How to create a torrent?
Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large files with your friends, or even with people you don’t know at all. But surprisingly enough, not many people create torrents when they need to share something. I have “a lot of” friends who know how to download torrents, but when they need to send me their latest 200MB vacation picture collection, they ask me to “get on msn”.
It’s not that I have anything against msn (allthough the file transfer sucks), but why don’t just use BitTorrent? Especially if you want to send something to more than one person, or if you want to share high quality HDTV files, because then you can share the bandwidth.
So how do you do this? Well it’s very simple. Open your favorite BitTorrent client and do the magic trick:
file > create torrent
That’s all? Well almost. All you need to do now is put in the tracker info nad tick some boxes. This can differ somewhat from client to client but it all comes down to the same thing.
uTorrent
1. File > Create new Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Select the files and or directories
3. Trackers: This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.
Here are some good trackers you can use:
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
4. Do NOT tick the private torrent box (unless you’re using a private tracker)
5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
1. File > Create Torrent (or CTRL + M)
2. Select the files and or directories
3. Select “enable public DHT network” from the dropdown box
This way you can be your own tracker if the public tracker goes down.
4. Tracker server and DHT node list
Again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.
Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
1. File > New Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Tick “use an external tracker”.
And again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers.
Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:
http://tracker.prq.to/announce
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce
http://tracker.bt-chat.com/announce
http://tracker.zerotracker.com:2710/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
3. Select single file or dicectory, click NEXT and point to the file or directory you want to share, and click NEXT
4. Do NOT tick “private torrent”
5. Do tick “allow decentralized tracking”
6. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
Happy sharing. Note that you don’t need to upload the torrent to a website or a tracker. This means you control who gets the file and who doesn’t, and it won’t be visible to others!.
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I have a really, really beginner question. I don’t understand how to make my own torrent yet because even the lingo is quite new to me, so let’s not go there XD But I would like to be able to share the files I’m downloading… so, if I download a file/files, do I have to do anything if I want to share it, or is it automatically shared as long as I leave my client online? Thanks! :]
Happyharryhydrohut@hotmail.com
i have a crapload of PC game torrents
made up now
Max Payne 1 & 2
C&C Renegade
Medal of Honor & expansions
Warcraft 3 & TFT
Total Overdose
Hitman 1-4 (4 being blood money)
GTA Original dos to San Andreads
Never Winter Knights and Exp.
Halo
KOTOR 1 & 2
WoW - online account required
FarCry
and noone to share like a treabite of games with…. but thnaks for telling me how to make em.
hi! i am having trouble with that selecting tracker part! can anyone tell me good trackers. the one above are not working (and i think i don know how to make them work)
it says failure, unregistered torrent! and i want to share my files with every one so can anyone tell me how to do that! help will b appreciated!
Hi
does this also work when both the sender and receiver are behind NAT ?
Maybe at least one person needs and Public IP?
aright? nice job on the website and that, im fairly new to all this and hoping ya can answer a question for is.
how do you seed a torrent youve made yourself?
if ya can get back to is would be much appreciated!
@mark
How to seed your own torrent simple tutorial
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1. Create your own torrent
2. Upload the torrent to the one you used when you create your torrent (step 1)
3. Open your BT client and open the torrent you create in step 1, choose initial-seeding/start-seeding/force-seeding (read your BT client about first time seeding!)
4. Wait a few hours for your leecher(s) to come….
5. Leave your BT client open until at least TWO leechers finished downloading and become seeders.
6. Done….
rahimhd.dynu.com:6969
my lil tracker ;)
i uploaded my torrent to mininova and it worked the only thing is is that no one has connected and i have had my BT client seeding it for like 8 hours and on mininova it says 100 people have dl it.
lol nevermind my first leecher has FINALLY COME.
@djer,
nice. Don’t just rely on on site to publish your torrent. Try uploading to torrentbox, torrentspy, torrentz. They will mirror your torrent to all their affils.
hi everybody,
I am using BitTorrent and I am stopped on the way to creat a torrent file…
The window for creating a torrent does not have any cases with “save” or “record” there is just one with “publish”. So I’ve pressed it but the file won’t finish to be bild. I don’t know what to do. The torrent is in the folder but 0 bits size… would you help me please ?
Sorry for the bad english I am using, hope you’ve understood…
I do send to my friends
Hi guys,
I downloaded some moive files, and just put them initially into a staging area. After the downloads, I want to move them into folders so it is more organized. How do I do this if it is being shared in azureus in the staging area? Can I rename the files as well? (while i thank the efforts of the people, I would like to keep the file names simple like move title only, without Ripped By.. etc…)
So, I’m using uTorrent. I created a torrent and then submitted it to “http://tracker.prq.to/announce”.
Question: Does one “tracker” site spread your uploaded torrent to other sites, or should I attempt to blanket as many sites as possible?
Thank you…
Tom
ICQ=4580576
Well, lets say for example I want to create a torrent for a file. Once I create the torrent with the trackers it wont download. How do i get it to begin downloading. I dont understand. I put it all the trackers and then I created the torrent. I am not sure why it will not download.
EGut surely you mean upload?
So, I have to be online in order to allow people to download?
I’ve made a few torrents and they’re uploaded now, but how do I seed? I can only seed torrents of other people!
[quote comment="21127"]I’ve made a few torrents and they’re uploaded now, but how do I seed? I can only seed torrents of other people![/quote]
just loead the torrent in your bittorrent client, and stay online :)
I mean what do I click to start uploading? Sorry, I’m really a total greenie with uTorrent……
Hi. I made a torrent and posted it several places, but it only shows up on torrentspy.com.Torrentbox says it won’t show it on the front page until I begin seeding it-but I am seeding it, it says “seeding” in my utorrent. I even went and also checked the box “initial seeding.”
What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help.
hi,
i have created a torrent file using azureus as described above. when i tried to upload this file in http://www.thepiratebay.org , it shows the msg ‘wrong code’. whats the problem. pls help. i am new to this.
thanx in advance.
hi, i was wondering if there is a program or if we could find someone who could make a program that will let you not seed to people who aren’t seeding themselves..
Shah wrote:
i have created a torrent file using azureus as described above. when i tried to upload this file in http://www.thepiratebay.org , it shows the msg ‘wrong code’. whats the problem. pls help. i am new to this.
thanx in advance.
This means that you did not enter the correct characters in the box at the bottom of the page where it says: “Enter code from image:” (The characters from the black rectangle just above this box)
These characters are case sensitive - pirate bay appears to use only upper case
[quote comment="25367"]hi,
i have created a torrent file using azureus as described above. when i tried to upload this file in http://www.thepiratebay.org , it shows the msg ‘wrong code’. whats the problem. pls help. i am new to this.
thanx in advance.[/quote]
Incidentally, I too was confused by this at first … “wrong code” sounds like it could mean “wrongly encoded file” … thinking it might have something to do with the torrent software I was using, I downloaded and installed a different engine with the result that I got to see the differences in features … based on this, I would advise others to compare software before deciding on the one they prefer …
Do I save the .torrent in the same directory as the files I want to share?
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