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- Price: Free to try $15.00 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.3/10.3.9/10.4 PPC
- Date added: May 25, 2005
- Total Downloads: 304,340
- Downloads last week: 225
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A newer version of Acquisition is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 20 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This program provides the most Mac-like experience of any file-sharing program we've tested. Built on Apple's Cocoa API, Acquisition takes full advantage of Aqua interface capabilities such as sheets, drawers, and a customizable toolbar. It also is integrated with iTunes, saving you the tedium of importing music files into your library.
Acquisition only shares files over the Gnutella network and limits you to five simultaneous peer connections, so search results sometimes are inadequate. On the other hand, the program provides search filters that can help you wade through incidental search results to get to the files you're actually looking for.
Though Acquisition can't deliver the sheer quantity of files available through PC clients such as Kazaa, it provides the quality experience Mac users have come to expect from their software. If you're content to share files over Gnutella, this should be your client of choice.
Publisher's description
From xlife.org :Acquisition is a gnutella client supporting modern gnutella features such as Ultrapeers, swarm (multi-source) downloads, download resumption, and distributed network discovery.
Acquisition also features a single-window user interface with a convenient drawer that summarizes all current searches, network activity, and active transfers.
What's new in this version:
- improved compatibility with mac os x 10.4 tiger
- improved network core and core update mechanisms
- improved file verification mechanisms
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User reviews of Acquisition 118.3
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Version: Acquisition 118.3
"Beware massive, unnecessary loss of data"
Pros: Great user interface, efficient operation, successfully downloads many files
Cons: I very purposely rated this one star. It has a VERY serious fatal flaw, I can deal with the crashing, what I can't deal with is the fact that, even after it quits successfully, it occassionally loses ALL your download information. This has happened repeatedly ever since the first version, and has never been addressed, even though a work around would take, at most, a few minutes and a few lines of code to save the backup downloads.cache file and then reuse it at user request when the downloads are lost. I have done this manually on several occassions, and it works fine, but I should not have to go digging around in the system Library folder every time I launch the app on the off chance it will decide to screw me over again. Having lost literally hundreds of gigabytes of data since I first began using Acquisition, while I can recommend it, I certainly would never suggest paying a penny for it until this is addressed.
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Version: Acquisition 118.3
"Works with OS better than Limewire"
Pros: Great improvement over Limewire. Doesnt slow down system and is as easy to navigate as your Finder windows.
Cons: Program closes unexpectedly... new version 118.4 should hopefullly not to do that.
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Version: Acquisition 118.3
"fast easy to use great music p2p"
Pros: the interface is great, links to itunes also checks if you aready have the song in your itunes library.
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