Technical document on how we are working to allow Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin tips/micro-tips for BitTorrent content

Motivation

Mainstream centralized digital distribution platforms offer content creators means of monetization and discovery for their works, however these centralized systems often impose censorship and are ridden with middlemen which inevitably add up costs that have made itimpossible for a digital media micro-tipping economy to be born.

With the combination of peer-to-peer file distribution through the BitTorrent network and peer-to-peer cryptocurrency networks such as Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin, our community can help bootstrap the largest micro-tipping economy of the Internet by enabling over a quarter of a billion BitTorrent users world wide to support content creators with tips of any amount, no middlemen involved, no chargebacks and no fees so content creators get 100% of the revenue collected, instantly.

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People friendly press release coming out later today.

FrostWire 5.7.0 is out for Windows, Mac and Linux now at FrostWire.com

Download FrostWire 5.7.0 for Windows (torrent)

Download FrostWire 5.7.0 for Mac (torrent)

Download FrostWire 5.7.0 for Ubuntu (torrent)

Download FrostWire 5.7.0 for Red Hat/Cent OS/RPM

Download FrostWire 5.7.0 for any other Linux Distro

Salsa Sara hoops in Wynwood, Miami for the FrostWire Team
Salsa Sara hoops in Wynwood, Miami for the FrostWire Team

What’s new?

  • Updated BitTorrent Engine to the latest code from the Azureus project along with FrostWire’s Team’s tunning and hacks for energy efficiency (as we reuse this same on code on Android)
  • Updated Java Runtime to fix compatibility launch issues Windows XP users were experiencing.
  • IRC Chat replaced for an HTML5 Chat App (Kiwi IRC), bye bye pjirc client.
  • New Torrents.com search engine integration.
  • Several UI bugs, freezes and crashes fixed.

Stay tuned for our Android release…

New FrostWire 5.6.9 for Windows, Mac and Linux out

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Download FrostWire for Ubuntu/Debian/Mint

In this release we’ve made considerable upgrades to make search more reliable, even in the event of a search engine not being available due to high load, errors, or even blockage by network administrators.

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We’ve done away with jDownloader libraries (thank you guys, we learned a lot from you, great project), and found more ways to optimize memory usage, hopefully you will feel the difference when searching and using the application overall as we strive to use less resources with every release.

Here’s the full changelog

frostwire (5.6.9) stable; urgency=high
* Insanely faster cloud search results.
* Significant memory optimizations on search result parsing and display.
* Removed jDownloader libraries, less complexity, lighter app.
* Cloud audio downloads are much smaller, no audio demuxing necessary from
video services.
* Cloud video DASH download support.
* Smarter playlist name suggestion algorithm takes into account ID3 tags.
* Fixes bug where new playlists wouldn’t be saved if default name was used.
— FrostWire Team Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:49:38 -0500

FrostWire 5.6.8 out for Windows and Linux (Mac coming soon)

Download FrostWire 5.6.8 for Windows (.exe)
Download FrostWire 5.6.8 for Ubuntu/Debian/Mint (.deb)
Download FrostWire 5.6.8 for Red Had/Fedora/CentOS (.rpm)
Download FrostWire 5.6.8 for other Linux Distributions (.tar.gz)

This release fixes issues related to YouTube search and greatly improves the translation to spanish, thanks to our new contributor from Chile @dennistobar.

To our Mac users: You can try running from source until we figure out the digital signature issues brought forth by Maverick. We’re hoping to have a 5.6.8 very soon for you.
Update Download FrostWire 5.6.8 for Mac (.dmg)

To UK Users: a final fix is coming to bring back all the search results, we’re working as fast and hard as we can.

FrostWire for Android 1.2.0 out with a new flat user interface

Welcome to a new series of FrostWire for Android.

The first thing you will notice is our switch to flat-land design while still keeping our flavor.
A flat user interface means not using any gradients, this makes screen painting faster and more energy efficient, as well as less memory intensive.


New Search
Search now reveals a lot of search results you may have been missing.

FrostWire is a file type agnostic search tool for your mobile, on this release you will be able to see in real time the number of search results you get per file type (Audio, Video, Documents, Programs and Torrents)

We’ve also made a lot of upgrades under the hood that will make search feel faster and better than ever.
A few new search engines have been added to FrostWire’s smart meta search, and more are coming on further releases of the 1.2.x series.


Our first attempt at a navigation menu was ridden with bugs that have been solved with a completely new menu that comes on top from the left side.


Renewed Audio Player

The audio player screen got some love too, notice the new flat buttons, flat progress bar, and new long press gesture on the pause button to completely stop the current song being played.

On the top right there’s a menu with more options, including an option to delete the current track if you don’t like it, something you’d never be able to do with a iOS devices and iTunes.

Also, you can switch songs by swiping your finger to the left or right, and if you want to pause a song you can swipe down with 2 fingers.

Full Changelog
FrostWire 1.2.0 – NOV/01/2013
– New Flat Skin makes screens rendering faster.
– New, more stable, slide in navigation menu.
– Considerable memory usage optimizations.
– Fixed skip-song gesture on top of player seek bar.
– New icons.
– After opening one of My Files, FrostWire will now remember the position of the list of files, no more scrolling down to continue browsing your own files.
– Current song being played now is displayed at the bottom of the navigation menu.
– Current song being played now shows “Stop” icon when browsing your own audio files.
– Updated turkish translation, thanks @Serrae.
– New BitSnoop metasearch.
– New TorLock metasearch.
– Removed ISOHunt metasearch.
– Fixed Monova metasearch.
– French translation updated.

New FrostWire for Desktop 5.6.6 out now

Highly recommended update, with important fixes on meta search.

Download FrostWire Now

Changelog
frostwire (5.6.6) stable; urgency=high
* Fixes ExtraTorrent meta search.
* Polish translation 100% updated.
* New support for anonymous user experience statistics.
— FrostWire Team Fri, Oct 11 2013 15:38:32 -0500

#FrostWire on #OUYA #screenshot

We wanted to announce that we’re about to submit our latest version of FrostWire for Android to the OUYA developer portal!

If you are a OUYA console owner, this will be very different from a game, there’s still a lot to improve in terms of the feel and the controller and we’re probably going to be one of the few apps you’ve tried where you’ll notice that your OUYA controller has a touchpad.

Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hopefully we’ll be accepted this very week and sharing files from your living room between your OUYA, your android phone/tablet and your PC via FrostWire.

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The OUYA (/ˈuːjə/ oo-yə) is a microconsole running its own version of the Android operating system, developed by Boxer8. Julie Uhrman founded the project in 2012. She brought in designer Yves Béhar to collaborate on the design of the project, and Muffi Ghadiali as product manager to put together the engineering team. Development was funded via Kickstarter, raising $8.5 million and becoming the website’s second-highest-earning project in its history.

Zwodnik.com awards us as “The Best Free (Linux) Software”

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“Hi there,

I am happy to inform you that your software “FrostWire” has been added to the Zwodnik.com and awarded as “The Best Free Software”.
Regards,
Staszek Gaska”

New FrostWire 5.6.5 out

Free Download

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We’ve fixed a real nasty bug that will affect many of you who like to select multiple files from the same set of search results when those files happen to belong to the same torrent.

We’ve also updated our SoundCloud meta search and integrated fully to the new SoundCloud.com’s search interface.
If you are a musician and you have a SoundCloud account, remember that if you mark your songs as “Downloadable” they will become available to the millions of FrostWire users worldwide, both on desktop and mobile.

Here’s the full changelog for 5.6.5, we highly recommend you upgrade to 5.6.5, as always FrostWire gets better with each release.

Changelog

frostwire (5.6.5) stable; urgency=high
* Upgrades Soundcloud search, download, streaming.
* Fixes issue when starting downloads made of multiple single files
that belong to the same .torrent.
* When opening finished transfers on the library with a double click
FrostWire will no longer type the name of the file on the library
search box.
— FrostWire Team Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:53:53 -0500