I’m spinning up a new seedbox and wanted to know what is everyone using nowadays? I was using deluge via the thick client and rutorrent previously. Are they still king? edit: I should have also mentioned that I plan on running this server headless so I will need to be able to access it via a thin client or a web browser
Qbittorrent via a container and web UI on my NAS, lets me use it as a backend for *arrs as well as anything else, just have tag based directories for it so Software goes into one folder and TV movies etc in their respective folders.
I personally like the setup a lot since I can always be a seeder even well after my ratio is hit.
slskd hooked up to this as well to share everything music wise, gives me a nice way to reconcile stuff Lidarr can’t find and shares it all back for anyone to browse so hopefully helps someone downloadv something they’re searching for a FLAC of
nzb360 on Android for management as needed, it hooks into Qbittorrent easily and gives me a nice place to do some quicker tasks for my overall infra
I use biglybt, i know the ui isn’t great but the features make up for it
qBittorrent and rtorrent are very popular.
qBittorrent here.
Good ol’ rtorrent never dissapoints. For when I want something with a webui, I have a qflood container that I extracted from its old *arr setup to more generalistic usage.
QBITTORRENT
qbittorrent on PC and libretorrent on Android.
Deluge is always my goto.
qBittorrent is probably the most commonly used client. Transmission is another popular option, especially among macOS users, since it has a familiar design and feels more native.
rTorrent is great if you want a CLI app, and ruTorrent offers a web frontend. Another option that you can run on a server is Deluge.
You can control qBittorrent from Android using qBitController or from iOS using qBitControl (you can get it from AltStore after adding the Michael-128 repo). Transdroid supports other clients as well, and it’s my personal favorite. If you want to torrent on the Android device itself, check out LibreTorrent. For iOS, use iTorrent (also available on AltStore).
If you already plan on self-hosting, or have root access on your seed box (or some other way of installing applications/deploying Docker containers), I also recommend setting up bitmagnet. It’s basically your own torrent indexer and search engine. It can also integrate with your *arr applications.
Transmission is my favorite design-wise on macOS but I wish it had i2p support.
Random semi-related thought. I’m going through the comparison of BitTorrent clients page on Wikipedia and it’s amazing how many clients end up as Adware.
qBittorent for Windows and LibreTorrent for Android.
arch-qbittorrentvpn docker container, because it was the easiest to set up on my TrueNAS home server.
qBittorrent. With a quick UI switch to vuetorrent for the tablet. LXC bound to a bridge thats VPN connected.
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Not sure why it’s not more popular. I use and donate. I’ve had better performance with this than qbittorrent.
I’m a much bigger fan of the deluge thin client, personally.
This is what I used in the past but I had issues with the Deluge thin client when using a Deluge docker image. Did you experience the same thing as well?
Nope! My deluge server is hosted in a docker network with gluetun, and I access it from both thin clients and the web interface.
Mind me asking which docker image you are using? I was never able to get the thin client to work through docker
Deluge on desktop, Flud on mobile. 😃
Flud looks proprietary and has ads.
Libretorrent works just as well and is open source.
