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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Hey
I m a totally newbie in terms of uploading, although i have been downloding stuff with utorrent since ages ;-)
i was going through the posts….my doubt was not addressed here i guess so…
i want to ask my doubt…
if i include say a zillion ( more than 5 say…)trackers from various sources in my torrent , will it help in making more people see it faster ?
Hi
one thing not answered here
can you upload stuff if your behind a ASDL 8mb connection? as the ip would keep changing when pc is reboot or isp cycles ips or has some clich… dont the torrent have to embedded your IP and where thre file is locacted on your pc in the .torrent file so people can connect… even if you work out the ports and what not
also limitation of upload of 128kb makes it not so useful for world wide sharing, maybe friends on same day if ip dont change?
correct?
is there anyone out there that can help share files world wide instead those with t3?
cheers
Hey there,
I have a similiar feeling for making my own torrent. BUT:
As I am still very green on this I was wondering , If any one knew how to select a folder when using Demonoid. It says when making a torrent, to “select file”. As I am using VOB and TS files, I would like to select them all, BUT it will only let me select one of the TS files, not the WHOLE folder.
What should I do?
Anyways, once again, I would like to select the WHOLE folder, while using Demonoid. to make a torent, not one file. How could I “select all”. I also use my mouse to drag, and yes, CTRL, SHIFT and still no avail.
HELP PLEASE!!!
i hav a Q…my torrent is taking time 2 seed..wat shud id o…hw do i make my torrent appear in d list of torrents in torrentz..sum1 pls help me..i am seeding encarta reference luibrary 2007 cd 3 …as a 1st torrent 2 b seeded…
Hi Ernesto,
I am new to torrent and i’m using Utorrent. Tracker is using:
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce.
I tried the above way to create a new torrent, chose a .zip file and ticked start seeding and save it at a folder.
When I try to go to UTorrent, I saw the zip file but it is not working.
How do I upload to Bit Torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, etc..etc..for the public to download ?
Appreciate your help.
Thanks everyone here !
Cheers !
Vince
[quote comment="104209"]Hi Ernesto,
I am new to torrent and i’m using Utorrent. Tracker is using:
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce.
I tried the above way to create a new torrent, chose a .zip file and ticked start seeding and save it at a folder.
When I try to go to UTorrent, I saw the zip file but it is not working.
How do I upload to Bit Torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, etc..etc..for the public to download ?
Appreciate your help.
Thanks everyone here !
Cheers !
Vince[/quote]
Hi Vince, that tracker doesn’t work anymore. Try one of the trackers listed here http://www.mininova.org/upload
Also, you need to upload the torrent to these sites by yourself after you created it (if you want to share it with the rest of the world).
I made some torrents in my uTorrent client, put them in Torrentbox for seeding, then started them seeding in uTorrent. They sat there for a long time, doing nothing, so I went into Torrentbox and downloaded them to myself. This might be coincidence but, immediately after I had done that, they started seeding.
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Hi I have been trying to help a friend of mine who has set up an indie label in sheffield and wants to promote the bands on the label by uploading their debut album onto torrent sites, as a free album sampler! to get it passed round the net and help promote the bands on there! I had go at doing it for him but I can’t get it to work! can anyone help me help my mate? the files are here :- http://www.sillyrob.co.uk/spoonjuice-records/ it’s not large about 30mb if anyone could get the ball rolling and seed this correctly, It would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Naz!
I have made a site, I know how to create & seed torrents…but what I want to do is use a private tracker.
How do I make one? do I just add the site..for example:
tracker.jondoe.com/announce??
It will be a private site needing registration similar to demonoid & I know demonoid uses it’s own tracker so I just want to do the same… is it possible & how to do it. Thanks
after i am fnished ware is the torrent? azuresu
cheers!
the files are here :- http://www.sillyrob.co.uk/spoonjuice-records/
cheers
feel free to download and
distribute through file share
or torrent
Naz!!!
I am new to using BitLord 1.1… Once you have selected the files that you want to download, how do you get the download to start?
I’ve done all the steps u mentioned. But, my BT Client doesnt seemed to be seedling it. Is it possible that we need to wait a certain period to seed it?
Bitcomet is great I think,it doesn’t affect your normal activity,for example surfing the internet.
This site is great….KVCDs are really helpfull. I wonder if anyone can upload a video of “How to make a KVCD file”…That would help us a lot..
Thanks..
Neo
I just created my first torrent and have no seed even after opening it up in both Bit and utorrent. I configured my router for port forwarding and made sure all the settings are ok for both programs. I even emailed a friend with the torrent and still no joy. What can i do next. I really want to share this torrent as none are available on the net.
hi there, well I need a software call Matlab for my mac OX is hard to find even in the net..A friend told me to downloaded from the torrent but I didnt knew how it works, so he came to my house and we try, in the end we couldnt coz he is not familiar with macs.. and other person told me to put in my hd tomato torrent, I did but is so hard to understand so I erase it from my hd, now I find a program call transmission and is easy to used, but I dont know how to configure the speed.
And the limited total bandwidth it should be higher in the upload rate or the download rate?
The speed is slow in this kind of downloads?…
I would apreciated a lot your help…please tell me in what site I can down load the torrents, coz I been told mininova is good, but.. I cannot find what I need…thanks for your time
I have created the torrent file, uploaded it onto thepiratebay, as my tracker. it is listed, and i am trying to seed it but i don’t know how, this is the last and most crucial step so someone please help
Question.
Let’s assume others are seeding my torrent already. If I stop seeding, no one will be able to download the torrent file? Or is it acceptable to stop seeding after a while (when plenty of other people are seeding for you)?
Hi there!
How can i Seed my .torrent files?
And how can i have more peers?
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Great article!
I have a problem: I followed the steps for utorrent, tried several open trackers but when I try to seed it says there’s no seed (0/0). Also, I gave the link to a friend that couldn’t d/l anything. What could I be doing wrong?
nice,
do anyone know how to add incomplete torrent from a previous windows installation.
Some data was downloaded already and i dont want to lose it after reinstalling windows. The program is µtorrent
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