Sequenced priority

Feature requests not specific to either the Mac OS X or GTK+ versions of Transmission
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lvella
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Sequenced priority

Post by lvella »

It is often desirable to download files of a torrent in a particular order. Now, instead of manually changing the priorities of the files periodically to get them in the order I want, thought that could be managed automatically by Transmission: instead of managing priorities manually, I could select the order I want to get the files, and Transmission would try to request the chunks in the order I want to get the files.

I am not sure how this would impact on the network, but as far as I can tell, it would be no different of increasing the priority of another files as soon as the highest priority file is downloaded.
jezuk
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Re: Sequenced priority

Post by jezuk »

Here is a python script I wrote that almost does this: https://gist.github.com/jezuk/4534414

The files are prioritised in alphabetical order, which works for me on most torrents. Any files marked do not download will be ignored. Instructions are in the comments at the top.

Let me know if you need any help or have feedback.

Jez
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