qBittorrent

The tracker sorting buttons are gone in v2.5.5. Why?

Asked by launchpadmember

On Linux,
In regards to an upgrade from an earlier version to v2.5.5.

If the "Trackers" tab is chosen (at the bottom of the screen when qbittorrent is maximized) in the window for the trackers tab is a list of trackers for the currently selected download. In earlier versions of qbittorrent there were up and down buttons on the right side of the trackers window. These buttons allowed me to place the trackers that had the most connected peers at the top of the tracker list, and to put the ones that are unreachable for any reason at the bottom of the list.

In v2.55 those buttons are gone and there is no way to prioritize the tracker list. Why did this feature get removed? It is clear by looking at my downloads that the trackers are not being sorted by the number of connected peers or even by the speed of the tracker and that some of the unreachable trackers that are remaining in the top portion of the list. Will this feature return in a future version? Will there at least be some effort to show how the trackers are being prioritized and to actually prioritize the trackers for each downloaded file (via speed, # of connected peers, connection status etc)?

Tracker sorting is important because it effects the speed of your download. Please include this feature in future versions of qbittorrent. Thanks.

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Best Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) said : 		#1

As uTorrent, recent qBittorrent uses all the trackers at once (no priority). This is the reason why the sorting buttons have been removed. This feature has been added in libtorrent-rasterbar v0.15.

From libtorrent documentation:

announce_to_all_trackers controls how multi tracker torrents are treated. If this is set to true, all trackers in the same tier are announced to in parallel. If all trackers in tier 0 fails, all trackers in tier 1 are announced as well. If it's set to false, the behavior is as defined by the multi tracker specification. It defaults to false, which is the same behavior previous versions of libtorrent has had as well.

announce_to_all_tiers also controls how multi tracker torrents are treated. When this is set to true, one tracker from each tier is announced to. This is the uTorrent behavior. This is false by default in order to comply with the multi-tracker specification.

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launchpadmember (lpuser1138) said : 		#2

Thanks Christophe Dumez, that solved my question.