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FrostWire 6.8.10, our last desktop release for 2020, Cheers to 2021.

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Bundle Free, 100% Free Installers
windows: frostwire-6.8.10.windows.github.exe

macos: frostwire-6.8.10.dmg

ubuntu/debian: frostwire-6.8.10.amd64.deb
redhat/rpm: frostwire-6.8.10.amd64.rpm

anything with a Java10+ runtime: frostwire-6.8.10.amd64.tar.gz

If you find this free software useful and you can contribute to keep it free, please make a donation, but best of all tell your loved ones about it, the more people on the network the better it works.

This is our last desktop release for 2020, and it’s a big one to get 2021 started.

It includes loads of libtorrent fixes and optimizations from libtorrent 1.2.11.0.

A fresh new build of the Telluride Cloud Video Downloader which includes all the fixes from youtube-dl all the way to Dec 29th 2020.

We’ve fixed some bugs that would cause errors downloading video from the cloud, more videos will be downloaded and archived from hundreds of video hosting websites.

New Transfer Detail Popup Menus

We added a couple of tiny UI features for Torrent Transfer Details.

Open the OS’s file explorer on a transfer’s file

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Copy IP,Addresses from Peers into clipboard

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frostwire (6.8.10) stable; urgency=high

  • Fixes file naming issues that would cause errors in cloud video downloads
  • jlibtorrent-1.2.11.0 update
  • jaudiotagger 2.2.5 to 2.2.6 update
  • Telluride Cloud Video Downloader build 8
  • lt: upgraded to openssl 1.1.1l
  • Fixes issue with Telluride results and emojis in filenames
  • Fixes bug where transfer file detail actions would go blank when left clicked. (74291c0)
  • New File Transfer details popup menus: FIles > Explore, Play
  • lt: fix issue with moving the session object
  • lt: deprecate torrent_status::allocating. This state is no longer used
  • lt: fix bug creating torrents with symbolic links
  • lt: remove special case to save metadata in resume data unconditionally when added throught magnet link
  • lt: fix bugs in mutable-torrent support (reusing identical files from different torrents)
  • lt: fix incorrectly inlined move-assignment of file_storage
  • lt: add session::paused flag, and the ability to construct a session in paused mode
  • lt: fix session-pause causing tracker announces to fail
  • lt: fix peer-exchange flags bug
  • lt: allow saving resume data before metadata has been downloaded (for magnet links)
  • lt: record blocks in the disk queue as downloaded in the resume data
  • lt: fix bug in set_piece_deadline() when set in a zero-priority piece
  • lt: fix issue in URL parser, causing issues with certain tracker URLs
  • lt: use a different error code than host-unreachable, when skipping tracker announces

— FrostWire Team contact@frostwire.com Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:10:00 -0600

New FrostWire for Android (2.1.10) fixes Music Playback on older Android Lollypop (5.x)

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Sorry for the inconvenience to Lollypop users, not sure how music playback was broken, a last minute bug must have slipped in our last release. In any case, here’s a new installer that resolves music playback issues for all Lollypop releases.


frostwire-android-release-2.1.10-b638-plus.apk 19.4 MB

How to fix ‘App not installed’ error while downloading FrostWire Plus from outside Google Play?

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On this post you will learn how to fix “app not installed” error while downloading FrostWire Plus from outside Google Play. FrostWire Basic and FrostWire Plus are based on the same code, but FrostWire Plus has the ability to download from YouTube and SoundCloud in addition to the BitTorrent Network.

  1. Backup your FrostWire downloads saved within the SD card to make sure you won’t lose any of your files when uninstalling the app. (Check here how to backup your files downloaded)
  2. Open your Settings > Application Manager > All and select FrostWire, then click the button “Force stop” and “Uninstall” the app.
  3. Open your internet browser – Firefox or any browser other than Chrome – on your device and go to http://www.frostwire.com/downloads
  4. Select the Android icon on the website and then click on the button “Get the APK”
  5. Open your file manager (like File Commander) and go to the folder “Downloads”
  6. Select the .apk file downloaded from frostwire.com/downloads (it should be frostwire-android-release-[versionNumber]-b[buildNumber]-plus.apk) and open it with the app “Package Installer”
  7. Follow the instructions to install the app and let us know if you still get the message “Application not installed” at the end.

 

Get FrostWire Plus 1.9.9 for Android!

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Download NOW!

It’s time to update! A new version of FrostWire Plus is available for #Android users. If you want to get more search results using FrostWire, you have to download this new version. We fixed EZTV, Torlock, and Zooqle. Moreover, we fixed some bugs related to the filtering tools. Also, the music player now has all horizontal layouts available.

Changelog

FrostWire 1.9.9 – AUG/14/2017
– Creative Commons Features removed for Google Play users, available on FrostWire Plus
– Search: EZTV, Torlock, Zooqle fixed
– Search: BTJunkie removed
– Download: Yify magnets can now be found in DHT
– New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.12-RC1
– Filtering bug fixes
– Audio Player ‘Clear Queue’ fix
– Crash fixes, performance upgrades
– ogury 2.1.13
– compileSDK 26, gms 11.0.4, gradle 4.0.2, android support 26.0.1
– Update in VPN offering
– Fixes freeze copying magnets to clipboard
– Less ads
– Music player has all horizontal layouts
– Warn user about Internet Connection dropped

What is FrostWire?

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 support for the BitTorrent protocol and a full blown media player.

Get FrostWire Plus for Android (1.7.4)! New ‘Seed’ Action Available!!!

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Download FrostWire Plus 1.7.4. for Android now!

We are SO HAPPY to announce this new FrostWire Plus for Android release. This version has a lot of new improvements and options that you’re going to love. First of all, we added a new ‘Seed’ action on ‘My Files’. Now you can create and seed a torrent of any file with a single touch. What can you do with this option? If you have a file that you want to share with your friends, you only click on Seed and then copy the magnet link and send it to your friends. It’s a really good way, for example, to share big files.

Seed

We also added a new handpicked file selection on .torrent downloads. So now you can download specific files from a torrent!

We also fixed issues saving to SD Card on multiple devices and a few bugs.

In order to give you more search results, we added a new search engine: TorrentDownloads.me. We also fixed YouTube video, Torlock and EZTV search results.

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Please check the changelog of this version in order to have more information.

FrostWire 1.7.4 – MAY/29/2016
– Issues saving to SD card on multiple devices fixed.
– New ‘Seed’ action available on ‘My files’. Create and seed
a torrent of a file or many in one touch.
– New handpicked file selection on .torrent downloads.
– Search improvements and refactors.
– New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.31
– Re-engineering and simplification of transfers architecture.
– Fixes bug where a playlist could not be created out of the
‘More by artist’ song list.
– New horizontal swipe gesture based tab switching for transfers, my files.
– Improved overscrolling and refreshing interaction on list views.
– Updated inmobi library to 5.3.0.
– No more repeated YouTube video search results. Results are now grouped, when
touched the user can select the video format/quality to download.
– Dialogs make over. All dialogs have uniform look and re-appear on device rotation.
– Fixes issue with playlist song drag-n-drop reordering. Thanks @grzesiekrzaca!
– Improved shutdown.
– Fixes Torlock search.
– EZTV no longer returns irrelevant results.
– New Search Engine: TorrentDownloads.me

If you have any question, leave a comment!

FrostWire 1.4.9 for Android

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Download FrostWire 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 6.0.4 available

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Download FrostWire 6.0.4 now, free

frostwire (6.0.4) stable; urgency=high
* When transfers are finished they no longer show as 'Paused',
they show as 'Finished'.
* Fixes issues with incomplete files.
* Fixes issues importing too many songs to iTunes playlist.
* Fixes issue on which adding a whole torrent after starting a partial
download would not merge the two and continue to download the rest
of the torrent.

— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Fri, 16 January 2015 14:31:06 -0500

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

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Get FrostWire for Android Now

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.

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Please keep those reviews coming.

Here are some screenshots of the new music player we’ve included:
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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.

New FrostWire Music Player

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.

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Merry Xmas everybody!
Team FrostWire