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Akane Yoshinega
Asked: 2018-12-08 07:23:53 +0800 CST

Add multiple trackers at once with Transmission Remote

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I recently bought a QNap I use as download station, so I switched from downloading files with uTorrent on my PC to downloading them with Transmission on the QNap.

I use Transmission Remote to control downloads from my laptop and smartphone.

Sadly, when I try to add multiple trackers to boost a frozen file, Transmission says me that I added an invalid argument, because it clearly want me to add trackers one by one.

There is a way to add multiple trackers at once, as I did on uTorrent?

nas bittorrent downloads transmission torrent-client

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use the Edit button in Setting > Trackers and add multiple URLs, each followed by a blank line.

    Use the 'Edit' button

    Update the tracker list

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  2. I had the same problem / constraint (not being able to add multiple tracks at once, with copy/paste) into Transmission... until I found a superb, awesome, Transmission client: Transmission Remote GUI. The interface is VERY similar to qBittorrent. Latest version (as of writing this post) is 5.18.0 By the way, I am connecting to the Transmission app in my Lenovo (former Iomega) NAS (Lenovo-EMC px4-300d) You can download it from: https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui/releases

    Hope it is up to your expectations! For me, it is, and even more! Regards, Gabriel

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  3. To address the OP regarding how to add multiple trackers at-once via "transmission-remote," here are some specific examples with transmission-remote:

    The OP only specified using transmission-remote: For this example, I'm working in BASH.

    # while read f;do echo "adding tracker $f";transmission-remote -t[#s] -td "$f";done < <(echo -e "tracker.com:1234\ntracker2.com\ntracker1.com/announce\ntracker4.com:333/announce")

    This will add the trackers provided at the end of the line (in the echo command) which are separated by a "\n" which is important.

    If you have a few favorite trackers you add to torrents that don't start or seem stuck you could prep your favorite trackers in a file:

    mytrackers.txt (file name)
tracker.com:1234
tracker2.com
tracker1.com/announce
tracker4.com:333/announce

    then use:

    # while read f;do echo "adding tracker $f";transmission-remote -t[#s] -td "$f";done <mytrackers.txt

    Important hints & tips:

    • You can certainly run the above one-liners without the initial echo (echo "adding tracker $f") but I like the visual verification.
    • I would strongly urge you to initially run without the "transmission-remote" command (so you only run with the "echo" line allowing you to verify your trackers as-listed). The value is if something goes wrong, it's not hitting the transmission-remote command and you see the echo displaying your list of trackers.
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  4. Right click and click Properties > Advanced

    right click menu

    properties

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