I have lots of torrents downloaded through transmission, which I would like to continue seeding through i2p via the XD client, without having to re-download the files. How do I “move” my seeding to i2p? Do I have to upload the torrents to an i2p torrent tracker, or can I avoid that?

Would you recommend this in the first place?

Sorry for the stupid question folks, help is appreciated, even if not specific to these clients. Thanks in advance!

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    3 months ago

    There are open trackers on I2P e.g http://opentracker.skank.i2p/ and http://opentracker.dg2.i2p/ both trackers don’t have a search interface though, so probably people won’t find your torrents unless they are very popular. You can upload the torrents to http://tracker2.postman.i2p which has a good interface.

    Doing so would help with the download speeds for other users.

    P.S I’ve enever used XD. So I can’t help you out there, but it seems like a very bare-bones torrent client. qbittorrent recently added support for it but if you’re running a headless server, XD doesn’t seem like a bad option. Github says it has no DHT support? Not sure if that’s the best option, but good luck with it.

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    • potosi@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      I’ll try qbittorrent too, just I was attracted to XD as it only supports i2p and it therefore claims it can have no ip leaks (ik that probably doesn’t mean qbittorrent is insecure). I guess the only way would be to upload to the torrent tracker, thanks!

  • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    If you can find the same torrent already existing, you should be able to add the torrent, paused, then copy the file to the empty folder. Force a recheck and then it should hash check the files.

    Not specific to XD as I dont use it, but has worked for me when changing trackers. I havnt tried when downloading over different protocols, but it should not make a difference.

    • potosi@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Yeah the thing is that transmission sadly does not support using a proxy (therefore no i2p/changing to i2p trackers) so that sadly would not work (except if I got it wrong). Adding the torrent link as-is would not work through an i2p client as it only supports torrents inside the i2p network, and the torrents I have are from clearnet (can I add the torrent file, though?). Sorry if I do not make any sense, but thanks I’ll try it out anyway!