FrostWire #7 – Week ending March 09 – 253,102 downloads in one week
We keep getting more and more downloads each week.
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Category: Geek Life
Ubuntu FrostWire Demo by alinuxworld.com
The guys from A Linux World put together this Ubuntu demo, check it out:
FrostWire featured on LifeHacker
We’ve just found out we were featured on LifeHacker.com, one of our favorite blogs.
Cheers, and thanks to Adam Pash for writing about us.
Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM
We are starting the year with one of the best news for the FrostWire Community. At the end of 2007, Warner Music Group announced that they’d be selling DRM-free songs, we didn’t know that Sony BMG would act so fast upon this, we’re glad this happened.
According to BusinessWeek:
Sony BMG would become the last of the top four music labels to drop DRM, following Warner Music Group (WMG), which in late December said it would sell DRM-free songs through Amazon.com’s (AMZN) digital music store. EMI and Vivendi’s Universal Music Group announced their plans for DRM-free downloads earlier in 2007.
Why is this great news for the FrostWire community?
The acceptance of DRM as a failure by the big 4 helps legitimize FrostWire, since FrostWire features a “Buy” button which enables all FrostWire users to purchase DRM-Free music from the Amazon.com’s digital music store. The effectiveness of the buy button to find legal downloads on amazon depends on the availability of music, now that the major labels are offering their content in a DRM-free fashion you will be able to find pretty much any main-stream song with FrostWire’s “Buy” button.
Best of all, songs are priced under $1, and as we said DRM-Free, which means you can play the song you bought anywhere. I wonder what Steve Jobs must be thinking now.
FrostWire on Mashable and #4 most popular download of the year on Download.com
Cheers to the Mashable.com team for writing this note about us.
Also FrostWire makes it as the #4 of the Top Downloads of the year at CNET, LimeWire made it as #1
FrostWire is reviewed by CNET
On November 20th 2007, FrostWire gets a very positive review by CNET’s download.com, and makes it to the home page of download.com as the Killer Download of the Day
Their review makes us very happy, at the same time, it pushes us to include new killer features that LimeWire may not be able to have in the near future, however if you follow LimeWire’s code base, it seems they’re working hard to release a web based Music Store that will be included on an embedded browser inside their client, probably in the fashion of the online iTunes store, but probably powered by P2P (we hope, if they stick to their p2p philosophy and hopefully without DRM so that files can be shared or bought, at least this worked beautifully for Radiohead).
It’d probably be a smart move by the LimeWire store to include the possibility to buy their music from outside their site (with commissions on sales of course), that way, other music sites could trigger purchases based on search, as well as other p2p clients such as FrostWire.
How to solve the libapr_tsvn.dll crash (Crash on Startup)
It seems there is some kind of conflict between the Java Virtual Machine and Tortoise SVN, this is the reason why FrostWire may be crashing on you lately.
We’ve found a solution by overriding some of the launch parameters. All you have to do is create a new file called launch.properties right next to your FrostWire.exe (Usually at c:\Program Files\FrostWire)
The file should contain the following, and the application will launch, and you won’t have to remove Tortoise SVN
-Xms32m
-Xminf0.10
-Xmaxf0.25
-Xmx128m
-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.NoOpLog
-Djava.net.preferIPv6Addresses=false
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-ea
-jar
FrostWire.jar
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FrostWire (Fw) listed on the Periodic Table
On the Periodic Table of the internet that is. Great honor for FrostWire.com
FrostWire included in PCLinuxOS
It seems FrostWire has been included in the latest release of PCLinuxOS.
FrostWire T-Shirt Prototype, “You Like?!?!?”
We’ve been asking for a while to the community about FrostWire T-shirts and FrostWire Merchandise.
What do you guys think about this design?
Would you support FrostWire by getting one of these?
Your feedback is important, if enough people are willing to get them, we can make more for less money and you can also help us by wearing them on the street and making all your friends jealous so they have to get one too 🙂
It’s too early to let you know about pricing, we need to hear your thoughts on them first.
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