Why do people do this? Readmes and nfo files take up literal kilobytes.... even over hundreds or even thousands of downloads, at most it's going to take up a few extra megabytes of download/storage, they're not saving anything at all. And it can be nice when the nfo includes all the releaser's original encode settings and stuff.

[–] Lath@kbin.social 69 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Extra files are messy.

[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

true, but my jellyfin server doesn't care. if i didn't want it, i would've unselected it when importing the torrent.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't that still leave the user waiting unless they too unselected it?

[–] rolling_resistance@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Why do I need to know that “Torrent was downloaded from TheSiteINeverVisited.nfo”? It's just extra noise I don't need.

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yea sometimes I'll exclude the .nfo from my downloads. Thankfully the tracker I'm on now disallows any files that aren't media in their uploads.

[–] Norodix@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But nfos are useful

[–] FatAdama@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And can contain some fun ascii art.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And hateful monologs.

[–] Uiop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

We love those especially.

[–] Aethr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Are srt files also disallowed?

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes I've even had a video file stop at 99.9% and it still played just fine.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

For video files I always set it to download first and last parts of files first. You can watch a video fairly well with like 50% downloaded if the file has the first and last section, which contain the data about how the video is stored. It'll have occasional glitches, but it mostly works. At 99% it's effectively all there and you may not even notice that last 1%, let alone 0.1%.