Bit torrent newbie question

Hi
I am one of many afficionados of golden oldie music, who were left with partial downloads of the very fine collection of tracks from http://78records.cdbpdx.com, when Yahoo cut off the site and made the owner agree to remove the urls of the nearly 4000 tracks available there.
There are now a few folks that managed to download all the tracks and have kindly made them available via bittorrents. My problem is, I have already downloded about 2000 tracks (~5 Gb) so I am looking for a bittorrent client that can download only the tracks that I am missing, to avoid re-downloading such a large collection of files.
Any tips/recommendations please for a bittorrent client (cli or gui) that can do this?
Thanks!

tigrmesh wrote:My mother had a big collection of 78s that she'd gotten from her uncle. I would like to listen to some of those again. I just can't imagine listening to a 78rpm recording played on an ipod...
Try this torrent: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1697139 It seems to be complete, e.g. the seeders must have downloaded all the tracks before the website went down. Warning - 10+Gb download!

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