Tagging torrents = creating groups

[pHghost]

It would be great if you could create tags for sorting the torrent files into categories, especially for someone who seeds a lot and his list of loaded torrents keeps growing, and growing...

Thanks!

Appreciate your efforts!

[PRSubway]

I second this. Very vital feature.

Thanks a lot!

[agomla]

+1

[Tsvetanov]

.. or some comment fields instead

[thelittlefire]

Good question, is the push for more a "label" system a-la Windows version? Or "Groups" like the built-in colored bubble/label system

[NoOneButMe]

Labels create groups of things. Groups of things are labeled. It's the same thing.

[thelittlefire]

Not at all. There are a finite number of "group" colors. Textual labels are infinite.

[NoOneButMe]

Both labels and groups can have colors applied to them if the devs choose it. And displays can generally display 16 million+ colors with dithering.

So while, yes, there is a finite set of colors, the set of colors available exceeds the number of labels one could possibly have. So adding colors to labels is a decent idea. Visual grouping is generally quicker to pick up then Textual grouping is.

[pHghost]

I meant 'labels' primarily, like creating a group named "Demonoid" or "Movies" or "Apps", even being able to apply more labels to one torrent.

The possibility of being able to add colors to the labels (like in Gmail where you have 24 different color style options, or maybe even with more customizability) would certainly be a feature greeted positively, and is a good idea, but probably isn't a necessary and priority request right now. I'd rather have the 'labels' fast without the color option than having to wait for the feature to be implemented with the color option. That can be added later.

[antikorr]

Second that. Both colors and text labels have a right to be implemented, imho. They are in Transmission. So, it was kinda handy.

[thelittlefire]

Where are text labels implemented in transmission? The grouping is by color, which you can customize/change. I mentioned color first and foremost.. since well it's in Finder for pete sake.

[pHghost]

You can create additional color labels in Transmission, whereas Finder has a limited number (as far as I know). And you can rename the respectful color labels in Transmission if you want. The color is still primary, but the group renaming feature is there to be used if you want to.

For me, text based groups are more effective, you just look and see what each of the groups represents.

[thelittlefire]

>< I thought those colors were hard-coded like in Finder. Indeed, one or the other, or both. Collapsibility of by-group (Shift-Cmd-G) is nifty,and may even add utility in uT/Mac if that's the route to be taken.

[antikorr]

You can have lots of groups in Transmission of the same color, but with different text labelling. E.g. Movies, Music, Apps. All of them can be, let's say, 'gray', but Transmission will order them anyway, according to the text labelling. That's it.

[pHghost]

Sure, that is the way I'd like it to go, groups based on name (text), with an option to add a color badge or something of that sort to them for preferential customization.

[antikorr]

Yep. Totally agree.

I wrote the above message for thelittlefire.

[thelittlefire]

Thank you for pointing it out antikorr.

[godDLL]

That would make a nice use of all of that sidebar space. (And be neat and tidy.)

[Ultima]

(Labels actually are the main reasons behind the sidebar in the first place -- see the Windows version for reference. RSS feeds will be going there as well once RSS support is implemented.)

[Drama]

That would make a nice use of all of that sidebar space. (And be neat and tidy.)

I second this; the sidebar space should be used for something, and this would fit perfect.

[Ultima]

It's a perfect fit because as I've already stated, this is partly what the sidebar is for.

[anaemik]

This is a great idea and I'm excited to hear that the devs have already made plans to implement this in the near future.

I don't know how feasible or realistic this is, but I can think of a couple of ways that the usefulness of these ;labels/groups could be extended.

Would it be possible, for example, to assign certain attributes on a group-wide basis? Lets say you have a group set up for all torrents from a particular private tracker, and you are trying to balance your ratio on that tracker. It would be great to be able to apply global upload/download bandwidth limits across that entire group. Similarly, I can see the usefulness in prioritising certain groups over others, or setting a whole group to "seed only", or even to have one group auto stop after a ratio of say 1.5 has been reached, for example.

I understand this would complicate matters for the devs so this is just thrown out there as an idea. As I'm not a programmr I'm not even sure how complicated it would be to assign torrent-specific attributes across a whole group (for example to avoid potentially tricky conflicts I would imagine a torrent could only be a member of one group at a time)

[Ultima]

Such a feature has been requested for the Windows version as well (frequently referred to as per-label options), and it's on the potential todo list for a future version, so the answer would be yes, there are plans.

[MacNike]

This feature would be very useful.

I'd like to link this feature with manually choose download directory.

If I choose Movie or Series or Music label/group, I'd like it to download that to a pre-set directory for the specific label/group.

+1 for this feature.

[pHghost]

Hmm, having a different download location per label/group...that sounds interesting.