gHacks technology news » bittorent http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 uTorrent 1.7 beta http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/05/utorrent-17-beta/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/05/utorrent-17-beta/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:31:43 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/05/utorrent-17-beta/ A new beta version of the famous bittorrent client uTorrent has been released to the public yesterday. The biggest change should be full Windows Vista support but the changelog reports dozens of new features, changes and fixes for the new beta. I don’t want to list all of the changes that have been made, just take a look for yourself if you are interested. I do know that some of you will not use uTorrent anymore because of its affiliation with Bittorent, this is understandable and this post is mainly for those users who simply do not care about it or think it is not a big deal (yet).

uttorentI would like to know if the affiliation is a concern to you ? Do you refuse to use uTorrent because of it or is it fine for now ? Every use who is downloading the beta client now should be aware that this is a beta version which could lead to some nasty problems. If you are inexperienced I suggest you keep on using the stable client for now and switch to the new version once a stable version will be released.

I have written an article that detailed some possible uTorrent alternatives. If you do not like to use uTorrent anymore you could take a look there and test the alternative bittorrent clients mentioned there.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/05/utorrent-17-beta/feed/ 6 Access 1010 free music albums with Jamendo http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/02/access-1010-free-music-albums-with-jamendo/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/02/access-1010-free-music-albums-with-jamendo/#comments Tue, 02 May 2006 20:08:42 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/02/access-1010-free-music-albums-with-jamendo/ Jamendo is a community website that lets you discover a growing collection of currently 1010 free music albums released under Creative Commons using latest p2p technology.That´s right, you are free to download everything using bittorrent. But that´s not all Jamendo is about. They have a very active community that reviews albums, rates and tags them and offers personal recommendations.

Artists are paid using donations, if you like a album you are free to donate using paypal. This is a great new concept, I´d really like to see stats how this way of distributing albums compares to portals like itunes and the like. Do the artists get a better payment for instance ?

You might know the tagged approach, right at the start page you have a list of common tags like rock, ska and metal. Clicking a tag leads to the category page that displays the albums sorted in that category. Every album offers a listen icon that you simply click and it opens in your favorite player. You find the bittorent link on the same page there, if you want to download the full album right away or after listening to the music for some time.

You can click on the album cover which leads to the albums page. You see all songs listed, can listen to every song there, write reviews, spread the album by placing links on your homepage. Some bands offer CD versions of their albums which you can purchase from their website.

What else ? Downloads are available in MP3 (~200 Kbps) and OGG format (~300 Kbps). Last but not least you find recommendations that sound similar to the album you are currently viewing / listening to.

My suggestion ? Support them, it´s a great concept and finally a portal that stands in contrast to all commercial portals.

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