Your Top 5 Feature Requests for Vuze 4.0
Since launching Vuze 4.0 on Wednesday, we’ve been glued to your comments and feedback, and wanted to give you a read-out on our short-term plans. There have been thousands of feedback comments left over the last few days, so it’s unlikely we’ll be able to respond to each and every one of you. However, there have been a few consistent requests we want to address.
Your Top 5 Wishlist:
1) Advanced View: Many of you upgrading from older versions of Vuze have asked where you can find the familiar Advanced view of your downloading items.
The simple answer: select My Library and click the View toggle in the top right corner of your Vuze app.
2) Search Button: Some of you have asked how you can execute a search on Vuze 4.0, given that the magnifying glass icon next to the search box isn’t clickable.
In designing the search box, we decided to adopt a client-based search box model (similar to the search box in browsers such as Firefox or Internet Explorer). Simply type your query in the search box and press “Enter” on your keyboard. We’ll work to clarify this interaction over the next few days.
3) Deleting from My Library: There’s been some concern that deleting items in My Library also deletes the file from your computers.
When managing inherently large video files, we believe the default behavior for deleting items from Vuze should be to delete the file from your computer too (in order to avoid clutter and storage issues on your computer). That said, you can keep the file on your computer while deleting the torrent by right-clicking on any item in My Library, and selecting “Remove and delete torrent file.” We’ll improve the messaging soon to clear up this confusion.
4) Sidebar: Some of you have requested the ability to minimize the footprint of your Sidebar on the left side of the Vuze app.
We agree this would be a great feature. We’ll add it in the very near future.
5) The Frog: Some of you miss the dear old spotted blue azureus frog.
While we all have fond memories of the old frog, she’s gotten a full make-over and *loves* her new look. She has no plans to revert to her old style.
Finally, it has been extremely gratifying to see the enthusiasm with which many of you have received the release. Keep the feedback coming!
Chris
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Yep…!!! good release…!!
but i love the old frog… this icon is too big!! …
Why is the Vuze icon silly big. It’s about 20% bigger than the standard icon on the Mac doc and looks silly and ugly. If you’re going to put an ugly graphic like the new one at least make it the right size!
I personaly like the new icon, it is alittle bigger than the standard dock icon, alittle bigger than my adobe icons, but not a big deal to me, the reason for vuse is to download torrents not worry about the dock icon size, and i like the new layout, very clean and itunes-ish. good job vuse!
I love the new frog! She’s smokin’ hot.
Overall, great job with this release.
@Sciukka and @Raya – I think you may have discovered a small scaling issue with the icon. We’re working on a quick fix. Thanks for pointing it out.
Time to make Vuze faster !
The new vuze is easier and nicer to use.
However, with rumors about clients that stream torrents, it’s time we get there.
Vuze is perhaps the most efficient and fastest client, and is loaded with customizability. But FINDING particular commands is a laborious task–much like a car dashboard that has many tools/options that are not easy to find or access. I could not find any keyboard shortcuts, e.g. for “Update Tracker.” This is a command that I frequently require–an essential one, and yet I must go through a laborious process to get to it, a cumbersome task each time that should be simplified. Its a problem with layout, accessibility and…logic. Some of the more essential commands could be incorporated directly on the task bar, e.g. under tools. Overall, though, an impressive client and a big improvement over the behemoth of the former release. Thanks to all.
Perhaps there could be an option to customise what the delete button does? I am too used to the behaviour of the button under the classic interface that I accidentally deleted two rather huge files.
Vuze 4 rocks!!!! Loooooove the new interface… search… and new Frog is beautiful.. it truly symbolizes the move.. Azureus is NOW Vuze!!
Where I can find seeded files? :/
Add Friends only seeding because friends boost isnt working very well right now.
and fix the following bug many people are having me included:
Failed to publish online status: No password handlers returned a password
Thanks
The white silouette of the Frog is actually so unattractive I personaly find it hard to look at, especially compared to the last couple of versions of the frog. I say this as a friend that is trying to save her from making a fool of herself going dressed up like that. What kind of friend would I be if I just let her do that.
old frog was much better…
I would like to have multiple selection before downloading a torrent that has multiple objects inside it.For example: when a torrent contains 200 files and you want only 30 of these you have to select every single file (option+click). It would be extremely useful to select the first, the last and anything in between (Capital letter+click)
the new version’s view is much more neat and innovative than before, i never thought a java-based can become this. Thanks for the release..
p.s. i will sincerely consider the switch even utorrent is out or transmision get DHT implemented. lol!
I want skins for vuze……
Another minor addition you could add to 4.0 would be the icons optimized for Leopard’s 512 pixels size. Thanks for a great app!
“Hooks” for Nero and/or I tunes?
Nice transformation…although I do like the old frog design better as well. I find the Vuze HD Network a bit confusing because it feels like a browser. Please include a tabs similar to Firefox so I can view different content at the same time. Also add a forward and back button as well as a content bar, i.e. icons that take me directly the blog, news, content, etc. I also noticed that then navigating to the different windows/content it pauses because its loading but there is no progress bar. There should be an indicator that something is happenning and not just a long pause, it makes me think that Vuze has locked up. Thanks!
I can’t tell much about Vuze 4, because I did not install it yet. However I am pretty sure about my wishlist:
- Old frog looks cool, new frog is … well it’s actually not there! It’s missing, isn’t it? I see a blue square-icon and a shape of a frog inside, like a stencil. Does this have a certain meaning behind it?
If you’re asking me, then it is too minimalistic. Maybe you could add the old icon to the library, then we could switch?
- Skins for Vuze or a theme-switcher to revert to the dark design would be nice. Overall white designs may be fancy and smart on prints, but rather not on displays. If you don’t want to turn down your brightness/contrast, because you want nearly representative colours, then overall white designs are just blinding. I don’t understand why it is so common to have white backgrounds all over the internet. -_-
- I’d probably miss the searchbutton.
The new Vuze little bit “new” to me!
I mean, I used to manage my files using that Advanced Window, to see all Torrent’s info and trackers details, but no more the same feel!
But, although I think the old Vuze (2.xx) is better, it’s time to change. From time to time we have to change sth! Whether it’s the Torrent Client or ourselves!
I agree with the Sidebar idea
i agree with all 5 but number 6 is that i belong to a torent site and i want to make it so only that site can uplode from me i find it relly hard to make that happen as things are can you help
Perhaps I’m an edge case, but I use Azureus remotely through VNC on our house file server. This is great, and works nicely with the classic UI, but all of the Vuze features are pretty much worthless. It’d be really nice if there was a way to run the actual downloading and storage on a remote machine, with clients connecting to display media through the Vuze client. Azsmrc does this with the older UI, but it’s pretty buggy and doesn’t work on OS X.
Either way, thanks for keeping the classic UI in so I can still use all of the advanced functionality.
Will the update be available via auto-update? I’m really looking forward…
I would like to see on feature added that is when a torrent is finished and has been viewed I would like to see it in a category called seeds or something so that I can find it easier or a better way to sort those files in the library. Other then that I love the new Vuse keep up the great work.