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I'm very interested to see your code or an explanation of how you did that in utorrent.

I can add torrents from the command line but I couldn't work out how to put them in a desired category or manually set download locations, etc.

How did you do it?

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I used the command line as well; actually you can't fully control download location. I would specify "Artist/Album/" but it would end up in "Artist/Album/the_original_folder/files.."

https://github.com/joslinm/CSL/blob/9371f97a4e43b7f756edfd44...

Thanks for that.

I've been using the same command but I was really hoping for being able to set the label from the command line, because I like to have them download to a temp folder and then auto move into folders by label when complete.

Cool no problem. It's pretty disappointing lack of support on uTorrent's end here, and I can't speak for now, but I researched lots of different clients back in the day and couldn't find any that had any decent extensibility.

Yes I did the same research and came to the same conclusion. I ended up with utorrent v2.2.1 and it works very well through wine on ubuntu as well. It's just a pity it doesn't have any more sophisticated command line control or interface.

I wish there was a great linux/opensource client that worked as well as utorrent, but everything I've tested has had some aspect of it that I didn't like.

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