Rtorrent 16 16.27-12P

Major​

• Rescrape (Movie Agent) lists your downloads again. Rtorrent 16 can keep its logs, settings and temporary files in a folder you choose, and on some installs that folder is the base folder itself (an upgrade to 16.25-09U, Repair configs and a base folder switch set it that way). On such an install the rescrape window refused every download in the base folder with "A package or NAS folder, not a download", so nothing could be ticked. Now the window leaves out only the package itself and its logs, settings and temp folders, and each folder it leaves out says why. Rescrape (Game Agent) and Apply use the same check. Thanks to the community.qnap.com user who reported it with a screenshot.

Minor​

• Levels in the Media studio's Info. Select an audio clip and Info lists every channel of its track with peak, true peak and RMS, then the track's loudness and loudness range. For a voice-over track that Add voice-over… makes from this version on, each channel shows the original track's values with the voice-over's below them. On a phone the same table is in the track's window.
• Two Media studio errors fixed. The poster in the Project panel of a film with a single key frame, and a thumbnail past a film's last key frame, came back as an error; they now show the key frame before that point. A film opened in the studio before its project was saved asked for its speech jobs and got an error; it now gets an empty list.

Major​

• A voice-over in a few clicks, without any key. In Files, open a film's menu and choose Tools › Add voice-over…. The window has already picked the subtitles, the language and the sound track. Press Add voice-over and one job in the jobs list does the rest; you can stop it at any time. The NAS translates the subtitles, reads them aloud, mixes the voice into the centre channel (both sides in a stereo film) with the original about 5 dB quieter under it, and saves Film - Polski (lektor).mkv beside the film. The new file keeps every track of the film; the voice-over track comes right after the original sound and plays by default. The film itself is not changed, so a torrent that seeds it keeps its data.
• Everything on the NAS. Without a key the subtitles never leave the NAS: Argos translates English into Polish, Bergamot (the engine behind Firefox's translations) every other pair, and a Piper voice reads (Polish, German, French, Italian, Dutch or Swedish). When the film already has subtitles in the language you pick, the window uses them and translates nothing. The first time, the NAS downloads the programs and models it needs from pub.qnaputilities.com (about 152 MiB for English into Polish) and shows each download in the job. On a test NAS (QTS, x86_64) a 15-minute film with 5.1 sound took about two and a half minutes and at most 264 MB of memory.
• With your own OpenAI or ElevenLabs key, their models translate and their voices read. In Media library › AI translation and speech › Voice-over you can still keep the voice-over on the NAS (On this NAS, without a key).
• Translate subtitles in the same window saves only the translation beside the film, as Film.pl.srt, which Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Kodi read. It works for an MP4 too.

Minor​

• In the Media studio, a film's captions track has Add voice-over… in its menu and in Info.
• Preview Read Aloud in the Media studio now lowers the original by 5 dB, gently, as the saved voice-over does (before: 12 dB, at once).

Major​

• Media library › AI translation and speech. The OpenAI and ElevenLabs keys and the models that Translate Captions, Transcribe to Captions and Read Captions Aloud use now live in the Media library's settings, right after Subtitles. They are no longer under Settings › Files & storage. At first you see only the two key fields. Paste a key and press Save and check: the NAS asks the service which models this key can use, and only then do the choices appear. You pick models from a list instead of typing their names. Each model says in a few words what it is, and the line under the box says why you would choose it. Translation starts on gpt-6-luna and reading aloud on gpt-audio-1.5. If you kept the old reading settings (tts-1 with the voice alloy), Read Captions Aloud now uses gpt-audio-1.5 with the voice cedar; OpenAI retires tts-1 on 6 January 2027.
• Voice samples. The play button beside Voice plays a sample: ElevenLabs' own sample of the voice, or for OpenAI a short sentence read once with your key and then kept on the NAS.
• Clear key errors. A key that works but lacks a permission now says which one and what to allow. A restricted ElevenLabs key needs Voices (Read), Text to Speech and Speech to Text.

Minor​

• RSS › Log: a pass started with Run now or Check now could be missing from the Log for one refresh after it ended. The Log now shows it as soon as its job is gone.

Major​

• CA certificates now keep themselves current. Each release ships the newest Mozilla list of trusted certificate authorities (in this one, the list of 2026-11-05), and once a day the NAS asks curl.se whether a newer list exists. A newer list replaces the old one only after its checksum matches and every certificate in it can be read. rtorrent, the panel and curl trust this list instead of the firmware's, and an upgrade no longer puts back the list of the first install.
• Guides › Media studio: AI subtitle translation and an AI voice-over, step by step. A new section, in English and Polish, from the API keys to the saved MKV, with figures drawn from the studio's own windows.
• Files › Subtitles: each service is a badge. The five subtitle services show as one row of badges with the state's colour, an icon and the number of subtitles found. Tap or hover a badge for the full sentence.

Major​

• Captions you made in the Media studio are saved again. A captions track without a clip (made by Transcribe to Captions, its translation, or Add captions track) was left out of Save as MKV… and Export… without a word. It is now saved and exported like any other track.
• QuTS hero: the studio no longer stops for memory it can get. Waveforms, captions, key frames and preview copies waited while the ZFS cache held the memory, although the NAS gives that cache back on request. Rtorrent 16 now counts the part of the ZFS cache the NAS can give back as free memory.

Minor​

• QuTS hero: the Dashboard's Processor and memory card shows the ZFS cache as its own part of the memory chart.
• The support report of Diagnostics keeps the panel's web server settings as they are shipped.

Major​

• rtorrent's session now keeps the newest save of a torrent when several come at once. This is a fix from rtorrent's author, carried on our version of rtorrent, so a moved or finished torrent is found in its new folder after a power cut.

Minor​

• Settings › Files & storage › Speech service: under each API key field, Create a key at OpenAI and Create a key at ElevenLabs open the service's key page in a new tab.

Major​

• Moving torrents waits until rtorrent has saved the new place. Each torrent's move finishes only after rtorrent's session file names its new folder. Before, an older save could land last, and after a power cut before rtorrent's next automatic save, rtorrent could look for the files in the old folder. If rtorrent does not confirm the save within 20 seconds, the move still finishes and the System Logs say so.
• The Rtorrent 16 intro is off unless you switch it on: Profile › Login › Rtorrent 16 intro at sign-in.

Minor​

• The profile, the language and Sign out at the foot of the menu share one height, one font and one column for their icons.
• Midnight: its lines shoot up from the bottom edge of the page.
• The Search tile on the Launcher says what it searches.
• Popups have one frame in every theme.
• The Download, Upload, Torrents and Disk tiles on the Dashboard have an edge, like the panels beside them.
• Leaving the Media studio while the NAS still works on the film asks first, also before you have changed anything. The question also lists the Transcribe to Captions, Read Captions Aloud and Translate Captions jobs you started: Keep running leaves them, Stop ends them.
• Translate Captions no longer fails when the translation joins or splits a caption's lines; the NAS wraps the lines itself.
• When an installation pauses a running job, the "Paused …" line always reaches the System Logs.

Major​

• Saving to MKV in the Media studio with an imported subtitle file works again. Since 16.27-12E, Save as MKV… stopped with an error when the project had a captions file added with Import…. The save now finishes, with the captions' styles kept and a font you imported attached to the file.

Major​

• Translate Captions in the Media studio. Right-click a captions track and choose Translate Captions…: the NAS translates the captions into the language you pick with your own OpenAI key (or another OpenAI-compatible service) and adds them as a new track under the old one, at the same times and with the same styles. Only the text of the captions leaves the NAS.
• ElevenLabs as a second voice service. With your own ElevenLabs key (Settings › Files & storage › Speech service), the studio reads captions aloud in a voice of your account and turns a clip's speech into captions. With both keys saved, you choose which service does which.
• Preview copies of HDR films in the Media studio work again. Since 16.27-12E a preview copy of an HDR film (HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision) ended at once with "The job ended unexpectedly." It is made again.

Minor​

• When the Media studio asks on leaving, Keep running now keeps the work going in the background, and Files opens only after your answer.
• A waveform, key frames and captions no longer wait for a preview copy. On a test NAS, a waveform asked for during a 2160p HDR preview copy was ready 2.9 s later; before, it waited until the copy had ended.
• A track longer than 12 hours says at once why it gets no waveform.
• Clearer network and certificate texts: the help of the UPnP and PCP / NAT-PMP switches names every port they ask the router for (TCP port 80 for the certificate too), and the certificate card says its last failure in one plain sentence.

Major​

• Updates no longer wait for a running unpack. Before it stops Rtorrent 16, an update now pauses the package's own jobs (an unpack, a Files copy or move, a conversion, the MKV tools, a save from the Media studio). Once the installer has finished, they go on from where they stopped. On a test NAS with a slow disk, an update during an unpack kept rtorrent down for 27 s instead of 145 s; the unpacked file was complete.
• Background jobs button. While something works in the background, a button with a ring and the number of jobs stands in the top bar's corner, and in the Media studio's header. Its list names each job, says how far it is, and has Stop for each one.
• Clearer reasons in Send to Media library and Scraper history. Each reason now names both copies with their values, for example "This download is 720p and the copy in the library is 1080p, so the library copy stays."

Minor​

• On a phone, a row's last figure (a ratio, a time, Refresh) stays on its line instead of dropping to a line of its own.
• Media studio: a project file that is deleted or moved stops its own work. The waveform grows while the NAS reads the sound. Three workspaces (Editing, Timeline, Captions, also Alt+Shift+1 to 3) and a captions panel you can widen by its edge. Discard changes shows an eraser. Two more Casino Royale looks, in Alegreya Sans and Proza Libre. With your own speech service, a captions track can be transcribed and read aloud while the film plays.
• The blocklist accepts lists in CIDR format. When automatic port forwarding is off, the certificate run no longer asks the router for port 80, and the Security page says to forward TCP 80 by hand.