Integrate utorrent with a file renamer
Oftentimes, when I download files, I rename them. I think it was around v1.5 when uTorrent allowed users to relocate files so users could rename their files and still seed them. Even still, when I have a torrent with over a 100 files and I have to rename all of them to seed them, this can be very time consuming. Even if I use a file renamer after the fact, I still have to individually relocate each file in uTorrent to seed. If there was a file renaming feature integrated with uTorrent, it would save me a whole lot of time.
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Talker commented
bert02, are you renaming file in one-filed torrent or files in a folder?
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Barron, you say VUZE does this? OK, I'm also going to change my bittirrent client. Bye.
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very interesting, wizzbang3 says "There is no need for this". are you deaf? people say here it is needed, but you say there is no need....
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wizzbang3
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There is no need for this, don't overly complicate the package
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Barron
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This is huge for me as I manage over 1,000 torrents. Unfortunately, I'm not going to take the time to manually change the Torrent File Name, the Display Name, and the Location/File Name to all match. I want uTorrent to give me that option for every torrent. VUZE does this - very well. So, goodbye uTorrent. It was real, but not fun.
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Have the same problem. I'd like to rename files because they are not sorted correctly (when downloading folders) if files named without preceding zeros e.g. 1,10,11,...,19,2,20...
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Slaverty
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I second. An ability to locally rename your files but still, something like, keep a database of the new filename and it's corresponding old filename so seeding is uninterrupted would be awesome!!
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alexander.1991 commented
Maybe a renamer function, in the µTorrent main window, at the torrent list? To the right of each torrent name, a "Rename" button?
It could for example detect what file extention the downloaded files are, and say the file(-s) are larger than 500mb, and have *.avi, *.mkv or any other commonly used extention, then it would rename the file in a specific format and move it to a /movies folder at completion?
The absolute greatest would be a IMDB.com plugin, that finds file info, and renames it for you :p
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n30h
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Great idea ^^
e11e -> GTFO !
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e11e
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i found this client:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
see: http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9900/azureusaddtorrent8oj.png -
mike
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this sounds like a great idea. i like having music sorted, tagged, renamed, etc. in directories, with the ability to still seed.
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jbsoum
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Luke: Wow, that's a great idea. And actually, the fact that something like that is possible makes it more likely that we would see something like that show up in a future version of uTorrent
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Luke Hallam commented
TvRename has "uTorrent Save to" function that I adore. It batch relocates the file location within the uTorrent database and hashes a chunk of the file ignoring the filename, in order to determine which files its looking for. you have to tell it which folder to look in but ir works recursivley. It's Awesome for reseeding torrents after they have been renamed. TvRename also includes a utility to match filenames to a torrent's naming convention, which is essentially the reverse. I think that it's insane that I have to use a third party program to manipulate the uTorrent database and perhaps the uTorrent Devs should "borrow" these ideas and add this functionality to uTorrent.
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Tom
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Yeh true, integration would be cool for sure. I don't actually move mine in Utorrent all I do is I have a script that watches the folder where utorrent downloads to and when it does it makes a copy of the files to another folder and runs them there. Admittedly tho u need extra HDD space to do this the ability to write scripts etc and yeh direct integration into Utorrent could be pretty cool.
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jbsoum
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Tom: That is fine, except if you have a torrent with over 100 files and you'd like to seed it after you rename them. The process of relocating files through uTorrent (or any torrent gui) is incredibly tedious. I think that if there was some way to integrate something like "theRenamer" into uTorrent for relocating files, this process would be greatly reduced.
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niculaie
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that would be just great sometimes i have a folder like working downloads and from month to month i transfer some of them wich are finisehd and are no rubbish to permanent folders. it would be great if i could move them with utorrent so i could still seed after, or if i coul update the folder location of files after moving them my self
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Tom
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Definite great idea. On a side note this is relatively easy to integrate if you want to do it yourself for the movies/series side of things anyway. All I do is have downloads copied to another folder then get hold of "theRenamer" (google will point you to the download) and just run a scheduled task to run theRenamer via commandline. It will rename and get rid of the extended filenames Frez is talkn about and delete all the samples and empty folders and rubbish. This makes it much easier if you are dumping it into Media centre etc and using a Covers/Info scraper.
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frez
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A great idea. I *HATE HATE HATE* how retarded most torrent files/folders are. Who wants a billion folders titled:
Content_Name_Year_Codec_Random_Rubbish_Name_Of_Uploader
I'm betting some creative regex work could make that a lot more sane.
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Jedakiah
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I have been hoping they would implement this for years. At the very least they should speed up the renaming of files before and during download. You should be able to double (or perhaps even single) click on a filename to rename it just like any other file manager allows you to do. And if the file has already begun downloading, it should rename the file on your hard drive as well.
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Unbeliever
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Actually, being able to change local filenames before/during/after download (while keeping the "official" filenames for seeding purposes) would be awesome.
