Transmission BitTorrent Client Now Bundled With Clutch
Written by enigmax on August 07, 2008The popular cross-platform BitTorrent client, Transmission, just released a new version. Along with other enhancements it now comes bundled with Clutch, enabling users to remotely control their torrents from any web browser.
The free, multi-platform Transmission BitTorrent client continues to increase in popularity and is considered by many to be a fast and lightweight piece of software.
The open source client runs on various operating systems with the notable exception of Windows, and according to the developers was designed to offer functionality without bloat. It is now the default BitTorrent client on Ubuntu.
Windows users who favor uTorrent as their BitTorrent client have had the ability to control their torrents from a webUI (web user interface) for some time now. The webUI for Transmission is known as ‘Clutch‘. This additional software makes it easy to monitor and control torrent transfers remotely, from any web browser connected to the Internet, anywhere in the world.
Previously, Transmission and Clutch had to be obtained separately but with the arrival of new Transmission releases (v1.30 and v1.31), that has changed.
‘Gimp’, a Clutch developer explains: “We are pleased to announce the Clutch project has now merged with Transmission. There will be no more releases of Clutch on its own, from 1.30 onwards it is bundled inside Transmission. You can still download Clutch 0.4 from the clutchbt.com website if you need clutch for an older version of Transmission, however that release is no longer supported.”
The latest version of transmission now runs the JSON-RPC protocol. This protocol makes it possible for other applications, even windows based clients, to interact with the transmission backend. Other additions and improvements to the latest Transmission versions include:
- Ability to add and remove tracker addresses
- Ability to create .torrent files with multiple tracker URLs
- Support for HTTP/FTP seeding
Clutch can be enabled by finding the ‘Remote’ tab in the ‘Preferences’ section.
Finally, here is ‘Gimp’ again with a call out to the community: “Although it has merged [with Transmission], Clutch is still a very new project, and thus there are still a few bugs and a lot of features missing. This message is also an open call for people to test Clutch all they can, and please, please submit patches and improvements! Right now clutch does not have a developer with enough time to push it forward to the place we all want it at, so anyone with the experience, and time, is welcome to help out.”
Gimp can be contacted on the Clutch forums.
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49 Responses
Great news.
WebUI put the user in control.
As I developer of an anonymous bit torrent client I see that this is the way to go.
Sometimes we forget to say this so here goes – thanks Transmission developers for your hard work.
Ez (Anon, BT)
Heh, I was confused at first… “What’s Clutch and why are they bundling Transmission?”
Sounds to me like “Clutch now bundled with Transmission bittorrent client” rather than the opposite.
its nice to hear Linux being favoured for once over the windows binary slug.
ubuntu is agreat distro if you are considering the switch for the first time. i hope people will give it a go.
Right, because Transmission is only available on Ubuntu.
Transmission was nativity developed for Mac OS X with the GNUstep.
nice.
Transmission… clutch… whats next?
Brakes? Oil change? rear-view-mirror? :)
Any particular reason for the whole car theme?
Just curious..
Cheers!
xyc0 , no thats not what was meant, if you read my post i mention windows. i believe that there are windows users that would like to swap OS, this gives them another reason to do so.. buying a mac just for a bittorrent client would be silly. They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. i have never agreed with that. with your post i make the exception and does it matter who made it first?
@Xyc0: Transmission on Mac OS X is developed using Apples Cocoa.
Also, Transmission runs on any linux distro that supports it dependancies (notably GTK+).
Used that Transmission once, didnt like it at all. The GUI was rather strange, and since I was using Deluge then I never bothered to mess with Transmission.
Also I remember it was somewhat buggy.
Deluge also had some functionality missing, so I switched to rtorrent. Long story short: Im pretty happy right now.
Yes I am.
I always wondered how does Apple manage to have some freelance coders as their fans… Yet, they do have a pretty good advirtesement. I guess that kinda explains everything…
Or does it?
Wow, transmission is ok, but it wouldn’t suit a web interface. For something like that I’m sticking to TorrentFlux
You mean Clutch is now bundled with Transmission; not the other way around.
Yes, do check out TorrentFlux. It uses BitTornado as its torrent engine, which, as far as I have seen, has the best sharing abilities for a GNU/Linux client. Excellent Torrenter, Highly recommended, A+++
ubuntu is probably a technicly good OS.. but unless you like typing commands for everything.. its complete crap.
Call it noob, call it whatever you want.. INTERFACE the FUCKIN OS. It takes me fraction of the time to do whatever people on linux distros like this can do, typin in all those damn commands that your supposed to remember. Windows may be complete shit, but at least I dont have to remember commands out my asshole just to install a simple program.
Get out of the stone age.. INTERFACE. INTERFACE. INTERFACE.
“ubuntu is probably a technicly good OS.. but unless you like typing commands for everything.. its complete crap.”
Everything? Not at all. You can optionally do most things on the command line, but most things also have a GUI. What do I use the command line for?
“NTERFACE the FUCKIN OS.”
Note that you can use both the “command line *interface*” (CLI) or the “graphical user *interface*” (GUI). Both are OPTIONAL for most things!
“It takes me fraction of the time to do whatever people on linux distros like this can do, typin in all those damn commands that your supposed to remember.”
Again, most are optional. I can’t really think of any task that you need to use the command line on Ubuntu, unless you’re doing something really advanced.
“Windows may be complete shit, but at least I dont have to remember commands out my asshole just to install a simple program.”
You don’t have to on Linux, but you have the *OPTION* to.
On Ubuntu, Synaptic is installed to install things graphically, or GDebi.
But seriously, what’s wrong with typing “sudo apt-get install firestarter” and having it automatically download and install it for you? It’s much faster than going to a site, downloading it, and installing it yourself. You can even update ALL of your software with one command. If you can remember your name you can remember “sudo apt-get install firefox” or “sudo apt-get upgrade”.
[quote]Get out of the stone age.. INTERFACE. INTERFACE. INTERFACE.[/quote]
What part about the word *CHOICES* don’t you understand?
“PNGZ U CAN UEZE BOTHH CLI AND GUI, OMGZ I HAT DA CLI, I HAT THAT I HAV DA OPTIONS 2 UZ EUITTHER!!!!!!!”
I don’t care if you use windows or linux, just don’t give unfair criticism.
“Windows may be complete shit, but at least I dont have to remember commands out my asshole just to install a simple program.”
No, you need to remember warez sites and crack sites instead :D
By the way, if you are used to go through lots of menus just to find a little option you need – good for you. That doesnt means your way is more superior. In fact, MENUS MENUS MENUS take longer to edit (well, unless if you remember the hotkeys that you also have to remember) than a good-commented .conf file.
Trust me, you just need to get used to it.
Oh my, am I starting a flamewar? Oh my, oh my, oh my.
“MENUS MENUS MENUS take longer to edit”
I mean, its harder to find what you are looking for. Unless you know where it is…
I double post alot…
Damn, tripple post :(
there probly exactly the same in terms of efficiency to use, it just depends which one u get used to first. windows being the most advertised/raped OS most people get used to windows and any other way is weird or inefficient. having sed that my opinion doesnt even matter because ive never used any OS other than windows =D
@15: Alternatively…
Applications -> Add/Remove Programs (instead of Synaptic, as Synaptic lists packages, whereas this lists the programs themselves)
Also, when there are upgrades, a notification appears that, when you click on it, opens the GUI equivalent of “apt-get upgrade”.
is there safepeer/equivalent for this transmission client, so that MPAA/RIAA can’t track it?
firstly in answer to the safe peer question, there isnt such a thing. pg2 may have a blocks list of bad ips, but these are a/ only the known ones and b/ whats to stop anyone using another provider/ip range that isnt blocked, to collect information. next to all the negative “i dont want to type anything” poster, he obviously has never used nor has a clue about linux, or he wouldnt have made those comments that made him look silly and ignorant.
Matt, as numerous articles on here have proven, time and time again, those blocklists don’t prevent anything. For instance, the University of Washington story we reported on about 2 months ago, where the use of blocklists doubled the frequency of notices.
Besides, how do you know the lists aren’t created by the MPAa/RIAA/BPI/etc
Congrats, you have been trolled. Ignorance is bliss.
“Applications -> Add/Remove Programs (instead of Synaptic, as Synaptic lists packages, whereas this lists the programs themselves)”
Yes, I forgot about that. I haven’t used Ubuntu for awhile :)
This would great news if it weren’t for the fact that 1.3.X has been very buggy for me (I’m on OS X). Torrents just stop announcing and scraping after a period of time and I have to restart Transmission to fix it.
Too bad the transmission devs cant get their bugs straight, creating new ones as the “fix” old ones
YHBT, YHL, HAND.
Seriously, I’m not the original douche, but it was pure GOLD if it was a Troll, but if it wasn’t, it was sad sad ignorance.
Dude hat is too cool. What do you suppose took them so long??
JT
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com
wait for it…
TRANSMISSION DOES NOT HAVE DHT…
TRANSMISSION DOES NOT HAVE DHT…
TRANSMISSION DOES NOT HAVE DHT…
TRANSMISSION DOES NOT HAVE DHT…
Seriously you guys, how can you get so excited about a client that does not have a MAJOR FEATURE implemented in ALL MAJOR CLIENTS several years ago?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
I use azureus in ubuntu for torrents…can anyone tell me why transmission would be a better app to use, besides being able to remote?
I tried to access my Transmission client from my iPod touch while on my home network but it says that “Safari cannot download this file”
I don’t understand how i can log on remotely to my macbook running transmission…
Transmission gets banned on several trackers off and on.
That might have a reason.
“use azureus in ubuntu for torrents…can anyone tell me why transmission would be a better app to use, besides being able to remote?”
I personally think you are better off with Azureus for the moment. I am enthusiastic about the fact Linux is being favoured over the binary slug, but to be honest I dont think Transmission is the best client by any stretch of the imagination (yet)
Im sure with transmision being bundled with Ubuntu will mean it gets more exposure and use and hopefully will develop more rapidly.
Only one person in this thread has mention DHT. Strange since it is one of the most important features in BT.
And Transmission doesn’t have it.
@31 – you can get different plugins for remote access to Azureus, there’s at least three…
Well no I have installed/used ubuntu recently, which is why I made that comment. You can say all you want, but your arguments still dont change the fact that you still have to remember silly commands to do simple tasks (Your completly screwed when it comes to advanced tasks).
Im not one for noobifying an OS, to make it easy for any idiot to use. But at the same time, I dont want to read a chinese manual to figure out how to do something. Ubuntu feels ALMOST interfaced, theres a good platform there, but they just didnt quite get over the hump.
Its all about productivity, say all you want, Windows (Sadly) is still crushing linux (As far as market share goes) and thats because you dont have to be 1337 to use it.
If what Im saying wasnt true, you would see alot more people using linux, now wouldnt you.
Oh and to give you an example of what im talking about which I remembered. I wanted to install thunderbird, so I downloaded it from mozilla, and thinking i could just RUN or CLICK the file to install it.. I was sadly mistaken. No for some reason I had to type in a command that did a whole bunch of more shit, now why the hell do I need to do all that.. why couldnt they just make it so I could run the file? Mabye a RIGHT CLICK > INSTALL?
And thats why, Linux sux. :)
“why couldnt they just make it so I could run the file? Mabye a RIGHT CLICK > INSTALL?”
Why couldnt you just use the Package Manager to download thunderbird?
Oh, and by the way, EPIC FAIL.
“why couldnt they just make it so I could run the file? Mabye a RIGHT CLICK > INSTALL?”
And there is. Its called Debian software package, or DEB in short. but since not all linux distributions use DEB package system (only Debian clones like Ubuntu do) not everybody can run them.
That’s why you need to “type commands” to install software.
Again with double posts… :D
Tripple I mean…
You obviously dont know what ‘epic fail’ is. Even if this was ‘fail’ it wouldnt be ‘epic’.
My point being, from the box, right from the start, you cant do simple things without your fancy DEB PACKAGE SYSTEM. It should be already integrated into the OS and work automaticly, your saying it comes with ubuntu, and mabye it does, it sure as hell wasnt apparent to me how to use it. It still doesnt matter, it is not SIMPLE, and it needs to be that way. You can say that im lazy or just noob (Which isnt the case), but for small tasks like this, you shouldnt be jumping through any hoops.
You complain about windows menus, yet your willing to open up another program just to install a program, typing in command lines and running scripts and doin all this shit..
Tell me, what would be the step by step way to do what your saying can be done so ‘easily’?
And this is what you would call.. ‘Owned’ and that person being you.
@42
I’ll just ignore that “integrate to the OS” because you clearly dont understand what’s the functions of linux kernel.
Okay, whats next? Oh, how to use ubuntu’s package system. I’d explain, but its just easier (yes, im lazy) to link this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/add-applications/C/gnome-app-install.html
You can also surf the help for more answers to your questions
Now that “windows menus”, I tried to explain that its easier to edit an configuration file than going through menus to find the “Preferences” button and again going through menus to edit whatever you wanted to edit.
“it is not SIMPLE”
Yet, its not that hard.
“You complain about windows menus, yet your willing to open up another program just to install a program, typing in command lines and running scripts and doin all this shit..”
I can say the same about Windows. You need to go to some site to download a program, then click alot of “Next” just to install it, and when you think you’re all done you get a notice that you forgot to crack that program… Then you visit a bunch of websites, get bunch of viruses and finally find that crack.
The only big advantage to this is that you also get alot of porn ads and can wank couple of times while in search.
I see that my doublepost tradition is living on… Its like a thing you just cant avoid…
@42
You are thinking in windows terms. Yes, one way of installing thunderbird is to go to the website, download the source, compile the source, run the installer, install it. That is the windows way of doing it, so it is included in linux. However, the way you install applications in LINUX is:
you go to your terminal
you type “sudo apt-get install thunderbird”
you type your password
Thunderbird is now installed, and it’s all ready to go in your “start” menu.
once you stop thinking in windows terms and realize you’re using a different operating system, and you stop comparing the windows methods in linux to the windows methods in linux, and start doing things using the linux methods, that’s when you realize that everything is actually easy.
0/10, yet you trolled about 10 people.
Back to Transmission…
I don’t know what they did with the new 1.3x releases but the down/up speeds are a tenth of what they used to be (using the same settings from 1.22 which had great speeds). I’m on OSX and have been using Transmission for the past 6 months or so, however I’ve changed over to Vuze for the time being. The speeds and the options seem to be better than Transmission. I just miss my minimal cpu usage and slim interface!
Transmission is a great program and I’d use it if my speeds weren’t so slow. Hopefully they’ll be able to fix it. This bloaty cpu death with Vuze is breaking my balls…
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