What bittorrent clients are mac users using these days?

[jæd]

The problem with Xtorrent is that it is basically tranmission with a different GUI and a search engine. And the developer is generally considered to be a wanker, which considering he's re-packaging open-source software, he is, let alone how he treats his customers...

But isn't that allowable seeing that Transmission is licensed under the GPL'd or the MIT License...?

 

[Structaural]

But isn't that allowable seeing that Transmission is licensed under the GPL'd or the MIT License...?

Yeah, it's allowable, just seems dodgy to me - reaping the benefits of other's work and doing a worse job, he only brings out new versions when a new build of Transmission appears.

It's also banned on almost any decent private tracker because it doesn't finish up properly.

 

[Orang Utan]

Good point that I forgot to make.

OU & VP - assuming you are both using Leopard, the best thing you can do to protect your stuff is to get yourself an external hard drive and turn Time Machine on.

I was going to look into keeping my music online rather than a hard drive - that's what a lot of my friends seem to be doing.

 

[Structaural]

I was going to look into keeping my music online rather than a hard drive - that's what a lot of my friends seem to be doing.

That's one big upload

 

[The Groke]

I was going to look into keeping my music online rather than a hard drive - that's what a lot of my friends seem to be doing.

You mean keep a backup of it online or the actual live library online??

Not heard of people doing the latter and I am not sure what service or host would manage it for you! Also - what happens when you lose your internet connection etc..?

If you mean keeping a copy online, then as Structaural said: potentially a huge upload (and huge download if you ever needed to restore) but if you are OK with that...

The obvious advantage of backing up your stuff online is that if your house burns down etc, you still get to keep your music. You could always take a Time Machine backup and store it away from home though.

 

[The Groke]

To add - I keep important files, documents and other smaller bits backed up on to my .Mac disk online and in Dropbox as well.

 

[jæd]

Oh, and I tend to use Transmission...

 

[prunus]

Very cool test there. It showed I'm running stealth mode, but still said my computer responds to pings. I guess that's not such an issue seeing as though it doesn't recognise any ports as existing.

I feel safe(r).

Sorry, just tracked you back through your ip chain there, hacked your computer and took over your brain. All those thoughts you're thinking there are mine. Yes, even that one.

 

[The Groke]

Wiretap Studio is generally handy.

heh - Wiretap Studio is brilliant.

Recording from Spotify works a treat.

 

[pinkychukkles]

Slight derail with talk of Wiretap Studio but I use AudioHijack which fulfils a similar role of recording any audio from any source on the mac. One thing I can't seem to find out is a setting or an app that records the audio exactly as is i.e. if you're recording an audio stream, it doesn't transcode it or that you have to guess what bit rate the stream is; if it's streaming at 128kbps as an mp3, that's exactly what it records it as?

 

[Crispy]

Impossible, unless it intercepted the data stream before it got to the app, which would be very hard to cover all possible apps.

You'd have to have a specialised client for the streaming service that can output the stream to a file. I know there are some windows tools for this (winamp can dump a shoutcast stream to disk as a series of tracks) but on mac I've never looked into it.