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

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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

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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

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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…

Try the new FrostWire 5.7.0 release candidate installers

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A new generation of FrostWire is almost here for 2014 and you can try it now before the official release on frostwire.com

FrostWire developers have upgraded the older vuze BitTorrent engine with the latest code from the Vuze/Azureus project, they’ve also replace the java runtime with the latest one from Oracle and this should eliminate binary incompatibility issues some Windows XP users had with the 5.6.x series.

The old chat tab is gone and it’s been now replacd by an IRC Web Client so now FrostWire boots up a bit faster.

Upgrades to search include integration with Torrents.fm a new torrent index with over 3 million torrents and tens of millions of files to search from, as well as bugs and crash fixes.

Help the development team by testing the release candidate installers, if you have any issues with the 5.7.0 RC build 1 installer please leave a message in the comment section below with as much detail as possible about your computer and the conditions under which a problem may have ocurred.

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.

New FrostWire 5.6.9 for Windows, Mac and Linux out

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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

Is FrostWire Safe?

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FrostWire – free at http://www.frostwire.com – is a file sharing
application and media hub.

FrostWire, as a stand-alone application, is 100% safe to use. FrostWire
itself will not install any viruses, adware, malware or spyware. But is
there a way you can get your computer in trouble while using FrostWire?
Sure.

FrostWire connects to other computers & online servers to find the
content you are looking for. FrostWire does not itself create, host or
control the content it finds on the internet – the same way internet
browsers do not create, host, or control the websites & files you view
and download through them. There are some safeguards in place to
recognize and prevent malicious content from showing up in the search
results, but none are perfect. Before you download a file:

1) Check if the file size makes sense for the content type you wish
to download
2) Check the Source link to see file comments other
users have left on the hosting website and most importantly, if you
are a Windows user and do anything online, always
3) Make sure you have an up-to-date anti-virus software installed
and you check any file you download before opening it.

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

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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.

OSX Mavericks users, How to Prevent App Nap on FrostWire

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Go to Applications (or wherever you have installed FrostWire)

Right click on the the FrostWire Icon > Get Info (or just Press Cmd+I after you’ve selected)

Make sure FrostWire won’t nap when it’s in the background.

Otherwise, you may start a long running transfer and OSX Mavericks will put FrostWire to sleep and your transfer won’t finish.

This is only a temporary work around to this new issue introduced by Mavericks and its awesome power saving tactics, we’re working on an update so that you don’t have to do this in the future.

New FrostWire 5.6.7 for Desktop available.

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Download FrostWire for Free Now

FrostWire, the free and opensource filesharing client for Windows and Linux is out with a new version which improves heavily on its core search features. (Mac is coming out very soon, we’re dealing with some issues to sign the binary with OSX Mavericks)

On this release we’ve revamped our smart meta search architecture to be faster and more energy efficient, it also increases the range of torrents and files indexed by several orders of magnitude even though ISOHunt has been removed from the list of search engines, with the addition of new search engines. The 5.6.x series will focus on adding even more search engines without taking a hit on CPU usage and bringing better quality search results.

It is highly recommended to install this update, while we work on 5.6.x updates and a new generation of distributed search that will come about for the 5.7.x series.

New Feature for Advanced Torrent Seeders
At long last, 5.6.7 introduces features to edit, update and scrape the trackers of your ongoing torrent transfers!

Full Changelog

frostwire (5.6.7) stable; urgency=high
  * New Advanced Feature: Edit Trackers.
  * New Advanced Feature: Scrape Trackers.
  * New Advanced Feature: Update Trackers.
  * New BitSnoop meta search.
  * New TorLock meta search.
  * New EZTV meta search.
  * Fixes Monova meta search.
  * Removes ISOHunt meta search.
  * Tips of the day updated.
  * Updated Catalonian flag.
 -- FrostWire Team   Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:06:30 -0500

FrostWire for Android 1.2.0 out with a new flat user interface

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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.