Vuze 4.2.0.4

Copied from Vuze Homepage: Azureus is free Azureus is free software, available from http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ and http://vuze.com/ If you have been charged to download Azureus then we are very sorry to say that you have been ripped off - you should try and get a refund from the people who have charged you. About Vuze Vuze is the world's most popular entertainment platform for high-res digital video content. With an installed base of 18 million unique client downloads in its first year, 500,000 new downloads per week and 150 content partners to date, Vuze is experiencing unprecedented organic growth. Vuze attracts and features high quality content from a growing roster of global television networks, premier production studios and thousands of maverick content creators, on the most advanced, most open entertainment platform ever created. Vuze is developed by Vuze, Inc. (formerly known as Azureus, Inc.), with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Los Angeles, and London. The new commercial-grade platform is supported by powerful peer-sharing technology, enabling its vast global community the ability to browse, share, search and discover unique multimedia entertainment in a high-resolution format. Find the video you want Discover HD videos on the Vuze HD Network Find content from across the web with powerful meta-search Download fast Download and stream from the Vuze HD Network, or download any torrent file Download quickly and efficiently with intelligent bandwidth, queue and speed management Play on all your screens Sit back and savor the high-quality entertainment experience Now on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, PS3 and Xbox 360 Getting started Azureus is a BitTorrent client written in Java. The BitTorrent protocol is a new way of exchanging or distributing data over the internet. Downloading also means uploading, and the amounts of each are linked, to ensure fairness and rapidity in the spread of the file at hand. To be able to download a file, you first need to get the associated .torrent file. This file, usually a dozen KB in size, is the “signature” of the much bigger file to be downloaded, and it needs special software to be read properly. Azureus is one of those types of software. If you want to host files yourself, you need a tracker, which is basically a central server coordinating the connections between peers. Azureus can provide a tracker too. You will find, as you discover its functionality, that it is easy to customize your copy of Azureus to exactly fit your needs. ED2K Link: ed2k://|file|Vuze_4.2.0.4_macosx.dmg|10895360|218D848960EB3BBB478D1DC2FDB95A5B|h=Q5JICA5U74BJIQNJSOUCQGSNLP6W2WB7|/ Changelog: New Features: Core | Subscription options for auto-starting auto-downloads Core | Support for sharing .vuze files Core | Added support for adding categories to transcoded content Core | Added default transcode dir option Core | Support for keep-alive and more gzip on web contexts Core | Added percentage complete and eta to content descriptor UIvz | UI displays while core initializes Plug | Plugin interface to the search functionality Changes: Core | Added another non-standard RSS date format Core | Allow HTTP seeding for simple torrents without knowledge of file name Core | Keep log files open rather than continually opening and closing them Core | Improved reporting of 'no disk space' errors for FAT32 Core | Improved logging performance Core | Support for updated via installer as opposed to incremental updates Corrected bugs: Core | Work around for broken socket handling on freebsd7.x Core | Recover from borked transcode queue config Core | Fix xml stats export with undefined characters Core | Support >2GB resource downloads Core | Fixed HTTP seeding when switching content on a keep-alive connection Core | Fix tracker announcer to pay attention to user options correctly Core | Multi-file torrents were borked in content directory UI | Set speeds in bits/sec when bits/sec display is selected

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

joeyjammer69 (2010-04-04)

zmacdaddy8 uTorrent is probably the way to go oif you have an old computer with limited resources or if you don't know much about tweaking BT settings.
But for someone like myself Vuze/Azureus has many more settings to use to best optimize for specfic situations. You can set Vuze to start using the classic Azureus interface and not load the Vuze components to save resources
There are so many queue settings great for private sites with ratios. If you use DHT there is a Mainline plugin that will allow connecting to other torrent clients like uTorrent
You can see more stats for individual peers and block or set specfic upload or download speeds for each peer. Occasionally helpful with private site downloads.