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eMule 軟體圖示 eMule 0.50a Beta 1 資料更新 2010-03-12 閱讀約 5 分鐘

你手上有一批老檔案、冷門資源,或是某個只在特定論壇流傳的壓縮檔。你試過一般下載方式,不是連結失效,就是速度卡在個位數 KB,不然就是檔案根本找不到。你真正需要的,是能連進一個還有人在上傳這些東西的網路,慢慢把檔案抓下來。

一般人遇到這種狀況,第一個想到的是開 BT 找種子,或是去免空碰運氣。但 BT 種子會死,免空檔案會被砍,而且這些管道對十幾年前的老檔案往往束手無策。這類工具的切入點,是透過一套歷史悠久、仍有人維護的 P2P 協定,直接去問網路上的其他使用者有沒有你想要的檔案——只要還有人開著軟體分享,你就有機會抓得到。

eMule 操作介面
eMule 的操作介面

01eMule 到底是做什麼用的?

它是一套 P2P 檔案分享軟體,連上 eDonkey2000 和 Kad 兩個網路,讓使用者互相分享和下載檔案。你可以在裡面搜尋音樂、影片、軟體等各類型檔案,加入下載佇列後,從其他連線的使用者那邊抓取。它不依賴中央伺服器存放檔案,而是靠所有連線中的使用者彼此提供。

02這套軟體要怎麼找檔案?

在搜尋列輸入關鍵字,可以選分類縮小範圍,也支援布林運算子(例如 AND、OR)來過濾結果。搜尋到之後,雙擊檔案就會加入下載佇列。下載中的檔案可以在「Transfers」分頁看進度、速度和預估時間。如果檔案還沒抓完,也可以用預覽功能先確認內容是不是你要的。

03下載速度很慢,有沒有辦法讓它快一點?

官方說明提到幾個方向:連到容量較大的伺服器、開放更多上傳槽、確認防火牆和路由器設定沒有擋掉 eMule 的連線。另外,佇列管理系統可以讓你調整下載和上傳的優先順序。要注意的是,P2P 的速度本來就取決於對方願意提供多少上傳頻寬,不是軟體本身能保證的。

eMule 介面畫面 2
eMule 介面畫面

04它可以下載 BT 種子嗎?

不行。這套軟體是專門設計給 eDonkey2000 和 Kad 網路用的,不支援 BitTorrent 協定。如果你手上的資源是 .torrent 檔或 magnet 連結,需要另外用 BitTorrent、uTorrent 或 qBittorrent 之類的軟體來開。

05用這套軟體安不安全?

官方說法是一般情況下安全,但任何 P2P 軟體都一樣,要小心不要下載到沒有授權的版權內容。軟體內建 IP 過濾和訊息加密功能,可以在設定中開啟,增強隱私和安全性。另外,下載任何檔案前,最好自己確認檔案來源和內容。

06什麼樣的人適合用這套軟體?

適合還在用 Windows 系統、而且需要找老檔案或冷門資源的人。它連的 eDonkey2000 和 Kad 網路歷史悠久,有些在 BT 上已經死掉的資源,可能還在這個網路上流傳。如果你願意花時間掛著慢慢抓,而且能接受英文介面,它就有機會派上用場。

eMule 介面畫面 3
eMule 介面畫面

07我現在用 uTorrent 或 BitTorrent,有必要換成它嗎?

看你的需求。如果你主要抓的是 BT 種子,那不需要換,因為 eMule 不吃 BT 協定。但如果你要找的東西在 BT 網路上找不到,而你知道它可能在 eDonkey 或 Kad 網路上,那就可以兩套並存,各抓各的。它和 BT 軟體不是取代關係,是互補關係。

08它的介面只有英文,會不會很難上手?

介面確實只有英文,但官方說明強調它的介面設計直覺、對新手友善。主要功能就是搜尋、下載、管理佇列,這幾個操作在「Transfers」和「Search」兩個分頁就能完成。如果你完全看不懂英文,操作上會比較吃力,這點要自己評估。

09什麼情況不該選它?

如果你用的是 macOS 或 Linux,官方沒有正式支援,只有非官方版本或替代軟體,不建議把它當主要工具。如果你要抓的是 BT 種子,它完全幫不上忙。另外,它更新頻率很低,介面又只有英文,如果你希望軟體頻繁更新、介面有中文,那它不適合你。

eMule 介面畫面 4
eMule 介面畫面

10它和 uTorrent、BitTorrent 比起來,哪個比較多人用?

從評分人數來看,uTorrent 有 2143 人評分,BitTorrent 有 502 人,FrostWire 有 316 人,而 eMule 只有 80 人。評分人數少不代表軟體差,但可以反映使用者的基數。如果你在意的是「很多人用、比較不會踩雷」,那 uTorrent 或 BitTorrent 的使用者樣本數明顯大得多。

11這套軟體是不是已經沒在維護了?

它還是開源軟體,官方說明指出雖然更新不頻繁,但有一個社群開發者持續在維護。版本紀錄顯示近 24 個月內有過更新,所以還沒有到完全停擺的狀態。不過它的更新頻率確實比主流軟體低很多,如果你很在意軟體是否頻繁更新,這點要列入考量。

12它支援 Windows 11 嗎?

官方說明提到它相容於 Windows 11、10、8、7 以及更舊的版本。所以理論上在現行的 Windows 系統上都可以安裝使用。但要注意,它只支援 Windows,macOS 和 Linux 沒有官方版本,這點在選擇前要先確認自己的作業系統。

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這一版改了什麼

What's new in this version:

eMule 0.50a BETA1
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- Mar, 8. 2010 -
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.: Fixed a bug which caused the "Add files to download in paused mode" otpion to not work properly in all cases
.: Fixed a visual glitch on taksbar notifiers when using the Aero theme [gureedo]

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- Mar, 3. 2010 -
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.: Added Windows 7 taskbar goodies:
- global progress bar in the eMule taskbar button, progress colors: green when downloading, red when a download is errorous, yellow otherwise
- Taskbar Buttons: when hovering over the eMule taskbar button (connect/disconnect/throttle/unthrottle/open preferences)
- Overlay icon: Overlay icon on the eMule taskbar button indicating active up- and downloads (disabled by default, enable by ini entry "ShowUpDownIconInTaskbar=1"). 

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- Mar, 1. 2010 -
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.: Tweaked uploadcode to significantly increase the possible uploadspeed per slot especially on LANs, making eMule more suitable for those
.: The number of maximal open upload slots has been decreased to 100
.: Fixed a bug which caused the "Add files to download in paused mode" otpion to not work properly in all cases

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- Feb, 28. 2010 -
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.: Fixed a problem with the sharedfiles list when deleting a shared files [dolphinX]
.: Fixed minor possible memory/ressource leak in the archive recovery and ipfilter [dolphinX]
.: Fixed possible problem when wrong incoming directory due to categories in certain cases [dolphinX]

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- Feb, 19. 2010 -
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.: Fixed a bug in Kad which would not enforce the search tolerance in certain cases
.: Changed Kad to work better in small LANs. If Kad detects it is running on a LAN (only LAN IPs in the routing table), it will assume beeing open and not behind a NAT/Router without trying to verfiy (which would fail in a small LAN),
and also doesn't enforces several security features like flood detection for LAN IPs. Now even a small Kad LAN of 2 nodes works well without any setup issues
(To create such a Kad LAN, make sure all clients have Options->Extended->"Filter server and client LAN IPS" disabled, delete the existing nodes.dat if necessary, go to the Kad dialog and enter the IP+Port of one other client (which is either connected or in connecting mode for Kad) to the bootstrap box - done)

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- Jan, 25. 2010 -
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.: The connection wizzard is no longer shown after finishing the first start wizzard (it's deprecated)
.: The first start wizzard is only shown on first starts and no longer after updates

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- Jan, 21. 2010 -
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.: Added a new graph to the Kad window, which lets you watch each Kad lookup in detail. For non-Devs this is just for fun, you don't need to worry about anything shown there. A detailed explanation of the graph can be found in the onlinehelp.
.: Added "Automatically show active searches" option to the context menu of the new graph which lets it switch to active lookups automatically (instead having to select it in the list). Now you can watch Kad working for hours without a click! :)

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- Jan, 12. 2010 -
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.: Added a new dockable toolbar to the transfer dialog. The buttons resemble the context menu options, but making them accessible easier and faster. The toolbar can be removed by right clicking on it and shown again by selecting context menue option of the downloadlist

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- Jan, 10. 2010 -
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.: The context menu in of the downloadlist allows now directly assign a file to a new category (instead of having to create it separately first)
.: The "Unassign" category context menu entry is now only available if a file actually has a category

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- Dec, 7. 2009 -
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.: Fixed missing setting saving after automatic adapting incoming folders of categories due to changed main incoming folder
.: Fixed a bug with overwriting the nodes.dat on times we actually don't want to write it [Nissenice]
.: Added a quick intermediate fix to make certain Kad lookups more reliable, improving the (search/source-) results in some cases [based on research from http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/kad.pdf]

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- Nov, 28. 2009 -
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.: Switched the eMule fileidentifiers from ED2k-Hash + Size to ED2k-Hash + AICH-Hash + Size. This means eMule is now using two hashing algorithms combined (based on MD4 and SHA1) to verify if a received part (and eventually the comlete files) is not corrupt
This change is necessary due to weaknesses in the MD4 algorithm and enables eMule to make sure to never complete a corrupt files for the next decade
All changes are backwards compatible, so no clients or files will be exluded from the network
.: AICH part hashsets are build out of existing AICH recovery hashsets, no rehashing is done
.: AICH verification is enabled when using an ed2k link with included AICH hash, or when searching and downloading a file from Kad when certain requirements are met (this will only start to work once the majority of nodes update)
.: The AICH hash can be seen in the search results list for kad searches if available
.: ed2k links can no longer be created without the AICH Hash, except if it is not available. ed2k links without AICH hash are considered deprecated, but are still accepted by eMule for now

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- Nov, 15. 2009 -
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.: The shared files list now shows files in root directories properly [dolphinX]
.: Fixed a bug with determining if the filesystem can handle large files when using categories [dolphinX]
.: Added preferences.ini-only option "KeepUnavailableFixedSharedDirs" ("eMule"-Section) which lets eMule keep shared directories on fixed drives even if they are not found anymore
.: Fixed minor memleak on kad searches [tHeWiZaRdOfDoS]
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- Oct, 13. 2009 -
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.: Added preferences.ini-only option "ForceSpeedsToKB" ("eMule"-Section), which will make eMule display all speed values in KB/s (instead of B/s to TB/s depending on the speed)

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- Aug, 7. 2009 -
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.: The shared files dialog has now a tab selector, letting you choose to view the statistics,(reduced versions of) the content, ed2k-link or metadata info for the selected file(s)
.: The statistics page on in the shared files dialog also has the following new entries: Popularity rank (ranking all your shared files based on Requests), On Queue (clients on queue for the selected file) and Uploading (current bandwidth used to upload the selected file)
.: The new tabs in the shared files dialog can be closed or restored by an arrow button on the right side

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- Aug, 3. 2009 -
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.: Fixed possible resource leaks in ZIP file decompression [tHeWiZaRdOfDoS]
.: Fixed sorting bug in Shared Files window [moloko+]

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- Aug, 2. 2009 -
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.: Fixed bug with downloading files via the built-in webserver [Stulle]
.: Fixed double/single click behaviour in search results window [tHeWiZaRdOfDoS]
.: Fixed bug in user hash validation [ilmira]
.: Fixed bug with space characters in ED2K URLs [moloko+]

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- Jul, 25. 2009 -
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.: Fixed a bug which made search tabs in certain cases invisible after you closed one

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- Jul, 20. 2009 -
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.: Cleand up options dialog a bit:
The following settings have been removed and are now preferences.ini-only: "BeepOnError", "DontRecreateStatGraphsOnResize", "UpdateQueueListPref", "MessageFromValidSourcesOnly" (Section "eMule") and "EnabledDeprecated" (section "PeerCache")
.: The exit conformation messagebox has now a "Don't ask me again" option
.: Added "Pause on when preview possible" option to the downloadlist context menu. Only visible when "advanced mode controls" is enabled

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- Jul, 09. 2009 -
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.: Improved storing AICH hashsets after a download has finished - should be much faster now if you share many files
.: Sparse files are available on Windows7 again, Vista stays the only version were they are disabled

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- Jun, 12. 2009 -
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.: Added basic checks and user warnings for wrong operator usage (like using OR on the first keyword) in Kad. Earlier version just delivered wrong/incomplete results in such cases.

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- Jun, 10. 2009 -
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.: Fixed a bug in Kad with setting the proper searchkeywords when searching for exact phrases with quotes
.: Fixed a bug with rearranging quoted keywords on kad searches

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- Jun, 2. 2009 -
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.: Kad1 is no longer supported and we will no longer answer or request any packets from Kad1 nodes (the last eMule Kad1 version was release about 4 years ago)

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- Mar - May 2009 -
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.: eMule Summer of Non-Code