Bit torrent newbie question

neok · 2008-08-28 10:02:05

Hi

I am one of many afficionados of golden oldie music, who were left with partial downloads of the very fine collection of tracks from http://78records.cdbpdx.com, when Yahoo cut off the site and made the owner agree to remove the urls of the nearly 4000 tracks available there.

There are now a few folks that managed to download all the tracks and have kindly made them available via bittorrents. My problem is, I have already downloded about 2000 tracks (~5 Gb) so I am looking for a bittorrent client that can download only the tracks that I am missing, to avoid re-downloading such a large collection of files.

Any tips/recommendations please for a bittorrent client (cli or gui) that can do this?

Thanks!

atomkarinca · 2008-08-28 10:19:10

Most of the Bittorrent clients now do that. Just be sure to enable full-allocation and you should be good to go. KTorrent, Deluge, Transmission to name a few of those clients.

byte · 2008-08-28 10:47:10

That of course depends on you not having moved or renamed files/folders in the collection.

moljac024 · 2008-08-28 10:52:46

byte wrote:

That of course depends on you not having moved or renamed files/folders in the collection.

No, it doesn't. If the torrent contains multiple files you can just check whatever you want and uncheck whatever you don't in the aforementioned clients...

byte · 2008-08-28 11:01:55

Yeah, I know. He could do both, either selecting single files or resuming the complete torrent.

bangkok_manouel · 2008-08-28 11:28:28

atomkarinca wrote:

Most of the Bittorrent clients now do that. Just be sure to enable full-allocation and you should be good to go. KTorrent, Deluge, Transmission to name a few of those clients.

adding rtorrent to the list.

neok · 2008-08-28 17:39:41

neok wrote:

Hi
I am one of many afficionados of golden oldie music, who were left with partial downloads of the very fine collection of tracks from http://78records.cdbpdx.com, when Yahoo cut off the site and made the owner agree to remove the urls of the nearly 4000 tracks available there.

OK, thanks everyone, I will give it a try - nice music!

tigrmesh · 2008-08-28 23:10:29

My mother had a big collection of 78s that she'd gotten from her uncle. I would like to listen to some of those again. I just can't imagine listening to a 78rpm recording played on an ipod...

neok · 2008-08-29 07:35:34

tigrmesh wrote:

My mother had a big collection of 78s that she'd gotten from her uncle. I would like to listen to some of those again. I just can't imagine listening to a 78rpm recording played on an ipod...

Try this torrent: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1697139 It seems to be complete, e.g. the seeders must have downloaded all the tracks before the website went down. Warning - 10+Gb download!

tigrmesh · 2008-08-29 17:23:19

neok wrote:

Try this torrent: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1697139 It seems to be complete, e.g. the seeders must have downloaded all the tracks before the website went down. Warning - 10+Gb download!

Thanks for the link. Just as soon as I find some disk space, I'll start that.

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