how to create a torrent with uTorrent and upload it to What.CD

This is a tutorial for how to create a torrent with uTorrent and upload it to What.CD

1. Open Utorrent

2. Press “Ctrl N” or click the magic wand icon or select “File>Create New Torrent…”

3. Within the box that pops up, add the file or directory you’d like to upload using the respective button(directory just means a folder as opposed to a single file, so that will be the route for the majority of music torrents)

4. In the “Trackers” box enter (copy/paste) your personal What.cd tracker announce url. (your personal passkey can be found here: upload.php ) pictured here:

5. Set the “Piece Size” to auto-detect (this is the default)

6. Tick both the “Start Seeding” and “Private Torrent” and “Preserve file order” boxes

should look like this [if you were trying to upload Green Nuns of the Revolution – Rock Bitch Mafia  ]:

7. Click “Create and Save As” to create the torrent, and save it to wherever you’d like upon its completion(It’s easiest to dedicate a Folder just for torrents – they’re incredibly small 20 kb files – for organizational purposes)

8. Go to http://What.cd/upload.php

9. Use the “Browse” button to locate the torrent file you just created (hence the need for a dedicated torrent folder)

10. Fill out the form with all the artist info/author/app info/etc and tick all applicable boxes

• Tracklists can be found using the WaffleBrainz script (available here) which automatically fills in everything on the upload page. You’ll need the Greasemonkey script manager to run this (available here) Otherwise, you can find tracklistings at either http://freedb.org or http://gracenote.com . Of course, you’re also allowed to manually type tracklists and info in, and there’s no limit to creativity one can put into torrent descriptions

• It’s also helpful and more appealing to include a pic of the album on the album page. Use a search engine (i.e. Google) to search images of the album you’re upping, find the url of the image you’d like to use, and insert it into your description in this format, without spaces: [ img=whatevertheurl ]

It’s best to save the image and upload it to a free hosting service such as imageshack.us beceause image URLs tend to change.

• PLEASE download and use the freely available and extremely useful Audio Identifier to determine bitrates and encoder settings (will tell you if it’s V2, V0, 320, FLAC, etc) when uploading music torrents.

11. Double-check for mistakes in the form, then click “Do It”

• If uploading a music torrent, be sure to tick the “not a transcode” box

12.Go back to Utorrent, stop and then start the torrent to update it

13. Profit \o/