#MusicMonday recommendations from FrostClick

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Welcome to the first of the #MusicMonday series of posts on the Official blog. In honor to the Twitter #MusicMonday meme, we’ll be recommending you some free music that you can download and safely share on FrostWire since that’s the way it’s creators wanted it, free for all. This music is curated by the folks at FrostClick.com who today are waiting for Kellee Maize’s Integration album to break 100,000 downloads in 20 days.

Giraffe: There Is No Devil – gorgeous folk alt country compilation
Carrying the moniker Giraffe for this record, James Gardner releases his second compilation: There is No Devil. The album is a lush collection of folk, country alternative that’s perfect for fans of artists like Bon Iver or similar soft folk singers.
The songs resonate with acoustic guitars, beautiful singing and a catchy (sometimes odd) melody fit for most folk lovers. It’s an album that could serve as a worthy background to a laid back afternoon where you just want some simple but engaging music to keep you company.

The Juliets: Perfect Season – upbeat orchestra pop
After the successful self-titled debut album, The Juliets are poised to take over the music scene.

Formed in late 2008, the five-piece band of Jeremy Freer (piano/guitar/vocals), Sarah Myers (violin/vocals) and Kaylan Mitchell (cello) manages to seize new-age pop and classical music, applying their own twist with a violin and cello.

Perfect Season is produced by the band along with Dave Feeney and was recorded during February and March this year. It introduces the addition of Ashton Hopkins (bass) and Jaclyn Phillips (drums) producing a 12-track record of raved up, string-heavy music.

You Me and Apollo: Cards with Cheats – melodic acoustic folk that should be on your playlist
For moments when all you need is a sweet voiced singer with his guitar serenading your quiet afternoon; You Me and Apollo should make for a really good company.

The guy behind this sonic ensemble is Brent Cowles. A pastor’s son from Fort Collins, Cowles started writing and creating songs at the age of 14. Thanks to an early start, he developed a beautiful sound that resonates with both quiet and upbeat tempos, mesmerizing vocal work and skillful guitars.

Simplicity and intrigue are both present in his work, something that makes you want to tune out the world and simply tune in to his songs.

Captain Stu: Free Music EP – upbeat, highly addicting blend of ska, funk, and punk
Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Captian Stu has been performing throughout the region ever since 2003. The five piece band brings us some of the most upbeat sounds I heard in a while; and with the unique and highly addicting blend of ska, funk, punk, and just a touch of fresh African flavor, their music will surely bring back all the wonderful days of summer that quickly got away.

So go ahead and get yourself a little bit of sunshine infused beats of the Free Music EP. And yes, just as the title suggests it is yours to enjoy entirely free of charge.

WARNING: FrostWire10.com, FrostwireDownload.org, FrostWire.name are malicious impostor sites, beware of frauds and copycats

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We learned today that FrostWire10.com and FrostWireDownload.org, two sites that not only infringe on our trademarked name and logo are now on the first page of Google Search Results, above CNet and Wikipedia.

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These sites not only use our trademarked name and logo without our permission, they distribute an installer that is not the official FrostWire installer, when you run this installer it will try to install RealPlayer (no matter what you do) thus probably abusing on RealPlayer’s affiliate program, and they’ll also install some other dubious offers even if you uncheck them.

We are trying to contact the DNS and hosting companies that house these fraudsters.

Please DO NOT DOWNLOAD FrostWire from other websites than FrostWire.com, CNet, SourceForge, Brothersoft, and FrostClick.com

DO NOT PAY FOR FROSTWIRE: The only official website is FrostWire.com

The stub they offer, shows a malicious RealPlayer offer that’s impossible to refuse.
The text on it points to a a license page hosted in this domain freedownloadsoft.net

DNS searches on frostwire10.com and frostwiredownload.org show cloaked registrars, but they didn’t bother to cloak freedownloadsoft.net, here’s the DNS information:

[REGISTRANT]
Organisation Name: Pinball Corp
Contact Name: William Freeman
Address Line 1: 3600 136th Place SE
Address Line 2:
City / Town: Bellevue
State / Province:
Zip / Postcode: WA 98006
Country: US
Telephone: +1.0114252791177
Fax:
Email: wfreeman@pinballcorp.com

Pinball Corp operates http://pinballcorp.com/ and http://pinballpublishernetwork.com/ and we’re trying to find out if they’re behind these two sites or if they can lead us to the culprit.

This is what you see when you run their installers:

Certainly NOT the FrostWire installer.


Try Cancelling the offer, good luck with moving Forward without accepting the offer, you’ll have to install RealPlayer to move Forward.


Doesn’t end there, 3 more offers, don’t bother unchecking them, it will install some.

Eventually it downloads an old version of FrostWire lord knows from where, since the version they download has been long discontinued and it’s not compliant with the FTC order for default settings and privacy requirements.

After you’re done, get ready for a world of hell, you will be receiving popup after popup, which try to get you to enter your cellphone number for lord knows what, probably to charge you a monthly fee and to spam the hell out of you via SMS and Phonecalls.



FrostWire.name

This other site, even goes to the extend of putting “Copyright FrostWire” at the bottom of their page. They have copied a lot of copyrighted content from our site, including our faq, and they’ve managed to somehow get on top of all search engine rankings.

The software you download from this site is not frostwire, it’s something called MusicFrost, when we tried it it didn’t launch, but the installer managed to install a toolbar without even asking. Then after the installation we were prompted to sign up and pay for their service.

BEWARE OF SCAMS. Get FrostWire ONLY From the official website, frostwire.com

Please stay away from unofficial websites.

If you can help us find any information about the operators of this sites please write us at contact@frostwire.com

If you could report these sites (http://frostwire10.com and http://frostwiredownload.org) to Google it’d be of great help

Selling FrostWire is not illegal or against our software license, in fact one of the freedoms of the GPL license allows others to sell GPLed software, however, using our trademark and pretending to be us to sell our software is a very deceiving practice. Users don’t get the official installer, instead they get installers full of spyware and this damages user’s computers and our reputation.

“The Ugly Club” featured on FrostWire

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The Ugly Club is one of those bands whose record you hold on to long after listening to it for the first time. Made up of Ryan Egan, Taylor Mandel, Joe Stasio, Ryan McNulty, and Rick Sue-Poi, the group combines different instruments and genres to create a unique sound that impresses.

Visions of a Tall Girl EP is a 4-track record that emanates with an eclectic progressive indie rock sound. It is complicated and intriguing while at the same time easily likable. This is the second release from the group. Their other EP, Sing What You Want, helped pave the way for the band’s easy listening sound to gain a wider audience.

Despite calling themselves The Ugly Club, there’s nothing ugly about their sound at all. In fact, the compilation is composed of tracks that are beautifully recorded, incorporating clean instrument work, great lyrics and very catchy beats. It’s something you can pop into your headphones and enjoy all day. That’s what I did.

The EP is quite short which is a bit frustrating after you’ve developed a taste for their sound. Nevertheless, the few tracks it features is enough to convince and make a convert of any indie rock lover of the band’s capacity to entertain. The FrostWire promo incudes one more bonus track from “Sing What You Want”, so you can enjoy the band just for a little longer.

Starting with Visions Part I, you get a peek at the groups’ slightly melodramatic side. It’s a slower track compared to the rest but it has that charm, much like early Coldplay songs where they stay stuck in your head for a long time. It beautifully transitions into a full-blown indie rock love affair with Parks. Don’t be fooled though, by the 2 minute mark the eclectic side of the band kicks in and the song takes on a more punk rock route instead of the easy-listening indie it started with.

Visions Part II continues the formula, starting out strong with pockets of slower indie pop and jazz sprinkled in between the single. The fourth track, Hope We Survive, is my favorite. The boys strip it down for this one, incorporating percussion, tambourines, acoustic guitars, melodic vocals and an amazing steady beat. They lyrics are quite charming as well.

Overall, this is one EP you really shouldn’t pass up. It’s been awhile since I’ve listened to a free record that I could enjoy from beginning to end. (It’s mostly just a selection of few songs.) However, with Visions of a Tall Girl, it was easy to fall in love with the tracks. Really top quality compilation if you ask me. Check it out for yourself.


Related Links:
The Ugly Club on BandCamp
The Ugly Club on Twitter
The Ugly Club on Facebook
The Ugly Club on Myspace
The Ugly Club on iTunes

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FrostWire goes to China

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One of our users traveling through China during this summer has sent us an amazing set of pictures of the free FrostWire Stickers in front of some of the majestic Chinese landmarks.

It’s worth remembering that in 2009 another FrostWire user also sent us pictures from China.

On that note, we’d like to let you know that we are updating the translation of FrostWire’s user interface in chinese, french, dutch, spanish, portuguese, german, italian and other languages, so that not only the FrostWire stickers get to go to China and other countries, but also the software.

New FrostWire 5.2.11 – Best Search Performance ever and new Internet Radio support on the Library

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Huge huge huge improvements in search performance
If there’s a file indexed by a torrent, no matter how rare it is, it should be able to find it for you.
Not only that, search results for individual files (indexed inside torrent) arrive noticeably faster.

New: Internet Radio
Added new Internet Radio support on the Library tab.

FrostWire is pre-loaded with nearly 600 radio stations out of the box, you can add new stations, bookmark them and sort them by name, url, bit rate, audio file format, and more.

*User Experience Improvements*
We listened to all your user experience complains, being the most important one finding out where your finished downloads were going.

Now when you finish a transfer, you can just double click on it, and all the files downloaded will be shown on the Library tab.

If a transfer contains audio files, you can select it (along with other transfer that also contain audio files) and with the context menu you can send all the included audio files straight to a new playlist or an existing playlist on the library.

Become a beta tester
Thanks to the beta tester community for the patience and a big applause for the developer team, I think this is truly the best release ever.

You can join the beta testing community here.

Follow @FrostWire on Twitter for live updates.

Changelog
frostwire (5.2.11) stable; urgency=high
* Fixes bugs where some BitTorrent configuration settings were reset
on startup.

— FrostWire Team Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:58:31 -0500

frostwire (5.2.10) stable; urgency=high
* Upload ratios will not be enforced to 30% of downloads anymore.
Users will have free will to set the upload ratio of their preference.
* Update autodownload now supported for mac.
* Updates can now be distributed via both BitTorrent and HTTP.
* HttpFetcher improvements for less resource consumption.
* HttpFetcher now supports large HTTP file downlods (progressive download).
* Improvements to Send File to a friend.
* Fixes bug where some finished Downloads wouldn’t “Show in Library”
* Bug report system revised.

— FrostWire Team Mon, 22 Nov 2011 16:34:04 -0500

frostwire (5.2.9) stable; urgency=high
* Enhancement: Lucene full text indexing for Smart Search database to
allow for fuzzy searches.
* Enhancement: Lucene full text indexing for Library database allows
better search results on Radio search and playlist search.
* Enhancement: Audio player will start playing currently selected audio
source if it’s on a stopped state.
* Bug Fix: Finished Downloads shows only finished downloads.

— FrostWire Team Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:11:10 -0500

frostwire (5.2.8) stable; urgency=high
* Smart search updates uses less DHT resources and fixes logic bugs
that results into faster and better search results.
* New Internet Radio functionality on the Library. Play, Add, Remove
and bookmark your favorite Internet Radio Stations.
* Book/Document search now crawls for .cbr, .cbz, .cb7, .cbt and .cba
file formats.
* New “Show in Library” action for finished transfers. It is now the
default action when a finished transfer has been double clicked.
* Clicking on the currently played audio control should always take
the user to the currently played audio file.
* Top Library tree nodes re-arranged.
* When downloading a single partial file, the transfer manager shows
the proper icon based on the file type of the file being downloaded.
* Add partial downloads, and multiple transfers that contain audio files
to playlists right from the transfer manager.
* The library can now be configured to scan any folder the user desires.
* Files can be added to playlists right out of search results.
* New explore action button on the Library tab.
* New send to friend action button on the Library tab.
* Faster loading of Finished Downloads.
* Library search behaves as expected for all kinds of searches.
* A lot of bug fixes.

— FrostWire Team Mon, 7 Nov 2011 17:02:29 -0500

frostwire (5.2.3) stable; urgency=high
* Change the order of an audio file on playlist with drag and drop.
* Change the order of multiple audio files on a playlist with drag and drop.
* Drop audio files and folders at a specific position inside a playlist.
* Remembers the column and order you last set on the transfer manager
after restart.
* Remembers the last file type you searched for after restart.
* New FrostWire icon compatible with Ubuntu 11.10
* Bug fix, now if you’re playing a song and you resort the playlist by
any of the columns, the next song to be played will be the one below
the current song in the new order.
* Searching inside “Finished Downloads” now yields folder names as search
results.
* Fixes lingering popup menu issue.
* Fixed DNS query issue affecting Linux.

— FrostWire Team Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:42:08 -0500

frostwire (5.2.2) stable; urgency=high
* Library tables are now cached in memory, searches are done in the cache
speeding up the experience considerably for users with several thousand
files.
* Create or add audio files to a playlist right from the Transfer manager.
* iTunes importing after audio transfers finish turned off by default.
* Completed transfers that contain at least one audio file can be sent
to iTunes from the Transfer manager.
* Audio status component recognizes an Audio Stream, from an Audio file
from an internet stream url. Clicking on it will take you to the
Android Tab if it’s an android stream or to the Library otherwise.
* Fixes issues with download mediator refresh.
* Fixes out of memory error.
* Real time UI feedback as audio files are being imported into playlist.
* F5, Cmd+R or Ctrl+R will refresh the current Library table.

— FrostWire Team Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:03:10 -0500

frostwire (5.2.1) stable; urgency=high
* Play/Pause player buttons now share the same button depending on state.
* Mac OSX threading bug when importing .m3u playlist to new playlist fixed.
* Pressing space bar pauses/resumes currently played audio.
* Playlist files can be sorted correctly by track number when available.
* FLAC playback support.
* When a playlist has finished importing files, it’s shown to the user.
* Transfer manager remembers the position of its JSplitPane.
* Transfer manager sorts downloads by default based on their creation date.
* Transfer manager has new column “Started On” showing the date the transfer
first started.
* Drag and drop issues on playlist component for Mac OSX fixed.
* Partial download dialog table can adjust column widths, a horizontal
scrollbar will appear if the sum of the columns is wider than the dialog.
* When playing an audio file, if it gets deleted FROM DISK from inside
FrostWire, the audio file will stop playing.
* Files can be dragged to the “Starred” playlist and they will be marked
as starred. If files are dragged from Disk, creating a new playlist
will be offered, and all the elements on the playlist will be starred.
* Files can be deleted from the “Starred” playlist. This will cause the
files to be unstarred on every other playlist where they belong.
* The tables on the library remember the last position of their scrollbars
during the session.
* Double clicking on a playlist name starts editing the playlist name.
* Fixes bug where downloading an individual file in a torrent wouldn’t
be marked in the search results as downloading.
* Fixes a memory leak when importing ID3 tags into a playlist.
* Fixes bug where the duration of an MP3 file wasn’t calculated correctly
by MPlayer, duration is now being calculated with Java library.
* Fixes bug where it would import torrent skipped files to iTunes.

— FrostWire Team Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:14:11 -0500

frostwire (5.2.0) stable; urgency=high

* New Library Tab, code named “Alexandria”
* New Audio Player controls
* New controls to create and manage playlists
* Drag and drop files from Finished Downloads, Audio, File explorer
into new or existing playlists.
* New control on status bar that shows current audio file being played
with a “Send to friend” button. Clicking on the file name bring user
back to where the audio file is being played.
* Export playlists to .m3u
* Import .m3u into new or existing playlists.
* Filter files inside currently selected file type or playlist.
* Audio player can randomize playback order, or repeat playlist.
* New icons all over the application.
* Album art is displayed when an audio file is selected on a playlist.
* Album art can be scaled in real time with split pane.
* Songs on playlists can be starred, Starred songs are added to “Starred”
* Selected songs on a playlist can be deleted with the Delete key, or
on right click Delete from playlist.
* Playlists can be renamed.
* Playlists can be deleted.
* When songs that have been deleted from disk are attempted to be played
they will be highlighted in red and with an exclamation mark.
* Right clicking on any song on a playlist > Cleanup removes all songs
on a playlist that have been deleted physically from disk.

— FrostWire Team Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:00:00 -0500

Kellee Maize’s new album “INTEGRATION” featured on FrostWire on 11.1.11

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Sharing your music under Creative Commons on FrostWire works well for artists and they always keep coming back for more promos.

This time around beautiful, talented Kellee Maize has given FrostWire the privilege to feature her new album titled “Integration”, which launches today 11.1.11 at 11:11am.

You can download the full album using this torrent with your favorite BitTorrent client (hope it’s FrostWire!)

Find out more about Kellee Maize’s Integration on FrostClick, specially why Track #8 is missing on the torrent.


Kellee Maize’s Integration playlist on the new FrostWire Library.