How to create a torrent?
Written by Ernesto on March 23, 2006Torrents 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!.
Previously: Googled
Next: Niteshdw to settle and Isohunt to fight the MPAA
188 Responses
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] Show All
hi i have upload ttorrent in mininova how can i seed it there is no seed and leechers plzz help me
I was using the KTorrent on Linux Kubuntu 6. 10. edgy eft and it went well but once I have tried to increase download speed and when I pressed default my computer started to reject KTorrent and I can not ewen reinstall KTorrent or BiTorrent. Desktoop shows me that KTorrent has crushed and caused signal 6 SIGABRT.
I tried to find where to post a torrent on both isohunt and pirate bay after following your instructions. All I get is a runaround. Pirate bay offers no link to upload anything. I have some real rare music and hard to find videos.
Use LimeWire..
you can sharing anything..
and faster..
torrents are slowest..
Ernesto,
I did a test on this and it doesn’t seem to be working. I created a new torrent file in uTorrent, input the public tracker (I also ticked the “start seeding” box), saved the torrent, and sent it to myself. On a different computer using Transmission, I opened the torrent file, but nothing seems to be happening. Is there something I’m missing? Thanks in advance.
I have created torrent. But how to send it to friends????Please help…………….
Here is a more illustrated tutorial:
http://thegeekyspot.com/2008/07/05/how-to-create-upload-a-torrent/
I have a pretty reasonable amount of web space and bandwidth that I can hold uploads ready for downloads (via torrents)
after I upload movies/music etc to this web space how do I direct a torrent to download from the file saved on my web space and not from my pc?
I have just created a torrent with Vuze. It is a movie with 2 different parts. I want to know how can I put it on demonoid. I have tried uploading a torrent but it only accepts one file and I have 2.
I got 1 problem. I get the torrent on the site and stuff. It says there are 1 seeder. But when someone is trying to download it. He dont get any seeder. Do you guys know why?
Good post…there is an easier way to create a torrent using uTorrent, check out this post:
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/cool-websites/make-torrents/
Hi Im brand new to this !!
I tried to create a torrent to add to a wrestling website, I copied the file from a Dvd I own. I used
U-torrent and followed the step by step direction, I even succeeded in uploading to the site. What I failed to notcie and can’t figure out is why the torrent shrinks in size from 634 MB to 12.8 KB.Could you please e-mail me at bikeman82002@yahoo.ca
I use utorrent.com as client. However when I do create the torrent and when I do want to upload it onto a website like mininova.org I can’t upload it. When I click on “browse” it asks for the file not the folder. When I click on the folder to upload, it wants me to pick a specific file before I can send. Obviously most people upload folders not just files. Can anyone help on this? I am totally new. I appreciate anyone helping out.
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] Show All
Responses are closed
All remaining responses will continue to be archived. Use the TorrentFreak forums if you want to discuss something.