I made some pretty good friendships on what -- their community was great. Their music torrents were as rich as could be -- great metainfo, organization, depth, rarity, you name it...
The first major program I made was for what, so I can download many albums at once after my hard-drive failed. What had a feature known as "Collector" which gave you a zip of an artist's discography. With my program, you could dump that zip right in and it would send it to utorrent downloading in a structured directory (per user settings). I would have never taken it as far as I did (GUI from command line tool) if it weren't for the community loving it and giving me feedback to make it better & better. I called it "collector's secret lover".[1]
Another one I did was for nice looking release info of torrents called generically "description generator". It gave users an easy way to grab all relevant info (from discogs) for an album upload so they can copy and paste [2]
This is a sad day, what.cd was much more than a place to just download music.
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.."
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.
The first major program I made was for what, so I can download many albums at once after my hard-drive failed. What had a feature known as "Collector" which gave you a zip of an artist's discography. With my program, you could dump that zip right in and it would send it to utorrent downloading in a structured directory (per user settings). I would have never taken it as far as I did (GUI from command line tool) if it weren't for the community loving it and giving me feedback to make it better & better. I called it "collector's secret lover".[1]
Another one I did was for nice looking release info of torrents called generically "description generator". It gave users an easy way to grab all relevant info (from discogs) for an album upload so they can copy and paste [2]
This is a sad day, what.cd was much more than a place to just download music.
[1] -- https://github.com/joslinm/CSL
[2] -- https://github.com/joslinm/Description-Generator