I don't really know what the problem is to be honest, and I'm pretty sure its me missing a step rather than a technical problem, I just can't figure out what I'm missing after I uploaded the torrent file to etree.
I converted the files to flac through xACT. Wrote out the a flac fingerprint file along with a text file and put them together with the songs in a file and used Transmission to turn that into a torrent file. I followed etree's guidelines to upload that file but now that its uploaded I can't figure out how to become the first seed to get it going. I tried opening it in transmission now that its uploaded but it says the tracker doesn't recognize the file.
My problem is I can't figure out how to get transmission to see the info from my computer and start uploading it to the file I just started on etree, if that helps at all.
Edit, for audball's comment: I seem to be the only connection and it shows me as a leech, should I just leave it open? I don't seem to be getting any specific errors though.