FartsUnited

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[–] FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Soulseek is great secondary source but often a little slow to get the latest releases - users appear to source their new music from elsewhere (like DJ Sound Top or Electronic Fresh). I was hoping that there might be other primary sources.

[–] FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

thanks for taking the time out to clarify this for me.

Unfortunately, I'm too stupid to make sense of how to use yt-dlp

[–] FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You managed to download it for yourself using yt-dlp?

[–] FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

thanks very much for that.

I don't see the required yt-dlp app (or whatever) for the iMac and the above just appears to be a link that I can't use.

Can you please clarify what I might need to do to install/download yt-dlp?

Transmission used to be my preferred app hands down but recent updates have negatively impacted its performance on my end. If all it needs to do is download torrents, why does it now sometimes seem incapable of connecting to a given (popular) swarm ?

Particularly unfortunate is that once it does connect, the download speed has now become arbitrary: it keeps alternating between 'incredibly fast' and 'surprisingly slow' and takes three or four times as long to complete. I've become so exasperated with it that I've been forced to move on (deluge instantly connects and consistently downloads at five times the speed).

I really like biglybt, but why is it so... slow to add torrents or shut itself down? It seems as if the app does so many different things simultaneously that it doesn't do them seamlessly or instantaneously. I mean, why does it need 'up to twenty seconds' to close after you've downloaded something? Is it bloat? Is there a way to streamline its running?

[–] FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I want to use qbittorrent, but my Mac won't let me install it - says it's too old for the operating system and/or that it can't be verified.

I've just installed bigly bt, and I have three questions: 1) is it possible to set the seeding ratio 2) do we really need to confirm the deletion of every torrent via the pop up? (I have RSI, and the less popups or clicking the better) and 3) why does searching for a torrent via the internal search engine result in a captula.?

thank you very much

[–] FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

thanks, what's the wrapping script and how would I enable it?).

[–] FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, that appears to be the right app or plugin, but Mac won't let me install it (too old for my current OS and/or can't verify if its safe). Thanks, though.

[–] FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the app settings don't appear to say anything about magnet links

 

I'm currently on the Imac using Deluge as my preferred client - it just seems so much faster than (say) Transmission, which has recently been struggling to connect to other pirates on the high seas.

The only problem is: Deluge appears to have issues with magnet links. Although the client will open when you click a magnet, the link doesn't automatically get added to the downloads. So you have to manually enter each magnet link.

Is there anyway around this? I'd appreciate detailed instructions if possible (or a link to a video and/or article explaining what to do).

thanks

 

I'm curious to know if anybody else finds their computer behaving sluggishly or erratically when downloading torrents.

For the record: I use transmission on a 2020 imac and have tried other clients to little avial. A virus and/or activity check doesn't reveal anything untoward going on in the background.

I'm not sure what's going on, but torrenting is either resource intensive (possibly RAM) or writing to the harddrive results in poor performance overall. Or maybe its something else (like my vpn draining resources)? Either way, when I torrent I might as well walk away from my computer because that's all it seems it wants to do, and even then its performance remains erratic.

 

I'm not sure if it's common knowledge, but a 'shadow' RARBG search engine went up when the site went down.

https://shadowbg-test.xav1erenc.workers.dev/

As far as I could tell, it provided direct access to all of its original torrents and/or continually seeded torrents by other dedicated seeders (or sites).

But the search engine has suddenly become inaccessible. Anyone know why? Is there an alternative?

thanks

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