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Vuze BitTorrent Client - 3.1.1.0

Java-based BitTorrent client (previously Azureus)

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All Time:	(3.6)
This Version:	(1.0)
Current Version:	3.1.1.0
Release Date:	2008-07-01
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	8,169
Downloads (all versions):	412,583

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Product Description:

Azureus brings the popular Java-based BitTorrent client to a new level of stability, usability, and speed. Very actively developed, this latest version includes a new split-window MyTorrents view with support for categories and advanced downloading / seeding / queuing rules for powerful and automated torrent management, a customizable user interface, seeding from read-only media, and significant reductions in resource usage.

The multiplatform Azureus client greatly extends the original python client's feature set, with: managing multiple downloads at once from a single GUI window, detailed real-time download statistics with export to XML, advanced download and seeding management rules, configuration and torrent creation wizards, embedded tracker for easy and automated hosting of your own files, PeerGuardian IP address filtering, web browser and console UIs, 27 available languages, a powerful plugin interface, and much much more.

What's new in this version:

Core | Added Auto Starting rule to seed large swarms first; useful when many overseeded torrents are in the queue or the upload capacity is far above average
UIv3 | Friend Chat (double click on friend icon to chat)
UIv3 | Ability to share content from your computer by dragging it to a Friend
UI | Protocol overhead is now shown in the speed graph
UI | Downloads can now be moved and renamed while running - torrent will be auto-paused
UI | New "rename" action which renames torrent file, save file and displayed name at same time
UI | Plugin log views now support autoscrolling, pausing and regex filtering
UI | Plugin menu items which in the right-click menu now appear in the "Torrent" menu also
UIv3 | Experimental option to use Mozilla/Firefox as browser widget on any platform (XulRunner or Firefox 3 must be installed)
Plug | Added support for plugins to easily use an external configuration file for settings
Plug | Plugins can now have full control over on-complete and on-removal file moving
Plug | Added resource downloader to provide way to download files from Sourceforge
Plug | Added API methods to generically pop up the message box to a user
Plug | Added API methods to listen to download-complete events
Plug | Added various convenience methods for using log views and config models
Plug | Added API to allow native UI objects to be added to config views
Plug | Added some more methods for plugins to control some transport mechanisms
Plug | Added ability to add menus to status entry objects
Plug | Plugins can now open files using default application handlers
Core | Built-in plugins can now be disabled - it didn't work properly in earlier versions
UI | Create Vivaldi views for each DHT in use
UI | Added support for rotation in Vivaldi view
UI | Peers view hostname column now sorts host names by the most significant part first
UIv3 | Finished fixes for the new styled dialog which are now default in Vuze/Vuze Advanced
UIv3 | Added friend icon next to activity entry
UIv3 | New plugin bar look (removed arrows, added selectable list all plugin bar views)
Core | added "upload_only" flag to AZMP/LTEP handshakes, disconnect any uploading_only peers we don't need / that don't need us when disconnect seeds when seeding is set
Core | Further startup speed improvements
Core | Speedup of various file batch operations (priority changes)
Core | Added option to allow the removal of files linked outside the save directory when removing data
UI | Column menu option to disable fast renaming in files view, changed fast rename to behave more like the windows explorer
UI | In console UI, shrunk help text down to be more concise
Core | Fixed bug which stopped downloads being stored in the chosen directory
Core | Fixed bug which prevented torrent files from being moved properly
Core | Reopening torrents does not delete files when setting some of the already existing files to DND anymore
Core | Fixed bug which prevented UPnP mappings from being successful when a SOCKS proxy was used
UI | Fixed bug where delete icon on toolbar was not present on OSX
UI | Blank cells are now properly put at the bottom when sorting a table column
UIv3 | Fixed bottom of list views not repainting properly
UIv3 | Remove type headers when switching to date sorting
Core | Made change so that plugins could not inadvertently turn off Azureus extension protocol
Core | The UDP tracker client option has been nonfunctional for quite a while now -> fixed
Core | Fixed various file-priority-change related bugs that resulted in error states

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(1.0)	Features:	(1.0)	Support:	Not rated (0.0)
Ease of Use:	(1.0)	Quality / Stability:	(1.0)	Price:	Not rated (0.0)

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took bloated program and exploded it MUCH further - Version: 3.1.1.0, 7/25/2008 05:30AM PST

dnedved

I've got to start by saying I've never been a fan of Azureus. Bloated slow java code, confusing interface, difficult to use. Rtorrent on the command line and transmission as a gui are both light years ahead and much better in general. Every now and then though you get a tracker that won't talk to anything but one of the "popular" torrent clients, so you have to break out something like Azureus. It's gotten MUCH more painful than it used to be.

Now instead of a torrent client, it's a mess of multimedia. To put it in terms of web browsers, Vuze is to Transmission, as AOL on dialup is to Safari on broadband.

I suppose there might be a target audience out there for them. If you wanted to install one piece of bloated java code on your grandmother's computer, and if she had enough hardware to run it, and didn't have an epileptic seizure from all the distracting content everywhere, this might be some sort of all-in-one program where you can search for and download video all in one app. For anyone that can use a web browser themselves though (including absolutely everyone smart enough to find this review on Versiontracker) just stick to downloading torrents yourself and using a simple torrent client.

I can't say that I went crazy clicking on the overwhelming content it threw up on my screen but I did give the search a whirl. A torrent that I had originally downloaded from mininova couldn't be found in their search. Oh well, so it's a bad idea and it doesn't even work.

Crashing IP/TCP on high speed downloads - Version: 3.1.1.0, 7/17/2008 09:47AM PST

tmcdanel

I am not certain about this. I have pretty slow internet at home. But when i go to a coffee shop with a fast connection i think Azureus, or whatever its called, is crashing the TCP handling of Leopard. I need to reboot about the time Azureus hits about 60+.

I suppose it is some kind of conflict with something like Little Snitch. I am not certain what to google. Does anyone else have any information or suggestion?

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Crashing IP/TCP on high speed downloads

Not bad - Version: 3.1.0.0, 6/29/2008 08:57AM PST

hkim

"Vuze" seems to work well enough. I have noted that it is slower to close down that the last incarnation of this software, so much so that I was almost considering performing a force quit on the application.

Perhaps this now needs another bug killing cycle rather than new tweaks to refine its performance.