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.
v5.6.2 [Mar 4, 2015]
2015.06.08 - Vuze 5.6.1.2
New Features:
UI | Option to allow chat views to be independent windows [Parg]
UI | Added Tags column to archive view [Parg]
Core | Tag assignment is now persisted across archive/restore [Parg]
Changes:
UI | Pop-out views are now independent windows [Parg]
Corrected Bugs:
UI | Fix Stats view clearing graphs on each view (Classic UI) [TuxPaper]
UI | Fix remembering of minimized state of subtabs [TuxPaper]
UI | Torrent options window was throwing null-pointer exceptions [Parg]
UI | Reduced tab-rebuilds on tag property changes [Parg]
UI | The 'Restore and...' option in the archive view was incorrectly firing per-download [Parg]
2015.06.02 - Vuze 5.6.1.0
New Features:
Blog | See https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/vuze5610 for beta version blog posts
Idea | See http://vote.vuze.com/forums/170588-general/status/1561533
UI | New 'tagging' subview to allow easy download/tag assignment [TuxPaper]
UI | Many sidebar views can now be 'popped out' into a separate window [Parg]
UI | Show discovered tags when adding torrents [TuxPaper]
UI | Support escaped unicode character entry in chat UI via \unnnn [Parg]
UI | New tag settings view in Tags Overview panel [TuxPaper]
UI | Brought back client byte stats and added per-network stats [TuxPaper]
UI | Support for viewing downloads as local websites in web browser - http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Decentralized_Websites [Parg]
UI | Ability to completely disable use of the embedded browser in Vuze [Parg]
UI | Added 'torrent last active' column [TuxPaper]
UI | Additional option to edit multiple download's trackers in a single operation [Parg]
UI | Help menu option to import/export config files (etc) from bencoded <-> json format [Parg]
Core | Option to delete original .torrent files after addition [Parg]
Core | Automatically unzip torrents that happen to have been saved in compressed format [Parg]
Core | 'action on tag assignment' to support auto removal of peers [Parg]
Core | Per-peer up/down rate limiting on peer set assignment [Parg]
Core | Archival of downloads - http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Archiving_Downloads [Parg]
Changes:
UI | Torrent hash now shown in torrent options info view [Parg]
UI | Subscriptions ca now be shown in the classic UI [TuxPaper]
UI | More consistently handle 'do not download' file sizes when showing size/percent done/remaining [TuxPaper]
UI | Automatic closure of torrent download window when automatically invoked [Parg]
UI | Current version of components is now shown in update prompt [Parg]
UI | Latest 'private torrent' state now persisted across create-torrent operations [Parg]
Core | Treat protocol-relative URL's in RSS feeds as http:// [Parg]
Core | Changes to a download's networks are now applied directly [Parg]
Corrected Bugs:
UI | Fix 'reset columns' not resetting all colums [TuxPaper]
UI | Fix fancy menu bounds calculation to ensure correct visibility [TuxPaper]
UI | Creation date in torrent options dialog was incorerctly formatted [TuxPaper]
UI | Use updated trackers in open-torrent-options availability checker [Parg]
Core | Fix config corruption with non-ascii chat options [Parg]
Core | Fix edge case bug with swarm merging [Parg]
Core | Webseed rate limits weren't always being applied correctly [Parg]
Core | Removed small window when rate limits weren't being applied correctly [Parg]
Core | Incorrect tags were being included when getting existing download tags [Parg]
Core | Handle 301/302 redirects from trackers when binding to explicit IPs [Parg]
Core | Handle UPnP device URLs that don't have final / [Parg]
Core | Decode torrents with missing announce-urls correctly [Parg]
Core | Unlimited per-torrent connections not being enforced correctly [Parg]
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