[A few notes on the upcoming changes to uTorrent]

Hello Everyone,

In a few weeks we are going to release a new version of µTorrent. This update includes improvements and changes that we think you are going to like. We always appreciate our forum users for their dedication, feedback and candor. We want to keep investing in to this community by keeping an open and honest channel of communication.

Moving on:

First, we added bug fixes, performance enhancements and user-requested features. Torrents with many files load faster and magnet links preload content in the add-torrent dialogue. We also improved the speed of torrents over network shares and added several improvements to streaming playback. There’s plenty more and you can read the full change-log at the usual spot.

The next major change you will see is a fresh approach to creating a no-nonsense and free torrenting experience. You are all very familiar with how we have paid the bills so far. These new changes mark our next step towards finding that difficult balance between keeping our lights on and providing a positive user experience. This new build will display a featured torrent at the top of your torrent list. This featured torrent space will be used to offer a variety of different types of content. We are working towards bringing you offers that are relevant to you. This means films, games, music, software...basically anything that you will find interesting. We may not get it right on the first try but we will continue to improve our efforts based on your feedback.

We are also leveraging these offers to directly benefit the artist community including filmmakers, recording artists, game developers and more. We are going to show the world what all of you here already know: that torrenting can be used for good.

Let us know your comments and thoughts in this thread. We are listening, and we value your feedback.

The µTorrent Team

PS: We have included an FAQ below that will hopefully answer a few questions you might have:

µTorrent Offers Q&A

What is changing with µTorrent offers?

- One additional offer location: A narrow rectangle just below the toolbar within the µTorrent UI will present relevant offers to users.

- Better-targeted offer types: We will pursue making offers that are targeted and interesting to our users.

What type of offers will you show?

- The first offer type will inform users of our own new products, features and services.

- The second offer type will come from our offer partners, whose offerings include things such as games, security products and privacy services.

- The final offer type will feature independent artists, such as musicians and film makers.

Can I turn in-client offers off?

Currently you’ll be able to skip offers of no interest to you by clicking an x within the ad, which will advance you to the next offer. There is no way to turn in-client offers off*. We will pay attention to feedback, and may change this in the future.

*Note that users of µTorrent Plus will not be served offers in the client. We are looking into other offer-free alternatives for users as well.

Why are you making this change?

1. It starts with our business model which is familiar to everyone: We provide our users with free software from which they get outstanding value, and we keep our lights on through advertising.

2. Given this, we want to make sure our offers are more relevant and valuable to you, our users.

How does this change my privacy?

It doesn’t affect your privacy. Of course, you’ll want to confirm this for yourself. We encourage you to view all client-to-server communication via a program like wireshark. Like any software, µTorrent has always communicated to a server to check for software updates; now it will also check for offer updates. No personally identifiable information is passed during this communication.

[µTorrent Plus Alpha release]

3.1 Beta build 26419

Might be reposting some of the already mentioned errors, but just to confirm they appear more often.

1) Torrent stuck on 99.9% for hours (with lots of seeders), only finishing after restart of the client.

2) uTorrent Remote does not accept answers to the security question and when setting a new username, after restarting the client or the pc, it thinks it's installed on an other pc.

3) When torrents are checked after a crash / restart, full computer memory is used blocking every other possible use of the computer for minutes upto hours (12 GB of memory in combination with 4-40GB torrents). Can't this be less invasive?

Can we get some more info:

2) can you message me with the email you used to sign up for µTorrent remote?

3) What type of checking is happening? Are you referring to the virus scanner? How do you usually shut down µTorrent?

[µTorrent 3.1 Release Candidate 11]

hi all hoping for some assistance just upgraded to v 3.1 beta (25835) 32 bit am running win7 ultimate 64 10gb ram was all fine until upgrade now am unable to get get any downloads to work have tried 4 different sites and 12 different torrents but to no avail all i get is this error message " metadata not being loaded!" have tried looking in the forums but could see a solution please help

This is a rare error that we have seen from time to time and it is definitely on our list of issues to resolve.

In the meantime, try torrents with trackers instead of magnet links.

[µTorrent 3.1 Release Candidate 11]

It's been 5 years since my last post, but before the 3.1 cycle ends, I was hoping for one feature: When opening a torrent with µTorrent, the torrent popup comes up before the status file is read and labels parsed out of it, so no or few labels show up in the popup. This only started with 3.0 and its asynchronous loading.

It'd be very helpful if they either got dynamically added to the popup as they are parsed out, or delay the popup a couple of seconds to give the parser a chance to read the labels; otherwise I usually have to go back and add the torrent to the label manually after starting it.

This is only an issue when the program is closed, of course. Adding a torrent when it's already opens works great.

Thanks for keeping µTorrent going!

Thanks for taking the time to submit your feedback. This bug has been logged. No ETA yet on a fix, but we promise to look in to this.

[µTorrent 3.1 Release Candidate 11]

I still have the same problem about it showing ETA when I have stopped a torrent

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/530/screenhunter01oct220340.th.png

EDIT:

Have now seen another probler/error

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/5961/screenhunter03oct221036.th.png

By some reason It would not take the Upload speed and show it in the torrentlist window

Thanks for reporting this. Both of these bugs have been logged and are currently being worked on.

[µTorrent Plus Alpha release]

build 25788

Already posted about the continued memory leak, but just noticed there is a lag on the 'inactive' screen, where the number of visible torrents is left behind by the incative numbe falling, until you switch to another list and back again.

Thanks for reporting this. It has been logged, but it will probably take a while to fix as we have several larger bugs we are going to tackle first.

[µTorrent Plus Alpha release]

I am on Win7 x64. I had utorrent worknig for 10d, ~80 downloads in parallel. I removed the anti-virus option, it is completely useless and doesn't seem to work correctly (it is blocked at some update from time to time). It's much better without it and very stable. I don;t see any issue memory wise, no blocking anywhere. I don't use the streaming/converting part so I'm mainly using it only for download/seeding. Compared to stable version, it seems to pick more sources and downloads are faster, which is awesome!

See my previous comments: need 64b version. Need order to remain consistent when it restarts.

Can you elaborate on the behavior you saw while antivirus was enabled? Was it crashing? Did it slow your system down? Any information you can provide would be helpful.

[µTorrent Plus Alpha release]

Something wrong about speed:

Thanks for the screenshots. We logged this for review and plan to investigate this further.

[µTorrent Plus Alpha release]

Antivirus not rename updates after download

D:\uTorrent\VirusGuard\avxdisk.dll 1.0.0.1

D:\uTorrent\VirusGuard\avxdisk.dll.upd 1.4.0.0

VirusGuard.exe used avxdisk.dll 1.0.0.1

if manual rename file avxdisk.dll.upd to avxdisk.dll

VirusGuard.exe start using avxdisk.dll 1.4.0.0

same problem with files in \plugins folder

uTorrentPlus 25788

Thanks for reporting this. We changed the installation process so that this should not happen anymore.