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Krypton · Sep 17, 2006, 05:47 PM

David Watanabe reveals a dedicated torrent client, complete with beautifully simple GUI (as expected), improving upon the latest incarnation of Acquisition. Site.

My first thoughts about this app, are that it is worryingly simple for clueless people like me to find all manner of "interesting" torrents with next to no effort.

rickey939 · Sep 17, 2006, 07:16 PM

Wow, this thing is amazing and beautiful to boot....very cool!

mitchell_pgh · Sep 17, 2006, 07:50 PM

I've been waiting for this@!!

Nice!

Peter · Sep 17, 2006, 08:43 PM

i wonder if he'll be using some open source stuff and whacking a huge price tag on it

Thinine · 09:58 PM

Yeah, it's using at least parts of libtransmission. Could be interesting though.

The one click downloading looks pretty cool too.

Peter · Sep 18, 2006, 03:57 AM

Public Beta Out today...

mozzep · Sep 18, 2006, 04:28 AM

How do we know it's using libtransmission? That is illegal, right? Unless he makes the whole client open source.

Philip J. Fry · Sep 18, 2006, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by mozzep

How do we know it's using libtransmission? That is illegal, right? Unless he makes the whole client open source.

In the About menu he lists libtransmission.

CIA · Sep 18, 2006, 12:44 PM

Crashes on me whenever I search, (G4 iBook, OSX 10.4.7) but it's beta so not too worried. Otherwise it looks really promising.

Chuckit · Sep 18, 2006, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by mozzep

How do we know it's using libtransmission? That is illegal, right? Unless he makes the whole client open source.

Transmission is MIT, not GPL.

CIA · Jun 20, 2007, 09:17 PM

I just wanted to follow up on this, it's been about 8 months...
xTorrent has shaped up into a great torrent program for OSX. Even to the point where I bought it. It's worth checking out if you are looking for a simple, powerfull torrent app.

brokenjago · Jun 20, 2007, 10:27 PM

I will never buy anything from a guy who simply takes Open source libraries and slap pretty GUIs on them, and then profits from them. He doesn't even contribute ANYTHING to the libtranmission trunk, even going so far as to promise features and then WAITING for the team to code them so he can add them.

Cold Warrior · Jun 20, 2007, 10:34 PM

Isn't his contribution making a GUI - making the work of others more accessible? Otherwise a bunch of coder hacks would toil away in command-line obscurity, with nothing more than a few nerds taking advantage of their work.

I'd say kudos to an individual who makes cumbersome, non-intuitive programs much more accessible.

Mrjinglesusa · Jun 20, 2007, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by brokenjago

I will never buy anything from a guy who simply takes Open source libraries and slap pretty GUIs on them, and then profits from them. He doesn't even contribute ANYTHING to the libtranmission trunk, even going so far as to promise features and then WAITING for the team to code them so he can add them.

Ditto.

bballe336 · Jun 20, 2007, 10:55 PM

Totally lame. Paying for a bit torrent client kind of defeats the purpose of bit torrent.

Jun 20, 2007, 10:57 PM

Xtorrent is the same exact thing as Transmission. The developer of Xtorrent copied Transmission's "innards" and just re-worked it with a different interface. Don't waste your money.

Mason

Cold Warrior · Jun 20, 2007, 11:31 PM

I use Azureus anyway.

Peter · Jun 21, 2007, 07:38 AM

just use Transmission, fast and free.

brokenjago · Jun 22, 2007, 12:06 AM

I'd say kudos to an individual who makes cumbersome, non-intuitive programs much more accessible.

I would normally agree, but Transmission is anything but!