media-tools

Home media center automation for automatically sorting torrent downloads. Recently re-written for a new FreeBSD + rtorrent setup. Since Spotify pretty much ended music downloading, I have little interest in Beets for the new system.

What these configs do:

1. moves completed files from /torrents/downloading to /torrents/seeding
2. automatically files finished torrents by copying their contents into /media/{TV Shows,Movies,Anime}
3. is easily extensible by editing the rtorrent-started and rtorrent-postprocess shell scripts.

setup

1. Install FileBot. I use the portable installation. Make sure filebot is available as a command in your PATH.

2. clone this repo, then symlink everything in ./bin into your $PATH.

3. Either copy rtorrent.rc to ~/.rtorrent.rc, or adjust your existing .rtorrent.rc to call rtorrent-started on boot, and rtorrent-postprocess when a download is finished. You should look over rtorrent.rc for more details.

4. adjust ./bin/media-tools-common to match your system. eg, change the COPY_DESTINATION variable from my /media to wherever you want to file your stuff.

rtorrent config

rtorrent is an asshole to configure for the first time. I usually refer to the rtorrent source code to figure out what commands and properties I can access.