How To Download Torrented Files In Mac

uTorrent is the most popular BitTorrent site outside China. The use of the Greek letter “u” refers to “micro” signifying the small memory footprint of the software. It is widely popular because it allows the functionality of large BitTorrent clients but uses minimum resources of your computer. It was initially developed in 2005 by Ludvig Strigeus and supports all major forms of Operating systems including older versions of the popular Microsoft OS Windows.

People around the world use uTorrent to download a variety of media ranging from music to movies and burn uTorrent videos to DVD for storeage. In the past decade or so, iPod from Apple has been the front-runner in portable music players. However, one can only transfer music from iTunes to iPod. So what do you do if you have downloaded music through the internet using uTorrent and would like to listen to uTorrent music or videos on your iPod?

If you are looking to transfer music from uTorrent to iTunes, it is not as difficult as it sounds. In order to transfer files from uTorrent to iTunes, you need to follow these steps as illustrated below.

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Steps to Transfer uTorrent to iTunes

Step 1: Launch the uTorrent application on your computer and go to the menu bar in the application window. Here you will find the “Options” tab. Click on that and select “Preferences”. You need to download the uTorrent application if you do not have it already. While there are plenty of torrent solutions out there, you can directly go to the uTorrent site to download the uTorrent application. After downloading, you will need to install it first. Its pretty easy to install and only takes a couple of minutes before you are able to launch it.

Step 2: On the left side bar of “Preferences” window you will find “Directories” option. You need to click on that. Remember, some uTorrent versions may not have the same option. For example, some versions of uTorrent in Mac may be designed a bit differently. However, every uTorrent version has the ‘Preferences’ button so it should not really be a problem to find it.

Step 3: Here you will find a window appearing and you need to find the checkbox “Move Completed Download to”. You need to click this and click the “…” button to the right of the text field.

Step 4: Open the iTunes folder and select the “iTunes Media” folder in there. Then select “Automatically add Files to iTunes” and click OK. The location of this folder will be depending on your iTunes settings but under default conditions the folder is located in the “Music” folder.

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Step 5: Now you find the “preferences” window and select it and click “OK” to finalize the entire process.

So after this, whatever files are downloaded through uTorrent, the application will directly send the files to the specified folder and from there is rerouted automatically to the iTunes library.

Written by Mårten Björk

Using torrents, you can quickly download movies, films and other files to your Mac. A torrent is a file with the file extension .torrent. This article will explain how to download torrents on a Mac.

Are torrent files legal?

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Torrent files are not illegal, but downloading copyrighted material is. However, there are many torrent files out there containing non-copyrighted material which is why we choose to publish this article.

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How torrent downloads work on the Mac

Without going all geeky, we’ll now try to explain how torrents work.

Someone downloads a .torrent file

The first thing that happens is that a user downloads a .torrent file. This file is very small and contains only a list of the files that are to be downloaded and some other stuff used by the user’s torrent application.

Opening the torrent

The next thing that happens is that the person that downloaded the file opens it with an application designed to handle this kind of file (more about these applications later). This application will try to find other people trying to download the same file. The torrent application will now grab pieces of the file from the other computers and put them together into one file. The user’s torrent application will in its turn start to share pieces that you have downloaded with other users. You get some and you give some.

How To Download Torrented Files In Mac

Torrent applications for the Mac

There are various torrent applications available for Mac users. In this article, we’ll tell you about our favorite application, Transmission. It’s simple to use and free (we’re not paid to say this).

Transmission

Transmission is a great torrent application for Mac. It’s easy to understand, it works pretty flawlessly and it has most of the features that one wants. To download Transmission, click here (download will begin immediately).

Adding torrent files to Transmission

Create a new downloads folder

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Okay, let’s assume that you have downloaded Transmission and want to start downloading files. The first thing you should do is create a folder where your downloads will be put. For instance, name it “Downloads” and place it on your desktop.

Tell Transmission that you want your downloads to be out into that folder

Now, open Transmission and go to the top menu. Click Transmission > Preferences. In the preferences window, click the second tab labeled “Transfers”. A drop-down menu is now available and from that menu, choose the folder where you want your downloads to be put (the folder you just created).

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Get a torrent file

The next thing you do is download a .torrent file. You do this from your web browser. Find a web site that offers torrents and find a download button. When you click it, a .torrent file will be downloaded to your computer.

Open the .torrent file with Transmission

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Now drag the torrent file into Transmission and it will be visible in the list. All the files that you want to download will now be created in the Downloads folder. These files are useless and broken until Transmission says that the files are 100% downloaded. You can throw the .torrent file away after adding it to Transmission.

Download problems that may occur

The torrent download won’t start

The problem with torrents is that they depend on someone seeding the file from his or her computer. Seeding means that you allow other users to download parts of the file from your computer. Sometimes no users are downloading or seeding the file and therefore it can’t be downloaded.

Try to find another file. Finding good torrents might be tricky, but have patience.