Auto-UnRAR Your Torrents in uTorrent The Easy Way
January 17, 09 by sharky 12,245 viewsScene-release torrents getting you down? Looking for a simple solution to tackle all those troublesome archived RAR files in µTorrent? AutoExtractor takes all of the hard work out of having to manually unpack multiple RAR files. Finished torrents are automatically extracted - by default to the same path - and the original RAR files are left intact, so that the torrent happily continues to seed as though nothing happened. What could be more clever?
AutoExtractor is a tiny, lightweight application that works by monitoring uTorrent for newly added & completed torrents. When a torrent finishes downloading, AutoExtractor does it’s job by scanning new folders (in uTorrent’s download path) for individual RARs and RAR sets (r00, r01 etc), and then automatically extracts the contained files. The torrents remain untouched, and the original files are not removed or modified in any way, thus the torrent keeps seeding - it’s business as usual for uTorrent. Works with any version of uTorrent (we tested both 1.8.0 and 1.8.1).
Why uTorrent?
"At the moment uTorrent doesn’t support the ability to run a program when a torrent completes (you have to set it manually for each torrent), so this program attempts to bridge the gap. Unlike any other unpacker that I have come across, this one doesn’t constantly thrash your disk hashing rar files to see if they are 100% (and all present) before blindly trying to unpack them. It only tries to extract files when it knows for sure they are finished. This makes it as easy on your system as possible. The only way to know for sure if a file is 100% complete without doing any sort of hashing is to check the program that is creating the file. So therefore this program looks at utorrent’s session data (aka - resume.dat) and works out which files have just finished and can be extracted."
AutoExtractor - What You’ll Need:
AutoExtractor runs on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista (32bit). You’ll need:
— µTorrent - www.utorrent.com
— AutoExtractor v1.2 - http://autoextractor.enpts.com
— WinRAR - http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm (v3.80 works great).
Installation / Configuration:
Launch uTorrent. Install AutoExtractor, and run.
AutoExtractor should automatically locate your installed WinRAR.exe program, assuming you installed WinRAR to the default location [C:\Program Files\WinRAR\]. It should also auto-locate your "%appdata%\uTorrent" directory - more specifically, uTorrent’s resume.dat file. If needed, go to Options > Preferences to view and customize the settings:
1. — The path to uTorrent’s ‘resume.dat‘. Click the [ ... ] button to change.
2. — The path to WinRAR.exe. Version number (i.e. - 3.80) should also be displayed upon proper path discovery.
3. — By default, the unrar’d files are extracted to the same directory as the source RAR files (aka "Same folder as archive"). Thus in uTorrent, right-click on a completed torrent in the list and select "Open Containing Folder" - extracted files will be contained therein. Additionally, you can change the path of extraction to a customized location by selecting "Other (user specified)" and browse to the location of your choosing.
Notes / Troubleshooting:
If you run into problems where torrents aren’t updating, the log message at the bottom of AutoExtractor may display this:
Possibly corrupt session data (Type mismatch)
Getting torrent state data failed.
Definitively, we don’t know the exact cause of the problem, but we know that it possibly has something to do with torrents that contain .ZIP files. Try removing the offending torrent (in uTorrent), close uTorrent and AutoExtractor, and then restart uTorrent and then restart AutoExtractor. AE is meant as a TV/Movie utility, not for scene-software releases which often contain ZIP files.
Credits for this great utility go out to twiglet at TorrentBytes. The discussion thread can be found in TBy’s forums here.
Feeling energetic? There’s a cool (albeit sophisticated) app called SCRU - The ‘Scene Release Unpacker’ brought to us by CodeBytes - worthy of checking out!
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01 • Pleb Says: 17.01.09 at 8:51 pm
RARs = 2x HDD space = i hate em
i know if one file is currupted u can just redownload that one archive and the .sfv allows for the best checking but still i dont care
nice find dude
thanks
02 • Chris H Says: 18.01.09 at 12:54 am
oh ffs, it takes like 10 seconds for a tv show to un rar and like 5 minutes for a DVD-R. You getting it for free, do those 10 seconds make that big a difference
03 • MrYellow Says: 18.01.09 at 1:49 am
Oh thanks a lot for the info dude. Srsly i hate exracting, when im on my office computer which is shitty it takes so much CPU making my comp dead slow, when i leave that computer on which i download few movies for the night and come back the next day and waste time extracting.
Also when you have a seedbox/rapidleech and what to upload to Rapidshare. Pain in the arse when you gotta remote 30 files 14mb/e
04 • care Says: 18.01.09 at 4:10 am
Why not just use BSPlayer or any other proper player that will playback directly from the rar-files?
05 • Fredde Says: 18.01.09 at 5:46 am
You ask “what could be more clever?”
Playing the videos directly from .RAR with any video player?
Get “RARFileSource”, a simple directshow filter that does just that: http://www.v12pwr.com/RARFileSource/
06 • Sharky Says: 18.01.09 at 8:17 am
@ FREDDE - Because I prefer to extract the movies and burn them onto DVDs, and watch on my large LCD HDTV, not watch the movies on the computer.
07 • TESTiCLES Says: 18.01.09 at 9:44 am
+1
08 • eboy36 Says: 18.01.09 at 10:32 am
i wish to c this for tflux seedboxes
09 • Doctor Professor Patrick Says: 18.01.09 at 12:59 pm
here’s another way but not so automated, i prefer this:
- have winrar installed
- when adding a new torrent add the following to properties->advanced->run program:
“C:\Program Files\WinRAR\UnRAR.exe” x -r “%D\*” “%D”
that line should be there the next time you add a torrent
010 • Doctor Professor Patrick Says: 18.01.09 at 12:59 pm
yes, i pwn
011 • anteko Says: 18.01.09 at 3:19 pm
hellz yes this is going to make rss worth it
fsf ftw!
012 • OKETNA Says: 18.01.09 at 6:52 pm
There are a few other programs that can do this, as well. But I don’t know about the HDD thrashing part.
Autounpack for windows http://see-and-be.com/AutoUnpack/
atools for linux but this isn’t really automated but it will process all your files at once which is nice.
Not really for torrents per se, but for the newsgroups grabit will do this as well but will process the whole folder so if your torrents are in the same folder as your usenet downloads it will take care of those for you as well.
013 • moggy Says: 18.01.09 at 9:50 pm
this worked great for me
thanks
014 • karamb Says: 19.01.09 at 8:56 am
I’ve been using rared releases for many years now and never unpacked anything! Just simply use VLC and VLC UnRAR plugin (http://www.shapeshifter.se/code/vlc-unrar/download/) or BSPlayer. It will play x264 and DVDRs as well as XviDs DivX etc. etc. This article is useless - it’s stupid to unpack releases.
015 • Fredde Says: 23.01.09 at 11:10 am
@ Sharky: I personally watch directly from .rar on my big PLASMA. Why do you assume I watch on my computer just because I let my computer play the files? Ever heard of TV-OUT?
016 • Rathna Says: 12.06.09 at 11:46 pm
wont work with utorrent 1.8.3. any idea how we can get it fixed?
017 • Rathna Says: 17.06.09 at 9:13 am
::bump:: anyone?
018 • emily Says: 30.08.09 at 8:20 pm
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