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µTorrent Mac Beta Released

µTorrent Mac beta out. Heres the link mac.utor rent.com/beta/

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@bns2000 Published 2008-11-28
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Software, Drivers & Kexts
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7,325 historical reads · 16 curated field notes (from 21 dispatches) · 2008-11-28 – 2009-02-21
Credited Voices (13)
@nfoav8or (4)@Ali C. (3)@axhi (3)@hans0m (2)@bns2000@eMatoS@Windoze-Hater@R0GUE@Taisto@demigod@zyph3r@ScottXK@DaveLister

µTorrent Mac beta out. Heres the link

mac.utor rent.com/beta/

Synthesized Community Field Notes

16 technical responses curated from 21 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @Ali C. 2008-11-28

Been using the leaked betas for a few weeks. This one's much much better. Except it still doesn't pay attention to upload throttling so on high traffic torrents it saturates my upload bandwidth, thus causing my download rate to collapse into nearly nothing.
If they fix that I'll be happy.

Field Note #2 @eMatoS 2008-11-28

Yeah, it's quite nice and stable, except for that. Hope they'll fix it soon.

@Ali C.: try deleting /Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.bittorrent.µTorrent.plist and /Users/username/Library/Application Support/uTorrent and start utorrent again. It worked for me. Found that into utorrent forum.

Field Note #3 @hans0m 2008-12-04

Cool.
It means I can download torrent on Mac now?:-d

I just download Youtube before, with a Free YouTube Downloader for Mac (applem acvideo.com/free-mac-youtube-downloader.html#126)

Field Note #4 @R0GUE 2008-12-04 ↳ Re: @hans0m
@hans0mCool. It means I can download torrent on Mac now?:-d

Have you not heard of Transmission (transmi ssionbt.com)? It's been around on the Mac for a loooong time

Field Note #5 @Ali C. 2008-12-04

Make sure your hard drive runs at a decent speed on your Hack if you use Transmission, or it will slow your computer to a crawl. Ask me how I know.
As for Vuze, it has nice movie trailers, but felt too bloaty. Plus it'd always hang when I tried to exit it and in turn would prevent Leopard from rebooting, even if I (tried to) kill it with Activity Monitor. Glad I never got a KP from it, though.

Field Note #6 @axhi 2008-12-06

i cant seem to download from a private tracker website, that probably has something to do on their side, right?

Field Note #7 @nfoav8or 2008-12-06 ↳ Re: @axhi
@axhii cant seem to download from a private tracker website, that probably has something to do on their side, right?

lets take a look at that one again? are you a member of this private "site"?

most issues with private trackers is that they are selective with what they allow to be used as a client. make sure you know its supported.

Field Note #8 @axhi 2008-12-06

ya, im a member. i could d/l fine before and on any other build. but i can't with utorrent but i LOVE utorrent.

Field Note #9 @nfoav8or 2008-12-06

i used to use uTorrent before but seeing as how I've paid for the software and have not been able to activate it on my hackintosh... I switched. too bad.

did you check to see if your client is on the white list for the site's trackers?

Field Note #10 @nfoav8or 2008-12-09

but is the version number on the white list...? this makes a difference. newer versions aren't always added right away because they like to make sure all the bugs are worked out and that there isn't something coded in them that will supersede the sites requirements.

Field Note #11 @hans0m 2008-12-11 ↳ Re: @R0GUE
@R0GUEHave you not heard of Transmission (transmi ssionbt.com)? It's been around on the Mac for a loooong time

:'( Outdated.
I'll try it.:-d

Field Note #12 @Taisto 2008-12-14

have just installed it...so far it works very nice. good to see my favourite torrent from windows on my mac

Field Note #13 @demigod 2008-12-29

80-90% CPU Utilization

Does any one have problem of high cpu usage while running utorrent ? even vuze run fine with little cpu usage ...

Edit : Disable Distributed Hash Table Network .. Cpu usage become normal 3-4% ( it's a bug )

Field Note #14 @zyph3r 2009-01-10

Nice torrent client, when it reaches final it will be the best IMO

Field Note #15 @ScottXK 2009-02-09 ↳ Re: @axhi
@axhithey recommend utorrent, so not certain...

Yeah, the recommend the Windows 1.7.x/1.8.x builds as they have been 'allowed' for use. PM/Email the admins there and ask for the Mac uTorrent Beta to be allowed, he/she will need its Peer ID (I think its UM0090).

Field Note #16 @DaveLister 2009-02-21

Been waiting for a mac-version of µTorrent for a long while now, even it it's released fully now, would be of no use for me though, still don't have a Intel Mac so
But from what a friend tells me, it's nice
If only Apple would upgrade the Mac Mini's with better graphics I'd buy one to replace this old workhorse (G4/533mhz) that's been chugging along since before OSX was even released

Corroborated & Participated: @Ali C. @Windoze-Hater @axhi @nfoav8or
Sources & Contributor Provenance (13 credited usernames · Thread #1643)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@nfoav8orCore Contributor42008-12-06 → 2008-12-11
@Ali C.Core Contributor32008-11-28 → 2008-12-04
@axhiCore Contributor32008-12-06 → 2008-12-08
@hans0mContributor22008-12-04 → 2008-12-11
@bns2000Primary Author12008-11-28
@eMatoSContributor12008-11-28
@Windoze-HaterContributor12008-12-04
@R0GUEContributor12008-12-04
@TaistoContributor12008-12-14
@demigodContributor12008-12-29
@zyph3rContributor12009-01-10
@ScottXKContributor12009-02-09
@DaveListerContributor12009-02-21