

Press enter when you’ve found the one you want, and rtorrent will add it to the list. Your path starts in your home directory (unless you started it in a lower directory than that), so you don’t have to give it the full root path if you don’t want to. Double-tab shows a list of available path options that match the path you’ve already started. You can use tab completion to make your way to it. I can’t guarantee you’ll like it, but it’s a free and legal download and it makes for a good example. In this example, I’m using one of my favorite Revolution Void albums, “ Increase the Dosage,” from Jamendo. To add a torrent, press return and navigate to the torrent file. Like a lot of console-driven programs, the startup screen for rtorrent is … rather dry. rtorrent is an amazing, complex, powerful program that is at the same time sleek, clean, comprehensive and ultralight - and I’m giving you just one small idea of its potential.īut first, let’s scratch the surface. This time, instead of introducing you to rtorrent nice and easy, like I did with cplay, I’m going to give you a brief tour, and then I’ll show you something very cool you can do with it.

I can’t imagine why anyone would use anything else, unless there’s something funky the big-name programs can do, that rtorrent just doesn’t handle yet.
