Transmission - Selective Downloading
‘Selective downloading’ is a new feature in torrent clients. For example if you have a huge torrent of a whole season of a TV show but you already have half of it, you don’t have to wait until the whole thing downloads. Just download the episodes you don’t have. It’s really useful.
But for Macs it was only available on Azureus, which was an incredibly heavy program that sucked up almost all the disk usage and made actually using the computer while downloading a complete nightmare. But, it was still popular because it was the only client that did that.
An SVN version of Transmission was released recently. I don’t exactly know what SVN is but I think it basically is a version where users-developers edit and add to the program. It isn’t supported by the main site but support is given through the site’s forums. The official program is found here but that doesn’t have the ’selective downloading feature.’ You can find the SVN version here. Notice the long list of disk images, these are updated versions. Install the latest one, at the very bottom of the list.
The program is incredible. So light and simple. Looks good too and not overly flashy with unnecessary stuff. Enjoy.
