I was looking for a simple download manager that will let me to easily queue the download from multiple file hosting site such as Hotfile and Rapidshare. I found JDownloader, a one-click-host download manager written in Java. Unfortunately I don’t really like it especially the part where it uses too much of my precious CPU cycles and memory. As I was looking for the alternative, I stumbled upon MDownloader and it come with ‘Don't click - queue it’ tagline. Well.. another .NET application and the chance of it to use a lot of CPU and memory is high but I decided to give it a try.

Surprisingly, I found that MDownloader is quite good. The first version that I use was MDownloader 0.9. The interface is very simple and despite the moderate memory usage, MDownloader is quite tame when it came to CPU usage. You won’t notice MDownloader is running in the background.

To use MDownloader, copy the links that you want MDownloader to download, and hit ‘Quick Paste’ (1). It will take some time before the downloads popped up in MDownloader. Just as simple as that and MDownloader will automatically download from all the links. MDownloader has built in captchas recognition but sometimes the OCR (optical character recognition) engine fails to recognize the captchas and you need to manually enter them. If you are queuing a lot of files, make sure you check MDownloader every hour or two, or you ended stuck at the captchas without downloading anything!

MDownloader supports downloading from Bitroad.net, DepositFiles.com, EasyShare.com, FileFactory.com, Hotfile.com, Klurk.com (aggregate), Letitbit.net, Load.to, MegaUpload.com, Rapidshare.com, SendSpace.com, uGotFile.com, Uploading.com and zShare.net. So far, MDownloader 0.12 only supports downloading using premium account on MegaUpload.com only. Download resuming is available if the host supports it.

There are 3 built in tools in MDownloader:

- FilesTube Searcher: MDownloader will let you to perform search using FilesTube.com directly within MDownloader. FilesTube.com is a search engine designed to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites like rapidshare, megaupload and mediafire.

- Release Database: You can search for scene release directly within MDownloader from ORLYDB and SCENEDB.

- RSS Monitor

If you are looking for a simple one-click-host download manager, MDownloader is worth a shot. Like most other modern .NET applications, MDownloader requires your system to have the latest Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installed. MDownloader is free and open source, and available for Windows operating system.

My first post for 2010, Happy New Year!