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All of the mentioned 'bugs' (bar one) have been fixed in the nightly version, and the remaining issue is in the process of being sorted out.

Pay no attention to the comments below the first few. Transmission is great and does work on Demonoid. The bugs to my knowledge have been fixed and it's worked perfectly for me.

So, I'm wondering when the next version is coming out. According to the website, their last release was on June 25 of 2006. That's pretty much half a year ago. And yet, all the releases before 0.6.1 didn't take as long to release. The only way that one would know that it's development is continuing is if you were to take a look at their nightly build section:
http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/transmission/

The new version 0.7 is in developement, and it looks good. Check out here : http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/transmission/Transmission-latest.dmg

Okay, so 0.7 is still in development. Why is this now called 0.7? It's not out yet!

Transmission works fine with demonoid and other trackers. One big problem, after the download is complete, you HAVE to check the files by stopping the torrent, dragging the file of folder out of the transmission folder, restarting the torrent, stopping it again, and then dragging the original file or folder back to the tranmission folder (overwriting the new files transmission created). Then start the torrent again, transmission will now check the download again. Often, there is a error and a small portion needs to be downloaded again. It would be nice if Transmission would doublecheck the downloads before declaring them compleet!

Been using it for quite a while in lieu of bigger, badder alternatives.
It often downloads quicker than the alternatives in my experience. Even vs Azureus. And as to it being banned on trackers, I've never come across it. I keep hearing about it, and it keeps working everywhere I need it to.
* shrug *

That said, I truly truly wish uTorrent would make a Mac build. Nothing has ever been even remotely as fast as uTorrent.

Please contribute to the bounty for encryption.

http://transmission.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1067

If we get encryption in Transmission, Xtorrent will have it as well. I think that's well worth it.

0.7 is out. All I can say is wow. I shied away from using Transmission before but this release is really good.

Comparing this with Azureus is like trying to match a Mac with a PC wreck anno 1997.

Azureus - which disappointingly seems to be the 'de facto' standard client - is so accumulated of bloat and a mess to configure (I hear it doesn't even ship with the proper settings pre-configured for optimal efficiency).

Transmission is a Mac app.

It would be a shame not to see it being considered legitimate on trackers in general, if not to say, a horrible tragedy. But now, seeing that they've changed a whole lot in the app, and hopefully conformed to most of the general praxis, there seems to be a chance for a very welcome revival! Granted, I know that at least one of the vital trackers out there has changed their policy towards allowing Transmission once again.

Nice, lightweight. But it froze my internet connection. Upload and download eventually would go down to 0kb/s and would even stop Firefox downloads. Restarting OS X/Transmission would only allow me to go slightly longer. Moved to BitRocket. Seems to have all that Transmission has, but more without being a heavyweight.

Exactly the lightweight solution that prevents a torrent download from giving me the Azureus nightmare.

I think it should really create the files at their full size when downloads start, though. I saw some files being destroyed when a disk ran full because of that when I tried an eaerlier version. So: nice if you are sure your hard drive won't run full.

The latest nightlies have selective file downloading. Works really really well. This at least now is the hands down best torrent client for mac imho. Great work team!!

Is this, or Azureus better?

i tried azureus and xtorrent before this gem.
simple, easy, small, no crap you don't need like azureus, and no "buy this now." i'm stoked i found this app.

@ian_groh: It depends. Azureus has more features, but requires more resources. Eg Azureus supports transfer encryption. This is a feature that requires lots more CPU resources, but can result in faster transfers.
I use Transmission when I do work at the same time and I use Azureus when something downloads while I sleep.

I was an happy user of Transmission, and hoped for a while for the 0.8 version.
But I'm sorry to say, it's a failure : it always bug and crash, and I must restart my mac to use it after having done any little change.
Perhaps they will soon offer a 0.8.1 with bug fix ?

@boethius:
I've never had a crash from the last two versions of Transmission. Perhaps this is something specific to your set-up?

@boethius:
I've never had a crash from the last two versions of Transmission. Perhaps this is something specific to your set-up?

Now that the latest version has downloading of individual files this is the perfect bittorrent client on the mac. I find it much faster than Azureus for downloading. It uses less resources and is much more intuitive to use. Great work!