Wishlist: Download files in Order

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

The "Download in order" flag applies globally to an entire torrent. In the case of torrents that consist of a sequence of files (such as episodes of a TV series) this is too strict. The user may not care about previewing a specific file and thus wouldn't need the bits of that file to arrive in order, but would still like the files to be queued and downloaded in sequence.

This also has implications for the queueing system. I might want to queue several torrents, each of multiple files, but have qBT queue the first file in each one, then the second in each one, and so on. Currently this is not possible without a lot of manual manipulation of the queue, which requires the user to constantly monitor the state of downloads and change priorities to achieve the desired result. Being able to tell qBT to do this automatically would be very useful. It would probably need to be done with a two-level queue. More than two levels is probably not necessary.

[Arago (arago)]

+1.
And there is another problem with current realization of Download in sequential order. The files in torrent may not be sorted by name, but qBittorrent seems to using order of files in torrent to create sequence for download, those it sometimes download files in unpredictable order instead of alphabetical order which is used more often. In Ktorrent I can reorder sequence of files manually (but this was hard for large torrents).

How about adding option to autosort files in alphabetical order with ability for manual reordering files for download? Or it's done already?

[Kurt Fitzner (kudalufi)]

Downloading files in order is, to a small extent, already possible using the priority system. Set the file you want to download first as maximum priority. The second file as high priority. All others set to normal. For large numbers of episodes it requires some manual tweaking - as the maximum & high episodes complete, you need to keep setting later episodes on maximum & high, but it works well. I generally set the very next episode to maximum, and the next two or three after that to high. That keeps me well ahead of the viewing curve.

[Patrick O'Callaghan (pocallaghan)]

Yes, I know it can be done by manual tweaking, but for a large set of files and a slow Internet connection you have to keep checking progress at intervals, which gets old really fast. An automated way of doing it would be significantly better.