Mac Question Session: P2P Software

Wednesday, Jan. 26 2005 | Author: Scrivs

Alright so my first question in the Mac Question Session section is what is a good P2P software package to use? On the PC I loved WinMX because it served my needs. What should I look into on the OS X platform?

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13 Responses for "Mac Question Session: P2P Software"

Carl Jonard

January 26th, 2005 at 9:03 pm
1

Acquisition. The most Mac-like by far.
Si

January 26th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
2

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

January 26th, 2005 at 10:08 pm
3

Acquisition (Gnutella), mlMac (eDonkey2000), Azureus (BitTorrent)
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.
Nathan Nutter

January 27th, 2005 at 12:08 am
5

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.
shaky

January 27th, 2005 at 1:48 am
6

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

January 27th, 2005 at 8:16 am
7

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)
Rob

January 27th, 2005 at 8:20 am
8

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

January 27th, 2005 at 10:00 am
9

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.
nick

January 27th, 2005 at 10:39 am
10

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

January 27th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
11

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

January 27th, 2005 at 2:39 pm
12

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

September 27th, 2005 at 8:32 am
13

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