Transmission 0.7 beta reviewed by Torrentfreak

@ mark: By cooler I guess you mean prettier? Lets face design is the only thing an app should be judged on, right? I also guess you haven't bothered reading earlier comments, or for that matter anything else on the subject, before sharing that with us?

xtorrent is way cooler: http://www.xtorrentp2p.com/

Jeremy- Transmission does this... in Prefs >> Transfers >> Auto Management, you can set new torrents to begin downloading "When active downloading is under XX transfers". Set XX to 1 and when 1 torrent finished downloading, the next one will start.

Am I missing something, or are there no clients aside from Azureus that let me limit the number of simultaneous downloads? Sure, I can limit the up and down bandwidth, but I've got such a lousy connection that I usually just want to queue up a bunch of things to download one by one.

I am disappointed in Transmission since the developer does not want to adhere to bittorrent standards: http://transmission.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=491

Edit: for "well before Azureus was released", read "...before Xtorrent was released".

Transmission: Based on libtransmission hence banned at many private trackers due to its announce interval issues.

Xtorrent: Based on libtransmission hence banned at many trackers. Written by Watanabe so end-user likely to be screwed over in near future. Watch this space.

Chartier: Once again under-researched and given a licence to shoot his mouth off by Weblogs Inc. This article is factually incorrect. Each of the features noted in the article pre-exist in Azureues, and have existed in the Transmission nightlies or been listed on the forum well before Azureus was released.

My recommendation for the one to watch would be BitRocket. Its still at version 0.1, so those idiots complaining about stability clearly shouldn't be playing with betas, but is based in libtorrent so will have none of the tracker issues that Transmission and Xtorrent do / will, and is moving slowly but surely in the same direction that Azureus did, but with a Mac interface and small footprint.

Chartier, I don't know what your area of expertise in the Mac world is, but I'd suggest you find it and stick to it. Propogating this kind of rubbish in a Mac blog with a readership as large as this one is just irreponsible.

Daniel: The Transmission forums (http://transmission.m0k.org/forum) has lots of information. Many things are in progress, or are on a list of things to do.

John, any comment on when header encryption will be added to the tree?

Seems more ISP's are shaping torrent traffic and it's a much needed addition

Want to know why Xtorrent is so similar to Transmission and vice versa? Because Xtorrent is based on libtransmission, which is the library that the Transmission developers built.

So, from reading through the Transmission forums, it looks as though the developers of both apps will be sharing some code with each other. Sounds like a good thing for us mac users, if you ask me :)