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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hi…
i hve created a torrent..(utorrent client)
bt i hve some doubts..
1) there is a option called “start seeding”. should i click it??
2)when i m offline…will it seed??
3)if i want to stop seeding, what should i do ??
Thanks for great walk through!!
Thanks, struth!, never knew it was that simple. Easy when someone makes it as clear as it is here.
Thanks.
Hi guys, I have uploaded a torrents to http://thepiratebay.org: (http://thepiratebay.org/user/kilimachetu)
Problem: I am using utorrent 1.7.5 and i opened the torrent file - add - torrent with my utorrent but no seed apperas. I few people are interested to download but it is almost 2 days now and the files do not download at all. ONe of the files is only 34.5kb. How do I seed these? I also tried file - make new torrent and ticked start seeding.. nothing. I used http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce.
Thanks.
I’ve just created a torrent “The Living Dead Girl (1982)” and saved the tracker name “Lil NudistGirl ~ The Living Dead Girl (Spanish) (WS) (1982)” but I can’t find it on any torrent wensite. I’ve saved some of the torrent tracked you’ve suggested. One of them was ‘thepiratebay’ and I’ve search the site for my torrent but can’t find it. Why is it not there. I did not click “make private” or whatever just in case you were wondering. I’ve checked the general tab in uTorrent and it looks like it’s working. But can’t find my torrent. Any suggestions?
hello i wanna have make my own torrent website like a mininova.org and etc…
what script i need for make my own website of torrent?:(
give me some advance please
For your own site I reccomend you host your site in sweden and use google.
and guys, if you want to share your torrent privately I found a site which is like rapidshare but for .torrent files! No ads, delays or anything =]
http://torrot.bounceme.net/
Hi, I have created a ne torrent file. I have uploaded it to Mininova. My friends can’t download the file as there are no seeds! How should I seed it as in BitTorrent when I add the torrent for seeding, it doesn’t upload it at all! Please help me, I would like to give something back, I dowload aloy from torrents, I seed them but sometims it takes forever so I would like to upload some. Thankz
pls response how to be connected to utorrent.com
e.id narayanmail@yahoo.com
How to build a bittorent tracker site?
Those sites are difficult to build. I suggest using an existing one. The Pirate Bay has always worked the best for me, try that one.
i created the torrent and i went to Torrent Box and i uploade it..i use Azures and after i used the wizard i click on open to seed and the azures seed it and on the site for torrent box i can see my torrent but..beside my torrent on the site i found seeds (0) why? it’s seeded already on my azures so wht is my problem here?? thanx
1.Go to your Torrent Box
2.Find your torrent(it`s dead)
3.Download torrent file from it
4.Open Azureus
5.Add downloaded torrent and browse to it on your hard disk…
I’m trying to make a .torrent on Azureus, but I can’t find my ‘New Torrent’ feature, and when I press (Ctrl + N), nothing happens. What do I do? Send me a response to my email: sarah_l_shelton@hotmail.com.
Thank you
You can download the Spoonjuice Records Torrent from here :-
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in ref to the post above,
cheers, Nige!
HaPPy New YeaR :Can any 1 tell me which is the best torrent search web site? what is with http://www.torrent.com ,a month ago it said it was under construction!
http://torrentscan.com/
Happy New Year 2008 !!!
http://torrentfreak.com/10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2007-071229/
Happy New Year!
I made a torrent to share with a friend but He can’t connect to it, I have Peers 0 (1) So i see him but he doesn’t connect… I have azureus, Help please
[quote comment="1679"]I will NOT show, only if you upload it to the site[/quote]
Hi ive downloaded loadz of torrents, my question is this-what is the difference between seeding a torrent you’ve downloaded and uploading a torrent?
Hey guys. I have bitcomet, and I just made my first torrent. But when I tried to upload to mininova.org, It wouldn’t let me and said I have too much ‘padding’? or something.
I have no idea wtf that means. >_>
Can anyone explain this, and suggest a better tracker or something?
Mark, uploading a torrent is basically creating your own torrent, with files that werent on the tracker before, and uploading that to share with others. its similar to downloading and them uploading, but not quite the same since you are downloading something thats put on the tracker by someone else.
I use a Laptop and only DL from public access locations. Since I don’t have Internet access at home, I can’t really seed but I would still like to give to the community. Is there a site that I can upload to that permits *any* software / video type? The only sites I’ve found that will let me upload to create a web-based torrent have rules regarding copyright items and I don’t want to get banned for providing protected items. Any site recommendations would be helpful, thanks.
[quote comment="1690"]here is an interesting flash demo using the wink program for what looks to be the creation of a personal tracker and torrents sent to friends using utorrent (see Martin’s comment above):
http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/bittorrent/quote
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