David Watanabe has released Xtorrent Public Beta 2 for testing. Xtorrent is an advanced Mac OS X torrent client that aims to bring a friendly interface and powerful features to the world of BitTorrent.
The largest change in Beta 2 is an under-the-hood overhaul of the downloads pane. The only visible manifestation currently is that the folder structure of downloading torrents can now be browsed, much like in the search pane. This rearchitecting work was done to lay a foundation for future advanced features and facilitate future integration work between the search pane, downloads pane, and (as of yet unreleased) RSS module.
More visibly, the swarm column in the search view has been redesigned, and can now be expanded to reveal a breakdown of seeds and leeches information instead of a single aggregate swarm size value. Finally, the Xtorrent window will now accept drag and dropped .torrents, and even provides a slick informational overlay view.
More info and download link (2.3MB) here.
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Xtorrent Public Beta 1 released for Mac OS X – September 18, 2006
What’s the best BT client for Mac? I’ve used Acquisition but that seems to be a resource hog, while Transmission’s features are bit lightweight. What do ya use?
How’s this compare to Azureus? Anybody know?
Apparently if you use private trackers then this and other apps such as Transmission aren’t best suited due to some problem with the way they make requests to the tracker. I think, as with any app, it’s largely a matter of trying everything until you find something you like – especially if they’re (currently) free.
I’ll try it if it has a secure download/connection option!
I’ve tried this and whilst it’s good, I think I’ll stick with Azureus (love the way the packet encryption foxes my ISP’s traffic shaping attempts).
Bob, since this app was released I have stopped using Azureus. This is a great product. You should give it a try.
David Watanabe is not a nice developer at all. I had my serial no. for Acquisition made invalid by him (message said I was using it on more than one machine which I wasn’t), when I emailed him about it he eventually replied and was rude and offensive, and refused to refund or give me a new serial no.
Do a Google on his name and you will see I’m not the only one that’s been abused and ripped off by him.
Do not buy his software until he changes his attitude.
http://phillryu.com/2006/09/11/presenting-xtorrent-bittorrent-done-right/
one example (read some of the comments)
I endorse Xtorrent. No celebrity endorsement needed.
It works good so far. I was using Azureus, but this one seems to be more friendly. Although I would be weary to purchasing it when the official release comes out…so far so good.
Try Bits On Wheels. Great interface and it just works.
WHich Mac torrent clients support RSS? My current app does not.
I’ve heard a few bad stories about the developer, so that makes me a little weary of him.
However, I bought Acquisition immediately because it’s the best p2p app out there, and it’s one of the most gorgeous Mac apps I’ve ever seen. Worth every single penny.
XTorrent looks like it’s going to be great too. I highly recommend it.
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If you’ve got an Intel Mac you might as well just run uTorrent via CrossOver.
Oh, btw, until xTorrent, I used Transmission. I still highly recommend that app. Nice, easy to use, light on the CPU, gotta love that.
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Acquisition is straight-forward, and capable.
This app started out great, but now it’s gotten so bad, that i’ve switched back to using Bittorrent, which isn’t even rewriten for Intel…
It just doesn’t seem to be able to keep track on things like it could in the early releases.
Well.. Maybe he’s made it better in this Beta 2, can’t wait to find out!
Transmission. All the way…
The guy says in his first release “Please note, this is beta software. It’s not feature complete…”
When I mailed him to point out that “Beta” means feature-complete and only bug fixes before release, he blew me off in a pissy way.
I like his software, but if he doesn’t know the difference between alpha and beta and he treats his users with disdain, I have plenty of other options for BT software.
Although Azureus pisses me off and consistently hangs. :/
I am going to download utorrent and wonder should I download alpha or beta ? At the moment I am using Vuze, but have been told utorrent is better.
Thanks