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Archived bundles of files having significant names are important! Torrents of opaque disk images and archives (e.g. pirated software) or video files (e.g. pirat

Archived bundles of files having significant names are important! Torrents of opaque disk images and archives (e.g. pirated software) or video files (e.g. pirated movies and TV series episodes) might be popular, but the strong suit of BitTorrent are carefully crafted and often very large collections of books, music, emulator ROM files etc.

kasumis_ 10y ago
we may consider giving priority to bigger torrents.
- HelloNurse 10y ago
  Search result priority is largely irrelevant for rare or specific files, since there are going to be few results (at least, few clearly different torrents) and each result is going to be inspected by looking at the file list. Indexing file names is the search quality improvement you need most. For example, I tried searching for "Pretty Polly", by the Poison Girls; moderately popular niche music. There are 0 results for "pretty polly" and 2 results for "poison girls", one of which is a complete discography collection containing that song. Imagine the results for more popular and prolific authors.
  - kasumis_ 10y ago
    Ability to search inside torrents is being considered and will be added soon.
supergreg 10y ago
It's frustrating when you are downloading one big rar file just because you need one of the small files inside.
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- vlunkr 10y ago
  With transmission you can actually select or deselect individual files.
  - __david__ 10y ago
    But not when they're trapped in a .rar or a .iso, at least not in my version of Transmission.
    - anacrolix 10y ago
      I wrote a BitTorrent client that specifically only downloads the parts you need to perform some operation: https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent
      - xrisk 10y ago
        But can it look inside archives? If not, then mainstream clients can already do what you mention.
        Sophira 10y ago
        Reading the page, it sounds like they're talking about the "torrentfs" mounted filesystem component, where read requests will download just that part of the file. So theoretically, you could open the archive in a GUI, extract the file you want, and the only part it would download would be the archive header/file listing and the part of the archive corresponding to the file you wanted. Of course, this wouldn't work for tarballs or solid RARs, but for regular archives it could conceivably work.
  - skyyler 10y ago
    Most bittorrent programs I've used have this feature.

kasumis_ 10y ago

we may consider giving priority to bigger torrents.

HelloNurse 10y ago
Search result priority is largely irrelevant for rare or specific files, since there are going to be few results (at least, few clearly different torrents) and each result is going to be inspected by looking at the file list. Indexing file names is the search quality improvement you need most. For example, I tried searching for "Pretty Polly", by the Poison Girls; moderately popular niche music. There are 0 results for "pretty polly" and 2 results for "poison girls", one of which is a complete discography collection containing that song. Imagine the results for more popular and prolific authors.
- kasumis_ 10y ago
  Ability to search inside torrents is being considered and will be added soon.

supergreg 10y ago

It's frustrating when you are downloading one big rar file just because you need one of the small files inside.

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vlunkr 10y ago
With transmission you can actually select or deselect individual files.
- __david__ 10y ago
  But not when they're trapped in a .rar or a .iso, at least not in my version of Transmission.
  - anacrolix 10y ago
    I wrote a BitTorrent client that specifically only downloads the parts you need to perform some operation: https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent
    - xrisk 10y ago
      But can it look inside archives? If not, then mainstream clients can already do what you mention.
      - Sophira 10y ago
        Reading the page, it sounds like they're talking about the "torrentfs" mounted filesystem component, where read requests will download just that part of the file. So theoretically, you could open the archive in a GUI, extract the file you want, and the only part it would download would be the archive header/file listing and the part of the archive corresponding to the file you wanted. Of course, this wouldn't work for tarballs or solid RARs, but for regular archives it could conceivably work.
- skyyler 10y ago
  Most bittorrent programs I've used have this feature.