I downloaded and played with it last night. It’s awesome! It was made by the same guy who made Acquisition, which is also awesome.

Not a big fan of the UI. It’s an awkward looking mashup between Aqua Unified and UI elements from iTunes 7. I don’t think these two UI styles were meant to go together.

I love this app.

I hope there’s going to be a faq or docs on how to configure it to search other trackers and stuff. Just searching Google and Yahoo for .torrent files isn’t that great of a solution when you know about Piratebay and eztv @ EFNET and pureTNA.

i must say i quite like it, great little app and im definatly buying it

Bunch of idiots, it’s just transmision with fancy UI, (core is opensource libtransmision no longer developed, banned by torrent trackers and buggy)

too bad its based on libtransmission. The same core that powers the BT client by the same name, Transmission. Transmission is banned on many trackers because of its willful ignorance of the protocol. It hammers trackers with requests causing a real problem for admins. Thats why they ban it. Thats why this will be banned soon too.

Unless……

Dave, did you fix this?!?! Did you do some work on the driving component behind your product?!!?!?!

Sad to hear xtorrent is based off libtransmission… it’s looking like another “Transmission-rebundled” client already.

This was on Digg yesterday, no one seemed very impressed:
http://digg.com/software/Xtorrent_public_beta_1_reviewed

I am disappointed in so many areas about this app, I am not even going to prepare a long comment about it; simply not worth it.

Well I really like it.

Actually, I’ll really like it when it’s done. At the moment, as you’d expect it’s quite buggy and not a finished product.

I main complaint is that it’s not going to be free! It’s the kind of app that should be.

I’m sure that this is purely coincedental but take a look at http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/09/05/walkthrough-bitrocket-a-killer-new-mac-os-x-bittorrent-client/ – notice any similar features / GUI graphics? The difference – it’s free!

To pay money for XTorrent it’d have to be either faster or more powerful than everything else by a longshot (Aquisition’s heading in the right direction but I don’t wanna pay for that!).

I’m not sold on the bouncing blue arrow and a lot of downloads from the built in search just say “connecting” forever and don’t actually download.

Please keep up the work though! There are a lot of messy OSX torrent clients out there that really let down the OS – please make a difference!

jasp hauser has made a lot of great icons (the one for appzapper for example) but this one, well… sucks! (what’s that phony metal frame supposed to mean?)

yeah rubbish icon, weird sharpness to it like anti-aliasing is messed up and just doesn’t mean anything at all.

Well I tried it, it does look nice, but the whole searching thing doesn’t do too much for me. Maybe if your trying to search for illegal things it’s great but I usually get broadcast tv based torrents from somewhere like tvtorrents.com. So a nice wa to enter an rss feed for a site is what I need and a good download metaphor. Transmission is pretty good and I still fall back on azereus when things get rough. So this far I wouldn’t buy it, but hey it’s an early version, so I still have hopes it does have a good looking interface.

i recommend you guys use bitslug (which is done by myself, http://bitslug.sourceforge.net) or the very promising bitrocket (http://www.bitrocket.org/).
bitslug is bit unmaintained but will be revamped when i get my ibook->macbook replacement (hopefully next week).
both are based on the fantastic libtorrent by arvid norberg (not the one from rakshasa). you get speed and (soon) features surpassing the sluggish azureus.
no need to go for a crappy backend!
and as a plus: libtorrent, bitslug and bitrocket are all opensource and free.

This is just a tacky rip-off of BitRocket with less features and elegance.

This is also based on libtransmission, which is banned from a lot of trackers because it constantly spams the trackers with requests amongst other things.

Im sure this will become a great program, it takes everything great from aquisition, inquisitor, and newsfire and puts them in a sweet aqua torrent downloader, I love it even more than Azures. Keeping in mind this is only a beta!

Jasper has written a how he came up with the icon for Xtorrent.

That link should be http://www.jasperhauser.nl/weblog/2006/09/xtorrent-icon.html

XTorrent is sooo crappy and crashes so many times when you’re downloading over 5 or 6 files at the same time that it makes it impossible to be used on an everyday basis.
The same, exactly the same case with Transmission and BitRocket.
One shouldn’t be impressed at all with the way XTorrent looks, and the reason is that when you’re writing a Mac app the eye candy thing is essential.
Now come on, the guy just skinned something which is originally opensource and wants to charge you for what? The skin?
Gime a break!!!