Once beatmap pack #370 comes out could you make a new torrent for 1-370, containing the
original beatmap packs, and not a repackage into one file?
I know there's good intentions behind the 1-330, but packaging into one file is just a really awful idea for many reasons:
- It cuts your seeding pool in two. People using the old torrents can't seed from their files: they have to redownload everything again.
- People that downloaded from the site can't seed from those either.
- It wastes space when extracting, especially if it's a .rar just containing more .rar files.
- Users can't do anything until they have the whole huge file.
- Users can't set priority on packs they want sooner than others.
- Users can't select individual packs to download and seed, if they just want a few of them. This is especially important for people with bandwidth caps.
- Really, torrents are made to support multiple files, letting users select which they want to download and seed. This single file torrent is a huge step backwards and hurts both seeders and leechers in terms of availability, bandwidth, disk space, and downloading options.
If you switch to a single unified torrent, it'll eliminate the need for both the single file 1-330, and all the individual torrents for 1-100, 101-200, etc. You'll have all your seeders in one place, and users will be able to choose which packs they want to download and seed from in their own client.