churchi Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Hi All,jsut was thinking before it would be good to have like a skip list thing like in flashfxp.what i mean is if you have the skiplist activated and lets say you were downloading a mp3 album on bt, often times they have instrumental and acapella trackes on them, now usually im not interested in them, so if we could have a skiplist that auto skips (un ticks or doesnt download) the files this would automate it a little more. so you could add files to the skiplist and automatically utorrent would skip these, but still give you the manual option to re-select them in the file list.its just a handy little feature that i was thinking about before. could save bandwidth for some of the people on the slower links.what do you all think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Selective downloading isnt very good for piece distribution - I try to minimize the occurences that i have to use that feature.Downloading an extra 1-2 songs on an entire mp3 album is better then fucking up the torrent's piece distribution IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdArmor Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Downloading an extra 1-2 songs on an entire mp3 album is better then fucking up the torrent's piece distribution IMO.Agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greek Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 it doesn't fuck up anything. and what if someone needs only some files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 Set the files you don't want to 'Don't Download' manually, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 It does fuck the piece distrbution since you DONT have those pieces you skipped, meaning others are strained more on bandwidth for uploading those pieces to others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greek Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 they should disconnect, then. once they obtain the files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurtlesRock Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 we already have the ability to not download certain files, so the argument about piece distribution is meaningless in this situation.How about extending the request to skip over certain files to include regular expressions. That way, this request could be lumped into the previous request and it would make everyone requesting happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 they should disconnect, then. once they obtain the filesAnd how is not sharing at all going to solve the situation ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurtlesRock Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 And how is not sharing at all going to solve the situation ?Exactly, so better to allow a skip list and still help the swarm instead of dropping off entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 Or just skip those files manually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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