New FrostWire 5.5.2 out – Look Mom, No Java required (full changelog)

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A very important FrostWire update has been released featuring about 20 bug fixes and enhancements.

Mac users that had issues with 5.5.1 and downgraded to 5.5.0 should update to 5.5.2, lots of issues were fixed for the Mac platform as we get ready to submit FrostWire to the MacOSX App Store.

Look Mom, No Java required (on Windows, Mac coming soon)
A major change in 5.5.2 for windows is the way that FrostWire uses the Java Runtime Environment.

Before 5.5.2 our installer would check if you had a suitable Java Runtime Environment installed and if it wasn’t there it’d try to download Oracle’s JRE and install it in your computer. This complexity introduced the possibility of several thousand FrostWire installations to not finish properly, our files wouldn’t be decompressed correctly and many of you couldn’t run FrostWire.

After 5.5.2, it doesn’t matter if you have Java installed or not. Our installer comes with a Java Runtime Environment, now every FrostWire running 5.5.2 will be running the same exact version of the JRE thus getting rid of JRE Fragmentation issues. FrostWire comes with a JRE compiled from source by the FrostWire Team, it includes several fixes after the public release of the JRE 7u10 update, and you should feel FrostWire performing a lot better if you’re on Windows.

Lately the Java Runtime Environment has been getting a lot of bad press due to security exploits that affect Java Applets on web browsers, please know that these security vulnerabilities do not affect FrostWire in anyway.

Please let us know of any issues, or enhancements you think are of the utmost importance and we’ll try to include it on 5.5.3 which we hope will have some major changes in the UI, towards our final design for FrostWire 6, which will focus on making the user experience a lot friendly and according to more modern design trends in software applications.

Enjoy and share responsibly.

frostwire (5.5.2) stable; urgency=high
* Upgrade: Now 'Movies' or 'My Videos' folder is included by default on new
installs since we now have a built-in video player.
* Upgrade: The Smart Search engine can now be disabled. No torrents will be
indexed and no search against the local database will be performed if
disabled.
* UI fix: Video Player Window Title now shows the file name being played.
* UI fix: Library > "Finished Downloads" renamed to "Default Save Folder"
* UI fix: When browsing another device on the Wi-Fi network newest shared files
are shown at the top of the table.
* Bug fix: On first installation FrostWire wasn't able to add 'From Devices' folder
to the Library.
* Bug fix: When restoring default settings FrostWire was not restoring default
library folders.
* Bug fix: Player remembers volume level from last song played.
* Bug fix: Sends correct file sizes on HTTP headers for shared files that
have changed in size after being shared.
* Bug fix: Repeat media play setting with only one item.
* Bug fix: New mime detector based on a bigger table.
* Bug fix: Video player doesn't skip frames when resuming from pause.
* Bug fix: Video player doesn't move frames when paused and volume slider
is being moved.
* Bug fix: Dropping a .torrent starts a download and doesn't ask to send to
a friend.
* Bug fix: (Windows) can delete files that are being played or seeded
from the Library.
* Bug fix: (Mac) compatibility with Mac OSX 10.5.x restored.
* Bug fix: (Windows) media player can open files with long paths.
* Bug fix: prevents NPE when opening a .torrent and trying to show icons when
the file system chooser wasn't available.

-- FrostWire Team  Tue, 15 jan 2013 20:00:00 -0500

FrostClick: FrostWire Creative Commons Mixtape Vol. 3

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(Repost from FrostClick.com)

Download Mixtape

That’s right! 2012 is over! We’ve had another amazing ride this year: we’ve reviewed a new free & legal album download for you every day [yes, weekends too!] and promoted 23 hand picked artists with our sister software FrostWire. With this FrostWire Creative Commons Mixtape Volume 3 we would like to celebrate over 2,1 million free and legal downloads [and still counting!] generated only in 2012 by our promotions and the many additional ones that came from all FrostClick readers who fell in love with new artists found though our site.
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Kellee Maize releases “Owl Time” exclusively on FrostWire under a Creative Commons license

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Download Now With FrostWire

Kellee Maize and FrostWire have collaborated for the third time, in this occasion Kellee has given FrostWire the exclusive opportunity to bring you her new album “Owl Time” today 12/12/12.

If you want to know more about the album don’t miss the album review on FrostClick

Kellee Maize has licensed this album with the most permissive Creative Commons license available, giving you permission in advance to Download, Share, Remix and even use her music commercially.

Below some images of “Owl Time” on FrostWire, 

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Download the New FrostWire 5.5.1 and make your CPU happy

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Download FrostWire Now

DOWNLOAD NOW, it’s free.

Got stickers yet?
TAG and let let others know there’s a near by FrostWire Wi-Fi sharing area.

What we fixed on 5.5.1:

frostwire (5.5.1) stable; urgency=high
  * New Clear Inactive button on transfers.
  * New setting to use the default system media player instead of
    FrostWire's.
  * New Download Cloud URLs, Torrents and Magnets by entering
    urls on the search field.
  * New toggle full screen video playback with double click.
  * Enhancement: Library file tables now show file modified date field and
    files are sorted by it in descending order so user can easily find
    newest files added to the library.
  * Enhancement: Playlist tables now show the track number column and
    are by default sorted by it in ascending order to enjoy
    albums in the order they were meant to be heard by the content
    creators.
  * Enhancement: mime type guessing is faster when sharing files on Wi-Fi
  * Bug fix: Library was getting confused with file extensions as part of file names.
  * Bug fix: sharing/unsharing popup menu behavior while sharing on Wi-Fi
  * Bug fix: resizing issues on preview download dialogs.
  * Bug fix: filtering on torrent detail dialog was broken.
  * Bug fix: Library continuous playback working from play button.
  * Bug fix: Cloud download error fixed.
  * Bug fix: Media lib unicode issue.

 -- FrostWire Team   Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:00:00 -0500

Mac Users on OSX 10.6, 10.7 here’s a hotfix installer for FrostWire 5.5.0

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If you can’t play any audio or video, it’s because of a bug on the fwplayer_osx binary that occurs on older versions of MacOSX.

Here’s a build that addresses the issue while we release 5.5.1:

Download 5.5.0 hotfix release for MacOSX
http://dl.frostwire.com/frostwire/5-beta/frostwire-5.5.0.player_hotfix.dmg

5.5.1 will feature:
– A new setting so that you can use the system’s default player instead of the FrostWire player.
– A fix on the Torrent detail dialog where filtering is not working.

Attention: Ubuntu, Debian, Mint repo maintainers – FrostWire 5.5.0 source packages available.

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We’d like to reach out to all debian based package repository maintainers/mods/sponsors to notify that your distribution can now include the latest FrostWire 5.5.0 package.

We’ve put a lot of effort into a Debian Source Package distribution and .deb binaries, that you can inspect, hack and import into your repositories.

Here are the files containing every source code line needed to build and run FrostWire 5.5.0.

frostwire_5.5.0.dsc

frostwire_5.5.0.orig.tar.gz

frostwire_5.5.0.debian.tar.gz

In case you just need the .deb with the binaries:

frostwire-5.5.0.all.deb

Cheers

Use the FrostWire stickers to signal others of a Wi-Fi file sharing zone.

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Get Free FrostWire Stickers

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With FrostWire now Android phones, tablets and computers (PCs, Macs, Linux boxes) can share files on a Wi-Fi hotspot without setup, it’s very fast and no internet connection is necessary.

Place the stickers to signal others of a file sharing area nearby, A cafe, park, classroom, office or maybe even the last subway car on every line in your city?

Get your free stickers at http://www.frostwire.com/stickers

New FrostWire 5.5.0 with Video Player and Wi-Fi local file sharing.

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Get FrostWire 5.5.0 now

The new FrostWire 5.5.0 features dozens of fixes and a few new powerful features.

Play and Stream Video

Now FrostWire will let you play Videos and Movies. These may come from files already in your computer, video files shared from your Android phone with FrostWire for Android, or even from search results coming from the cloud (play before downloading. this also applies to music shared on the cloud)

We have made a fork of the mplayer project called frostwire-jmplayer, in the case of MacOSX we’ve built UI controls in Cocoa (Objective-C) to give you the best experience. In the case of Windows and Linux we’ve built the same controls and rendered them on the mplayer window using some cool java tricks.

In case you’re not very fond of using the mouse, here are some supported keyboard shortcuts when you’re using the video player:

Toggle Full Screen: F key, Alt+Enter, Cmd+Enter on Mac
Leave Full Screen: ESC key or see Toggle Full Screen
Pause/Resume: spacebar key, P key
Skip Forward, Skip Backwards Left and Right arrow keys.
Volume Up: Up arrow, = key, + key
Volume Down: Down arrow, – key

Audio/Video Previews

One of the number one complains after we got rid of Gnutella has been the ability to preview downloads. Now you’ll be able to do preview search results coming from the cloud, for both audio and video files. FrostWire will stream and play the content for you if you hit that play button instead of the download one.

Audio and Video streaming is also available if you’re on a PC/Mac and you try to play audio or videos shared from another PC, an Android Phone or Android Tablet running FrostWire on the same Wi-Fi network.

Wi-Fi sharing

Send files between computers (PC, Mac, Linux), Android Phones and Android Tablets, no more USB cables, no more mounting, no more pairing, just share and go.

Say you took some pictures, or recorded some video on your phone or tablet, you can mark the file shared on your device and other computers, phones or tablets running FrostWire on the same Wi-Fi network can download and stream your shared files.

We’ve experienced file transfers of up to 15MB/s from a Macbook to a Kindle Fire HD. No internet necessary, just having FrostWire running on devices connected to the same Wi-Fi hotspot.

We’ve built this feature primarily thinking of small work groups in offices, classrooms and for convenient media sharing at home. NO MORE CABLES, No more USB mounting, No more USB Sticks. Just share, stream or download.

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And remember, don’t ever pay for FrostWire, it’s absolutely free software. No subscriptions, registration, no nags, just download, install and go.