µTorrent for Mac - what happened to it?

[Horatiu]

It's been 7 months already since the beta testing news...
Any of you know any details?

[buggyfresh]

The MPAA said no? *shrugs*

[fstokebanget]

really, as far as I know there would be never a Mac version of uTorrent

[kaffeine]

Just stick to Azureus, or if you really need uTorrent, do it via crossover.
I don't think we'll have uTorrent for Mac, at least in the near future.

[fsephie]

I just wish transmission would allow you to create tabs for sorting what you're seeding. Then I really wouldn't care about not having utorrent.

[Grind$oFine]

They called it off. The guy in charge of the project gave up because it was apparantly really difficult.
He talked about making his own client separate from uTorrent, but I haven't heard of any news about that since.

[Horatiu]

Well this all doesn't sound very encouraging... :(

[808state]

I just use CrossOver.

[Shno]

Welll thats disappointing, I was looking forward to utorrent on my mac. Oh well, transmission works for me.. And its a million times better than azureus

[Artemis]

like others have said use Crossover Office6 and utorrent will run perfectly well within a container, there is very little memory hit because of the small memory footprint that utorrent uses. CXO 6 also works brilliantly under Linux for running utorrent and is far more stable than wine.

[dunson]

That sucks, I was hoping they'd release a port for us Mac guys.

I would use uTorrent, but CrossOver is so ugly...

So I stick to Transmission.

[Horatiu]

I've kinda had it with Transmission for now after that whole 're-downloading parts of a torrent over and over again' bug they had not long ago.

[dunson]

I didn't have that problem...in fact I haven't had any problems with the client except when it used to freeze trying to create a new torrent if you dragged a file over the window sometimes.

[elcapitan]

Any reason why Azureus is not as popular as Transmission. I've been using Azerus for quite a while and it works great, well at least in my eyes. Is there something I've overlooked with it?

[fsephie]

Part of the problem is that azureus can be a bit of a memory hog.

Personally, with transmission having clutch and being bug free for quite the last few iterations, I don't see why anybody'd want to do crossover+utorrent.

Well, I'll take that back. The one thing that annoys me is the fact that the transmission team is against integrated RSS support, instead having you use a separate RSS feed to autodownload to a folder on your computer, and then have transmission start torrents located in the folder? I don't understand how they think that is reducing bloat or making things easier.

[Horatiu]

I agree with fsephie.
I'm using Azureus at the moment.
Used Transmission but many trackers didn't allow it until v1 and had to switch. But to be honest it lacks in options...

[fstokebanget]

Part of the problem is that azureus can be a bit of a memory hog.

Alternatively, if you want a small resources torrent client, now you could use ported rTorrent on Mac