Some Suggestions about BitTorrent 6o6vb

[Guest]

I tried to scan the active suggestions to see if some of these are already suggested. I didnt see them in any of the active topics. Anyway, Im sorry if they are.

I have to say that I have always loved FDM, but since it has added BT from 2.5 and up, it has become the single MOST useful program I have installed on my PC right now. Good job on that. And I very much appreciate all the effort by the devs to track down and fix bugs. /claps

Now then since BT is what I use most, I have noticed some areas that might be improved. Hopefully these are not complicated and hopefully they are worth concidering.

• Allow multi selecting in the files tab so I can set priorities on groups of files, rather than each file individually.
  
• Allow sorting in the files list by clicking on the column header. Sometimes I want to order them by size / % done / priority etc.
  
• I like the priority settings over all, but it would be useful to have a setting, "prioritize more completed files". This should set a file on "High" automatically if it is 90% rather than a file that is on 12%.
  
• Prioritize first and last blocks of each file. For video previewing players cannot render the file if these blocks are not present. Even if the file is not complete you can still open the file when it has the beggining and the end.
  
• Allow FDM to delete the actual .torrent file after it is complete. I have quite alot of these floating around that I no longer need, so this would be useful.

Now these next ones, I may not understand enough about the BT protocol to know if it is possible or not. Or maybe these would mess things up totally?

• It seems the frequency of updating the tracker might be too great? I dunno, it always seems to, Fail: next update in 30 sec, Fail: next update in 120 sec, etc... after several minutes of waiting I finally get an "OK" for about 1 sec ... then update, Fail: back where we started... Is it necessary to update as soon as it finally connects? And sometimes I get "connection has been forcably closed" is this because it updates constantly and the host blocks me?
  
  Again, perhaps I dont know enough about what is really going on here.
  
  I cant tell if this is slowing down my s at all. Despite this failing, many s are fast and some are not so fast. Do I have a setting messed up? I have DHT enabled and the ports are forwarded through my router on both T and UDP. Im not really sure if I have done something wrong, or if this is normal, or what.
  
• I like sharing what I have ed, but I do not like ing to a at 500kbps while they are sending me only 10kbps. Is there a way to track s who are fast and give them priority over s that are slow? Or have some limitation to send at a speed equal to what I have received? "Want more? Send more!"
  
  I dunno, maybe this is "plug-in" material rather than "Feature" material?

I hope these suggestions are useful. I realize you might have alot going on right now with the new release, and I know that there is more to FDM than just BT. I still love FDM and will continue to use it. I only think these suggestions will make GREAT software EVEN BETTER!

[Guest]

[*] Prioritize first and last blocks of each file. For video previewing players cannot render the file if these blocks are not present. Even if the file is not complete you can still open the file when it has the beggining and the end.

I agree with many of mentioned suggestions, but this one is essential for me. I am still using uTorrent because of that option and I would be really happy if FDM get the same thing.

[Graf]

Alex, add, please, in next version of FDM, announce option, when you choose properties, that there would be a tab Announce (like in µTorrent, when choose Properties) where you can change some tracker url's, if there is a several

[Guest]

May I request a single function from the developers of this great manager regarding torrents, which is the function to force a hash check on the in case the is continued from somewhere else/from another software. I usually on the move using FDM portable so the absence of this function sometimes causes me to lost all my almost completed torrent s.