[I'm Always BROKE]

So... Since I don't use Limewire anymore, I thought I'd download my music with torrents. However, what program is needed for them? And, is this the best way to download music? Maybe this isn't something we're allowed to talk about in a public forum but still...

[Elliott]

uTorrent or Bittorrent are the best options, I personally use uTorrent.
Some great sites are Mininova (which I use) and Torrentspy (also very large).

[Max]

This starts to gets into gray territory with regards to legality, so please be mindful of what you guys post in this topic. Please do not suggest further torrent index sites, please restrict discussion to actual BT clients as was requested.

I personally use Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net), which is written in Java and thus works on all the major operating systems. It isn't quite as lean as uTorrent, but it is one of the most feature-rich clients available. uTorrent just was bought by BitTorrent and will become the official client, so that goes to show its credentials.

[Neo]

I use Bitlord. An easy, open program which makes you do almost everything. You can also search within the program, whilst I do not do that myself. I would advise this BTclient, as when starting a file, it let's you enable or disable the files within the BTfile you actually want to download. (so annoying files like .txt files can be disabled).

[Elliott]

That can also be done with uTorrent.

[My Best Wishes]

I use BitTorrent although I am told good things about UTorrent. People keep insisting it is much better but I am too lazy to swap.

Torrents are good to get full albums and depending on how many people are seeding it goes much faster. As Agatio said Mininova is great, It's what I use and also most Torrent programs have a search bar, well at least BitTorrent does.

[I'm Always BROKE]

Okay, I've just downloaded Bitlord... A quick question: why is the downloading so slow? I mean I'm now waiting 10 minutes for a song, and it says it's just at 1.1%... Does it has anything to do with my connection?

[PDM]

My brother uses Azureus, and he's a nub so it must be pretty easy.

[λφη]

DiddyKong, on Jan 12 2007, 04:02 AM, said:

Okay, I've just downloaded Bitlord... A quick question: why is the downloading so slow? I mean I'm now waiting 10 minutes for a song, and it says it's just at 1.1%... Does it has anything to do with my connection?

Learn how to read seed - leach ratios. The more people downloading than people seeding, means that the connection is split up between all of you downloading. Also, if there is few seeds (1-2) even if there is 0 or 1 leacher, your connection is most likely going to be slow.

[Elliott]

Also, make sure your maximum download limit is set to unlimited, and your upload limit is set at about 5kb, so you get your money's worth.

[λφη]

Agatio, on Jan 13 2007, 09:00 PM, said:

Also, make sure your maximum download limit is set to unlimited, and your upload limit is set at about 5kb, so you get your money's worth.

... Now thats just not nice. Leave both upload and download uncapped; your using the system for free, let others benefit from the same thing you are. Alot of people complain about leachers (leachers in the sence they don't seed after finishing a file) and private trackers even keep track of your status, and will ban you from the network if you don't have a 1:1 seed to leach ratio. (in other words, 1gb downloaded, 1gb uploaded)

The head of Black Kitty has a 680gb upload to 146mb download, last time I checked. They can share the wealth, so can you.

[Golden Djinn13]

To get faster speeds, you could also try editing your connection settings. I don't know how to do that under Bitlord since i've never used it, but it should be the same as all the others.