Bit-Torrent Client for Mac

[painkilleryusuf]

Hey guys,

I was wondering which is the best bit-torrent client for Mac. I am running Leopard OS X v10.5.3

Regards

[schmrom]

BitRocket

[davidsword]

pff. transmission man

[mishka80]

Transmission +1

I like BitRocket UI much better, but it lacks some advanced features like selective file downloading that Transmission has.

If BitRocket had those features and evolved as rapidly as Transmission, I'd definitely switch to BitRocket.

[Gustl134]

A very simple client: tomato torrent

[painkilleryusuf]

i heard sumwhere that tomato was a good one.. but i am running transmission for now.. cannot download says.. "Error: Tracker returned a 4xx Message"

Is that transmission's problem or site where i downloaded the torrent from?

[KAWSquared]

Sounds like a issue with the site/torrent.

[Narfmaster]

Another +1 for transmission, not bloated, and powerful enough for most people's use.

Don't even look at Azureus or anything. Java = bleh.

[nickheer]

Transmission.

Why can't you use Google?

[schmrom]

I just like the UI of BitRocket more, because it's... erm... cleaner

[kjohnson]

I've used Transmission. Pretty cool. Try that one.

[kontrast]

Deluge Using it on Linux, but works very efficiently on any OS (Cross Platform).

http://deluge-torrent.org/

[metallicamaster3]

Transmission ftw.

[AirForceOnes]

transmission is THE best. guarantee it

[painkilleryusuf]

AGREEEED!.. Transmission FTW guys.. i have uTorrent on my windows machine and tranmission on MacOSX. Tranny gives me the full speed!!!!

[beef]

I love Transmission but Xtorrent is cool because it will automatically move movies and music to the correct folders, that is nice. It also has a search feature, but i think its worth less. If you want simple go with Transmission.

[Nonny]

Transmission is the best torrent app by far.

Here is a link to "nightly" development versions with much more features: http://transmission.xpjets.com/

[painkilleryusuf]

People i get "Error: Tracker returned a 4xx Message" for all the torrents that i try to download.

What is the problem?

[sithemac]

Currently struggling with the 4xx error myself. Below is 'investigation in progress', so YMMV.

The most hopeful techinical info I've found so far is here:

http://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/tru...cker.c?rev=5859

else if( 400<=responseCode && responseCode<=499 )

{

/* The request could not be understood by the server due to

* malformed syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat the

* request without modifications. */

publishErrorMessageAndStop( t, _( "Tracker returned a 4xx message" ) );

t->manualAnnounceAllowedAt = ~(time_t)0;

t->reannounceAt = 0;

}

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This error has occured in my Transmission when:

a) I've changed IP address (I've been assigned a new IP by my ISP while Transmission is running)

the torrent site has gone offline for a while then come back online.

The above code snippet suggests that the error response (in range 400-499) from the tracker indicates that Transmission should NOT retry, whereas the people running the torrent site say it SHOULD be retried.

However, it seems that Transmission won't allow manual announce once this error has occured.

The way round it for me in the past is to quit and restart Transmission, which clears the error but fails to register the most recent transfer with the tracker.

In short it seems like one of those errors that the tracker site say is a bug in the client, but the Transmission team believe they are following protocol in not allowing manual announce once it has occured. It may be down to poor choice of error codes by the tracker site, or that Transmission is too strict in interpreting the protocol as other clients such as uTorrent do appear to retry after the same error code (in the 400-499 range).

If/when anyone gets further info on this, I'd be grateful if you could pass it on.

[alpha2zulu]

Another vote for Transmission here.

BitRocket isn't bad, but it's development hasn't been going anywhere lately, where Transmission is constantly being updated.

[Ghostwalker]

uTorrent for Mac, if anyone is interested.

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