Hi I just joined my first private tracker (torrentleech). I found something in the wish list which I have. I’d like to seed it to start out on a good foot. Are there any good guides on that? I’ve tried in the past and utterly failed, I’m hoping it’s easier to start a seed on a private tracker?
Welcome to the private tracker community! It is a lovely place to be.
I personally am not a member of torrentleech but here is some advice to get you started!
1. Make use of the bonus points system
Typically most private trackers have some sort of economy in which permaseeding is rewarded with points. These points can then be used to buy upload credit to improve your ratio.
2. Download freeleech content
Often they also have freeleech content that does not count towards you download (thus preserving your ratio). Most trackers require you maintain a certain ratio. At first you can just manually search or download new freeleech content. Eventually, you may want to set up autobrr to automatically download new freeleech torrents. Other users have provided helpful links to get you started. Keep in mind as you explore other trackers some do not allow autobrr to be used.
3. Get connectable
The need for a VPN is not always as crucial as it is for public torrents. That being said, sometimes it is difficult to get connectable (forward ports) on your home network. Thus some users use a VPN such as AirVPN that allow port forwarding. You don’t need to be connectable to seed, however you are unable to seed to other non-connectable users (thus decreasing your upload potential).
4. Avoid the forums and chat
This advice is often over said and most of the time the forums and chat are pretty decent. It comes from the odd power hungry moderator getting a bit too ban happy. However, what I will say is avoiding the chat and forums is not a terrible idea if you are not too familiar with the sites rules. Sometimes they are very specific and can get you if your not paying attention.
5. Upload content once you are familiar with the site
Once you feel comfortable with the above, uploading can really help your ratio. Make sure you follow all the rules of torrentleech if you are going to upload. Often private trackers have very strict and stringent rules. This is why I generally don’t recommend uploading if you’re new to the whole torrents scene.
Typically, the uploading process goes something like this. Create the
.torrentfile using qbittorrent or something similar. Make sure you mark the torrent as private in the creation tool and include your unique tracker url (you get this from the private tracker). Upload the.torrentfile and actual file to your seedbox (or if you’re just seeding from the computer begin seeding once you create the torrent). Sometimes you need to do a force recheck to get it seeding. Then you upload the torrent to the private tracker and add relevant metadata. Force re-announce the torrent on qbittorrent and it usually shows up. You will need to be connectable to upload.If you already have that same exact torrent, and I don’t mean It’s the 1999 matrix but the exact distro bit for bit for bit file they have, You can start downloading that torrent from them, let it make the structure on your file system, stop your torrent client. Replace the contents of the file in that structure with your already completed stuff, start the torrent client and do a force recheck.
If the file you put there is 100% binary exact for what it’s expecting you will start seeding right off the bat
You probably have to wait a while to become an uploader.
An easy way to get lots of free upload is to download framestor remux files. If it’s marked “freeleech”, it won’t cost you to download but you’ll get all the upload credit.
Okay I will start like that. I read the FAQ and it looks like I won’t qualify as an uploader as I’m just short of the upload speeds they need and won’t likely be able to upload many things a month.
Side question, are you constantly managing your ratio or do you think that if I run all my sonarr stuff through the the private tracker and just leave stuff to seed indefinitely that I will be okay?
Even if you aren’t an uploader, you can still upload torrents by filling requests. You just need to become a power user, which only takes two weeks and 200GB of upload.
200gb of upload is a LOT for a private tracker! I’ve got a couple where I’ve been seeding dozens of torrents for MONTHS and I still haven’t cracked 200gb upload.
Use autodl-irssi or autobrr to grab some free leech torrents as soon as they are uploaded. You will hit 200GB in a few hours if you have a decent upload speed and have port forwarding set correctly.
Yeah but then I have to host a bunch of content that I’m not using on my Jellyfin server, and thats a whole mess to untangle in qbit. I appreciate the suggestion, though!
Good to know. Thanks.
Something else worth mentioning, if you have some release at home which already are on tracker, you can seed them too. Just make sure it is identical release, load torrent file from tracker and point directory to where your file is. On a different matter, make sure your client is well setup, that means to ensure you have a port rule on router leading to your pc IP and use same port on your torrent client. And if you use a VPN, prefer to setup your torrent client to use VPN connection rather than using a kill switch on VPN client.
I have the files that I ripped from an online streamer but not a torrent.
That won’t work since you ripped it, but you will be able to upload that later.
If you want more advance, Then get content freelech first on torrentleech IRC channel, as new releases are announced there before they appear on the site. Using autobrr is best for that https://github.com/autobrr/autobrr
Here is torrenteech guide to download freeleech using autobrr https://wiki.torrentleech.org/doku.php/autobrr
Be aware that many users have seedboxes on torrentleech, so you will be competing with them. Without a seedbox, you will have a hard time uploading (seeding). This should not be problem if you permaseed your torrents, as you will earn points that can be exchanged for upload credit.
To add to this, your user class will define what the minimum amount of seed TIME is required. https://wiki.torrentleech.org/doku.php/user_classes (note that you are not forced to seed 1:1, but only meet the minimum required time.) I have autobrr cycle through 17 freeleech torrents a day and whatever my ratio is, thats my surplus to use later. From there, I continue to seed them until they are culled with a set ETA in qbittorrent. I have a local NAS with a few extra TB in storage that I just let run for the last year and a half. Current ratio is 133.172% with a total of 45.44TB seeded.
I haven’t uploaded a new file to TL before but on other private trackers it was fairly straight forward. I just created the torrent in QBit, filled out their upload form making sure to follow the rules as far as naming conventions, listing metadata for the file(s), including screenshots, and copying and pasting a plot summary from somewhere like IMDB, before finally completing it all and uploading my torrent to the site for mod approval. I’m away from my PC right now so I can’t check but I’m sure they have their upload requirements listed in the FAQ or Rules page.
Another great way to build ratio there is to filter by torrents listed in the last couple of hours and grab them (especially freeleech) even if you have zero interest in watching the content and seeding it for as long as possible. The mods there recommended this to me back when I first signed up and got banned because I hadn’t uploaded or downloaded anything within the first week or two of signing up.
Judging from their guide there is a bunch of criteria, many which I don’t meet, so I guess I will be seeding freeleeches for a while.
You could always ask for advice there but it’s best to avoid breaking any rules as moderators can be quite ruthless in these types of places.
I’m new to it as well, but the advice I was given was to find small sub 2gb content thats missing and upload that. It will give you easy ratio then you can watch what you want.
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