Recent Activity by garrulus
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Comments and replies on Xtorrent:
@jah: who cares. It looks and feels awesome!
Why would you pay for this?!?!?!
...because
I have paid for all of D.W.’s software
and have always felt every penny was worth it
and I want more of the same good stuff...!
First glace it looked ok, until I found out it uses libtransmission. Check out libtransmissions forums for the tracker problems it has.
I love this guy's apps but this is one I won't even look at unless it has been verified that he's fixing the libtransmission stuff...Its useless for me and for a lot other peeps. We're looking for a good torrent client mainly because one of the best ones (transmission) is useless in many trackers. Now this one comes along YAY, but...well its same thing just the message that says "your client is banned" will look slightly nicer...
@garrulus While xTorrent looks interesting, a few points:
1) while transmission's license does allow it, is it ethical to free ride (and profit in this case) from other people's code?
2) it uses more ram etc than other clients
3) why would any rational person purchase a bittorrent client when there are numerous free alternatives available which do an equal if not superior job?
It's provides an end-to-end solution for torrents. You can search, download, and manage your torrents all from XTorrent. Transmission and BitTorrent.app don't do this.
That said, it's a little bit goofy (the bouncing arrow?) and feels almost exactly like Acquisition (which can already handle .torrents). If you don't want to use the search feature to find your torrents, I don't think it has anything to offer over Transmission, not to mention the price tag. It's still in beta, so we'll see where it goes. It would also be nice if he contributed any of his changes to libTransmission.
D.W. seems to be good at selling the same program in multiple packages; this should please the guy who said, "I want more of the same good stuff...!"
I just want to point out that Bittorrent technology and clients are not "piracy applications" even if some or many people choose to illegally download and share files with it. CD-Rs and CD writers aren't piracy tools per se, neither is my car a weapon even though I can certainly use it to harm others.
Having compared this to other bittorrent solutions for the Mac, including acquisition, and Bittorrent itself, I have found that it saves me considerable time and effort.
Entering a search in one box, and getting a unified table of results is a lot simpler than searching multiple different web interfaces and then trying to compare the hits.
The downloading capability seems to be as good as the other tools I've tried, but I can't say I've been comparing them side by side with the same torrents.
It's a very nicely designed app. Is it worth paying money for? Generally saving time and hassle is worth something. It all depends how much you're going to use it.
BitTorrent is NOT essentially piracy. I personally don't pirate, but I love BitTorrent because is simply a neat technology, which I use for the occasional video podcast or Linux distro. Unlike with traditional one-server-with-many-clients, everybody that takes also gives in terms of bandwidth. BitTorrent saves content providers a considerable amount of money, and just gets faster and faster the more people there are. It's perfect for large and popular files, especially when the providers of said files don't have much money to pay for bandwidth.
As for Xtorrent itself, I personally wouldn't use it enough to justify paying for it so I'll stick with Transmission because it does what I need and its tracker problems have not affected me with my limited usage.
It's simple, quick, and I love the torrent searching feature. Wish I could find out how it worked, so I could try to get my favorite torrents to come up on it...
Very nice, worth hanging on to, but keep something like Transmission handy as well.
If libtransmission doesn't float your boat, try using BitRocket (similar interface, not quite as slick, but based on libtorrent and released under the GPL).
I like xtorrent, but the libtransmission thing really kills it for me... sure, it's quick, but it's banned in just too many places for it to be useful.
(Update: I notice that the latest beta has a "fix for incorrectly reported statistics" -- might be worth checking out again soon...)
From my experience with David Watanabe’s other apps,
all these issues will be mostly addressed by its first 1.0 release,
then steadily resolved over the first few months after that.
The app's description could use a rewrite: replace sujective statement "Looks fantastic for a beta!" by something more impartial and neutral, and share more meaningful information, such as the fact it uses libtransmission, originally from the Transmission Bittorrent client.
Consistently screws up all downloads and i have to start all over from the beginning. Can't seem to "remember" the external hard drive i'm downloading to. Lame but pretty.
Still no encryption... There is no way I'm paying for a bittorrent client w/o encryption.
Frankly xTorrent is a bit of a mess, not as reliable as Transmission and with a pretty but complete overblown interface. The Torrentcast feature is fantastic though and should be in every Bittorrent client.
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Very nice initiative. The official Flickr Uploadr is getting very.... old. That said, Gleam still needs a lot of work. In particular, it's too slow to work with efficiently.