Feature Request: Option to Download first and last pieces first

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Feature Request: Option to Download first and last pieces first #6888

Open Pentaphon opened 3 months ago

Pentaphon commented 3 months ago

What is the issue?

This downloads the header and footer of the file first and makes single files partially readable (making it playable) on file systems at an incomplete stage and is a long-time feature on clients like qBittorrent. I'm sure many people will find it useful in conjunction with the upcoming sequential download feature.

Which application of Transmission?

Web, Qt, GTK, Mac, core

Which version of Transmission?

N/A

Rukario commented 3 months ago

This is quite very important feature for sequential downloading. This and sequential feature are frequently used together I think it's fine to- well, it would be ideal to- implement this as behind the scenes feature becoming part of Transmission's new sequential feature when doing sequential download. Tixati went that route.