The guys from A Linux World put together this Ubuntu demo, check it out:
Category: General
FrostWire 4.13.5 has been awarded the 100% CLEAN award by Softpedia.com
Toda we have received the honor of being a 100% CLEAN certified Mac software by the people of Softpedia.
Mac and Linux users are the first to try 4.13.5 while we get ready for a massive update.
Soon a press release with the new features and changelog.
Support FrostWire by Linking to it, About 4.13.5
This is to all bloggers that use FrostWire.
We need your support to keep growing the network.
If you have some space left on your side bar, or on some pages of your blog, or myspace page, or whatever page you have, please link to us.
Here’s a code snippet you can use:
More snippets and banners here
About next release
With the adition of a new coder to the team, FTA, version 4.13.5 is well on its way.
- Added Smiley support to the Chatroom. Developer note: irc.jar is now part of our build process.
- Fixed wording on spanish translation.
- Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
- Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
- Fixed typo in Polish. Thanks Radek.
- Fixed i18n bug, where non english operating system could never keep english as the preferred language, it would always default to the OS language after restarting FW. Thanks to FTA our new dev team member.
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.
FrostWire’s “Buy” button more effective each day
A couple of week’s ago the music industry was a different place. If you did a search on FrostWire for “Metallica”, and you clicked on the “Buy” button, you’d only find versions by other bands of Metallica’s songs available for purchase.
If you try it now, you can legally purchase the entire rooster of Metallica’s songs via the FrostWire’s Buy button after you do a search for Metallica. Songs cost between $0.89 and $0.99 and they come in high quality MP3 format, no DRM!!!!
This is because finally the big record labels decided to drop DRM (you can now play the music you buy on any device, it’s not protected against copying/playing in anyway) and put their music for sale on the AmazonMp3 music store, which is the system FrostWire uses to help artists sell their music and you the user to find the best quality music 100% legally.
Finally the Music Industry started opening their eyes.
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 startup error fix – (frostwire_theme.skin null pointer error fix)
Update: A new FrostWire 4.13.4 installer for windows is now available to help fix this problem, you can just download it again and the problem will be gone. If you don’t want to download it again follow these instructions for a simple fix.
If your new frostwire is crashing, due to :
"Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: resource: frostwire_theme.skin doesn't exist."
Just Download and save this file:
http://www.frostwire.com/beta/skins/frostwire_theme.skin
For Windows XP, save it at:
C:\\Documents and Settings\\<name>\\Application Data\\FrostWire\\Themes\\
For Windows Vista, save it at:
C:\\Users\\<name>\\AppData\\Roaming\\FrostWire\\themes\\
(where “<name>” is your user name in windows)
This should solve the problem.
This problem affects only users who never had FrostWire installed on their machine, or users that may have removed their FrostWire Preferences folder.
Thanks to CodeMoose for posting this fix.
Sneak peak at 4.13.4 (Mac/Linux)
Curious Mac and Linux users get to take 4.13.4 for a spin before everyone else.
Might be uploading the Linux installers during the next hours.
Mac OSX DMG (No more zips for Mac users)
MD5 -> 6690b1d08109059a508961fb057c9176
Ubuntu/Debian package
MD5 -> 276c319df17869a18f3e11fb3ecddc55
TGZ
MD5 -> e8bfaa395bcd8ab188166cc142c4dd83
RPM
MD5 -> fdd7ef316e05fb1c63f0914b5259dc76
Take it for a ride. Windows version coming soon, We expect to have it ready for tomorrow
CHANGELOG – Mowi po polsku ?
version 4.13.4 (November-December 2007)
Don’t get scammed, FrostWire is Free
FrostWire only accepts voluntary donations via Paypal at http://www.frostwire.com/donate, we do not charge people for any subscription fees of any kind, or for support, don’t let anybody scam you.
PLEASE DO NOT EVER PAY A DIME FOR FrostWire. Below we show you some screenshots of sites that scam people into paying monthly, yearly, or lifetime “memberships” to nowhere. FROSTWIRE IS FREE
There isn’t any service to pay for, you’re basically sharing your files with other people, that’s all, there is no service behind organizing the content in anyway, you just search other people’s computers, therefore, you don’t need to pay anybody for memberships.
DO NOT FALL FOR SITES LIKE THIS, YOU CAN USE FROSTWIRE FOR FREE ALL YOU WANT
These sites even put video demos, with a model showing you how to search, download and burn.
They even go and distribute OUR own FrostWire and put links to our servers and then charge people monthly fees.
Please do not download FrostWire from other websites, only download FrostWire from the official site http://www.frostwire.com
There’s no such thing as subscriptions or monthly fees, or one lifetime fee, etc. Since we don’t provide a download service, FrostWire is just a client of the Gnutella Network which is a FREE network.
FrostWire.com doesn’t sell FrostWire, however it accepts voluntary donations from its users.
If you are a victim already, look for an invoice, you will see it doesn’t come from FrostWire.com. First try to contact the company that charged you (not frostwire.com) and ask THEM (not us) for a refund, if you don’t succeed, then talk to your credit card company to open an investigation
DOWNLOAD ONLY FROM FROSTWIRE.COM
What to do to get my money back?
- Talk to the company that charged you, ask them for a full refund. The ONLY official distributors of FrostWire are http://www.frostwire.com and http://www.download.com
- If a company other than FrostWire LLC charged you and they refuse to give you a refund, go to your credit card company or bank and demand an investigation for credit card fraud is started so you can get your refund
Hopefully if we get enough investigations against these fraudulent companies they won’t be accepted to charge credit cards again.
So far we know that companies doing this are the following, and we are NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ANY OF THEM in any way:
- http://freefrostwiredownload.com <- FRAUD of the worst kind!!!
- MP3 Music HQ.Com
- Number One Music Inc with their site Free-FrostWire.com
- click-new-download.com (which shows a cheap copy of the LimeWire.com website to appear legitimate)
DO NOT FALL FOR THESE FRAUD SITES PLEASE. IF ITS TOO LATE ASK FOR A REFUND OR GO TO YOUR BANK OR CREDIT CARD COMPANY.
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.
Official FrostWire Blog 