What Is Your Favorite Bittorent Software?

[jcd11235 0]

And what sites do you prefer?

I'm using Azureus, which works well, but crashes often. The original Bittorrent software is more stable for me, but is very slow in comparison.

And before the file sharing police jump my case, my primary purpose for file sharing is to get the music back that I have lost due to theft or CD rot. In either case, I've already paid for it, so I don't feel a bit guilty.

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[lisamariewillbe 1]

torrentspy.com for browsing whats avaliable, utorrent for the software... not that I *cough* use a file sharing program

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[Cudlo 0]

I use Azureus on XP, no crashing issues here.

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[jcd11235 0]

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I use Azureus on XP, no crashing issues here.

I'm fairly certain that it is my settings that is causing Azureous to crash on me, but I don't know which specific settings are to blame. I don't generally have a problem with Java.

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[Squeak 17]

Question, when you DL a file that is in BITS like 100 *.rar files how do you put them back together?

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[katzurki 0]

µtorrent, baby!

[lisamariewillbe 1]

download WinRAR , but I hate them in that form so I avoid that. Not that I download torrents

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[jcd11235 0]

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Question, when you DL a file that is in BITS like 100 *.rar files how do you put them back together?

Perhaps a better question might be "What did you just ask me?"

Hint: I use a Mac because I am computer illiterate stupid. I've picked up a bit of knowledge here and there, but mostly I'm ignorant.

When a file completes, I drag and drop it into my iTunes library and it works. Does that offer any information?

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[Carpediem 0]

I use Azureus on my macbook and i've never had it crash... wierd.


The reason an album/movie is in 100 .rar files is because groups of supernerds "release" a new album or movie onto the internet. This is the reason they have fucked up names like (Movie.DVDRip.XViD-ALLiANCE). This release is downloaded off hacked servers across the globe. The entire file is broken into parts so that if the download fucks up, you only lose a small part, not the whole download. You piece these together with winRAR once you've downloaded them.

These releases appear on torrent sites after they have been widely distributed already online. Most sites post them as once complete piece (or the 12 songs on the album), but not always.

But like everyone else on here, I of course pay for all my music, movies, and software

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[jcd11235 0]

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I use Azureus on my macbook and i've never had it crash... wierd.

What happens when the application doesn't get the processor time it wants? I have a G3 900MHz, and I usually have several apps open and being used at any given time.

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The reason an album/movie is in 100 .rar files is because groups of supernerds "release" a new album or movie onto the internet. This is the reason they have fucked up names like (Movie.DVDRip.XViD-ALLiANCE). This release is downloaded off hacked servers across the globe. The entire file is broken into parts so that if the download fucks up, you only lose a small part, not the whole download. You piece these together with winRAR once you've downloaded them.

These releases appear on torrent sites after they have been widely distributed already online. Most sites post them as once complete piece (or the 12 songs on the album), but not always.

But like everyone else on here, I of course pay for all my music, movies, and software

So the *.rar files are essentially to full bittorrent files available on the sites as a manual transmission is to an automatic transmission, sort of? My understanding is that a bittorrent file is already broken into small fragment, the site serves as a search engine, and the software, in this case Azureus, downloads all the pieces from various computers, and puts everything back together. The *.rar files sound similar, but it sounds like you have to do much of it yourself.

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[Carpediem 0]

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What happens when the application doesn't get the processor time it wants? I have a G3 900MHz, and I usually have several apps open and being used at any given time.

i could see it crashing then. I don't have an answer to this for you tho. Maybe one of the other techie's could chime in for ya?

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So the *.rar files are essentially to full bittorrent files available on the sites as a manual transmission is to an automatic transmission, sort of?

Yes, exactly. Manual is for those who know what they're doing and are looking for performance, auto for everyone else.

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My understanding is that a bittorrent file is already broken into small fragment, the site serves as a search engine, and the software, in this case Azureus, downloads all the pieces from various computers, and puts everything back together. The *.rar files sound similar, but it sounds like you have to do much of it yourself.

Bitorrent files being split into pieces is only how the file itself is transfered over the internet and downloaded, not how it appears to the computer user.

To get a fast torrent download you want hundreds of people to be sharing the file. To get a fast *.rar download (that is NOT shared as a torrent), you only need 1 or 2 fast servers. This is the reason a release starts out as a .rar, and ends up on torrent sites. (If you download a torrent file in the .rar form, it's just because someone was too lazy to "winRAR" it and share it as 1 big file)


I think you've got it pretty much figured out.

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I think you've got it pretty much figured out.

Only because of the help I've received. Thanks.

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[Zep 0]

I use Demonoid, isohunt and Mininova for torrents. Azureus and Bitlord

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[Mark24688m 0]

uTorrent all the way paired with IsoHunt.

[FFlyer 0]

Azureus

Never had any problems and they update it often for bug fixes. Fast and stable,...at least in my experience.

[Squeak 17]

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uTorrent all the way paired with IsoHunt.

whats is Isohunt

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[Fast 0]

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µtorrent, baby!

Yep, its low memory, non-crashing.

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[Zep 0]

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uTorrent all the way paired with IsoHunt.

whats is Isohunt

it's that eaisy

Gone fishing

[Slappie 9]

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µtorrent, baby!

Yep, its low memory, non-crashing.

Yep... paired with PeerGuardian you can't lose. Not that I download torrents of stuff I don't already own.

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[lisamariewillbe 1]

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Not that I download torrents of stuff I don't already own.

DING DING DING exactly.... Im so glad that I have torrents to match my personal , paid for, collection of DVDs

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