Easy-to-use P2P file sharing client for beginners
Tribler is an extremely easy-to-use P2P network aimed at file sharing newbies who haven't been able to handle applications, like eMule and Limewire.
Tribler has an extremely clean and simple interface, which displays only the search box, your 'sharing reputation' (based on how many files you've shared) and search results. Despite its simplicity, Tribler is capable of retrieving large amounts of material including video, audio, pictures, and more. The reason for this is that Tribler is integrated into large media sites such as YouTube and Liveleak. Parents will be reassured to hear that an effective family filter is activated by default which is quite effective at blocking adult search terms.
As with most major P2P portals, Tribler allows you to browse simply by media category, and the most popular content is displayed first. What I really liked about Tribler, however, is the preview function. When you select a file, you can choose whether to preview or download it. Preview it by clicking the big Play button and Tribler will search for other users with the file so that you can see whether it's worth downloading. The disadvantage of this though is that the previews take ages to load as it searches for other users with the same material.
The settings are very limited. You can configure a nickname for your profile on Tribler, a maximum upload and download limit, the router port you want Tribler to use, and a default download location. It doesn't save your search terms, so you have to retype them if you want to search a subject regularly.
Overall, Tribler is an excellent P2P file sharing client for those new to it, although seasoned users will find it more than lacking in certain areas.
User reviews about Tribler
by Anonymous
My problems with Tribler 5.5.24.
Have been relatively happy with Tribler over the last 2 months but there was a problem with more download GB collecting than actual. I had been +21 GB but over a week it eroded away to only +2GB. Then it really went nuts. It was D 147GB and U 145GB after the next 2 GB of downloading it had soared to D 190 GB and U 147 GB. I suspect something fishy and will uninstall Tribler at the end of my last download.
Pros:
Great idea
Cons:
often goes unresponsive
flawed record keeping
has to be reset at the start of every download
Once you have done something on Tribler, the next step usually requires a restart of the program More
by Anonymous
Tribler..dribbler....
A great concept, a decade in the making. A pity its interface and functionality is diabolical.
It doesn't consistently work, its a huge memory hog, it interferes with other programmes, and is extremely erratic in downloading.
It also has (or appears to have... its difficult to say since most of this programme rarely functions) a lovely morality function to 'punish' low/non seeders. This has been tried before, it just never appears on highly successful PSP facilitators like Mu-Torrent and Bit-Torrent because it's functionally redundant. The academics that made this program have apparently never bothered to correlate seeding profiles. Low seeding is a problem at the beginning and end of popular torrents, and to efficiently balance your upload/download quota requires being a seeder at the very beginning of any hot new torrent, or alternatively uploading for months. Seeding rates are far more complex than this facile provision allows for.
Fails miserably to supersede Mu-torrent.
Pros:
Brilliant concept
Cons:
Everything else.
This prog needs to be entirely re-formed by an end user responsive commercial company. More
by Anonymous
Amateurish installation file.
did anybody check the install/uninstall/reinstall procedures before releasing the program?
after moving the folder where tribler saves the torrents from desktop, the program stopped to work. uninstall/reinstall didn't help
Pros:
great promises of decentralized torrent management. (which the program failed to fulfill)
Cons:
early pre-beta, crappy installation process. or it works the first time, or forget about it for good. at least on win7 64bit More