I have been using sonarr for few months now (torrents). Sonarr it self is great, but im having a lot of trouble with finding a download client that works well with it. Can someone give me some insights/suggestions? I have pretty much gone through EVERY client that is on sonarrs list, and none of them seem to work properly for me.
First of all, here is a list of my requirements (if anyone can give me advice on a client or setting up one properly to match the requirements, would be greatly appreciated).
- Operating system: Windows 10
- Must have decent speeds (obviously)
- Sonarr must be able to connect with it properly
- Sonarr must be able to pickup and move/process files upon completion.
- Sonarr/Client must be able to remove the file from the client upon completion (prevent further seeding, this is surprisingly rare).
- Files must be removed from the download location upon either completion or sonarr processing/moving.
- Should start up with OS and runs with sonarr with minimal user interaction (i just want it to work automatically without me having to mess with it every couple of hours).
- Preferably sonarr to specify download directories or using something like label to move file(s) into a sub directory as i will be using the same client on other software like couchpotato and prefer not to have the files mixed together.
Below are my review of all the clients, reviewed September 2016:
uTorrent (latest)
This is really bloated with ads and other features. It DOES have a lot of features though. The latest version has bugs where you cannot make it automatically put files into seperate folders based on the input from sonarr (ie. labeled files into sub-directories). I have had settings reset once or twice, which i had to setup everything from scratch again. Besides that, it is usable. 5/10
qBittorrent
Settings reset much more often that utorrent (seems to be a known bug from over a year ago). lot of downloads get “stalled” for no apparent reason (stops downloading), and you need manual attention find and tell client to recheck. This happens often. Sonarr also fails to pickup the files automatically (i have to make it so that sonarr scans the download directory, which is bad because sonarr tells you not to setup the scanning directory to your main download directory). 3/10
Haduken
This is the most promising one of the lot. Lightweight, downloads are super fast, and sonarr picks up files perfectly. However, the client has few bugs (which im tempted to fix and contribute), as well as very inactive dev team. The client is limited to 5 downloads at a time (no way to edit this), and the seed ratio/time features are broken (the code is simply wrong). Unfortunately, unusable due to the above limitation as you would need manual attention to delete items after downloading and/or stop seeding. Also, all finished downloads restart from the begining on every OS restart. 10/10 if bugs are fixed, but 1/10 as it is.
Deluge
Files get to “error” state on OS restart, requires a manual force recheck on each file upon restart. unusable. 0/10
rTorrent
not for windows.
Transmission
not showing up on sonarr activity screen. Doesnt seem like there is a way to auto start with windows. You could manually make it start with windows, but you still have to click the start button after starting the client. 1/10.
Vuze
Little bloated. Cant seem to be able to automate torrent removal upon completion (download), and sonarr fails to remove the item from the client (thus infinite seeding). Lot of “disk read error” on some downloads (thus stopping the download till a manual intervention) upon restart or extended period of time (12-24 hours). 3/10
