This guide assumes that you have a slight amount of experience creating and uploading torrents. It is not a “noobie” guide.
0. Tools needed:
* uTorrent 1.7.5
* edxor
Optional tools
* MakeTorrent 2.0
* Azureus
* BitComet
1. Creating “Torrent Templates”.
uTorrent > File > Create New Torrent
Here, input the comments you would like, and all of the announce URLs you desire. Place blank lines between them, or “group” related torrents by not having blank lines. Do NOT check the “private” box — the whole point of a multi-tracker torrent is to accumulate as many peers as possible under the umbrella of the same hash, and thereby grant the torrent great unassisted longevity.
Important: Many torrent-hosting sites are “narcissists” in the sense that while they permit multi-tracker torrents, they require that their own announce be first on the list. “Nacissist” sites include PirateBay, Demonoid, ZeroTracker, and many anime-hosting sites.
– Now, make a torrent of any old damn small thing. What is it doesn’t matter, because all we’re doing is making a template that we can cut and paste later.
Repeat this step for every narcissist site you expect to use.
Example tracker list in uTorrent:
- http://inferno.demonoid.com:3414/announce
http://tracker.zerotracker.com:2710/announce
http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
udp://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce
http://tpb.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://tracker.torrentbox.com:2710/announce
http://tracker.podtropolis.com:2710/announce
http://gamebt.ali213.net:8000/announce
Save your templates. The extra templates have the order of narcissists shuffled (e.g., PirateBay VIP is at top rather than Demonoid, etc).
2. Using Edxor to edit your templates
Edxor is a text-editor which, unlike Microsoft’s Notepad and many other editors, does not modify anything in the file other than what you manually change. (A torrent file edited in Notepad will have a different hash-number when saved.) Use Google to find it. I imagine there are other text-editors which work as well.
Example: You intend to update a torrent file to include new trackers, remove dead ones, and change commentary without altering its all-important hash-number. Procedure: Download the old torrent file or retrieve your back-up copy. Launch it in uTorrent (stop after making sure it’s alive). Open newer template file in Edxor. Find “:creation date”; highlight everything from the front of the file up to the colon “:”, copy to clipboard. Open up obsolescent torrent in edxor (edxor supports multipled instances), and paste the new data in over the obsolete data. Save-as. Drag over uTorrent’s open window. You will get a different message depending upon whether the hash number is the same (good) or changed (bad). Once you know it works, rename it and re-upload.
Since you’ve created several templates previously, you’ll make several different copies for uploading to PirateBay, Demonoid, and any other narcissist sites. You do NOT want to post different hashes to each site, because that will split the interested peer base up into separate torrents.
Edxor is also perfect for updating your templates as Demonoid obsolesces its announce URL every month.
3. Piece size
Aside from marking torrents Private and uploading them to places which non-members cannot search, the fastest way to kill your own torrent is to permit your client to use default piece sizes. Torrents composed of very large (2mb+) pieces are difficult for peers to trade efficiently, especially if some of them are using seed-crippling ISPs such as Comcast or “cheating” clients (e.g., BitComet) which “rob” other clients utilizing super-seeding or initial-seeding. Smaller pieces are necessary for the torrent swarm to exchange a steady supply of “GOT” messages, and for seeding clients to identify which peers have the best re-trade rates.
Customizing file-size/piece-size combinations is somewhat of an art-form, but the following rules generally hold true: a torrent trades best if it has over 2500 or so pieces (e.g., 700mb/256k yields 2800 pieces). Torrents of rare material which you expect to routinely not have many peers should have more pieces. Multi-file torrents (e.g., a TV series) should have more pieces. Torrents you expect to be traded by “slow people” should have smaller pieces. A rare multi-file torrent should have WAY more pieces — ideally over 10,000.
Only single-file torrents of popular material should ever have 4mb piece sizes. Or torrents you’re trading to a limited set of known peers (e.g., a “scene” release to your comrades, or a PEX exchange to one other person), after which you don’t care about it.
4. Where to host
In my experience, you have to hit ALL of the “big boys” with the SAME hash in order to keep a torrent of old, marginal-interest material alive perpetually without your constant re-seeding. The interested peer-set is otherwise too split up for the torrent to maintain itself.
“Five Big Sites” I use as of 2007: PirateBay, Demonoid, ZeroTracker, TorrentBox, and Mininova. — The first three are “narcissists”; the first four support graphics; Mininova is the gateway to becoming publicly-indexed on places like BTjunkie and Torrentz.com (in other words, become automatically posted on dozens of other sites via RSS feed), and will yield the most peers quickly for initial-seeding. Mininova is also unique in that it will permit multiple uploads of the same hash if each version has a different first announce URL (so you could post a cartoon once in Anime and once in TV; etc). PirateBay, of all places, is most likely to eventually produce “permanent seeds”.
A WORD ABOUT PIRATEBAY AND DEMONOID
PirateBay is fussy — it checks torrents for things on its not-shared hidden lists of banned stuff. You cannot have any .url redirect files (those files which open your browser when clicked) in your torrents. You cannot mention Demonoid or several other sites in your descriptions. — I find that it’s best to upload your PirateBay torrent first, because if you need to make changes to accomodate them, you’ll want to do so before uploading a torrent containing unacceptable things to all the other sites.
Demonoid regularly changes its announce URL; make sure you know what it is before you upload everywhere else — because hastily deleting a bunch of torrents so you can edit the .torrent file to increment Demonoid’s announce is a pain in the ass.
– Additional fun stuff –
5. Killing Ads
Knowing how to kill ads is an IQ test; if you really need help, then everyone should just be laughing at you while you send in cash for a “Premium” account to those places who charge to turn them off. (Tip: Google is there for a reason.)
6. PEX Seeding
Suppose you’re attempting to initially-seed a torrent, and your ISP is Comcast. Notice how peers suddenly disappear as you’re seeding? That’s your own ISP pulling the plug on them. Congratulations! You’re being sanded. If your torrent has 4mb piece-size, it’s possible that not a single piece you’re initially-seeding arrives to peers in complete chunks, and virtually no one is trading with each other for that reason.
Sandvine, however, cannot detect Peer-Exchange trading.
Procedure (in uTorrent):
* Begin your torrent in regular seeding mode.
* Post the .torrent files to your favorite hosting sites.
* Wait until you have about a dozen peers, less if several are fast retraders, more if everybody is dog-slow
* Log half a dozen peers to the Logging Tab, and in the Logging Tab, observe and write down their IP addresses and port numbers. Record
* Stop the torrent for about an hour.
* right-click torrent in uTorrent > Properties…
…..delete all of the trackers from the list.
…..UNCHECK the DHT Enabled box. ….then hit OK.
* Start the torrent in initial-seeding mode.
…..in the Peers tab, right-click the background, and Add Peer. Enter the IP:port numbers of the peers you recorded earlier. If, after several attempts, nobody will show up, then “flash DHT” by opening that Properties dialogue again, enabling it, OK’ing, then immediately re-opening Properties and shutting it off.
7. Azureus- and BitComet-created torrents.
Azureus and BitComent can create torrent files with some unusual properties, such as support for eMule hash numbers. The torrent files they make can be edited in Edxor same as those made by uTorrent.
8. MakeTorrent 2.0
MT2 is good for simple editing jobs, but is prone to altering hash-numbers. Always double-check its output before posting it. The torrents of some clients cannot be edited by MT2 without altering hash-numbers, and so the application is useless for them.
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