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Transmission - 1.31

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All Time:	(4.0)
Version 1.31:	(2.0)
Selected Version:	1.31
Release Date:	2008-08-06
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 1.31):	3,308
Downloads (all versions):	614,525

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Product Description:

Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.

Transmission runs natively on over five operating systems. Seamless configuration of your network, intelligent banning of peers who send corrupted data, protocol encryption, and built in Peer Exchange are some of the features which enable Transmission to download your files as quickly as possible. All this is done in the background, without the user having to worry about complicated settings.

These days, bandwidth is a precious commodity. Transmission allows you to ration this commodity efficiently. You might want to queue your torrents for maximum performance. Or throttle their speed during peak periods. Transmission easily lets you do both, and thus only works its hardest when you want it to. Support for Growl notifications and dock badging keep you updated with what's going on so you can get back to doing more important things.

What's new in this version:

Version 1.31:

Fix a crash caused by certain torrent files

Version 1.30:

The "Clutch" web interface is now bundled with Transmission (as a beta)
Ability to add and remove tracker addresses
Ability to create torrent files with multiple tracker addresses
Added support for HTTP/FTP Seeding (GetRight style)
Added proxy support for communicating with trackers
Allow torrent creation with no tracker address (required by some trackers)
New JSON-RPC protocol for clients to interact with the backend
Quick Look integration in the main window and inspector's file tab
Transfers can be dragged to different groups
Option to only show the add window when manually adding transfers
Status strings are toggled from the action button (they are no longer clickable)
Colors in pieces bar and pieces box more accurately reflect their corresponding values
The port checker now uses our own portcheck.transmissionbt.com
Turkish localization

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4.11 w/ Security Update 2008-002

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.31:
Overall Rating:	(2.0)	Features:	(3.0)	Support:	(3.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(2.7)	Price:	(5.0)

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Back on top - Version: 1.76, 10/25/2009 09:53AM PST

(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)

xjja

There was a time (1.2-ish, 1.3-ish) where Transmission seemed to be going through a rough time. I'm not sure if it was just a perfect storm of some major bugs, the need to divest it of some legacy code (eg: dropping older OSes), or some of the major rewrites required to get the application under the new license (ie: to cut off that crook W*t*n*be), but it seemed to be handling files, trackers, pieces, peers, the whole lot badly. Not all at once, but one then another, then another, with one or two corruption problems as well. I used to keep previous versions around in case I needed to roll back.

I don't do that any more. Nor do I (grudgingly) keep Azureus/Vuze around as a fallback. Since probably 1.5-ish onwards, T has returned to its days of greatness. I've upgraded from 1.75 to 1.76 by simply overwriting the old version. I don't worry about those problems any more. I know that there will always be glitches - it is *software* after all, and no application or OS can ever be perfect - but the storm has passed, and T has regained its place as both my preferred and recommended torrent client. There really is nothing like it, esp for the price. It's easy, reliable, stable, fast, doesn't hog every resource, has all the important features, and most of the nice-to-haves (Vuze has many more features, but they're mostly ridiculous). I can give T to both a newbie and an old hand and they'll both be happy.

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1.7.5 BROKE UTORRENT - Version: 1.75, 9/14/2009 10:20PM PST

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mogoloid

Something is MASSIVELY WRONG with this version. It won't download my torrents and after I tried 1.7.5 Utorrent and Azurues won't either. I rebooted but they're still broken

1.7.5 uploads sometimes but was way (99%) faster in 1.7.4

Running Leopard 10.5.6 on a 17" MacBook Pro. with 4GB of memory. I have an 25/2.5 Mbit/s Cable connection, my Macbook Pro is connected to the router via the 1Gbit/s ethernet connection

I hope 1.7.5 gets banned for breaking the other apps, that's crap

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