13 Responses for "Mac Question Session: P2P Software"

1. Carl Jonard

   January 26th, 2005 at 9:03 pm

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   Acquisition. The most Mac-like by far.

2. Si

   January 26th, 2005 at 9:19 pm

   2

   soulseeX - native Soulseek (my favourite music network) client for OS X. Looks great too.

3. Cortland Klein

   January 26th, 2005 at 10:08 pm

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   Acquisition (Gnutella), mlMac (eDonkey2000), Azureus (BitTorrent)

4. Ian Horner

   January 26th, 2005 at 10:24 pm

   4

   I’ve recently tried XFactor, and I’ve been very happy with its connectivity to various networks, and its Mac-like interface. The dealmaker though, is its support for Growl, a wonderful systemwide notification utility.

5. Nathan Nutter

   January 27th, 2005 at 12:08 am

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   I’ll refer you to Mac P2P Guide and then on to Poisoned, a OpenFT/giFT client (Kazaa). Hopefully, eXeem will develop a Mac client soon, it is a P2P BitTorrent client, i.e. Kazaa powered by a decentralized BitTorrent.

6. shaky

   January 27th, 2005 at 1:48 am

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   I use xfactor too. Pretty happy. For ED2K I use the beta Mac GUI. For BT, I use Azureus.

7. mikey

   January 27th, 2005 at 8:16 am

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   i’d go with the above:

   azureus is a hard-to-beat BT client.

   poisoned used to be good, but hasn’t worked for me lately.

   don’t rule out frogblast (hotline)

8. Rob

   January 27th, 2005 at 8:20 am

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   I concur with the posters above, Acquisition is my favorite Mac P2P program by far.

9. Kenneth

   January 27th, 2005 at 10:00 am

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   Acquisition looks alright. You can’t really go wrong with Gnutella, so it has my vote (installed, but I haven’t used it yet).

   But do you really need anything other than bittorrent? Free, native to just about every platform, easy to use. If you don’t like the barebones default version, get Azureus. It works great and looks nice-ish.

   And Limewire’s not bad in a pinch.

10. nick

    January 27th, 2005 at 10:39 am

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    aquisition, limewire, and bittorrent os x (http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/)

11. Hafiz Muhtar

    January 27th, 2005 at 1:27 pm

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    I have to say Xfactor for P2P. I’ve tried some other programs but its Xfactor that works best for me.

12. Nathan

    January 27th, 2005 at 2:39 pm

    12

    Cabos … it’s the new kid on the block, but it works well for me.

13. DD

    September 27th, 2005 at 8:32 am

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    Here’s a few p2p apps
    XNap (connects to the same network as WinMX)
    mlMac
    Poisoned
    DirectConnect

    Check out http://www.pure-mac.com for more p2p apps