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Introducing FrostWire Plus for Android
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A New FrostWire for Android is ready for download (v1.6.2)
Important fixes on this new release of FrostWire for Android.We’ve updated the YouTube search to address issues that arose this morning, and fixed multiple crashes related to the audio player.
Full Changelog
- Multiple crash fixes on audio player. - Updated jlibtorrent library to version 1.1.0.5. - Improvement of file type selector look, better layouts for tablets. - FrostWire Plus YouTube search fixed.
What is FrostWire?
FrostWire, a BitTorrent Client & YouTube Downloader that makes it easier to search, download, play and share content from the BitTorrent network & cloud sources, all in one place, announced today its new ‘preview’ and ‘play as you download’ capabilities for Android phones and tablets. The new preview feature not just enables users with a more convenient way to find and discover content, it makes downloading optional in some cases.
New FrostWire for Android now with “Play before download” (Streaming Preview – v.1.6.0)
A huge new update for Android is here.
We’ve finally done what you’ve been always asking for, “Play before download” (FrostWire Plus only) and “Play while you download” (available on basic too)
Play before download, a.k.a. “Preview”
Starting on FrostWire Plus 1.6.0 for Android (the one available only on our website, also 100% free), YouTube and SoundCloud search results can be streamed for preview, this way you can know ahead of time if this is the file you need for offline access, or if you just want to play it, you can do so.
Play while you download
But what about .torrent downloads? Given the distributed nature of the file pieces on the Bittorrent network, TODAY it’s harder to give you the same experience we can give you when streaming from a cloud source, we could do preview, but you’d be frustrated how long you’d have to wait in most cases.
Therefore, you can start any media Bittorrent download, and while you’re on the transfer screen you can wait for a Play button to appear. Once this button appears you can start playing the file before it finishes the download.
But I have FrostWire Basic only! I want previews too
Then just get FrostWire Plus on our website right now! it’s absolutely free.
Changelog:
FrostWire 1.6.0 - AUGUST/03/2015 - Streaming Previews on search results before download. (FrostWire Plus only) - Play .torrent media files while downloading. - Upgrade bittorrent engine to jlibtorrent 1.0 - Updated SoundCloud search & download api. - Improved search suggestions. - Improved transition between My Music and Home screens. - Multiple crash fixes in music player.
New FrostWire 1.5.3 build 186 for Android fixes crashes, lollipop issues and makes Bitsnoop search faster
Download FrostWire Plus (with YouTube Search)
Download FrostWire Basic from Google Play
Changelog:
FrostWire 1.5.3 – APRIL/23/2015
– Crash fixes.
– Reduced installer size to 7.6 MB.
– Lollipop compatibility fixes.
– Bitsnoop search faster for individual files.
– Binary Optimizations.
– libtorrent updates.
– Spanish, Portuguese, Polish translation updates.
FrostWire is a file sharing and media player application, it features high performance BitTorrent client, YouTube downloader, Soundcloud downloader, Archive.org downloader, Bittorrent search (searches torrents and individual files in torrents) as well as a full featured music player and file browser. Search, Download and Play in one place. Absolutely free.
FrostWire now back on Google Play. Not Banned Anymore!
Yesterday FrostWire was temporarily removed from the Google Play Store and is now back up after a new stripped down version without YouTube got approved by the Google compliance team.
FrostWire.com and other App Stores will still distribute the full featured version, now dubbed FrostWire Plus.
With recent stability fixes FrostWire for Android has climbed all the way up to #30th on the Google Play’s Top Free Android Apps and was holding strong for weeks! Yesterday, April 2nd 2015, after an app review (probably prompted by the spike in user interest and app ratings), Google decided to remove it from the Google Play store.
We’ve received this email:
We were informed that FrostWire for Android distributed via Google Play can no longer have YouTube as one of its search result and download sources, as this functionality is not compliant with the YouTube Terms of Service and therefore the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement. We decided to remove this capability in order to adhere to Google Rules and continue to distribute and market our application on the Google Play Store.
Today, after submitting the stripped down FrostWire app, it passed the compliance review and it is back on the Google Play store. It took a little more than a day but we are happy to be back!
What does it all mean in practice?
Users downloading FrostWire from the Google Play store will receive the basic app version without YouTube as one of the search sources. All other features will not be affected. Depending on what keywords a user enters, he or she might get slightly less search results and therefore options for files to download.
We are already working on including more search sources, both BitTorrent and cloud based to offset the loss of YouTube content and will be still offering the full version – now named FrostWire Plus, on our homepage and in other App Stores.
Stay tuned for more updates shortly!
FrostWire 1.4.9 for Android
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CHANGELOG
FrostWire 1.4.9 – MARCH/03/2015
– New KAT search.
– Fixed BTJunkie search issues causing ANR crashes.
– Fixed Mininova search. Few results coming in due to low seed numbers.
– Removed Appia Search.
– Clean up: Removed Appia, RevMob, Google In-App purchasing libraries.
– Updated Croatian translation. Thanks @win32re.
– Refactors, cleanup, misc fixes.
Photo: Devyn Rose wearing the FrostWire Tee.
New FrostWire 1.4.4 build 169 for Android available today
Get FrostWire for Android Now
Get FrostWire for Kindle Now
Get specific binaries for your CPU architecture on Github
(arm, arm64, x86, x86_64 mips, mips64 .apks available)
Lots of fixes for performance, stability and better user experience await on this new update. If you were having issues with YouTube search this release fixes these issues and others.
Here is the full changelog for FrostWire 1.4.4 build 168 for Android.
FrostWire 1.4.4 - JANUARY/29/2015 - Finished transfers no longer should show as paused. - Fixes issue adding a whole torrent after having added a single file belonging to that same torrent to transfers. Now the whole torrent will be downloaded as expected. - Fixes Out of memory errors on MobileCore library. - Fixes possible crash when exiting the app right after launching it. - If storage location has ran out of space available FrostWire will show a descriptive error message explaining why the download has failed. - Removes free apps ads from home page and sticky ads on transfer screens. - Fixes issue where toast about shared file would not go away. - Fixes settings screen issue where some android devices would automatically toggle the BitTorrent connection. - Fixes issues with YouTube search. - Urdu translation started.
FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including BitTorrent support. In version 5, Gnutella support was dropped entirely, and FrostWire is only a BitTorrent client. Development of the program has been active since the program was first released in September 2004.
New FrostWire for Android, now with full featured Music Player
After 4 years of fun and hard work we finally have a version of FrostWire for Android that starts to get close to our vision.
On this release we’ve finally put together a very stable BitTorrent and Cloud Downloader along with a FULL FEATURED music player for your phone/tablet.
What you see below is a graph that shows the number of reported crashes for the past 6 months, look at how it drops dramatically these last couple of weeks after the 1.4.x releases start to come out.
Please keep those reviews coming.
Here are some screenshots of the new music player we’ve included:
New “My Music” section on the main navigation menu.
Now you will be able to browse your music by Album, Artist, Songs, Genre and you will be able to organize your music in Android music Playlists, which should be available on other music player apps, so if you already had some playlists on your android you’ll be able to play them and manage them with FrostWire.
Here’s a full list of the changes on FrostWire 1.4:
FrostWire 1.4.2 - DECEMBER/22/2014
- New: Music Player (forked out of Apollo Player).
- New: Playlist support.
- New: Browse music by Recent, Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres.
- New: Change cover art on Playlists, Songs.
- New: Shuffle All music.
- Torrent/Magnet caching improvements reduce the number of DHT
requests when searching, which makes search result parsing faster
in most cases.
- When sharing files from 3rd party apps with FrostWire, the file
shared will be displayed by FrostWire as available via Wi-Fi sharing.
If the file is a .torrent the torrent transfer will start.
- Not using wifi multicast lock for energy savings.
- 'Preferences' renamed to 'Settings'
- About activity moved out of navigation menu and into Settings screen.
- Audio files can now be set as ringtones from My Files > Audio.
- Settings screen rearrangement.
FrostWire 1.4.1 - DECEMBER/02/2014
- Updated jlibtorrent binaries.
- Resilience to file disk permission errors causing the app to
not start in some environments.
- Improved disk I/O when persisting states of torrent transfers.
- Refactors, Cleanups and other misc. bug fixes.
- Improved user experience on transfer list actions.
- Preferences screen won't automatically kick user to search screen
when BitTorrent connectivity changes.
FrostWire 1.4.0 - NOVEMBER/08/2014
- Replaced Vuze Bittorrent engine for frostwire-jlibtorrent,
a java wrapper to the native libtorrent BitTorrent library.
- Peak memory usage dropped 50% when searching.
- Peak memory usage dropped 16% when downloading torrents.
- Number of threads dropped 41% when searching.
- Number of threads dropped 60% when downloading torrents.
- Peak CPU usage dropped 66% when searching.
- Peak CPU usage dropped 44% when downloading torrents.
- Got rid of over 2,000 classes.
- New Shutdown feature, stops all services and activities,
FrostWire process ends gracefully.
- Upgraded Picasso library to 2.4.0.
- More responsive and stable torrent state handling experience.
- Torrent downloads start faster.
- Torrent downloads connect to more peers.
- Updated German translation.
- Updated Croatian translation.
- Updated Polish translation.
- Updated Spanish translation.
- Updated Russian translation.
- Gets rid of Transcommu.
- Project is now built using gradle script.
- Updated Preferences screen BitTorrent connection status button.
- Fixes severe startup crash on Samsung Galaxy Mini devices.
- Multiple bug fixes and crashes.
Merry Xmas everybody!
Team FrostWire
FrostWire for Android 1.4.1 (build 154) out
New FrostWire for Android 1.3.4 (build 145) released
Download FrostWire for Android 1.3.4 build 145 .apk
Install FrostWire for Android 1.3.4 via Google Play
This new FrostWire release enables newer KitKat devices to make use of the SD Card.
Lots of important updates, better handling of large uploads, more updates on the music player, updated translations for Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese; crashes and freezes fixed.
Changelog FrostWire 1.3.4 – JULY/20/2014
– Large torrent downloads start a lot faster. Prevents possible
freezing (ANR) on some devices.
– Restored SD Card writing capabilities under new Android rules.
WARNING: All files stored to the application’s SD Card folder
will be lost in the event of uninstalling. This is a problem
for every application on Android, not by our design.
Make sure to backup or sync files saved to the SD Card.
– Doesn’t prefer external storage as the app install path.
– Opens Music Player window when playing a song from My Music.
– Moved vuze settings files to primary external private folder.
– Updated Preferences screen, setting groups now in separate sub-screens.
– Cleans up empty .torrent placeholder files when single torrent file download complete.
– Translation updates for Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese.
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