
Vuze is an excellent tool for downloading and sharing audio, video, and text files. It's easy to use, has a great user interface, and offers a wide range of features. The speed tester is especially useful for making sure your connection is running optimally. The ability to search for torrents by name, type, and size is also a great feature. The magnet links and encrypted protocol make it a secure tool for exchanging data, and the ability to manage downloads is a great bonus. Overall, Vuze is a great tool for downloading and sharing files.
Vuze is a download tool that uses bit torrent, a protocol specifically designed to transfer large files without the need of storing them on an online server. Moreover, this application supports media playback and conversion as well as magnet file links.
Vuze’s interface is rather similar to those of other bit torrent clients; however, in my opinion, it’s much more attractive. Probably the best way to find contents to download is by using the program’s built-in search engine, which, besides providing links to the given contents, shows their ratings and availability. Once you start a transference, you’ll be able to monitor connection speed, availability of peers, etc.
Vuze works perfectly and downloads files as fast as your connection speed and the number of seeders allows it to. Yet, it doesn’t seem to be any faster than other similar tools. However, Vuze has some features that are not included in other applications. One of them is the possibility to transcode video files to other formats, thus avoiding compatibility issues. In addition, Vuze Remote Pairing technology allows you to control the application from other devices. Not only that, other features can also be added as plugins.
v5.1.0 [Aug 15, 2013]
--'open-torrent' dialog design
--OSX: Detect and reset torretnt file/url associations
--Added option to show/hide the icon in the Rank column
--Added plugin lifecycle operations to console UI
--Added some pairing commands to the console UI
--Added 'Tags Overview' view [TuxPaper/Parg]
--Option to toggle the 'new' download state for multiple selection
--Per-file availability column added
--Option to alter the top-level spacer rows in sidebar to allow compressed view
--Added a peak up/down column and some smoothed stats (up/down/eta)
--You can now rename any of the columns in table views to suit your needs
--Added 'Tags' column to Library views
--Library and Files view header now shows selected done/total file sizes when multi-selected
--Added config option to show the Options View as a sidebar entry rather than a separate window
--Added 'reset transfer stats' option to the torrent options/info view
--Added 'hide all' option to auto-tags
--Added Console view to Library sub-tabs (requires logging to be enabled)
--Added discoveries tab to Library views for specific download/size lookup
--No-proxy option for RSS Feed Scanner
--No-proxy option for Satus Mailer
--Added support for user-provided flags to location provider
--Added simple IPv6 connectivity test
--Support renaming of device content correctly
--Added a 'mark' feature to overall stats so you can count from a point in time as opposed to install date
--Speed limit handler now supports profile specific network limits
--Per-tag minimum share ration option
--Added option to move files (rather than copy+delete) on Windows when source+target same file system
--Added roll-up ability for the 'Discovery' sidebar entry
--Sidebar pop-up menu now shown in a tree/submenu layout
--Removed unreliable/unsupported ping/tracert network tests
--Classic UI tab order memory added
--Moved search results and swarm discoveries to top of 'Discovery' entry
--Auto-hide devices that haven't been seen in a (configurable) time and alert when this happens
--Brazilian Portuguese translation update [Havokdan]
--Basque translation update [Azpidatziak]
--Added serbian and montenegro flags to location provider
--Improved performance of some averaging classes
--Major rework to file linking support
--Fixed the min/max button shown for tab view
--Fixed some toolbar selection issues
--Fix last view not opening
--Bring back sidebar popup menu
--Better MDI entry/data source handling over restarts
--Hack for SWT icon transparency issue on Win 8
--DNS config section wiki link was broken
--indicator wasn't being cleared for 'launch' actions
--Fixed weird sort bug caused by sort occurring on hidden column
--Fixed deadlock with authentication dialog
--Fixed cell-specific cursor changes not working correctly
--Newly added subscriptions were not showing correctly
--Fixed sort order bug with file view index column
--Get the Twitter plugin working again
--Occasional stack-overflow in Transcoder plugin fix
--Few bugfixes for Java 1.7 detection of comparator contract violation
--Fix initialisation deadlock
--Increase maximum message size limit due to enormous bit fields
--Prevent scheduler from incorrectly resuming manually paused downloads
--Got thread-dumping diagnostic logic working again
--Work around for some plugin lock files preventing auto-backup from working
--Update IPFilter modification time so that it correctly is applied to existing peer connections when modified
--Fixed IPFilter bug that was causing it not to work correctly when the DHT plugin was disabled
--Fixed speed limit handler day-selection bug
--Fixed incomplete-file-suffix logic not being applied to plugin added downloads
--Allow renaming of files in torrents that resolve to an identical file system name when transformed to object FS naming standards