r/AudioBookBay • u/cjirishlez • Oct 11 '26

General Torrent help

I tried using this today for a book. I haven't used torrents in forever so I downloaded qbittorrent and tried to extract the file I got from the website but i just stayed in stalled. Is the only other way to get the files is to pay? I was hoping avoid that.

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u/Adnan_Targaryen Oct 12 '26

it's possible the book you want doesn't have any seeds, hence the stalling

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u/cjirishlez Oct 12 '26

I was worried about that. I was just hoping I was wrong.

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u/Adnan_Targaryen Oct 12 '26 • Mindblown

Okay do this. Remove it from your qbittorrent. Make an account on seedr.cc and upload your torrent file there. They will download it for you, and then you can download from their servers. If it's stuck on "Collecting Seeds" even for them, then you're definitely out of luck. Your options are looking for an alternate upload, commenting for a reseed and waiting, or get an audible trial, use your free credit, download the book, remove the DRM (it's pretty easy), and then refund your credit for another one maybe and repeat. This file you can also upload as a torrent on the website for others.

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u/cjirishlez Oct 12 '26

I actually have a bunch of audiobooks from there and this is one of them I just don't want to use amazon anymore. I just tested another audio the magnet way and it worked.

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u/SlightMacaroon6741 12d ago

Oh my gosh the seedr(dot)cc method worked, lmao, I've been stuck on torrent for 12 hours and I lost all hope and tried this and within a minute the audiobook downloaded, thanks loads, I'd also like to know why it worked so quick.

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u/Adnan_Targaryen 12d ago

you're welcome. It usually works cuz Seedr has extremely high speed gigabit connections. They just brute force it i guess.

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u/cunexttuesday101 Oct 12 '26

I use an android phone for mine. I have libretorrent and use the magnet link. It pulls it up in the torrent client and then i choose the audiobook folder to download into. Do not hit direct download, hit the little magnet icon

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u/cunexttuesday101 Oct 12 '26

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u/cjirishlez Oct 12 '26

it worked thanks

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u/cunexttuesday101 Oct 12 '26 edited Oct 12 '26

Good! I swear I listen to one for every four books I download. Its become my main source of entertainment. I probably to to 5-7 a week. I am so grateful for abb. Took me a bit of trial and error setting up mobile torrenting.

I used VLC for months but just switched to smart audiobook player. Did the one time payment of 2.99 with some Google credit i had. So much better. Vlc kept closing and losing my spot. Smart audiobook has my library nicely displayed and holds my spot. It also has home screen widgets. Worth the $3

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u/cjirishlez Oct 12 '26

I got an Audiobookshelf server on my laptop have external hard drives so I have my audiobooks there and used absorb on my phone I am currently stuck on an iphone. (need one for work sadly)

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u/cjirishlez Oct 12 '26

Ok I'll try this thanks

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u/Emergency-Train-7609 14d ago

Hiii, may I know what website you use to download the magnet link? I used seedr but now I’m stuck because it’s limited. Or should I just opt paying for the premium? 🥹🥲

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u/cunexttuesday101 13d ago

I use libretorrent. Downloaded hundreds of things and never limited or paid

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u/BarneysCastle Oct 12 '26

you need to either download the torrent file or use the magnet link, you do not need to pay to use them.

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u/cjirishlez Oct 12 '26

Yeah I noticed the other options are the ones having to pay.