Torrent posting guide

Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 7:56 pm

Given isoHunt's somewhat unusual Releases / Torrent interface, here's a step by step guide to posting:

1. Make a .torrent file out of what you like to share over BitTorrent. I recommend Azureus which includes all the functionality you need, including making and downloading torrents. Here's the Azureus user guide, including a section on how to start seeding.

2. Search for a release you want to post your torrent in here

3. If there's already a release for what you want to post, click it and skip to step 5.

4. If there's no release for what you want to post, click the Post new release at the top left of all the Release pages. Fill in as much useful information as you can for people looking at the releases. Submit the info after you are done. You don't upload your torrent yet on this page.

5. On the Release viewing page, near the bottom there's a BitTorrent section. Check the torrents that's already posted to make sure you are not posting a dupe, and hit the [Upload] link at the end.

6. Upload and fill in the details on the upload page, and you are done For the description, you don't need to repeat what's already said in the Release, but notes such as the language and format of the torrent you are posting would be useful.

7. If there's more than 1 .torrent for your release, such as multiple iso images, upload them under the same release by repeating step 6.

The reason for why I have this kind of Releases interface is to attempt to give the posted torrents more organization, so please try to avoid dupes and group torrents together in their appropriate Release. You can also vote on torrents uploaded by others.

UPDATE: if these steps aren't clear enough, check out joenobody's illustrated guide.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:07 am

Please Help me !
I can not upload because ...
somebody put my tracker and I want to correct.

What do I have to make?

Thank you in advance

Bercit

PS. I sent messages to [Gary@isohunt.com] too

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:57 pm

Hi guys,

If I will use Azureus programm may be it will be better, I will be more safe,

Can you give me advice to use Bit Torrent or Azureus.

thank you

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:46 pm

Azureus has about the most features of all clients, some would say it's bloated since it's also written in java. If you computer is reasonably modern you won't notice much sluggishness. It has integrated Peerguardian support to block out certain ips, but you don't really need that if you are running it on your comp anyways.

Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 6:37 pm

I've spent about 8 hours now trying to upload material for others using both ABC and Azureus, but with no luck. I'm about ready to give up, and resign myself to being just another who keeps on taking, taking, taking, but never giving back. I have 518 CD rips on my computer that I am happy to share, but the frustrations involved in sharing them have just about put me right off!

Until the Bottorrent process is a lot more easy to use, I can't see it growing and expanding.

Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:32 pm

Are you behind a firewall/router? That's usually the only reason for inability to upload properly. Look at this thread if you haven't: http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1525

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:18 pm

my uploaded torrent status is DOWN? How do i fix this???

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:32 am

hi guys im new in the site but ----
im no noob
i used torrent-lab
they fucked it up an now i can tget back on
i only down 7.9gig an up 3.8
i thought it was ok only used it for 3 days he he
well thing is i use abc an my ports is all set up for it can i still use it an will i be able to upload my iso games only got a few but would like to share them all the sam e

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:49 pm

Hi, I just want to clarify for anyone who is wondering (like I was) what you have to do to the torrent file itself before uploading it. The answer is that you don't do anything to it at all. Just upload the original torrent and the site will create a modified version that you can then use to download from the original site or from several other backup sites.

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:59 am

Hi,

I am making the torrent file and I need to know what is the tracker address for isohunt. Can someone tell me what is the current isohunt tracker address?

Thanks.

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:50 pm

We don't have one, the one we have running is overloaded and is used to BTHub backup purposes only. Just use any of the 1000s of trackers found here or host your own (Azureus for example comes bundled with one)

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:39 am

Hey guys i'm trying to post something but i have one question...what should be the tracker's URL to insert in the torrent?
PM please.

Thank you,

Lakna

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:07 pm

On the Post new release page (http://s2.isohunt.com/release.php?post) I could not find a place to upload the torrent. I could fill in info about the files it represented, and URL links to related info and dat file for P2p. Where do I provide the torrent?

Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 12:59 am

you upload torrent after you post the release. Maybe it's not very obvious, I enlarged the font and put it in square brackets of the "Upload .torrent" link, at bottom of release pages.

Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:36 am

hey guys i have tried to set up a tracker with Azureus but i just dunno how to do it i already have read the guid but i doesnÂ´t make any sence to me plzz help me.