Comments on: P2P App for the Mac?

Question: P2P App for the Mac?

dydecker — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:13:50 -0800

What is the best P2P application for the Mac?

By: sudama

sudama — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:22:01 -0800

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.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:38:58 -0800

I like mlmac--it connects to a bunch of different networks.

By: sudama

sudama — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:56:00 -0800

If I recall correctly, I had the same concern about mlmac that I have about Poisoned.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:57:50 -0800

XFactor

By: tommasz

tommasz — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:09:53 -0800

I second Aquisition, it's much nicer than LimeWire.

By: stonerose

stonerose — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:24:09 -0800

Nicotine, the Soulseek client for OS X.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:34:50 -0800

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.

By: adrianhon

adrianhon — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:42:44 -0800

I second Poisoned. It's always worked very well for me.

By: sudama

sudama — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:58:27 -0800

Those daemons can be turned off in the preferences.

Good to know. Those are very bad default settings, then.

By: golo

golo — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:16:18 -0800

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.

By: bcwinters

bcwinters — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:07:47 -0800

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.

By: majick

majick — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:17:24 -0800

Azureus covers most of my P2P needs, but if I need to go hunting around for smaller, more obscure stuff, I break out Poisoned.

By: britain

britain — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:28:44 -0800

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.

By: inksyndicate

inksyndicate — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:52:44 -0800

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."

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:00:01 -0800

thanks for Tomato, guys...i like it much better than the official client.

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:38:47 -0800

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!

By: elphTeq

elphTeq — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:51:18 -0800

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!).