After getting sick of manually extracting packed scene releases, i have thrown together a lightweight app to do it for me.
It's a windows app the sits in the system tray and monitors your utorrent queue, then when a torrent completes it automatically unrars the contents for you.
I wrote this mainly for myself, but thought someone else might get some use out of it. So it's provided with no warranty of any kind. But i have tried to tidy it up and simplify it as much as possible.
Unlike any other unpacker that i have come across, this one doesn't constantly thrash your disk hashing rar files to see if they are 100% (and all present) before blindly trying to unpack them. It quietly monitors utorrent and unrars releases with winrar.
It can handle releases with multiple rars, and can extract them to a folder of your choosing.
So the requirements are as follows:
uTorrent 1.6 to 1.8
WinRAR 3.6 to 3.8
Windows 2000 to Vista
It may work outside of these specs, but i cant guarantee it.
tried it, it detected my seeds and then my leech when added a new one but then did nothing when complete
i think ill leave it, as with these silly groups and there rar within rar rubbish and extra nfo etc id rather a manual extract to organized location of my choice without the extra crap
tried it, it detected my seeds and then my leech when added a new one but then did nothing when complete
i think ill leave it, as with these silly groups and there rar within rar rubbish and extra nfo etc id rather a manual extract to organized location of my choice without the extra crap
but nice work though, put together well
care to post more details in case it's a problem i can fix?
what torrent was it?
EDIT: just a thought, you mentioned rar in rar, which i have never seen in a tv/movie release. which leads me to believe you are talking about a software release (which would be zip in zip or zip in rar).
as this program is designed for conventional scene releases (with tv/movies in mind), then it doesnt pay any attention to zip files. so if you tested it with a software release then it's not surprising it didn't work
Just tried it out and it worked perfectly. I used it with Criminal.Minds.S04E07.HDTV.XviD-0TV and it found it and extracted it without a hitch. Thanks twiglet this goes perfect with my TBnotify. Great job.
Damn twiglet, nice one! Not tried it yet but have downloaded and installed as the other unpackers just dont work that well for me - they are too fidgety, slow and never seem to work that well, but I believe this is the first one that does it automatically from the uT queue, so well done!
You realise you might have the uTorrent devs PM'ing you asking for the code so they can include it in the next major uT version, right?
edit: I got an error...
"Error: Possibly corrupt session data (type mismatch)
"Getting torrent state data failed"
uT 1.7.7 - no error messagess when I restart the program
is it possible to make that program contains some kind of filters, like to see the folder size, and if its 170~180 or 340~360 unpack to e:\tv , but otherwise, leave it
or filter to the words : "conan o brien" "my name is earl" "scrubs" ..... and when found, unpack to specifc folder i choose
or both
edit, would be great also if it got some sort of filter like the one in rss feed in utorrent or the one in TBnotify
is it possible to make that program contains some kind of filters, like to see the folder size, and if its 170~180 or 340~360 unpack to e:\tv , but otherwise, leave it
or filter to the words : "conan o brien" "my name is earl" "scrubs" ..... and when found, unpack to specifc folder i choose
or both
edit, would be great also if it got some sort of filter like the one in rss feed in utorrent or the one in TBnotify
i will look at adding filters, ive got a couple of other things to look at first though
#1050412 by unknown[230373] at 2008-12-03 00:45:23 (4 years ago) - [Quote] - [Report]
Thanks for a great app man, but what about adding the option of deleting all the rar files as well?
that would assume that the files are no longer in use.
this wont be the case because you will probably be still seeding them.
to get round that, i would have to add the ability to stop and remove torrents once finished.
this is kinda gay because you wont share as much with the community as you should.
By the way, how hard is it to make the program delete all rar files in the folder called "Scrubs season 6" with each ep. in a diffrent folder?
It's just that I'm having a hard time seeing the value in having everything in rar's after you've stopped seeding it. In the past there was alot of good resons, like if you were on DC++ you wouldn't have to re-download say 4Gb of a dvd.ISO, and you could always check the sfv if you were uncertain about some of your sources. But with torrents and a good, trustworthy site like TB I just don't see the benefits anymore..
You're missing the point, thats not what i'm talking about.
It would be no problem to add this feature, and even make it automatically stop the seeding.
My point was, because this program unrars the files immediately after they are done downloading, then the likelihood is that you haven't seeded them 1:1
Therefore to add the feature would be a bad idea as it encourages hit-and-run behaviour.
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