ATTENTION WINDOWS XP USERS.
A new hotfix 5.5.3 release is out to address slowdown/freezes reported by many XP users.
Please download the new installer at http://www.frostwire.com/downloads
If you are a windows user experiencing a major slowdown with FrostWire 5.5.2 please upgrade to 5.5.3
Just wanted to share a graph showing the number of lines of code in time for FrostWire during the past 2 years.
Boy have we removed code to make things better.
You can also contribute to FrostWire, join us and make a difference!
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
(Repost from FrostClick.com)
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.
Continue reading “FrostClick: FrostWire Creative Commons Mixtape Vol. 3”
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,
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
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.
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.
In case you just need the .deb with the binaries:
Cheers
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