Torrent for Mac?

Redhairedguy

G'day mates..

My crappy PC ain't cutting it anymore.

Any of you chaps know any decent torrent applications for mac that you'd trust?

Thanks

-Red

steveland?

I use Transmission. Very simple UI and runs a hell of a lot quicker on my iBook than Azureus does on my PC.

http://www.coolosxapps.net/2007/09/11/transmission-free-bittorrent-client-for-os-x/

leeroybrown

I use Azureus. It's a tad heavy-weight but it's got all the important features and never gives me any trouble.

440Hz

+1 for Transmission

Breezer

Another +1 for Transmission. Now that it finally allows selective downloading of files I see no reason to keep Azureus.

leeroybrown

Does Transmission have a full set of encryption features yet? They're one of the main reasons I stick with Azureus.

Breezer

No, although it's planned for a future release. I don't really have any use for it personally so I didn't even think about it when I posted before, sorry!

babypink

Transmission +1

mikemac

I’ve used Azureus and Transmission

Transmission gets my vote

Joe D'Arcy

Another for Transmission

Oriel

+1 Transmission

Hugh_C

Oriel wrote:

+1 Transmission

sliding a bit OT but do torrents ever get used for anything legitimate?

NullZer0

Yup, transmission.

440Hz

hughchal wrote:

sliding a bit OT but do torrents ever get used for anything legitimate?

Yup. We considered them at work at one point to help distribute our rather large download package. A lot of software companies are torrenting their apps now, those that are confident(ish) in their licensing anyway

Lots of things you dont have to pay for can be made into torrents too! Joys of P2P.

chrislad

Transmission gets my vote.

I used it to download NeoOffice, which is one legal use. Of few

Breezer

NeoOffice and Ubuntu (yes, I occasionally play around with an OS other than OS X - anyway it recognised my scanner when OS X didn't Though in the end I had to drop it for Windows since thats the only way I can print in college )

Redhairedguy

Woah.. :eek:

I guess it's Transmission I'll be getting then...:D

Thanks guys, much appreciated!:)

Oriel

hughchal wrote:

sliding a bit OT but do torrents ever get used for anything legitimate?

For about 1% of things, yes.

uncle_sam_ie

No one for "Bits on wheels"?:eek:

440Hz

uncle_sam_ie wrote:

No one for "Bits on wheels"?:eek:

or "Tomato Torrent" :P

Cabaal

Prefer Azureus myself on OSX/Windows, and torrentflux on my linux box

Simon201

Xtorrent for me. Well worth the €18 or whatever it might come to these days.

condra

Opera browser for me. Just like Firefox but with built in bit-torrent. Means you can just download torrents+files like normal links. The way it should be IMO.

rom

xtorrent.

Developer is an a**hole. I knew that and still bought it.

Creamy Goodness

i wish utorrent was available for osx.

babypink

Cremo wrote: »

i wish utorrent was available for osx.

they're working on it apparently

http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-for-mac-is-coming-an-early-review/

Sad Professor

Rumour is uTorrent for mac has been abandoned or at very least there hasn't been any movement on it since the last beta version, which was in June. The beta was apparently missing all the good stuff anyway.

The latest version of Transmission is close to perfect imo. The only thing it's really missing is encryption.

babypink

download the latest nightly dev build!!!

it has encryption and works lovely

Sad Professor

I just realised the current version already has it. I only updated a few days ago and hadn't noticed.