to Mac OS but is also available for many other platforms.Full list of advantages is here: https://transmissionbt.com/about/
3. What features does your current torrent not have that you wish it did?
I wish it automatically verified the data when a download is complete. Supposedly that is not necessary but I frequently find that a tiny amount of a file is missing when verifying a completed download, so I have learned to always verify all downloads immediately. This is especially important with files that won't work right if they aren't complete, such as some video formats (MP4, if I recall correctly), compressed files, music albums in a single FLAC file that I intend to separate into individual songs in lossy format, etc. I'm not sure what causes this problem or why it hasn't been fixed with the fairly regular updates.
It used to estimate the time remaining to complete a download but no longer does. It only worked accurately with faster downloads and fast downloads are now so fast that I guess it doesn't really matter any longer.
It used to bug me that the icon automatically gets a Santa cap during the holidays but there is a way to disable that.
4. What other torrent clients have you used in the past? None.
5. How many torrents are you presently seeding with this client? 1,500+
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I use utorrent, it auto updated itself, but I just couldn't befriend the new version, so I'm sticking to the old one.
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I use uTorrent v2.2.1
