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Transmission v4.0

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Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

leovander wrote: post #21
dmix wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use torrents heavily despite subscribing to 4 different streaming services because I live in Canada and we don't yet have Hulu or HBO Max. Plus I also like watching some older movies via 2160p bluray rips and torrents are just the easiest option to do so. That plus it has everything. I use Transmission for torrents and then https://airflow.app/ to cast movies from my Macbook to my Firestick/Chromecast, which I find…

If you want quicker speeds, look into usenet. Have to pay for a decent news hosting and indexer, but after some tweaking you can download new releases so much quicker without worrying about vpns and ratios. At this point I have Plex and Overseer hooked up to Prowlarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Radarr, with Prowlarr connected to my nzb client and server (it was easy to cut over from transmission, using the secure ports to ta…

is there something for books and audiobooks in particular?

i am hoping for a audible-like experience which can easily be created using booksonic and other servers but the retrieval part is the most troublesome imo.

movies and tv shows have the best experience

Re: Transmission v4.0

#42

Post by arkadiyt »

capableweb wrote: post #30
arkadiyt wrote: post #15

For whatever reason the ARM version of Transmission does not work well on my M2 laptop - it downloads quickly at first and then drops off to zero, and had some other bugs (the x86 version always worked flawlessly). I tried playing around with different settings, running their nightly builds, etc, and nothing fixed it for me. In the end I searched for other clients and found them all filled with ads and bloatware, and…

After uTorrent went south, I started using qBittorent on all platforms and haven't looked back since. Found it better than any alternative, might want to give it a try if you want client+ui in one package: https://www.qbittorrent.org/

I wanted to evaluate it in the past but their downloads page has a giant warning, "The macOS version is not well supported", so I didn't bother downloading it.

Re: Transmission v4.0

#43

Post by tincholio »

wpietri wrote: post #4

> The entire codebase has been migrated from C to C++. In the process, we've removed thousands of lines of custom code and used standard C++ tools instead. The core's code has shrunk by 18%. The core codebase has been extensively refactored to be more testable and maintainable. I love negative-LOC commits! They warm my heart. As do the people who take the time to make them.

At my previous job, we re-did some Java stream processing stuff in Clojure. We added functionality, made it more stable and dropped 6K lines of code (out of 18K for that particular component) in the process. It felt like magic...

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by KronisLV »

wpietri wrote: post #4

> The entire codebase has been migrated from C to C++. In the process, we've removed thousands of lines of custom code and used standard C++ tools instead. The core's code has shrunk by 18%. The core codebase has been extensively refactored to be more testable and maintainable. I love negative-LOC commits! They warm my heart. As do the people who take the time to make them.

> I love negative-LOC commits! They warm my heart. As do the people who take the time to make them.

Agreed, but only if there's adequate test coverage and it's pretty clear how everything should work.

Otherwise it's a very stressful experience, working with a seemingly brittle and puzzling codebase.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by gouggoug »

vladharbuz wrote: post #31
shpx wrote: post #27

I'll be honest, I'm glad people are working on this again but the most important change for me would be fixing this minor UI issue: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/261

Send a PR?

GP might not be a software engineer and even if they were they might not be in a position to submit a PR.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by KronisLV »

On Windows I've used Tixati previously, because it doesn't do ads and has a rather pleasant UI: https://tixati.com/

On Linux, however, Transmission is great! Actually, Transmission also runs on Windows, so if the simpler UI is enough for you, then it's also a great choice across multiple platforms.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by eatbitseveryday »

arkadiyt wrote: post #42
capableweb wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After uTorrent went south, I started using qBittorent on all platforms and haven't looked back since. Found it better than any alternative, might want to give it a try if you want client+ui in one package: https://www.qbittorrent.org/

I wanted to evaluate it in the past but their downloads page has a giant warning, "The macOS version is not well supported", so I didn't bother downloading it.

I am actively trying to use it on macOS/M1 and it does have bugs. Random crashes every few days, UI crawling (doing anything, right click, whatever) with more than 20 torrents, etc.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by eatbitseveryday »

> Newly-added seeds can start immediately and verify pieces on demand, instead of needing a full verify before seeding can begin.

This is a huge annoyance for me with torrent clients. Files that are 80GB or larger take days to verify before they can seed. Having this feature (which makes sense to do) is a more sane way to do it.

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