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These can make torrent files?
Sorry for the noobish question. This is my first time making a torrent.
Sorry for the noobish question. This is my first time making a torrent.
Bittorrent is my favorite application to use. It is very very simple and they just came out with a new version for 10.4 that fixes lots of bugs in the previous version. Delete Azureus asap, that is a horrible program. I view it as equal to limewire.
http://www.bittorrent.com/
http://www.bittorrent.com/
azureus is the most advanced bittorrent client for Mac OS X, hands down. It's not a horrible program, on the contrary, if you have a Mac with lots of RAM, it's pretty decent and has features no other client has.penguinman said:
As for bittorrent clients, I'm not sure if all of them can create torrents, but here's a list of some of them:
- BitTorrent
- Tomato Torrent
- Bits on Wheels
- Transmission
- Azureus
- TorrentStation
- Anatomic P2P
- BitTornado
Also, beware certain BitTorrent clients - many trackers ban the likes of BitComet and others. And also, make sure your torrent works before you upload it, because it's just a hassle to find out after the fact.
Lol, yeah. What's with all the coughing?Flowbee said:Looks like there's a virus going around on Bittorrent.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
I use Transmission on my PM. Azureous just seems too slow and bloated.
penguinman said:
Beware, Bittorrent is a severe resource hog, much worse than Azureus, even with BT's new verison. I do not recommend this client whatsoever. Simple, yes, but many users want more.
penguinman said:
Quite the opopsite, I'm afraid. As janey said, Azureus is the most advanced BT client for OS X and has more powerful features which no other BT client has. It is my client of choice hands down. I would recommend doing more in-depth research before making such statements, as it is obvious you simply don't have a lot of in-depth experience with these clients from an architecture/programming, feature and performance aspect.
been a torrenter since 2001/2002~Shard~ said:Quite the opopsite, I'm afraid. As janey said, Azureus is the most advanced BT client for OS X and has more powerful features which no other BT client has. It is my client of choice hands down. I would recommend doing more in-depth research before making such statements, as it is obvious you simply don't have a lot of in-depth experience with these clients from an architecture/programming, feature and performance aspect.
, way before all this mass hysteria. 
Bits on Wheels is so great,
Azureus annoys the heck out of me, Transmission crashes way too much, and Bittorrent X is boring compared to Wheels
Check out Bits on Wheels, it's the sheeet
Azureus annoys the heck out of me, Transmission crashes way too much, and Bittorrent X is boring compared to Wheels
Check out Bits on Wheels, it's the sheeet
While azureus is bloated, leaks memory, and has a hidden process that runs after you close it, it is the most powerful and most feature-plentiful.
Transmission on the other hand is less powerful but has a nice interface and is extremely lightweight, taking up 1% of CPU.
I use both interchangeably depending on the situation.
Transmission on the other hand is less powerful but has a nice interface and is extremely lightweight, taking up 1% of CPU.
I use both interchangeably depending on the situation.
rccola70 said:
I have never seen a hidden process running before, and I check for things like that regularly - please let me know what this is, I'd like to see it in action on my machine.
Also, I have never once found Azureus to have a memory leak. I have it running essentially 24/7 on my Mac (sometimes it's been for over a month continuous) and I have never seen any memory leak or slowdown in my system as a result.
in fact, it does have a hidden process, not quite hidden, but...once i was too lazy to drag and drop azureus into my Applications folder because i just needed it to grab a 1mb file - so i ran the thing from the disk image or however it comes - i couldn't unmount the image after grabbing the file because it said the disk was still in use, and i do remember kill -9ing the process.~Shard~ said:I have never seen a hidden process running before, and I check for things like that regularly - please let me know what this is, I'd like to see it in action on my machine.
Also, I have never once found Azureus to have a memory leak. I have it running essentially 24/7 on my Mac (sometimes it's been for over a month continuous) and I have never seen any memory leak or slowdown in my system as a result.
but, it hasnt been horrible for a while, so
janey said:in fact, it does have a hidden process, not quite hidden, but...once i was too lazy to drag and drop azureus into my Applications folder because i just needed it to grab a 1mb file - so i ran the thing from the disk image or however it comes - i couldn't unmount the image after grabbing the file because it said the disk was still in use, and i do remember kill -9ing the process.
but, it hasnt been horrible for a while, so
Cool, thanks janey good to know! You learn something new every day.
And at any rate, this doesn't sound like a huge issue...