This is the reason I won't be using it. I have a TPB Firefox search bar that I can type a movie title into, then press enter and get results that are sorted by most seeders. I then open a few of the top torrents and read the comments on them. Movies.io is pretty but I need to know what I'm downloading.
I use and love put.io. Completely hassle free. I'd never go back.
The killer feature is instant completion of torrents if someone else has already downloaded them. I can be watching a movie 60 seconds after thinking of it.
To me both Movies.io and torrentbuttler address the "torrent newbie" market, as people who already know how to use torrents, can use TPB or other similar sites just fine.
But right now I'd probably have to recommend both of the sites to newbies, one for searching and one for discovery. But I'm sure you'll have a lot of success just keeping it simple the way it is, too. It may actually be the main reason why it got so popular right now. So don't fix what isn't broken I guess.
But since I think this is more for newbies, you better make sure there are no fakes in those 5 listings, either through a technical solution or by allowing others to make comments on the page, or at least use ratings for the torrent's quality or something (but make sure they understand it's not about the quality of the movie).
I use put.io. It's a web service which downloads, seeds and stores your torrents. It also converts, streams, finds subtitles for movies and similar stuff. Also allows for you to download the file if you want.
Moreover, it can follow RSS feeds for automated downloads, and has plethora of other features.
Well, adding 'real torrent urls' to movies.io is trivial, if we don't do it there's a good reason. Even TPB moved away from torrent links and to magnet links. It's one added layer of indirection that makes the whole system harder to break.
Then you're better off using any of the other torrent (meta)searchers. This kind of view is excellent for those without access to any nifty streaming services.
Then you're better off using any of the other torrent (meta)searchers. This kind of view is excellent for those without access to any nifty streaming services.
I usually can find what I look for, but it doesn't download because there are no seeders. For awful hollywood sequel movies there are 1000s of seeders, but when you look for something that isn't or wasn't a blockbuster (or popular anime), you will find it pretty much impossible to actually download it. I use rtorrent on a server and some things only come in after many months; some things simply never do.
The popular stuff will be available anyway; i'm more worried about the fringe stuff which gets removed (from netflix etc) for reasons of woke-ness etc.
Sorting by number of seeders will probably get you a file that is fast to download because of the number of seeders, but it will rarely get you quality. Let's go take a stroll over to a popular public torrent site and search for, say, a recent superhero movie.
I see 100 (!) results for that movie's name. 49 of them have zero seeders at all. I don't know what even is the point. 29 of the results have one seeder. So already, 78% of the results are pure crap.
Let's look at the top result with 338 seeders: File is 3GB, H.264 video, 1080p, but with a crappy stereo AAC audio encoding... arrggh why??
Number 2 result with 84 seeders: 1.43GB, H.264 video, 720p, no word on the quality of the audio encoding. Even more worthless.
Number 3 result with 17 seeders: HEVC format, 2160p, audio streams include TrueHD Atmos 7.1, DTS-HD, Dolby Digital 5.1, stereo, and three non-English language streams. But, with an eye-watering download size of 61GB. Holy shit! Nice, but wow, what a download.
You have to go a few more down the list to find a good balance of high quality video and audio encoding, but with a reasonable file size. By that point you're in the single digit number of seeders.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to have a few choices and quality trade-offs. I guess there's someone out there who doesn't care about the stereo audio because they watch their movies with laptop speakers. But 100 results, with the vast majority of them either unseeded, poorly-seeded, or flawed in some way. I agree with OP: You definitely want some curation, not just search!
There's some really annoying torrent sites like this. I mean, sites that pretend they have search results for whatever torrent you're searching for. Those show up on a google a lot and they're useless.
That seems like a condescending opinion from someone who hasn't had experience with Put.io. I've tried both Put.io and several seedbox providers, and found that Put.io is better for my purposes, and I expect the purposes of many users.
A seedbox would be better if:
* You're active on private trackers. Most private trackers don't work well with services like put.io.
* You enjoy the level of control that's available with a seedbox.
Put.io is (in my opinion) much better if your goal is quickly and painlessly getting multimedia files from public torrent sites. It has some neat features like Mp4 video conversion to stream/download to iDecvices that would be challenging to implement in a seedbox, and instantly completes downloads that other Put.io users have in their files. Something that would be impossible on any seedbox.
Now that their lowest plan is $10/mo, there isn't as much of a cost advantage for put.io as there used to be when they had $5/mo plans, but even at cost parity, I'd still pick put.io over any of the seedbox services I've used, or setting up my own seedbox on a VPS.
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Problem is: they can't watch movies in their browser because they can only leech from people who are seeding from a webtorrent client.
Let's say I have a movie I want to let other people stream with their browser. I am obligated to use some javascript horror webtorrent-compatible client. If I already have a seedbox running transmission I simply cannot use that for this purpose, which is a shame
Why would I download a sketchy ass torrent client when I can go to a website, download the torrent in my browser, and be able to rely on my browsers sandboxing against the torrent client? Even better, if it's video I'm torrenting, I can rely on my browsers sandboxing against the torrents contents too.
It's more convenient, it's safer, it sucks for other torrentors because I don't seed as long, but let's be honest, most people downloading torrents don't care.
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