ability to modify / add / remove trackers from torrent

davidoff86 · Post by **davidoff86** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:35 pm

as in utorrent for windows, theres a preference on each torrent to specify what tracker URL you want to use.

this is the only thing i believe is missing from transmission

thomasshirley · Post by **thomasshirley** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:48 pm

A while ago this was frowned at, not sure what the current stance is.

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:26 pm

i'd like it.

bdfortin · Post by **bdfortin** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:49 am

I'd like to see this, too. I know once in a while my tracker changes the port, so it would be nice to be able to stay up-to-date on that.

berkut · Post by **berkut** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:44 pm

I'd like this too.

Currently the only way I can do this is to open the .torrent file in Azureus and use that to change it. And that I can only do before I import it into Transmission.

Often I have the problem that the tracker a torrent's using in Transmission dies for a few days, and the only peers I can connect to are from PEX which is really annoying.

Does transmission support multiple trackers? Looking at:
http://transmissionbt.com/trac/browse ... /tracker.c

it obviously does, but that doesn't explain my experiences with Transmission when the main tracker (the one shown in the torrent info window) dies.

bollywood · Post by **bollywood** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:55 am

Im all for this as an advanced option too.

pcarm92 · Post by **pcarm92** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:49 am

I'd love this too, it's something I miss often from uTorrent when I was on a PC.

eatingoranges · Post by **eatingoranges** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:01 pm

I like this idea

Support for multiple trackers and the ability to add more trackers would be a nice feature.

leena · Post by **leena** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:10 pm

eatingoranges wrote:I like this idea

Support for multiple trackers and the ability to add more trackers would be a nice feature.

DHT (trackerless) would also be useful in this case

zachad · Post by **zachad** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:54 pm

I agree as well. some trackers recommend doing this.

It's got my vote.

transmit · Post by **transmit** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:44 am

It would be useful for me.

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:17 pm

Here is another useful reason for this to be added: http://torrentfreak.com/moviex-leeches- ... ty-071201/

There is a big controversy over this right now, too long for me to explain it all here, but read that post and it becomes clear. Some users may just blame the torrent client for slow downloads without knowing.

You can get around it by simply deleting the moviex tracker from torrents and keeping the public tracker, but you can't do this in Transmission (yet).

tiennou · Post by **tiennou** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:22 am

Another way to do it is learning how to do bencoding with your brain by reading http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecif ... #bencoding, and learn what's inside a .torrent : http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecif ... _Structure.
You'll learn that you have 2 choices :
- Modifying "announce", which contains a string representing the tracker
- Modifying the "announce-list", which is an extension to the spec http://home.elp.rr.com/tur/multitracker-spec.txt allowing for multiple trackers.

It shouldn't pose any problem with already-running downloads because the metainfo dictionary (where "announce" and "announce-list" are located) isn't used to calculate the final file checksum (though my understanding gets sketchy).[/url]

bollywood · Post by **bollywood** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:20 am

I am also waiting this feature to be added.

Matthijs · Post by **Matthijs** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:48 pm

Would be a great addition to Transmission, hope it's added soon!