The small and efficient NZB client for OSX, optimized for performance and ease of use.
NZBVortex is very feature complete and extremely tuned for optimal download speeds and minimal system resource usage.
Just search for or add your desired NZB then let take NZBvortex control: it will download the minimal required data to complete the download, uncompress, cleanup and move the download to your desired location. No overflood in settings or info: we take care of all the technical stuff in the background.
A real set-and-forget download application: add a NZB and NZBVortex will take care of the rest.
This is a bugfix release for some rare issues reported by users.
New in this release:
Version 2.6.2 released - January 9th, 2012
New in this release:
- Cleanup empty folder recursion issue
- Find via toolbar should show sidebar when enabled
Full changelog
Version 2.6.1 released - January 8th, 2012
New in this release:
- Improved NZBIndex result scraping
- Try prevent scrollbar compatability mode in Lion
Full changelog
Version 2.6.0 released - January 8th, 2012
Almost too much to talk about: most importantly we integrated Mysterbin search engine!
The complete search view has been redone, it will be a lot more clear now.
New in this release:
- Move search options back to right + add collapse
- RSS feed items and search results should download into unique filename
- Merge and download in search should download biggest first
- Cleanup post processing Alias handling
- No move progress when a volume was not mount before move
- Integrate mysterbin search + more search work
- NZB inside NZB should be added to queue
- Nzb parse end tag + max wait
- Add timer for "speed limit" mode and "pause all transfers"
- Average out the average speed more for Dock / NZB / Stats bar
- Speed Graph peak, avarage, current speed
- Allow moving multiple selected items to top or bottom.
- Pause nzbs with rar-in-rar archive sets - password protected
- Search sort order changes should perform a direct research
- Disable recursive uncompress doesn't work
- Continue on finished file on disk with missing articles
- Article and File states might now always be updates in persistance
- Update growl to 1.3 framework
- Remove completed download folder when "move to completed" is disabled
- Support rar archives which contain files with same name
- Very long par2 checks for this NZB
- GTPopover displays on wrong screen on multi monitor setup
- Fix filesize CAP - 2.15gb
- Improve ui title generation from nzb filename (gerteunis) - closed.
Full changelog
Version 2.5.4 released - December 3rd, 2011
This is a bugfix release: fixes an issue where split files aren't joined correctly in some situations.
New in this release:
- Par2 fix-filename should not rename possible split files
- Other small bugfixes
Full changelog
Version 2.5.3 released - November 19th, 2011
This is a relatively small release but brings you nice features like up to 2x to 8x faster
par2 check and repair and a quicker way of enabling sleep when done and speed limit.
New in this release:
- Add very fast par2 based on intel tbb
- Introduce CMD-click for Zzz and Turtle for instant enable/disable
- Download next should unpause downloads
- Allow multiple selected items to "download next"
- Download Next doesn't always move nzb to 2nd position
- Server error never shown - computer wakeup detection too aggresive
- Dealloc used in FrenchSet detection - can cause crash
- Alert sheet not opened when move failed (Window not opened?)
Full changelog
Version 2.5.0 released - November 2st, 2011
It took a little longer as usual but hope it's worth the wait!
A lot of handy features has been added and some other have been finetuned.
Most noticable is the better support for "French/Canadian" uploads
and easier adding of RSS feeds using the search screen. Check it out!
New in this release:
- Support the French/Canadian renamed file uploads and improve other funky nzbs
- Better support misnamed files during par2 phase
- Introduce a "configure sleep" balloon while clicking the Zzz button
- Show a balloon for the hard to find (seems) sleep and speed limit buttons
- Lion resume fullscreen wrong screen dimensions.
- Add a low CPU priority mode option for postprocessing
- Press SPACE to pause/resume marked downloads.
- "Reset Monthly server volume" doesn't work when "volume limit warning" is disabled
- Server traffic reset button doesn't update UI right away
- A reminder on launch that speed limit is use
- Show "speed limit" balloon above speed limit mode button when pressed
- Detect "wake up computer" timeout - make it little more snappy
- Application fade in animation glitch
- Button to add search query as RSS watch
- Merging nzb with another already imported paused nzb should not start download.
- Wildcard support rss / group matching / cleanup (regex using slash)
- Right click -> make this nzb the next to download
- Delete to trash with "Yes and Delete Files" or at least make it optional.
- Episodes watch values not saved following power cut
- Move out all other stuff from ProcessSpeed thread
- Rename files if the nzb contains other filenames compared to the par2 set content
- Drop NZB after itself (blue line bottom of itself) moves moves below the next NZB
- Franticly clicking SSL checkbox might cause a crash during test server settings (NSThread)
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Version 2.4.2 released - August 25th, 2011
This is a bugfix release. This release fixes two relatively rare crashes.
New in this release:
- Fix infrequent crash during manual download of RSS feed items
- Fix for very rare and hard to find crash in network stack
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Version 2.4.1 released - August 22th, 2011
This release adds Full Screen mode, keyboard control, multi selection and auto remount of NAS volumes.
A lot of other feature are added and tuned.
New in this release:
- Search results might cut off some text
- Possibly too small memory buffer for network
- Monthly Fair Use policy was not clickable
- Out of diskspace detection was not checking
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Version 2.4.0 released - August 20th, 2011
This release adds Full Screen mode, keyboard control, multi selection and auto remount of NAS volumes.
A lot of other feature are added and tuned.
New in this release:
- Mac OS X Lion full screen mode
- Auto remount NAS when it's unmounted
- Merge search results (i.e. add additional par2 set)
- Keyboard support, selection and commands
- Multi select support almost everywhere
- Lower CPU usage in Idle (up to 66% lower) and Download (up to 25% lower)
- Test server settings in preferences
- Better support for newsservers with missing groups
- Merge NZBs into each other
- Delete completed download files
- Added a search context menu
- Option to auto remove completed download
- Backspace opens remove nzb
- Add support for link in search results and RSS
- File list auto scaling
- Support RAR archives with authenticity check
- much much more...
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Version 2.3.1 released - July 24th, 2011
New in this release:
- Crash in Lion while removing a completed download
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Version 2.3.0 released - July 18th, 2011
"Power of the colored dot!"
This release add Groups support, making NZBVortex ready for the next TV show season!
Groups will make NZBVortex way more XBMC, Plex or other scraper friendly.
Requiring less time for you to sort you shows after downloading.
Some requested features are added and postprocessing has been improved again.
New in this release:
- Groups with auto matching, added to queue, filterbar, rss and more.
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Ready
- Option to disable removing dots form filename (better for some scrapers)
- Better cleanup "Sample" folder (especially for german releases)
- More queue sort options: Age, Size, Name, Group Name, Remaining bytes
- Lion UI fixes for the momentum scrollbars
- Better Giganews SSL to non-SSL server switch
- Prevent multiple launches of NZBVortex
- Able to add preference toolbar icon
- Welcome message displayed too often for new users
- Support for RAR sets which start with .001
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Version 2.2.6 released - June 12th, 2011
This is a bugfix release; fixing various postprocessing side-effects.
A selection of changes in this version:
- NAS or external HDD less prone being remounted with -1 suffix
- Various post processing tweaks and tuning
- Various cleanup improvements
- Improve corrupted queue detection
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Version 2.2.5 released - June 4th, 2011
A new release which adds more postprocessing and better SSD drive support.
New postprocessing steps: unzip, join split files.
A selection of changes in this version:
- Tuned performance for SSD drives (with TRIM or TRIM hack)
- Zip file support
- Split file support
- Video preview now also works on Split and mk4 files
- Better detection of "Preview file available"
- Lower cpu usage
- Faster and less memory used for parsing large NZBs
- Better detect passworded nzbs
- Detection of a corrupt state database file
- Checkbox before RSS feed name now disables update; new option added to disable download of nzbs
- Move "One folder extraction result fix" to cleanup phase (even multiple sub folders now)
- Support badly formatted yEnc articles better
- Support pause and cancel during Joining
- Better old nzb detection
- Support concurrent add of search results
- And of course: all kinds of other small issues fixed.
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Version 2.2.0 released - May 2nd, 2011
Here we are again, a new and fresh install for you to enjoy!
Some often requested features are added and some tuning has been done.
Thanks to Povilas Griškevičius and mamahuhu for their time and support!
A selection of changes in this version:
- Newly designed Icon
- IPv6 support
- Scheduler with speed limit and pause
- Preview video while downloading
- Cleanup empty folders
- Smarter resuming of a removed download
- Restructured preferences, cleaner now
- Small UI tweaks (thanks mamahuhu!)
- Moved some screens to Sheets now; for large monitors
- Recursive extraction of RAR files
- Visual feedback + mark search result while downloading
- New dock info options: speed; size; time; percentage and none.
- Better indication on UI when backup servers are used
- Do not try to find nzb's in zips larger than 50MB
- Do not pause NZB's on weird server responses.
- Retain speed limit mode config on restart
- Added a RSS feed item details window
- Press enter min or max size in search should search
- Select file in finder if only one file is available
- Always create a new folder when using "ask for location"
- Lots of other smaller fixes and tuning
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Version 2.1.2 released - April 7th, 2011
This is a bugfix release, two bugs have been solved.
Fixed in this release:
- Potential deadlock crash while resuming an nzb (low occurance)
- "Ask for download location" should always create a new subfolder in selected location
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Version 2.1.1 released - March 16th, 2011
This is a bugfix release, two low frequent issues have been fixed.
A selection of changes made in this release:
- Support Sxx.Eyy (the extra dot) RSS feed item show matching
- Fixed a potential crash in downloading invalid RSS feeds
- Add support for HTTP 301 and 302 redirects in RSS (very specific)
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Version 2.1.0 released - March 12th, 2011
Including FairUse and Block account warnings, up to 30% faster uncompress, lots of fine-tuning
A selection of changes made in this release:
- Added an option to get warned when your fair use policy has been reached
- Added on option to get warned when you block usenet account is almost depleting
- Added sound notification on queue and nzb completion
- Up to 30% faster uncompress due to new unrar 4.0
- Performance tuning on very large NZBs
- When downloading: actively prevent Mac from going to sleep
- Keep last 50 downloaded rss feed items
- Support self-signed HTTPS servers (many private forums are)
- Added a self-resetting monthly transfer volume counter (nice right?)
- Make changing watch-folder live (previously you had to restart)
- Make RSS download successive matching feed items
- Added an installer DMG
- Small but important stability fixes (every crash is one to many)
I would really like to welcome you to the NZBVortex experience, get your copy
today and let NZBVortex take care of your usenet downloads!
Full changelog
Go over to the download page and get your copy today!
Version 2.0.0 released - Jan 4th, 2011
Finally I am able to proudly present version 2.0.0 of NZBVortex!
This is a major release where I have added the most requested
features as well I've took the time to tune it as much as possible.
We tried to test this application as good as we can, so we hope it
should be very stable. Thanks go out to Povilas Griskevicius, mamahuhu,
Stephane Reinstein and John Clay.
Version 2.0.0 is a free upgrade for all current customers.
Compare that to the competing products which let you pay over and over
for the same license you already have bought.
The top new features are:
- Finally: Full multi server support (multiple primary and multiple backup)
- Massive engine tuning
faster startup time, way less memory usage on big queues (hundreds of GBs).
- Support (and optionally auto pause) passworded downloads
- Option to auto pause download which: have no par2 files or are reaching the retention of your usenet servers.
- Ability to retry failed download a day later: so your server might have more time become more 'complete'.
- Global option to add all new NZB's in paused state
- Display a NZB's age and sort queue by age (oldest first)
- Better speed throttling
- Less disk IO during usage
- and much more...
Version 1.6.2 released - October 24th, 2010
Fixed two rare bugs and introduced a in-app DNS cache.
List of the biggest changes:
- Fixed rare crash just after uncompressing
- Introduced a local in-app DNS cache
- Fixes an extremely rare bug where the queue not loaded on start
Go over to the download page and get your copy today!
Version 1.6.1 released - October 4rd, 2010
New in this release: Usenet Search, Queue Filter bar and introduce advanced manual repair options.
Thanks go out again to: Povilas Griskevicius and mamahuhu for their tests and feedback.
List of the biggest changes:
- Fixed in 1.6.1: Fixed launch issue of specific rss feeds
- Performance tuning of large file lists
- Introduced "Download all par2 files"
- Introduced "Add PAR2s from NZB..."
- Introduced "Download all par2 files of..."
- Move to completed fails during sleep/wake (wifi not available)
- Make search history available in the top right corner search field
- Make (hidden) pref for Shutdown instead of sleep
- Rar postprocessing cleanup for Rxx, Sxx, Txx and Uxx
- Small pixel tweaks in RSS view
- Add "Search for NZB" using a public nzb index site
- Prevent never-ending file save on fast connections (memory eater)
- Delete state file if it's damaged on start of app
- Warn for app slim functions when app is damaged
- Add "Add par2 files from.." to NZB context menu to add all par2s from another NZB
- Continue download of target folder already exists AND filename is there
- Unable to import NZB with same name from same location
- Graphic glitches and interface freezing when switching view mode fast over and over
- Make KB/s MB/s and GB/s work better for Dock icon as well
- Only update filelist when selecting a NZB when the filelist is visible
- Time to completion incorrect
- And lots of other smaller changes
Go over to the download page and get your copy today!
Version 1.5.0 released - August 15th, 2010
Finish your downloads before updating!
Renewed User Interface including File list and Speed Graph.
Up to 50% lower cpu usage for non-ssl connections.
Lots of fixes, features and tuning has been done.
Thanks go out again to: Povilas Griskevicius and mamahuhu for their tests and feedback.
List of the biggest changes:
- Revamped User Interface
- File list per NZB (resize window to make the list wider)
- NZB information visible in a separate panel
- Speed throttling improved
- A lot of RSS feed tweaks like filter on category, mark new items etc
- Up to 50% lower cpu usage on non-SSL connections
- Drag and Drop in nzb queue and in RSS window
- Show SSL status in main window
- Made download stats visible on all windows
- Make toolbar customizable
- Download speed graph added
- Overall performance and state tuning
- much more
Go over to the download page and get your copy today!
Version 1.0.0 released - June 20th, 2010
Now with RSS feed support! A lot of work has been done on this release.
Lots of fixes, features and tuning has been done.
Thanks go out again to: Povilas Griskevicius and mamahuhu for their tests and feedback.
List of the biggest changes:
- RSS feed support
- Support for ZIPed NZBs
- Added move to top/bottom of queue
- Queue items are selectable including context menu on list and item
- Clear button on the button right to clear finished
- Around 40 other changes (check full change log)
Go over to the download page and get your copy today!
Version 0.7.2 released - May 4th, 2010
This is a bugfix and finetune release.
List of changes:
- Do not move completed download when "ask for location" has been enabled
- File open code incorrectly cleans up partial file on restart
- Make new file IO more robust regarding incorrect compiled articles
Go over to the download page and get your copy today!
Version 0.7.0 released - April 30th, 2010
This version adds support for accented characters in filenames, Cleanup files after download, supports moving the completed files to another location (temp/complete folders) and the option
for you to manually start postprocessing of downloads.
This release has a lot of other fixes and tweaks mainly for low occurance issues.
Thanks go out to Povilas Griskevicius and Mamahuhu for their thorough tests!
Other new features:
- Make post processing optional/delayable
- Ability to move completed downloads to another location
- After completion cleanup: Make configurable which file types to auto cleanup
- Incorrect parsing of yenc message with 'special character' filenames
- Cleanup filenames in NZB's which contain set numbers in the filename " (1/79)"
- One-article files use crc32 field instead of pcrc32
- Make NZB parse routine more robuust to it will not add nzb's twice or download in same folder
- Article state repair after restart was causing downloading of skipped files
- During prefs save: only reset current connections if connection prefs are changed
- Save invalid yenc message to file in "Application support" folder
- Gather anonymous system info during Sparkle update
- Sleep button doesn't work if there are paused download in the listing
- NZB waiting in "saving/downloading" state after "Need additional blocks: .. 1.."
- NZB download folder should not end in .nzb even when cleanup falls back to default
- 'Support' filenames with an forward slash in it
- Extra cleanup expressions
- When reverting state of FileArticle to FileArticleStateWaiting also update File and NZBstate
- Make sure a 0 bytes file will be saved if all articles are bad
- Filename cleanup should accept accented chars
- Increase max number of concurrent connections
- Change button for Download location and NZB watch folder broke on 10.5
- Incorrect display of total and nzb file size on large files
Go over to the download page and get your copy today!
Version 0.6.0 released - April 11th, 2010
This version introduces a lot of User Interface changed while keeping the interface subtle.
Version 0.6.0 also has a lot of fixes for corner case problems like incorrect formatted NZBs etc.
Some additional handy features are added as well.
Thanks go out to Povilas Griskevicius for his thorough tests!
Other new features:
- Support nzb parsing of filenames encapsulated with two single quotes instead of a double quote
- Stop / pause should also work during postprocessing mode
- Postprocessing should not unrar/unzip to another subfolder when there is just one rar set
- Update all texts and handling of NZBViewController stats
- Fix a crash when processing post processing results (very very rare)
- Download a limited number of NZB at once in Simultaneous transfer mode
- Offer option to move downloaded files to trash when deleting NZB
- Some NZB's have suffix (xx/xx) in the filename, strip that
- Display growl message when adding NZBs from watch dir
- No growl notification when server url is changed to non-available/non-existing address
- Add "Pause All" and "Resume All" to Dock menu.
- US-ASCII encoding not supported in NZB files
- Parsing of NZB should be done on a separate thread not on IO thread
- Sometimes application skips parts or downloads only a small amount
- Button to enable speedlimit
- Alternating rows colors in NZB listing
- Show how many nzbs were added to the queue. Best place - stautus bar.
- Show total amount of data to be downloaded.
- Bunch of UI Ideas for the future
- Implement coloured progress bar for status
- Numbers-only-named nzbs with enabled "Autmatically add NZBs" causes crash
- Implement a CrashReporter for better crash reporting
- Download start Pars first
- Save file should be more resistant to crashes
- Add copyright notices in the about of NZBVortex
- Crash in during save of article, parse article footer
Go over to the download page and get your copy today!
Version 0.5.5 released - March 25th, 2010
This is a finetuning and bugfix release. One big feature has been added: support for Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard).
NZBVortex will now also check if your free disk space is low and pause all downloads if it is.
Thanks go out to Povilas Griskevicius for his thorough tests!
Other new features:
- Make NZBVortex OSX 10.5 compatible
- Changes Case of some Letters
- Starting NZBVortex on 10.5 crashes during setting of OpenPanel location
- Application crashes when manual adding a nzb and "Ask for download location" is enabled
- Cleanup unrepaired rar files (*.rar.1) after succesful uncompressed
- Make getStartPars check for other sets which don't have a .par or vol00+xx filename
- Make name cleanup work better by stripping all weird chars
- Trouble repairing archive with two par2 sets and one is okay other needs additional blocks
- Support double digit start par2s (0+1, 00+01, 0+03 etc)
- Simultaneous transfer should limit to the 'top' CONNECTIONNUMBER NZBs
- "Disabled preferences require a license"
- Pause downloads when free diskspace gets below 2x write cache size
- Make find index in data faster on OSX 10.5
- Extract RAR sets in separate subfolder so they will not overwrite each other
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Version 0.5.0 released - March 13th, 2010
This is a feature release; the following most noticeable features are added: SmartCheck (experimental; very fast par2 check), optional skip Sample files, Sleep Mac when done, NZB watch folder, better support for some newsservers and many more. Thanks go out to Povilas Griškevičius for his thorough tests!
Other new features:
- Shaved of 300KB of the NZBVortex application size, leaner!
- Added experimental version of SmartCheck, detects if par2 check is skippable
- If unrar fails and SmartCheck skip has been used go back to PAR2 check
- Use Par2SL instead of current Par2 CLI applications.
- Make sure Sample skip doesn't skip all files (gerteunis)
- Shutdown when done option (gerteunis)
- Save files to FILENAME.partial first to notify users which files are "done"
- Add a NZB "watch" folder
- Free edition was skipping par2 files as well, not allowed
- Ability to Ignore 'Samples' from NZB's when the sample files have their own par2
- NZBVortex crashes when opening nzb which is deleted directly after adding
- Make save state faster so it can be used more often
- Some news servers use "unauhthorized" to notify no more connections are allowed
- "Add NZB" button opens dialog causing crash NZBVortex when iLife mini browser is installed and crashing
- "Delete NZB after adding" should delete to Trash
- Remove support for PPC. Compile only for Intel.
- "Service Discontinued" NNTP status should not mark article Failed
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Version 0.4.2 released - February 21th, 2010
A lot of CPU tuning has been done in this release.
No real new features; just a lot of performance and functionality tweaking.
Other new features:
- On start of NZBVortex revert state of nzb back to state which triggers par2 or unrar
- Do not process par1 messages, try to skip download of par1 files if an equivalent par2 is available
- When stopping or finishing NZB the file handles aren't released
- Create a new folder with number of target folder already exists (auto create target folder)
- Prevent adding the same NZB twice or more
- Download speed in dock icon
- Correctly handle corrupt NZB's and log + notify it
- Check work directory before starting post processing
- Filename cleanup should not end up in a ".NZB" filename
- In 0.4.1 all pars are downloaded, not smartly skipped
- Cleanup rar.1 etc as well, par2 repair will store the original to rar.1
- Display error growl message if postprocessing failed
- Growl not displayed while in free mode
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Version 0.4.1 released - February 15th, 2010
This is a bugfix release, fixing an issue which some very specific NZB's could not be opened.
Also some performance enhancements have been made while downloading big NZB files.
Other new features:
- Optimize CPU usage. statefile save cause overall spikes (large NZB's)
- Optimize memory usage when parsing NZB files
- Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) while opening specific NZB file
- OSX security dialog prevents adding multiple NZB's at once
- Add option to delete NZB files upon import/add
- Make registration work better and live
- Drag & Drop NZB to application window
- Application crashes after changing write cache size from default to 100
- Don't show '(licensed)' in application title
- Make 'smart downloading' setting unavailable if no active license is present.
Go over to the download page and get your copy today!
Version 0.4.0 released - February 12th, 2010
Yet another great release. A lot of new functionality has been added in this release.
Most noticeable changes are:
- Optimizes download size
only downloads required pars, saving up to 10%!
- Par check and verify
- Unrar downloaded files
- Cleanup files after completion
- Added an "Open location" button after download
- A lot of other engine and UI tweaks!
Go over to the download page and get your copy today!
