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		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-165325</link>
		<dc:creator>loriee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-163850</link>
		<dc:creator>idrive</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: 5fd5a13f48a8</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 01:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: DrZ</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-8799</link>
		<dc:creator>DrZ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi, can someone post a link or tell me about a &quot;how to upload a torrent for MAc&quot;, i  have one for uTorrent for PC but cant find a mac app to do it anywhere. ?possible in Azureus?
thanks torrenters!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi, can someone post a link or tell me about a &#8220;how to upload a torrent for MAc&#8221;, i  have one for uTorrent for PC but cant find a mac app to do it anywhere. ?possible in Azureus?<br />
thanks torrenters!</p>
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		<title>By: Headrush69</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-7188</link>
		<dc:creator>Headrush69</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The lastest 0.8x SVN releases of Transmission support selective downloading.

Even a noobie can check out SVN versions too. Either grabbing a nightly build or the current SVN release. If you have Xcode installed its a simple one click build.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The lastest 0.8x SVN releases of Transmission support selective downloading.</p>
<p>Even a noobie can check out SVN versions too. Either grabbing a nightly build or the current SVN release. If you have Xcode installed its a simple one click build.</p>
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		<title>By: iamnoskcaj</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-4321</link>
		<dc:creator>iamnoskcaj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 13:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you people who say that azureus is the ONLY Mac client that works on private trackers are WRONG!

BitRocket has worked on many private trackers for quite some time now.  I can often bounce between BitRocket and Azureus, and be just as productive in either one.  Of course Azureus offers more granular control of the application... specifically in the speed limiting/managing arena, and selective file downloading.  While BitRocket has RSS support, it&#039;s a very immature feature, that needs more development.  If I use BitRocket fulltime, I must also use a standalone RSS client (and use applescript and folder actions to get my downloads to work properly).  With Azureus I can use it by itself and get all my automated downloads working just right.  The biggest problem with Azureus (in my opinion) is it&#039;s heavy memory footprint.  Historically it&#039;s been a beast.. and it remains so to this day.  It&#039;s even getting worse with the 3.0 version that&#039;s been floating around lately.... OMG, talk about BLOAT.  Sure, you can switch to classic UI mode, but who the hell needs all that extra crap when it was already a memory hog?

Overall, I enjoy using Transmission too.  It&#039;s lightweight, tiny foot-print is VERY enticing... but as many of you probably know.. it&#039;s had it&#039;s fair share of problems on private trackers... getting banned multiple times over the last year or two.  I&#039;ve been following it&#039;s development closely.  FYI:  Transmission (0.7.x) is now permitted on the wildly popular (and very discriminating) private tracker, Oink.me.uk

X-Torrent has so much potential... but I am still on the fence about whether I&#039;d pay for a Torrent Client when there&#039;s so many others out there.  Funny thing is.. I was in the same position about RSS Clients a couple years ago, and I ended up choosing David Watanabe&#039;s client over all the other free/commercial/opensource clients out there.  It JUST WORKS better, and looks great.  If he picks up the pace of his development on X-Torrent, he just might make a believer out of me. 

  If BitRocket development moved at a faster pace, I&#039;d probably commit to that... because I could see the same great potential in BitRocket, as X-Torrent has... AND it&#039;s opensource.  Only time will tell whether the respective developers are really committed to the projects.  So far it seems like X-Torrent and BitRocket get updated the least, compared to Azureus and Transmission.  To be fair, there was a time when I used Tomato, but those days are long gone... using my Mac fulltime means I need a stable, feature rich, (preferably lightweight) Torrent Client... and Tomato is seriously lacking on said &quot;feature rich&quot; requirement.

I guess to be crystal clear, I think the following features are absolutely required:
Transport Encryption
Selective File Downloading
Good Speed/Bandwidth Management (with possibly a scheduler too)
File Management (torrent-file, in-progress, and completed-file organizing/moving, etc...)
Must be usable on private trackers (transport encryption, etc)
Intuitive, Modern/Nice-Looking Mac-Stye User Interface
Download Automation (through RSS) would be REALLY nice, but so far I haven&#039;t seen anyone do it really well. 
 
I&#039;m eager to see David Watanabe&#039;s (X-Torrent) end-product a little further down the line... as well as BitRocket, if they ever pick up the pace of development.  

In the meantime, it&#039;s Azureus fulltime for me.  Ever so often I&#039;ll switch to BitRocket, Transmission, and X-Torrent, individually (just to see how the three apps are maturing periodically).


Later guys!!!  

Happy Torrent&#039;ing!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you people who say that azureus is the ONLY Mac client that works on private trackers are WRONG!</p>
<p>BitRocket has worked on many private trackers for quite some time now.  I can often bounce between BitRocket and Azureus, and be just as productive in either one.  Of course Azureus offers more granular control of the application&#8230; specifically in the speed limiting/managing arena, and selective file downloading.  While BitRocket has RSS support, it&#8217;s a very immature feature, that needs more development.  If I use BitRocket fulltime, I must also use a standalone RSS client (and use applescript and folder actions to get my downloads to work properly).  With Azureus I can use it by itself and get all my automated downloads working just right.  The biggest problem with Azureus (in my opinion) is it&#8217;s heavy memory footprint.  Historically it&#8217;s been a beast.. and it remains so to this day.  It&#8217;s even getting worse with the 3.0 version that&#8217;s been floating around lately&#8230;. OMG, talk about BLOAT.  Sure, you can switch to classic UI mode, but who the hell needs all that extra crap when it was already a memory hog?</p>
<p>Overall, I enjoy using Transmission too.  It&#8217;s lightweight, tiny foot-print is VERY enticing&#8230; but as many of you probably know.. it&#8217;s had it&#8217;s fair share of problems on private trackers&#8230; getting banned multiple times over the last year or two.  I&#8217;ve been following it&#8217;s development closely.  FYI:  Transmission (0.7.x) is now permitted on the wildly popular (and very discriminating) private tracker, Oink.me.uk</p>
<p>X-Torrent has so much potential&#8230; but I am still on the fence about whether I&#8217;d pay for a Torrent Client when there&#8217;s so many others out there.  Funny thing is.. I was in the same position about RSS Clients a couple years ago, and I ended up choosing David Watanabe&#8217;s client over all the other free/commercial/opensource clients out there.  It JUST WORKS better, and looks great.  If he picks up the pace of his development on X-Torrent, he just might make a believer out of me. </p>
<p>  If BitRocket development moved at a faster pace, I&#8217;d probably commit to that&#8230; because I could see the same great potential in BitRocket, as X-Torrent has&#8230; AND it&#8217;s opensource.  Only time will tell whether the respective developers are really committed to the projects.  So far it seems like X-Torrent and BitRocket get updated the least, compared to Azureus and Transmission.  To be fair, there was a time when I used Tomato, but those days are long gone&#8230; using my Mac fulltime means I need a stable, feature rich, (preferably lightweight) Torrent Client&#8230; and Tomato is seriously lacking on said &#8220;feature rich&#8221; requirement.</p>
<p>I guess to be crystal clear, I think the following features are absolutely required:<br />
Transport Encryption<br />
Selective File Downloading<br />
Good Speed/Bandwidth Management (with possibly a scheduler too)<br />
File Management (torrent-file, in-progress, and completed-file organizing/moving, etc&#8230;)<br />
Must be usable on private trackers (transport encryption, etc)<br />
Intuitive, Modern/Nice-Looking Mac-Stye User Interface<br />
Download Automation (through RSS) would be REALLY nice, but so far I haven&#8217;t seen anyone do it really well. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m eager to see David Watanabe&#8217;s (X-Torrent) end-product a little further down the line&#8230; as well as BitRocket, if they ever pick up the pace of development.  </p>
<p>In the meantime, it&#8217;s Azureus fulltime for me.  Ever so often I&#8217;ll switch to BitRocket, Transmission, and X-Torrent, individually (just to see how the three apps are maturing periodically).</p>
<p>Later guys!!!  </p>
<p>Happy Torrent&#8217;ing!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Sherb</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-2404</link>
		<dc:creator>Sherb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am now using Transmission, it&#039;s very simple and I get good download speeds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am now using Transmission, it&#8217;s very simple and I get good download speeds.</p>
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		<title>By: dsjkvf</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-2275</link>
		<dc:creator>dsjkvf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ChiefBootKnocka and @everyone

not the only, but a major problem with Transmission (and with other clients as well) is the lack of selective download. dixi.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ChiefBootKnocka and @everyone</p>
<p>not the only, but a major problem with Transmission (and with other clients as well) is the lack of selective download. dixi.</p>
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		<title>By: ChiefBootKnocka</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-2145</link>
		<dc:creator>ChiefBootKnocka</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Get the latest Transmission build (0.7-svn-r1611 at the time of writing, updated *frequently*) compiled and ready for download from http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/transmission/Transmission-latest.dmg

Link above should always get you the most recent build.

Only major problem with Transmission (if you ask me) is lack of encryption support.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get the latest Transmission build (0.7-svn-r1611 at the time of writing, updated *frequently*) compiled and ready for download from <a href="http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/transmission/Transmission-latest.dmg" rel="nofollow">http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/transmission/Transmission-latest.dmg</a></p>
<p>Link above should always get you the most recent build.</p>
<p>Only major problem with Transmission (if you ask me) is lack of encryption support.</p>
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		<title>By: Showdown: Torrent Clients for Mac Os X &#171; Tons of Fresh News</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-2011</link>
		<dc:creator>Showdown: Torrent Clients for Mac Os X &#171; Tons of Fresh News</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Torrent Clients for Mac Os&#160;X  Showdown: Torrent Clients for Mac Os X Being some of the most used apps today, torrent clients allow transferring of documents from one [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Torrent Clients for Mac Os&nbsp;X  Showdown: Torrent Clients for Mac Os X Being some of the most used apps today, torrent clients allow transferring of documents from one [...]</p>
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		<title>By: William Laughlin</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1967</link>
		<dc:creator>William Laughlin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am hoping for a collective group to band together to make
Azureus less of a system hog, and more OS X like. If I had the programming knowledge I would contribute, but alas that is why I am waiting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am hoping for a collective group to band together to make<br />
Azureus less of a system hog, and more OS X like. If I had the programming knowledge I would contribute, but alas that is why I am waiting.</p>
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		<title>By: BitRocket &#187; Gedankenablagerungen</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1544</link>
		<dc:creator>BitRocket &#187; Gedankenablagerungen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Freunde von mir verweisen auf einen Vergleich von BitTorrent-Clients fÃƒ¼r den Mac. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Freunde von mir verweisen auf einen Vergleich von BitTorrent-Clients fÃƒ¼r den Mac. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Sebastian</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1538</link>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, I used to be a regular Tomato Torrent user, but BitRocket looks really promising.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, I used to be a regular Tomato Torrent user, but BitRocket looks really promising.</p>
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		<title>By: Dylan</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1536</link>
		<dc:creator>Dylan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Jon Kantro
Uhm... Xtorrent is Transmission.

@everyone
Xtorrent is, nearly, completely useless for anyone other than a complete newbie.

Here are 5 reasons why:

1. No transport encryption (this means slow speeds for anyone who&#039;s ISP limits bittorent use)
2. No torrent creation
3. No selective downloading (try downloading one episode of a previous season on BitMeTV)
4. It&#039;s banned on all decent trackers
5. It&#039;s payware!

I wouldn&#039;t recommend anyone pay for Xtorrent, you are more than likely to grow out of it very quickly. I do like the RSS integration and overall look and feel though, it&#039;s a shame it&#039;s such a lame client.

As far as I&#039;m concerned Azureus is the only Mac torrent client. I hate the interface but it is the only client that has encryption (this gives me a 500%-1000% speed boost) and is supported by private trackers. I simply can not use any of the others.

What we really need is a good utorrent clone. BitRocket was promising but development has pretty much died.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Jon Kantro<br />
Uhm&#8230; Xtorrent is Transmission.</p>
<p>@everyone<br />
Xtorrent is, nearly, completely useless for anyone other than a complete newbie.</p>
<p>Here are 5 reasons why:</p>
<p>1. No transport encryption (this means slow speeds for anyone who&#8217;s ISP limits bittorent use)<br />
2. No torrent creation<br />
3. No selective downloading (try downloading one episode of a previous season on BitMeTV)<br />
4. It&#8217;s banned on all decent trackers<br />
5. It&#8217;s payware!</p>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t recommend anyone pay for Xtorrent, you are more than likely to grow out of it very quickly. I do like the RSS integration and overall look and feel though, it&#8217;s a shame it&#8217;s such a lame client.</p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned Azureus is the only Mac torrent client. I hate the interface but it is the only client that has encryption (this gives me a 500%-1000% speed boost) and is supported by private trackers. I simply can not use any of the others.</p>
<p>What we really need is a good utorrent clone. BitRocket was promising but development has pretty much died.</p>
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		<title>By: alej744</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1519</link>
		<dc:creator>alej744</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not enough of a torrenter to pay for Xtorrent. I love Transmission.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not enough of a torrenter to pay for Xtorrent. I love Transmission.</p>
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		<title>By: Yohannes Wijaya</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1513</link>
		<dc:creator>Yohannes Wijaya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Alec Feld, i did but it still showed up for weird reason. neverthelesss i have uninstalled it for quite some time now and dont bother using it anymore. As Sherb said, xtorrent shouldn&#039;t cost money. 

@Logan Leger, i do like bitrocket and i still keep it. it&#039;s a shame that development has stalled for quite a while.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Alec Feld, i did but it still showed up for weird reason. neverthelesss i have uninstalled it for quite some time now and dont bother using it anymore. As Sherb said, xtorrent shouldn&#8217;t cost money. </p>
<p>@Logan Leger, i do like bitrocket and i still keep it. it&#8217;s a shame that development has stalled for quite a while.</p>
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		<title>By: Alec Feld</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1504</link>
		<dc:creator>Alec Feld</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sherb, I agree. But it&#039;s a damn nice client.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sherb, I agree. But it&#8217;s a damn nice client.</p>
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		<title>By: Sherb</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1501</link>
		<dc:creator>Sherb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You shouldn&#039;t have to pay for a TORRENT client :-/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You shouldn&#8217;t have to pay for a TORRENT client :-/</p>
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		<title>By: Michael</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1498</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve tried all of the ones above and even BitRocket and now I use Transmission. It&#039;s a lightweight app, and gave me the fastest downoad speeds. Great post Alec.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve tried all of the ones above and even BitRocket and now I use Transmission. It&#8217;s a lightweight app, and gave me the fastest downoad speeds. Great post Alec.</p>
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		<title>By: Alec Feld</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1496</link>
		<dc:creator>Alec Feld</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jon,

I realize that it &lt;b&gt;will&lt;/b&gt;. But as of now, I think Xtorrent is great for torrent organization.

Of course for speed, Transmission rocks, but again some people might be drawn to Xtorrent due to the organization.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jon,</p>
<p>I realize that it <b>will</b>. But as of now, I think Xtorrent is great for torrent organization.</p>
<p>Of course for speed, Transmission rocks, but again some people might be drawn to Xtorrent due to the organization.</p>
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		<title>By: Jon Kantro</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1495</link>
		<dc:creator>Jon Kantro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You do realize Transmission is going to kick the shit out of Xtorrent. They have fixed their tracker issue of announcing every 5 minutes, they are working on individual file support, supports PEX...Once again research.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You do realize Transmission is going to kick the shit out of Xtorrent. They have fixed their tracker issue of announcing every 5 minutes, they are working on individual file support, supports PEX&#8230;Once again research.</p>
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		<title>By: James</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1494</link>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, and what about those problems with private trackers banning anyone using Xtorrent? Are those problems solved?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, and what about those problems with private trackers banning anyone using Xtorrent? Are those problems solved?</p>
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		<title>By: brady</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1487</link>
		<dc:creator>brady</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do ANY of you use private trackers? Azureus is the only option on the Mac right now for anyone who&#039;s a member of any private tracker, and anyone who wants any sort of basic control over the torrenting process (e.g. which files get get downloaded, encryption, directory moving). All other Mac torrent clients are, at this stage, egregiously under-featured.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do ANY of you use private trackers? Azureus is the only option on the Mac right now for anyone who&#8217;s a member of any private tracker, and anyone who wants any sort of basic control over the torrenting process (e.g. which files get get downloaded, encryption, directory moving). All other Mac torrent clients are, at this stage, egregiously under-featured.</p>
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		<title>By: Steffan Williams</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1484</link>
		<dc:creator>Steffan Williams</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Xtorrent just isn&#039;t worth it.

I&#039;ve used all of the applications above and the best one has to be Transmission (so happy they finally changed that logo, too). Transmission is simple, has a great feature set and is actually a fairly pretty app. 

Xtorrent tries to hard to do something but from what I&#039;ve experienced it&#039;s useless. Searching feeds from within the client meant that I got repeat listings on everything with most, even though they had high numbers (which I assumed was good), would just not download / download very slowly.

If you do download illegally (Heroes, Lost etc. here =P), the best client for the Mac is Transmission. Without a doubt. Though I am with Yohannes, an update would be nice (and my roommate uses Vienna to track the RSS feeds of torrents).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Xtorrent just isn&#8217;t worth it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve used all of the applications above and the best one has to be Transmission (so happy they finally changed that logo, too). Transmission is simple, has a great feature set and is actually a fairly pretty app. </p>
<p>Xtorrent tries to hard to do something but from what I&#8217;ve experienced it&#8217;s useless. Searching feeds from within the client meant that I got repeat listings on everything with most, even though they had high numbers (which I assumed was good), would just not download / download very slowly.</p>
<p>If you do download illegally (Heroes, Lost etc. here =P), the best client for the Mac is Transmission. Without a doubt. Though I am with Yohannes, an update would be nice (and my roommate uses Vienna to track the RSS feeds of torrents).</p>
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		<title>By: John Baker</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1483</link>
		<dc:creator>John Baker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great comparison, Alec - this is actually just what I&#039;ve been needing for a while. I&#039;ve been using Transmission and I&#039;ve been very happy with it, but I might give Xtorrent a try after seeing this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great comparison, Alec &#8211; this is actually just what I&#8217;ve been needing for a while. I&#8217;ve been using Transmission and I&#8217;ve been very happy with it, but I might give Xtorrent a try after seeing this.</p>
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		<title>By: Logan Leger</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1482</link>
		<dc:creator>Logan Leger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BitRocket is an amazingly solid product and has worked for me better than Xtorrent ever did.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BitRocket is an amazingly solid product and has worked for me better than Xtorrent ever did.</p>
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		<title>By: Alec Feld</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1480</link>
		<dc:creator>Alec Feld</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yohannes, you can turn off the Google/Yahoo results in the searching preferences.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yohannes, you can turn off the Google/Yahoo results in the searching preferences.</p>
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		<title>By: dsjkvf</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1479</link>
		<dc:creator>dsjkvf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>well, if we are talking about features, then does XTorrent or any other Mac torrent client support selective downloads? only Azureus does AFAIR... but it is big &amp; ugly :(.

besides, there are more clients -- such as BitRocket (http://www.bitrocket.org/) or Bits On Wheels (http://www.bitsonwheels.com/)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well, if we are talking about features, then does XTorrent or any other Mac torrent client support selective downloads? only Azureus does AFAIR&#8230; but it is big &amp; ugly <img src='http://macapper.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
<p>besides, there are more clients &#8212; such as BitRocket (<a href="http://www.bitrocket.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bitrocket.org/</a>) or Bits On Wheels (<a href="http://www.bitsonwheels.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bitsonwheels.com/</a>)</p>
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		<title>By: Yohannes Wijaya</title>
		<link>http://macapper.com/2007/03/19/showdown-torrent-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1478</link>
		<dc:creator>Yohannes Wijaya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>still waiting for the next update to transmission, a lightweight app i am using exclusively for torrent. never liked xtorrent; everytime u search something, a corresponding google result page popped up(there is no option turn that feature[annoyance] off). why would i need that? rss? i use netnewswire. The beauty about transmission is that it does one thing, which is getting torrent downloads and it does it very well while others adding unnecessary bulks/features/* diluting the intended goal: downloading torrent files.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>still waiting for the next update to transmission, a lightweight app i am using exclusively for torrent. never liked xtorrent; everytime u search something, a corresponding google result page popped up(there is no option turn that feature[annoyance] off). why would i need that? rss? i use netnewswire. The beauty about transmission is that it does one thing, which is getting torrent downloads and it does it very well while others adding unnecessary bulks/features/* diluting the intended goal: downloading torrent files.</p>
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