iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes. It transforms BitTorrent podcasts so that you can update them just like any other podcast in iTunes. iTorrent also has the ability to smooth out the downloads for non-BitTorrent podcasts as well, so that you do not get frequent timeouts in iTunes when it updates multiple podcasts at once.
Technical Details: iTorrent runs as an RSS proxy on your local machine and will fetch enclosures from a BitTorrent network on behalf of iTunes. The BitTorrent content will then be fed to iTunes via a standard HTTP connection.
For Windows users, the only requirement is that you have iTunes installed. For Mac users, iTorrent requires OS X 10.3.9 or greater.
The current release of iTorrent is the "alpha-2" release, which means that it still isn't pretty, but it is much easier to install and run. The alpha-2 release can be downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=163841&package_id=185388&release_id=415006.
Download the zip file for your computer and extract it to any directory that you
choose. Windows users will see an iTorrent.exe
program in the
iTorrent-alpha-2
subdirectory. Mac users see an iTorrent
application in the iTorrent-alpha-2
subdirectory.
If you have a previous alpha-1 version of iTorrent installed, you'll need to
copy the data
directory from your alpha-1 directory to the
iTorrent-alpha-2
subdirectory.
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