• @[email protected]
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    801 year ago

    Check the files included in the torrent. Sometimes the folders include a little readme or something that people set to not download.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Why do people do this? Readmes and nfo files take up literal kilobytes… even over hundreds or even thousands of downloads, at most it’s going to take up a few extra megabytes of download/storage, they’re not saving anything at all. And it can be nice when the nfo includes all the releaser’s original encode settings and stuff.

        • KptnAutismus
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          41 year ago

          true, but my jellyfin server doesn’t care. if i didn’t want it, i would’ve unselected it when importing the torrent.

      • Rolling Resistance
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        61 year ago

        Why do I need to know that “Torrent was downloaded from TheSiteINeverVisited.nfo”? It’s just extra noise I don’t need.

    • @[email protected]
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      251 year ago

      Yea sometimes I’ll exclude the .nfo from my downloads. Thankfully the tracker I’m on now disallows any files that aren’t media in their uploads.

      • Cethin
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        31 year ago

        For video files I always set it to download first and last parts of files first. You can watch a video fairly well with like 50% downloaded if the file has the first and last section, which contain the data about how the video is stored. It’ll have occasional glitches, but it mostly works. At 99% it’s effectively all there and you may not even notice that last 1%, let alone 0.1%.