FrostWire #7 on download.com – Week ending March 09 – 253,102 downloads in one week

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FrostWire #7 – Week ending March 09 – 253,102 downloads in one week

We keep getting more and more downloads each week.
Thanks to everybody that downloaded.

Please help us Spread the word

Blogs and pages talking about 4.13.5

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These are the pages we found talking about our latest FrostWire release. Please let us know if we missed any on your comments.

Remember to support FrostWire, all you gotta do is Link Us and tell everybody they can install it in all their computers for free.

Press Release – What’s new in FrostWire 4.13.5

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

FrostWire 4.13.5 is now available for MS Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Major updates improve network bootstraping and peer discovery. 4.13.5 includes improvements on the Chatroom tab, Audio Previews and more.

Other improvements have taken place for the FrostWire build process (for developers this means true One-Step builds for all versions). Updates on translations have been made thanks to the feedback from users in Poland and throughout Latin America. .

In more detail users can expect the following:

  • Faster peer discovery on connection bootstraping. No more “Starting Connection…” problems, first time users will connect faster without using the official FixConnecting.zip patch.
  • Smiley Support to the chatroom

Users can see the available smileys by entering the command
/smileys

Now its possible to see and use Smileys from the Community Chat tab, Smiley display can be enabled or disabled from the view menu:
Show SmileysUsers can also toggle Smiley display directly from the chat window by typing the command
/tsmileys

  • Fixed wording on Spanish and Polish translations.

Bug Fixes and other improvements for this release also include:

  • FrostWire Message Update System improved. Per community request, some announcements will not be shown more than once so the user is not annoyed upon every application launch
  • Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
  • Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
  • Fixed i18n system error for systems which default language is not english
  • Potential bugs related to deprecated code gone

Users can find now by details without the auto-focusing problem.

FrostWire 4.13.5 is expected to be the last of the 4.13.x series.

About FrostWire

FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.

FrostWire 4.13.5 has been awarded the 100% CLEAN award by Softpedia.com

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Toda we have received the honor of being a 100% CLEAN certified Mac software by the people of Softpedia.

Mac and Linux users are the first to try 4.13.5 while we get ready for a massive update.

Soon a press release with the new features and changelog.

Support FrostWire by Linking to it, About 4.13.5

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This is to all bloggers that use FrostWire.
We need your support to keep growing the network.

If you have some space left on your side bar, or on some pages of your blog, or myspace page, or whatever page you have, please link to us.

Here’s a code snippet you can use:

More snippets and banners here

About next release
With the adition of a new coder to the team, FTA, version 4.13.5 is well on its way.

  • Added Smiley support to the Chatroom. Developer note: irc.jar is now part of our build process.
  • Fixed wording on spanish translation.
  • Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
  • Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
  • Fixed typo in Polish. Thanks Radek.
  • Fixed i18n bug, where non english operating system could never keep english as the preferred language, it would always default to the OS language after restarting FW. Thanks to FTA our new dev team member.

FrostWire’s “Buy” button more effective each day

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A couple of week’s ago the music industry was a different place. If you did a search on FrostWire for “Metallica”, and you clicked on the “Buy” button, you’d only find versions by other bands of Metallica’s songs available for purchase.

If you try it now, you can legally purchase the entire rooster of Metallica’s songs via the FrostWire’s Buy button after you do a search for Metallica. Songs cost between $0.89 and $0.99 and they come in high quality MP3 format, no DRM!!!!

This is because finally the big record labels decided to drop DRM (you can now play the music you buy on any device, it’s not protected against copying/playing in anyway) and put their music for sale on the AmazonMp3 music store, which is the system FrostWire uses to help artists sell their music and you the user to find the best quality music 100% legally.

Finally the Music Industry started opening their eyes.

Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM

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We are starting the year with one of the best news for the FrostWire Community. At the end of 2007, Warner Music Group announced that they’d be selling DRM-free songs, we didn’t know that Sony BMG would act so fast upon this, we’re glad this happened.

According to BusinessWeek:

Sony BMG would become the last of the top four music labels to drop DRM, following Warner Music Group (WMG), which in late December said it would sell DRM-free songs through Amazon.com’s (AMZN) digital music store. EMI and Vivendi’s Universal Music Group announced their plans for DRM-free downloads earlier in 2007.

Why is this great news for the FrostWire community?

The acceptance of DRM as a failure by the big 4 helps legitimize FrostWire, since FrostWire features a “Buy” button which enables all FrostWire users to purchase DRM-Free music from the Amazon.com’s digital music store. The effectiveness of the buy button to find legal downloads on amazon depends on the availability of music, now that the major labels are offering their content in a DRM-free fashion you will be able to find pretty much any main-stream song with FrostWire’s “Buy” button.

Best of all, songs are priced under $1, and as we said DRM-Free, which means you can play the song you bought anywhere. I wonder what Steve Jobs must be thinking now.

FrostWire on Mashable and #4 most popular download of the year on Download.com

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Cheers to the Mashable.com team for writing this note about us.

Also FrostWire makes it as the #4 of the Top Downloads of the year at CNET, LimeWire made it as #1