P2P App for the Mac?

August 17, 2004 10:13 AM

What is the best P2P application for the Mac?
posted by dydecker to Computers & Internet (17 answers total)

I've had the best luck with Acquisition. I'm looking forward to trying out SolarSeek, a soulseek client. An app called Poisoned has some satisfied users, but when I tested it I realized days later that it had left some processes running after I'd quit the app -- not cool.
posted by sudama at 10:22 AM on August 17, 2004

I like mlmac--it connects to a bunch of different networks.
posted by amberglow at 10:38 AM on August 17, 2004

If I recall correctly, I had the same concern about mlmac that I have about Poisoned.
posted by sudama at 10:56 AM on August 17, 2004

XFactor
posted by mkultra at 10:57 AM on August 17, 2004

I second Aquisition, it's much nicer than LimeWire.
posted by tommasz at 11:09 AM on August 17, 2004

Nicotine, the Soulseek client for OS X.
posted by stonerose at 11:24 AM on August 17, 2004

Poisoned

Poisoned connects to the FastTrack network (Kazaa, Grokster, iMesh), the Gnutella network (Limewire, Acquisition), and OpenFT. This is all made possible by something called the giFT daemon (http://gift.sf.net)

No Spyware or Adware. The best OS X P2P app I have found.

I realized days later that it had left some processes running after I'd quit the app -- not cool.

Those daemons can be turned off in the preferences.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 11:34 AM on August 17, 2004

I second Poisoned. It's always worked very well for me.
posted by adrianhon at 11:42 AM on August 17, 2004

Those daemons can be turned off in the preferences.

Good to know. Those are very bad default settings, then.
posted by sudama at 11:58 AM on August 17, 2004

I believe that the daemon is shut down by default when you quit mlmac but it might crash and leave them running. Re launching it and quitting should fix it.
I find mlmac and similar programs good for long files, but for short (up to 100MB) files acquisition is a lot faster. This is a BitTorrent client nicer than the "official" one.
posted by golo at 12:16 PM on August 17, 2004

I like AcqLite over Acquisition (built off the same code base, I think, but AcqLite doesn't hound you for payment). My favored BitTorrent app is Azureus.

"No Spyware or Adware."

Which, by the way, is pretty much the norm on the OS X side of things.
posted by bcwinters at 1:07 PM on August 17, 2004

Azureus covers most of my P2P needs, but if I need to go hunting around for smaller, more obscure stuff, I break out Poisoned.
posted by majick at 4:17 PM on August 17, 2004

Tomato Torrent -- a Torrent client in Cocoa, not Java, but with much of the stats and functionality of the Java torrent-a-likes. [On preview and re-read, I see Golo recommended this first.]

I have also found some good stuff on Xnap in the past. It's Java, but it's not bad for me. There is a client called 2Get that is supposed to cover the same networks but I've never gotten it to work as well as Xnap.
posted by britain at 4:28 PM on August 17, 2004

Yeah, I've been happy with Inquisition. LimeWire is built on really slow code.

Oops, I didn't mean to say Inquisition. I meant to say "Acquisition."
posted by inksyndicate at 7:52 PM on August 17, 2004

thanks for Tomato, guys...i like it much better than the official client.
posted by amberglow at 8:00 PM on August 17, 2004

I third Acquisition, although I still keep going back to my PC because of Shareaza. Anything like Sharaza for the Mac? I seem to be able to find anything on that thing!
posted by wackybrit at 9:38 PM on August 17, 2004

I fourth Acquisition - it's funny that people who won't pay for legal file downloads won't pay $15 for a solid non-corp p2p client either (stop spending money on those oreos and pringles and support your dev community!).
posted by elphTeq at 2:51 PM on August 19, 2004