Xtorrent and Inquisitor officially out of beta

In my humble opinion, there is nothing here that is worth paying for.

In fact the disadvantages of using any client based on libtransmission, far outweigh the advantages.

And that's before you factor in the point that Watanabe's an a$$hole.

Personally I'm looking forward to the day when this gets available on the p2p networks, just for the irony of it :D

So many shareware developers on the Mac are so nice, stand behind the product, and embrace the right ideals of the platform, and then there's crap like this and VISUALHUB (the worst ever, because the first thing a registered user wants to hear is a synthesized voice at his computer saying "hey, why are you using pirated software?") that exemplifies all the WRONG things about indie software development. I will happily shell out cash for professional companies (Speed Download being my gold standard) who do business the right way, but I'd rather shoot myself in the face than pay DW or Techspansion another cent.

You just can't beat Azureus :) No I don't find it to be a memory hog at all.

Paying for not being able to select individual files in a torrent? That's just crazy talk.

On Inquisitor:

"It’s free, it will always be free..."

Except for those who paid for it weeks before it was made free. Sadly, even a credit equal to the former value of Inquisitor towards another one of his apps and another potentially happy user was far too much for DW to be bothered with.

Now, I wouldn't buy another one of his apps even if it was worth the price. Smart service.

Well thanks to MR's subtle link, and the 10kbps cap Xtorrent introduced yesterday, I am now the happy runner of BitRocket. As another casual user, I can quote Mat Lu above: "I can go to [BitRocket], search for what I want in the search field, find it, click download and leave. A little later I get a Growl notification that says it's been downloaded. No fuss, no muss." Sure, it won't search all your sites simultaneously, nor within the program—but a small price to pay, to pay no price at all. If it really bugs you, put your time where your mouth is—that's what open-source is about. And it's still a little lickable too.


Why doesn't the Xtorrent demo function like the Acquisition demo? Why doesn't clicking the magnifying glass re-search like in Acquisition? I don't know, but I'm not much interested anymore.

I seriously don't understand this. Even if the underlying engine is defective in some ways (whether because it's banned or because DW supposedly "stole" it, or whatever) the simple fact of the matter is, I can go to Xtorrent, search for what I want in the search field, find it, click download and leave. A little later I get a Growl notification that says it's been downloaded. No fuss, no muss. It's the best torrent experience out there for casual users like me. I know that hard core bittorrenters much prefer other options (I myself used to use Azureas), but I like Xtorrent and I put my money where my mouth is EVEN if DW is sometimes a bit of a ****.

Yes! More charging for open source software.
He's such a dodgy guy...

Personally, as much as I like the program, I think it's stupid to force users to buy the "Pro" version of your app. He is trying to pitch the "Pro" version as an upgrade, yet all Xtorrent is demo version of the pro, with caps on it. It's a shady way of pitching your wares, I'll be looking elsewhere, thank you.

I just bought Xtorrent and absolutely love it. I don't do a *ton* of torrenting, but I haven't run into any tracker issues though. What happens? Are you simply not allowed to download something? Or do you not get ahold of as many seeders to download from?

I got this before I knew how bad the Transmission library was and how it was banned by so many trackers.

I really do like the interface, but that fact above keeps me w/ az. I will give utorret in parallels a shot, but it seems a little impractical to have an entire windows VM running for torrents.