WebTorrent Desktop: An excellent application to reproduce torrents

Torrents have not gone and will not go out of style, and although many governments persecute them, this information exchange mechanism is more than successful. One of the main uses of torrents is the exchange of multimedia, so there are several tools that allow this exchange to be more efficient, one of them is WebTorrent Desktop which is only one application to play torrents from any operating system.

WebTorrent Desktop is the desktop application of technology webtorrent which is nothing more than a torrent streaming client for web browsers and desktop environments. There are many uses that are being given to this technology that does not require extra complements to be able to exchange information through BitTorrent.

What is WebTorrent Desktop?

WebTorrent Desktop es una aplicación de escritorio desarrollada en JavaScript, que permite reproducir y descargar torrent de una manera rápida y eficiente, el mismo utiliza la tecnología WebTorrent para las transferencia de información de un punto a otro.

Esta poderosa y sencilla herramienta cuenta con una bonita interfaz que es fácil de usar, con ella podemos reproducir vídeos de Internet Archive, music of Creative Commons or audiobooks of Librivox without the need for them to be fully downloaded to our computer, the same happens with the multimedia that are distributed as torrent, since it has support for peers BitTorrent y WebTorrent.

In the same way, this tool allows us to transmit videos to AirPlay, Chromecast and DLNA, it has excellent support for torrent files and has also been designed to facilitate use regardless of the end user. 

How to install WebTorrent Desktop

This multiplatform tool that is also still in a beta phase is distributed for any Linux distro, to install it, just go to the official releases of the application and download the appropriate package for your architecture, then with the package manager of your distro you proceed to install it.

With this simple but functional tool we can reproduce our multimedia while they are being downloaded through torrent, but its usefulness can grow if we use it to be the hosts of the information to be transmitted. It is fast, beautiful, simple and above all useful.