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.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.comOP
    2·
    1 day ago

    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!

    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      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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        • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
          6·
          1 day ago

          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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