Comments on: Bitrocket: New OSX BitTorrent Client

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:03:09 +0000

It is a very, very, very good BT client but it crashes alot, once they fix that it will be perfect, im already using it now.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:52:28 +0000

BitRocket will always be free. You can easily build the source, just get the PortMapper framework, it is freely available for non commercial use. You also need to build boost and libtorrent.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:49:39 +0000

although the home page claims it’s open sourced, there are missing components from the source so you can’t build your own app. for instance the upnp/nat-pmp component is the commericial framework PortMapper which costs the developer $200. that indicates to me that he’ll eventually charge for the app.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:31:24 +0000

Thanks Bizmo, the info on the Bitrocket site was misleading. Corrected the story

By: Bungle

Bungle — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:26:09 +0000

Totally agree with Bizmo, and before anyone jumps on the bandwagon about BR using Transmission’s code, check the latest version, its old news…

Finally an OS X client that looks like it might have a future :)

By: Bizmo

Bizmo — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:03:58 +0000

I don’t think the GUI actually supports selective downloading yet: but the underlying torrent library that it is built on does. It seems to be making very fast progress (probably thanks to the mature library underneath it) and I think the developer has mentioned that the next release will have selective downloading (among other things).

Given the transmission author’s stubbornnes (and belief that he is above mere standards) on certain problems with his software, Bitrocket definitely seems to be the best candidate to watch in torrent clients right now.