FrostWire Desktop 6.1.6 build 166 – Release Candidate 1

The Release Candidate for FrostWire 6.1.6 (Desktop) is now available for download.

Try FrostWire 6.1.6 before it comes out to the main public.

You can download the Windows installer, the Mac installer, or the source code.

Remember that a Release Candidate means that is almost done, but we want to test it a lot first. So if you want to help us, you can test it today!

Frostwire 6.1.6

Think you’ve found a bug? Please report it!

Changelog

frostwire (6.1.6) stable; urgency=high
  * Fixes drag and drop freezes introduced by new Java Runtime Environment 1.8.0_60.
  * Fixes SoundCloud search.
  * Fixes TPB search.
  * Fixes BTJunkie search.
  * Fixes TorLock search.
  * Updates to Spanish and Romanian translations.
  * Chat button on header moved to Tools menu. More space for search bar.

 -- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com>  Nov, 04 Sep 2015 15:40:00 -0500

Music of the Week #2

On FrostClick we publish reviews of new music bands that share their music for free. Since 2007 FrostWire brings you the best free music that you need to listen to. And now, each week we promote here on FrostWire Blog the new music reviews that are on FrostClick.

  1. David Amber: David Amber and Friends, Vol. 1
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    Featuring five electro-pop pieces, David Amber and Friends, Vol. 1 opens with I LuV IT (Feat. Ashley Jana). Here, Amber mixes texturized sound layers with a highly-addictive tempo that gives the right amount of rhythm to make you pop.
  2. Kohaku Rivver: Faithful and Virtuous Night [LP]
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    Gear up for this fall with some lovely, experimental pieces from Kohaku Rivver. In Faithful and Virtuous Night, the Ohio-based artist lets us free our mind and sink deep into our cores by mixing poems and music.

If you have a band and you want us to review and share your music, please contact us!

Great Things To Do on Halloween using FrostWire!

Halloween is here! And you can use FrostWire to do great things on this date. We made a list of things that you can do on Halloween using FrostWire!

  1. You can downlaod free public domain horror movies!

    1. Night of the Living Dead, by George A. Romero!
      (Copy this link and paste it on FrostWire: https://archive.org/details/Night.Of.The.Living.Dead_1080p)
      livingdead_600x200This is the base for the modern zombie film
    2. Nosferatu, by F. W. Murnau. 
      (Copy this link and paste it on FrostWire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcyzubFvBsA)
      Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter’s wife. Silent classic based on the story “Dracula.”
    3. Le diable au couvent, by George MeliesLe diable au couvent
      Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair
    4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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      Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
  2. You can read Edgar Allan Poe’s tales!

    Search on FrostWire and you will find a lot of public domain books of Poe’s stories.

  3. You can play horror music at home!

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  4. Listen to Clare Costello: Halloween EP

    (Download it on Frostclick)
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    Ambient blues rock has a leg up with other genres when it comes to writing reflective lyricism that punches the heart. This intent to hone clear stories into a relaxing yet entertaining fashion is clearly shown in Clare Costello‘s Halloween EP.
    Title track Halloween concludes the EP with dark, ambient strings and vocals. Clare Costello establishes her own brand of sound that consists of charming, realized arrangement and powerful vocals.

New FrostWire Plus (1.6.5) for Android released

Download FrostWire Plus 1.6.5 for Android now

This release makes FrostWire for Android compatible with the new Android 6 Marshmallow release. Now when FrostWire starts up for the first time, Android 6 users will be explicitely asked to let FrostWire have disk access to media files.
This is only asked once and this annoyance is there thanks to your friends at Google.
As a result FrostWire will no longer crash on startup on Android 6 devices.

Integration with search engines such as SoundCloud, TPB, BTJunkie, Torlock and TPB has been fixed.

A very annoying usability bug on which searches would appear never end has finally been fixed, we had users waiting for searches to end for over 12 hours!!! when all they had to do was click on other search result tabs to notice that the search had ended, but this was completely our fault.

Multiple rare crash fixes on the music player will continue to make the app more stable as we continue reach new lower records on daily crash reports.

Fixes a bug where FrostWire wouldn’t know how to open finished .apk files from the “Transfers” screen.

New .APK search result icon

Apk search results icon is now an Android head, many users would think the former gear icon represented “settings”, our bad. Thanks for the feedback.

Let’s grow the community!

There’s a new “Keep In Touch” dialog after the installation wizard, we’d like to grow our community, many people think FrostWire is dead, but we never left, thanks media.

New: Copy Magnet, Copy InfoHash

We’ve added a couple of advanced torrent actions for users that may want to know the infohash of a torrent, or who may want to share the magnet link of a torrent with a friend for sharing content.

New “Help” menu entry

Updated Spanish, Polish, Croatian translations.

Read Classic Books using FrostWire

We all know that reading is important. Reading expands our knowledge, improves our concentration, gives us new experiences, giving us life examples for future decisions, boost imagination and creativity, exercises our brains, and a lot more. However, there are books better than others. So today we are going to give you a few tips on what free books you should read. All the following books are available under public domain and can be downloaded on FrostWire.

1. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

A tale of two cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period.

 

2. The Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire
The Flowers of Evil

Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857 (see 1857 in poetry), it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism.

3. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë’s only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846, Wuthering Heights is one of the most powerful love stories. It follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious gypsy-like person, from childhood (about seven years old) to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff rises in his adopted family and then is reduced to the status of a servant, running away when the young woman he loves decides to marry another.

 

4. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli.
The Prince

 

The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to consider politics and ethics. If you want to be a leader you must read this book

 

5. Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon, by Robert Hooke
Micrographia

According to Discover Magazine, “A revelation in its time, Micrographia exposed the previously hidden microscopic world. Hooke, an early developer of the compound microscope, used his device to peer at the eyes of flies, the stinger on a bee, hairs, bristles, sand particles, seeds, and more, noting every detail with both words and masterful illustrations. The original book is a hefty three pounds, so the digital versions now available are more convenient, but there is something to be said for flipping through a printed copy and discovering, like a hidden treasure, each drawing in its beautiful intricacy”

 

So please let us know:
What are your favorite Classic Books?
Have you downloaded any good classic book using FrostWire?

Music of the Week #1

On FrostClick we publish reviews of new music bands that share their music for free. Since 2007 FrostWire brings you the best free music that you need to listen to. And now, each week we are going to promote here the new music reviews that are on FrostClick.

Anna Jordan
Anna Jordan
  1. Nude: Naturalness EP
    Naturalness is a short but sweet affair that sounds eerily like the ironically-named band Kill Paris‘ latest release.
  2. O: Be Sides – Mostla Tape
    One of underground label La Souterraine‘s acts, O (short for Olivier Marguerit), just released a full-length B-sides collection, “Be Sides – Mostla Tape,” which round out some of the most interesting arrangements and production for a French neophyte [at least for me].
  3. Anna Jordan: Dust EP
    Anna Jordan‘s debut EP, Dust, is like a shiny new toy that fills that craving for unique flavor. An alum from Newpark Music School, Anna is no stranger to the literature of sound. She studied jazz piano under the tutelage of Phil Ware, and has taken great inspiration from the aesthetics of great pianists such as Sonny Clark and Thelonius Monk.

If you have a band and you want us to review and share your music, please contact us!

FrostWire 1.6.5 build 206 (Release Candidate 2)

The Release Candidate 2 for FrostWire 1.6.5 is now available for download.

If you enjoy FrostWire and you want to test the next release, you can download the release candidate today! Android 6 Testers Needed!

You can download the .apk or the source code.

Remember that a Release Candidate means that is almost done, but we want to test it a lot first. So if you want to help us, you can test it today!

Think you’ve found a bug? Please report it!

Changelog

FrostWire 1.6.5 - OCTOBER/22/2015
 - Fixes bug where search results that have finished didn't refresh
   user interface and users would think FrostWire was searching forever.
 - Compatible with Android 6 (Marshmallow) new permissions framework.
 - Won't crash on Android 6.
 - Apk search results icon is now an Android head.
 - Fixes SoundCloud search.
 - Multiple crash fixes.
 - New Keep In Touch dialog after the installation wizard.
 - New Copy Magnet action on transfers.
 - New Copy Infohash action on transfers.
 - New "Help" menu entry.

New .apk search/file browsing results Android-head icon
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New ‘Copy Magnet’ and ‘Copy InfoHash’ actions available on saved .torrent files and ongoing torrent transfers
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New Social Links invites after you install or when you visit About screen
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Double menu selection bug fixed
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New “Help” menu entry

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6 FrostWire for Android Settings You Can’t Ignore!

FrostWire for Android has many options to improve your experience and make more useful this app. This video will show you the most useful of FrostWire’s for Android settings and how to use them. You will learn how to save your downloads in Internal Storage or SD Card; how to download on Wi-Fi only; how to pick only the search engines you need; and more!

Remember that there is really no best way to set up FrostWire settings for optimal performance, just the best way to set it up for what you need 🙂

Need help? Ask a question or report a bug on FrostWire Support.

How to save mobile data downloading torrents?

There are some moments —some sad moments— when you are away from home/work/school and you don’t have wi-fi to connect. If that’s the case, maybe your mobile phone will start consuming data. And if you run out of mobile data without realizing it, you may be in trouble.

So today we are going to explain how to save mobile data. Sometimes, you only to change a few settings on your Android in order to not use mobile data. For example, if you don’t want to use your mobile data downloading torrents. We made a very useful video explaining how to save mobile data downloading torrents from BitTorrent with FrostWire.

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FrostWire Fan Art for Your Kids to Color!

We’re so very happy to share a FrostWire Fan Art for your kids to color!  It is a fun character waiting to be colored!
This drawing was made by Jomabox Design from Colombia.


frostwire fan art

Got coloring skills? Share your drawing in the comments!