Failed to download torrent metadata

If the proxy is turned off everything works fine. I have tried it with Vuze, Deluge, uTorrent, Bitlord, They all have the same problem as long as the proxy is turned on. Start new topic. Recommended Posts. RandmTask Posted December 4, Posted December 4, Hi Quite frequently I get stuck on 'Downloading Metadata' for certain torrents, whilst at the same time others download just fine.

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So is there something we can do to stop the issue from happening and get the torrent started automatically and if more information is required, what is required? In may case I have found a reason for that behaviour. It works as long as I don't use proxy. As soon as I switch over to proxy it stalls stuck at downloading metadata. Switch off proxy and restart app and it starts to download again.

It first appeared after update to 4. I tried to downgrade with clean install but without success. As soon as I switch to proxy it stalls at downloading metadata. Same behaviour as macinoshee, also on 4. Works when turning off proxy. Also works again when turning proxy on after metadata has been downloaded. If I add new magnet links after turning proxy on again, it's stuck at same issue, downloading metadata. Yes, true. As soon as metadata is downloaded I can switch proxy on and it continues download.

I can confirm the proxy issue. Add magnet link: stalls at metadata downloading usually, sometimes it works as normal. Turn off proxy, wait for metadata to download, turn on proxy and it keeps downloads. The proxy used is privateinternetaccess. I've been having this issue since like 3.

I just updated to 4. I selected "Use different port on each startup" and it the torrents immediately moved from downloading metadata to downloading. Having the same issue with proxy on windows Thanks, as a fix that works for me until a proper fix comes along I'm using Qbittorrent-VPN docker. Was working fine for me at first.

I'm currently running Ubuntu Server Sonarr grabs the show, passes the magnet url to qbittorrent, and qbittorrent downloads the show. First test worked fine, except that after download, Sonarr could not access the download location So to possibly fix this, I created a folder in a publically accessible location, and changed permissions so everyone and their grandmother could access it I am NOT using a proxy.

But if I enable proxy without giving it any real proxy info, it will go away from the 'metadata' thing, and go into 'downloading' but does nothing. Once I switch back to 'none' for proxy, it then downloads a few bytes of data, then nothing.

Still says "downloading" but nothing is actually being downloaded. At this point, the people going "this is an upstream issue" need to actually think about what's going on I remember I used to use it on windows as my main torrent downloader, but moved away from it ages ago and couldn't remember why I did, but figured that whatever made me want to move away must have been fixed by now Check your rate limits.

If your rate limits for upload are set to 0, then change them to something reasonable. After doing this, everything immediately started downloading, and all the stalled downloads restarted. Now though, I'm not sure if this is what they're referring to as an 'upstream issue', as I was under the impression that when they kept saying 'upstream issue' they were talking about the code being uploaded to the PPA and thus being what gets 'downloaded' to the community Although, with all this said, I do seem to still have an issue with a single download, as the download speed is unusually slow compared to everything else