August 19, 2010 at 15:32The eight most needed features that will be implemented in µTorrent
In May of this year, a vote began on the µTorrent website for the most needed features that the torrent client lacks. Several hundred proposals were received from users, of which about 60 were accepted and implemented. The following is a comment on how things are going with the most requested options.
1. µTorrent for Linux
With a huge margin in the vote, the creation of a client for Linux won. He finally began to do in June. The developers say that they have already made considerable progress and are asking to be patient: they will soon roll out the release.
2. More precise priorities for multiple files in each torrent.
For individual files in the torrent (for example, 24 episodes in the season of the series) there are now only three priority options: low, medium and high. This is inconvenient if you want to download all the series in order. The developers promise that they will either add 16 degrees of priority, or make the feature automatically priority files in the order specified by the user.
3. Sending email when download is complete
Although the thickness of channels for users is growing all the time, their appetites for the quality of content are growing even faster, so de facto torrent downloads have not accelerated at all recently. Just before we downloaded AVI to 720 MB, and now we are pulling a copy of DVD9 to 6.5 GB. Thus, sending notifications is relevant as before. According to the developers, the global plan for this feature is to create a common and uniform mechanism for autostarting third-party applications at the end of the download. It is planned to add new options to the existing mechanism for selecting actions at the end of the download - and make it universal, so that the user can enter any script there.
4. Distribute files only when the computer is not in use
Although many are constantly on the distribution, some prefer to give the channel for torrents only in their absence, especially since µTorrent with illiterate settings is able to completely clog the channel and slow down the work of other applications. The developers promised that they would add the idle option to the schedule configurator .
5. Scanning for viruses at the end of the download
Although viruses are more difficult to find on large torrent trackers than on the regular web, but anything happens. This option falls under the description of clause 3 and will be implemented in the same way.
6. Password protection uTorrent
According to the developers, they integrate this feature into the boss hotkey. If you press the key combination again, you will need to enter a password to enter the client.
7. Moving torrent files and data with one click
At the moment, the whole pile of files have to be moved manually, even if they are located in several folders, and torrent files generally lie in a separate place.
The developers admitted that µTorrent is not doing well with file management. They will try to implement this feature in version 2.2. The Relocate command will be added to the Files menu , and the Set download location will be renamed, so that all content can also be moved through it. 8. Unzipping and moving files See point 3.
1. µTorrent for Linux
With a huge margin in the vote, the creation of a client for Linux won. He finally began to do in June. The developers say that they have already made considerable progress and are asking to be patient: they will soon roll out the release.
2. More precise priorities for multiple files in each torrent.
For individual files in the torrent (for example, 24 episodes in the season of the series) there are now only three priority options: low, medium and high. This is inconvenient if you want to download all the series in order. The developers promise that they will either add 16 degrees of priority, or make the feature automatically priority files in the order specified by the user.
3. Sending email when download is complete
Although the thickness of channels for users is growing all the time, their appetites for the quality of content are growing even faster, so de facto torrent downloads have not accelerated at all recently. Just before we downloaded AVI to 720 MB, and now we are pulling a copy of DVD9 to 6.5 GB. Thus, sending notifications is relevant as before. According to the developers, the global plan for this feature is to create a common and uniform mechanism for autostarting third-party applications at the end of the download. It is planned to add new options to the existing mechanism for selecting actions at the end of the download - and make it universal, so that the user can enter any script there.
4. Distribute files only when the computer is not in use
Although many are constantly on the distribution, some prefer to give the channel for torrents only in their absence, especially since µTorrent with illiterate settings is able to completely clog the channel and slow down the work of other applications. The developers promised that they would add the idle option to the schedule configurator .
5. Scanning for viruses at the end of the download
Although viruses are more difficult to find on large torrent trackers than on the regular web, but anything happens. This option falls under the description of clause 3 and will be implemented in the same way.
6. Password protection uTorrent
According to the developers, they integrate this feature into the boss hotkey. If you press the key combination again, you will need to enter a password to enter the client.
7. Moving torrent files and data with one click
At the moment, the whole pile of files have to be moved manually, even if they are located in several folders, and torrent files generally lie in a separate place.
The developers admitted that µTorrent is not doing well with file management. They will try to implement this feature in version 2.2. The Relocate command will be added to the Files menu , and the Set download location will be renamed, so that all content can also be moved through it. 8. Unzipping and moving files See point 3.