The new FrostWire 6.1.5 installer for Linux is a universal architecture binary.
The installer is now a bit bigger since we include 2 copies of our C++ native libraries, one for 32bit another one for 64bit intel cpus.
FrostWire will automatically pick up your architecture and use the right DLL.
We highly recommend you run the latest version of Oracle’s Java Runtime 1.8, preferrably the one for your CPU.
If you told a friend about FrostWire, RTed one of our posts, liked or shared on FB, sent us a donation, bought some gear on the FrostWire store, or used FrostWire this year, a million thanks for your support, we really appreciate it!
Thanks to your support we’ve been able to survive lots of obstacles put in front of us in 2015, along the way we made some technological breakthroughs and created a new open source Java library called “jlibtorrent”,
the goal is to put the powerful, lightweight and efficient libtorrent library into the hands of Java programmers worldwide to quickly be able to develop apps and services of enterprise quality taking advantage of the decentralization powers BitTorrent brings to the table in much less time than coding and building binaries with C/C++.
Through the use of this library we were able to bring the number of crashes to an all time low and we’ve increased user satisfaction on both FrostWire for Desktop and FrostWire for Android.
Best of all, several other projects have started using jlibtorrent on android, linux, and even set top box software, some of them are already contributing to the source code with patches, feedback, questions and feature requests.
Next we’ll share all of the work we were able to do this year thanks to your support on both FrostWire for Desktop and FrostWire for Android.
If you don’t have time to scroll through all the changes, just know that we’re just getting started and we’re keen and focused on building the best file sharing clients of the planet thanks to your support.
FROSTWIRE FOR DESKTOP – 2015 CHANGELOG
frostwire (6.1.5) stable; urgency=high
* New http engine based on okhttp, uses pooled connections, less threads,
less memory. Faster and more reliable search & cloud downloads.
* libtorrent/jlibtorrent core update (v 1.1.0.9).
* Fixes KAT search.
* Fixes Bitsnoop search.
* Fixes EZTV search.
* Removes Radio functionality from Library.
* When the search options are opened, the keyword textfield is autofocused.
* Java Runtime upgrade to v1.8.0_60.
* Codebase cleanup and refactors.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Thu, 25 Sep 2015 11:04:00 -0500
frostwire (6.1.4) stable; urgency=high
* libtorrent/jlibtorrent core update (v 1.1.0.5).
* Torrent settings issues fixed.
* Fixes TorLock search.
* Considerably faster search source processing (new regex engine).
* Fixes YouTube search.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Aug, 14 Jul 2015 16:15:00 -0500
frostwire (6.1.3) stable; urgency=high
* libtorrent/jlibtorrent core update.
* Archive.org downloads are pausable/resumable.
* Soundcloud search & download API update.
* Hungarian translation update.
* Simplified seeding settings. No more need to treat handpicked/partial
downloads differently with jlibtorrent updates.
* Fixes crash when setting default save folder to the root
of a drive.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:04:32 -0500
frostwire (6.1.2) stable; urgency=high
* Search performance improvements. New RxJava-based implementation.
* Search box suggestions improved.
* New Check/uncheck all search engines checkbox.
* TorLock search fixed.
* Added SSL (https) support for torrent web seeds.
* Options window remembers last pane opened.
* Fixes painting issues when searching Starred audio files on the library.
* frostwire-jlibtorrent library updates.
* Library user experience bug fixes.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:44:00 -0500
frostwire (6.1.1) stable; urgency=high
* TPB search fixed.
* KAT search fixed.
* Monova search fixed.
* Bitsnoop downloads fixed.
* BTJunkie downloads fixed.
* EZTV search engine removed after scammers took over.
* YouTube search fixes for non-english users.
* Russian translation update.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Tue, 12 May 2015 15:20:28 -0500
frostwire (6.1.0) stable; urgency=high
* YouTube search fixes.
* Domain alias manager removed.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Thu, 7 May 2015 14:31:08 -0500
frostwire (6.0.9) stable; urgency=high
* Jlibtorrent updates.
* Crash fixes.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Tue, 5 May 2015 10:30:00 -0500
frostwire (6.0.8) stable; urgency=high
* Significant improvements in search result availability.
* Faster Bitsnoop, Extratorrent and KAT individual file search results.
* Reduced use of DHT network for search.
* Faster torrent download start time.
* Fixes download error on some Archive.org search results.
* Fixes Yify search.
* Misc fixes in Library functionality.
* Crash fixes.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Fri, 24 April 2015 04:44:00 -0500
frostwire (6.0.7) stable; urgency=high
* New feature: Preview while you download.
* Memory and CPU savings when parsing search results on some search engines.
* BTJunkie fixed.
* TPB search fixed.
* KAT search fixed.
* Monova search fixed.
* Fixes bug where soundcloud, archive.org audio downloads would not be automatically
be scanned by iTunes.
* Croatian translation updates.
* Torrent creation and parsing now done using frostwire-jlibtorrent api. More
Azureus cleanups.
* Fixes run on startup issue on Windows. Thanks to @win32re.
* Upgraded java virtual machine to 1.8.0_40 with hundreds of fixes and upgrades.
* Upgraded H2 database engine.
* Upgraded frostwire-jlibtorrent to the latest code from libtorrent.
* UX-improvement: A repeated search will honor active search engines.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Wed, 08 April 2015 22:24:00 -0500
frostwire (6.0.6) stable; urgency=high
* Fixes bug where default save location for torrents would not be accounted for.
* New: When changing default save location, any ongoing torrent transfers are
moved to the new location.
* Romanian and Finnish translation updates.
* New: Option to turn off Bittorrent DHT.
* YT search upgrades.
* New: Supports shortened y2u.be url searches.
* OSX: When shutting down to start the installer for an update
now the window is focused to make sure the user doesn’t get lost during the
update process.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Thu, 17 February 2015 14:44:30 -0500
frostwire (6.0.5) stable; urgency=high
* Fixes out of memory crash and freeze when importing lots of songs from the FrostWire
library to iTunes.
* Removed Litecoin and Dogecoin from torrent creation dialog, Bitcoin and payment
urls only. Litecoin and Dogecoin are pretty much dead compared to Bitcoin.
* Remove Download and Data now enabled for http downloads too.
* Fixes possible errors for SoundCloud downloads.
* Updates on Hungarian and Romanian translations.
* Fixes YT search issues.
* New mplayer binaries with HTTPS support.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Wed, 28 January 2015 14:18:12 -0500
frostwire (6.0.4) stable; urgency=high
* Implements torrent loading algorithm to avoid CPU overuse when checking
torrent integrity.
* When transfers are finished they no longer show as ‘Paused’,
they show as ‘Finished’.
* Fixes issues with incomplete files.
* Fixes issues importing too many songs to iTunes playlist.
* Fixes issue on which adding a whole torrent after starting a partial
download would not merge the two and continue to download the rest
of the torrent.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Fri, 16 January 2015 14:31:06 -0500
FROSTWIRE FOR ANDROID – 2015 CHANGELOG
FrostWire 1.6.4 – SEPTEMBER/24/2015
– New http engine based on okhttp, uses pooled connections, less threads, less memory.
– Visited previews also marked as visited and remembered during session.
– Fixes SoundCloud.
– Fixes KAT search.
– Fixes BitSnoop search.
– Browse and manage your .torrent files.
– Browsing document files now reveals all saved .apk files.
– Multiple crash fixes on audio player.
– No more annoying yellow notification messages when removing tracks.
– UX: My files won’t forget your search filter if you overscroll for a refresh.
FrostWire 1.6.3 – SEPTEMBER/06/2015
– Upgraded Picasso library for image caching.
– Code/library cleanup.
– New ‘Remove Torrent and Data’ action on finished torrent transfers.
– Clicked search results are marked as visited and remembered during session.
– jlibtorrent update 1.1.0.7, rebuilt with new swig library, memory optimizations, crashes fixed.
– Fixes EZTV, BtJunkie search.
– Fixes issue where torrent downloads would start on 3g/4g disregarding setting.
– Multiple crash fixes on audio player.
FrostWire 1.6.2 – AUGUST/14/2015
– Multiple crash fixes on audio player.
– Updated jlibtorrent library to version 1.1.0.5.
– Improvement of file type selector look, better layouts for tablets.
– FrostWire Plus YouTube search fixed.
FrostWire 1.6.1 – AUGUST/10/2015
– Fixes TorLock search.
– Crash fixes on libtorrent/jlibtorrent.
– Considerably faster search source processing.
– Search engines maintenance fix high cpu usage.
– Brings back “Send to/Upload” feature. Deleted by mistake.
FrostWire 1.6.0 – AUGUST/03/2015
– Streaming Previews on search results before download. (FrostWire Plus only)
– Play .torrent media files while downloading.
– Upgrade bittorrent engine to jlibtorrent 1.0
– Updated SoundCloud search & download api.
– Improved search suggestions.
– Improved transition between My Music and Home screens.
– Multiple crash fixes in music player.
FrostWire 1.5.8 – JUNE/16/2015
– Search performance improvements.
– Issues where subsequent searches would stop working fixed.
– TorLock search fixed.
– Added SSL (https) support for torrent web seeds.
– Icons/graphics update.
– New ‘Rate us’ reminder notification.
– WiFi sharing functionality removed. Less than 0.2% of the user
base making use of this, despite multiple rewrites we never
managed to get it to work 100% of the time.
– frostwire-jlibtorrent library updates.
FrostWire 1.5.7 – MAY/15/2015
– KAT search fixed.
– Monova search fixed.
– EZTV search fixed.
– Bitsnoop downloads fixed.
– BTJunkie downloads fixed.
FrostWire 1.5.6 – MAY/08/2015
– Further YouTube search fixes for non-english users.
FrostWire 1.5.5 – MAY/07/2015
– YouTube search fixed. (FrostWire Plus only)
– Domain alias manager removed.
FrostWire 1.5.4 – MAY/04/2015
– Crash fixes.
– Major icons make over. Crisp look on higher density screens.
FrostWire 1.5.3 – APRIL/23/2015
– Crash fixes.
– Reduced installer size to 7.6 MB.
– Lollipop compatibility fixes.
– Bitsnoop search faster for individual files.
– Binary Optimizations.
– libtorrent updates.
– Spanish, Portuguese, Polish translation updates.
FrostWire 1.5.2 – APRIL/17/2015
– Significant improvements in search results for individual files.
– Significant reduction of DHT queries, freeing up networking resources.
– Faster torrent download start.
– Fixes download error on some Archive.org search results.
– When no search results are found, search suggestions are calculated from search keywords.
– Fixes Yify search.
– Icon/buttons refresh on transfer screen.
– Fixes issues with SD Card storage on Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
– FrostWire notification icon now Lollipop compatible.
FrostWire 1.5.1 – APRIL/07/2015
– Removed all notifications explaining why no more YouTube search results on Basic version.
– Updated about screen to denote what FrostWire distribution is installed.
FrostWire 1.5.0 – APRIL/03/2015
– Upgraded frostwire-jlibtorrent to the latest code from libtorrent.
– Users can now donate to torrent creators, both Fiat and Bitcoin when available.
– TPB, BTJunkie, KAT, Monova searches fixed.
– New Bittorrent setting to enable/disable DHT connectivity.
– YouTube search disabled for Google Play distribution.
– Fixes annoying bug where user would be notified for old finished downloads.
– Fixes bug where songs that were deleted were not being cleared from playlists.
– Fixes bug where removing last song from Favorites playlist would not clear.
– Fixes bug where it would show “Play All” menu action on empty playlists.
– Fixes bug where sharing on WiFi from certain 3rd-party file explorers wouldn’t work.
– Fixes bug where file descriptors fetched by content:// uris wouldn’t have a disk path available.
– Fixes 2 crashes on music player.
– Chinese, Polish, Spanish translations update.
FrostWire 1.4.9 – MARCH/03/2015
– New KAT search.
– Fixed BTJunkie search issues causing ANR crashes.
– Fixed Mininova search. Few results coming in due to low seed numbers.
– Removed Appia Search.
– Clean up: Removed Appia, RevMob, Google In-App purchasing libraries.
– Updated Croatian translation. Thanks @win32re.
– Refactors, cleanup, misc fixes.
FrostWire 1.4.8 – FEBRUARY/25/2015
– Fixes YT file save issue.
FrostWire 1.4.7 – FEBRUARY/23/2015
– TPB search fixed.
– Monova search fixed.
– Removed Support FrostWire controls.
– SoundCloud download issue fixed.
– RevMob integration.
– Crashes and bug fixes.
– Croatian translation update.
FrostWire 1.4.6 – FEBRUARY/09/2015
– Fixes issue where finished torrents would re-download the last pieces on startup.
– Updated Picasso image caching library.
FrostWire 1.4.5 – FEBRUARY/06/2015
– Youtube search improvements.
– Removed Torrents.fm search, service was shutdown.
– Fixes issue when removing last song on a playlist.
FrostWire 1.4.4 – JANUARY/29/2015
– Finished transfers no longer should show as paused.
– Fixes issue adding a whole torrent after having added a single
file belonging to that same torrent to transfers. Now the whole
torrent will be downloaded as expected.
– Fixes Out of memory errors on MobileCore library.
– Fixes possible crash when exiting the app right after launching it.
– If storage location has ran out of space available FrostWire
will show a descriptive error message explaining why the download
has failed.
– Removes free apps ads from home page and sticky ads on transfer screens.
– Fixes issue where toast about shared file would not go away.
– Fixes settings screen issue where some android devices would automatically
toggle the BitTorrent connection.
– Fixes issues with YouTube search.
– Urdu translation started.
FrostWire 1.4.3 – JANUARY/05/2015
– Player un/favorites current track on double tap. Thanks @votaguz.
– Music Player database errors reported fixed.
– MobileCore ads integration. Ads can be turned off under settings.
If you have any ideas on how to make FrostWire better check out the new http://frostwire.com/ideas
If you’d like to get some FrostWire stickers to help spread the word, please order them here http://frostwire.com/stickers (shipping is free in the US)
If you haven’t already, please join us on Facebook http://www.frostwire.com/facebook
Got Twitter? keep in touch, complain or send us some love at @frostwire.
Also, If you’re geeky enough like a few people in the community, perhaps you want to try FrostWire for Android betas, you get to test the software and help us fix it before anybody else, oin us here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/android-frostwire
Cheers and Thanks!,
Angel, Team FrostWire
Download FrostWire 6.1.5 now absolutely free
Happy Sunday! This week has been very important because significant leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Pope Francis spoke at the United Nations. And also, today we are releasing a new FrostWire (6.1.5) for Windows, Mac and Linux.
This update makes FrostWire faster and leaner in memory usage, here’s how.
We fixed Kat Search, Bitsnoop Search, and EZTV search, so now you won’t have any issues when you search. Also, we replaced our HTTP networking engine and FrostWire is now more efficient and reliable than ever when it comes to web connectivity, this means faster and more reliable search results, faster media result previews, faster YouTube, SoundCloud and Archive.org downloads and all of this with less resources from your computer.
We also updated our Java runtime to the latest version (1.8.0 build 60), and removed Radio functionality which had been hard to maintain, not used by many people and not that great as we couldn’t keep up with the station url churn.
If you want to enjoy online radio we recommend you just open your web browser and head to shoutcast.com.
Enjoy your weekend with this new FrostWire. Remember, FrostWire is totally free and you can download it directly our our website FrostWire.com/Downloads
Changelog
frostwire (6.1.5) stable; urgency=high
* New http engine based on okhttp, uses pooled connections, less threads,
less memory. Faster and more reliable search & cloud downloads.
* libtorrent/jlibtorrent core update (v 1.1.0.9).
* Fixes KAT search.
* Fixes Bitsnoop search.
* Fixes EZTV search.
* Removes Radio functionality from Library.
* When the search options are opened, the keyword textfield is autofocused.
* Java Runtime upgrade to v1.8.0_60.
* Codebase cleanup and refactors.
-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Thu, 25 Sep 2015 11:04:00 -0500
What is FrostWire?
FrostWire, a BitTorrent Client & YouTube Downloader that makes it easier to search, download, play and share content from the BitTorrent network & cloud sources, all in one place, announced today its new ‘preview’ and ‘play as you download’ capabilities for Android phones and tablets. The new preview feature not just enables users with a more convenient way to find and discover content, it makes downloading optional in some cases.
Download FrostWire Plus, free, now.
(If you are on Android right now, don’t download it with Chrome, as Google now wants to censor out apps outside of Google Play and it will not open the installer after you download it, use Firefox instead, or a use File Explorer to open the .apk installer after you have downloaded it)
Saturday, Sep. 26th 2015
Miami, FL.
We have replaced our web engine and now we have an even better app.
This means, faster search results, faster-more reliable cloud downloads and previews, less memory usage, less battery usage.
We’ve also fixed several search sources, SoundCloud, Bitsnoop and KAT are back.
There’s also a ton of user experience details we’ve taken care of that we hope you don’t even notice, as everything should just work.
FrostWire is 100% Free, Support FrostWire Developers with a donation today
CHANGELOG:
FrostWire 1.6.4 – SEPTEMBER/24/2015
– New http engine based on okhttp, uses pooled connections, less threads, less memory.
– Visited previews also marked as visited and remembered during session.
– Fixes SoundCloud.
– Fixes KAT search.
– Fixes BitSnoop search.
– Browse and manage your .torrent files.
– Browsing document files now reveals all saved .apk files.
– Multiple crash fixes on audio player.
– No more annoying yellow notification messages when removing tracks.
– UX: My files won’t forget your search filter if you overscroll for a refresh.
In this century, learning new stuff is easy thanks to technology. Right now, you can read the oldest books and watch video courses totally free. Here on FrostWire we always support free learning and we love to share Creative Commons content.
So if you want to start learning through FrostWire, the first thing you need to do is download and install FrostWire for desktop or Android. Then you can download millions of free (licensed under public domain and creative commons) books, movies, software, music, indexed by Archive.org.
FrostWire searches for content on Archive.org so you can download easily all their files.
For example, you can read all Shakespeare’s plays or the notes and texts of Sir Isaac Newton. Also if you want to write about old movies, you can watch for free Classic Films like Chaplin’s movies.
If you want to learn at the same level as in the most important universities in the United States, you can watch free open courses from MIT. These courses are licensed under Creative Commons, so you can download them with FrostWire and have them in your tablet or computer.
Also, if you want to share your content, you can share it through FrostWire. For example, if you are a teacher and you want others to have your course materials, or you love teaching and you want to share your knowledge, it’s the time to create a torrent file and share it with FrostWire. If you do that, tell us and we also can share your content on our site FrostClick.com
This new release has a lot of fixes (EZTV, BtJunkie search, torrents issues, crash on audio player), also we upgraded Picasso library for image caching and did a significant update to the jlibtorrent library that improves memory handling and avoids a DDoS attack on the network.
The update is currently being rolled out in stages to a small percentage of users on Google Play so that we can fix any newly introduced bug without impacting the majority of users.
If you feel like you can handle it you can download the installers of build 202 and SourceCode on GitHub for both FrostWire Plus and FrostWire Basic on github.com
Full Changelog
FrostWire 1.6.3 - SEPTEMBER/06/2015 - Upgraded Picasso library for image caching. - Code/library cleanup. - New 'Remove Torrent and Data' action on finished torrent transfers. - Clicked search results are marked as visited and remembered during session. - jlibtorrent update 1.1.0.7, rebuilt with new swig library, memory optimizations, crashes fixed. - Fixes EZTV, BtJunkie search. - Fixes issue where torrent downloads would start on 3g/4g disregarding setting. - Multiple crash fixes on audio player.
What Is FrostWire?
FrostWire is the only BitTorrent Client and YouTube Downloader for both desktop and Android, featuring built in torrent & cloud search, preview functionality and integrated media player. For artists looking to share their content and consumers looking to access new content, FrostWire’s software is an easy-to-use gateway to the world of torrents, file-sharing and peer-to-peer content distribution.
Featuring a BitTorrent client, YouTube and SoundCloud downloader & Music Player, FrostWire is available as a desktop client or an Android application.
The fully featured FrostWire Plus app, is available for a free download at the official website frostwire.com/android
The FrostWire Basic app available on Google Play is mainly a BitTorrent Client and does not provide YouTube and SoundCloud support due to Google’s Developer Terms of Service.
Imagine that you have a box in your house. In that box, you have passwords to your bank accounts, email addresses, your personal information, all the private things in your life. Would you let other people easily steal the contents of the box and use them against you?
This box may be computer/phone/tablet, when you connect to Internet there is a great chance people out there are listening to everything that goes in and out of it.
If you could somehow scramble the information as it goes in and out of your computer so that those who are out there listening can’t make sense of it, your privacy would be protected, you wouldn’t be opened to the possibilities of identity theft, credit card fraud, and the content that you consume online and which only concerns to you would remain private.
You want this information far from the hands of someone that could use it against you, some examples of this are:
Your dreams and fears are at stake if you are connected to the internet openly, a vanilla internet connection is not the way you want to be online.
Protect your privacy
How can you protect yourself? How can you encrypt your connection to the internet, so that even your Internet Service Provider can’t be snooping on what you do, thus respecting the basic human right to privacy?
You need a VPN. A VPN or Virtual Private Network connects your computer to a private network across the public internet through a “tunnel”, an encrypted tunnel on which only your computer and the receiving end can make sense of the data being exchanged. The VPN computer on the other end is used as a proxy for every internet request you make, and it forwards you the encrypted responses back.
According to our friends of LifeHacker,”the most important thing you need to know about a VPN: It secures your computer’s internet connection to guarantee that all of the data you’re sending and receiving is encrypted and secured from prying eyes”.
How to buy a VPN service anonymously.
If not only you want to protect your privacy, but also you want to protect your anonymity we recommend this VPN service. It’s impossible to guarantee anonymity online, but with this VPN you can create an account without ever having to register your name in the process.
This VPN only asks for an email address (you can create free disposable temporary email addresses at mailinator.com or 10minutemail.com) and they accept Bitcoin as a form of payment, which is in short, the equivalent of electronic cash, Bitcoin payments are not associated with people’s names, they’re just associated to account numbers and there are also ways to obtain Bitcoin anonymously.
How does it work?
You have to sign up for a VPN service and obtain a username and password for authentication. You then download and install a very tiny piece of software that, upon a sign in, lets you choose a location of where you want to connect to. Your computer then connects to servers in that location and those servers then pass on the connection to wherever you wanted to go. Your destination website will see your connection as coming from the VPN servers and your identity will not be revealed.
Stay at home employees can connect to their company’s servers as if they would in the office. International marketers or researchers can use any website or service as if why would be in the country of research, making the content available to them as it would have been to locals.
On a flip side, you can access the content you are used to at home the same way when traveling. In addition, your connection is secured when using public Wi-Fi spots, which is especially important if you use online banking of sensitive information transfer during that time.. Most of all, your connection is always encrypted and secured so your personal information, including your IP address, is never revealed.
FrostWire, both for Android and for Desktop, works seamlessly with most VPN services. This means that however you connect to the internet – with or without the VPN – FrostWire will still search and download without any adjustment in settings on your part.
More information at frostwire.com/vpn
‘Preview’ & ‘Play As You Download’ Now Available
MIAMI, FL (AUGUST 12, 2015) – FrostWire, a BitTorrent Client & YouTube Downloader that makes it easier to search, download, play and share content from the BitTorrent network & cloud sources, all in one place, announced today its new ‘preview’ and ‘play as you download’ capabilities for Android phones and tablets. The new preview feature not just enables users with a more convenient way to find and discover content, it makes downloading optional in some cases.
Preview Before Download
Available today only for FrostWire Plus* (v1.6.1+), the ‘Preview before download’ feature allows users to stream YouTube and SoundCloud content directly from search results. This convenient (and free) feature lets users determine if they want to download the file for offline access, move on to another search result or simply play it without keeping a copy on the device.
Play As You Download
Because of how file pieces are shared on the BitTorrent network it’s not possible to offer instant previews the same way it can be done for cloud sources.
However, with the new ‘Play as you download’ feature available through both FrostWire Plus and FrostWire Basic**, users can listen to music or watch videos as they are being downloaded.
With nearly 3 million active Android installs, FrostWire is excited to provide their users an experience every media lover will appreciate. This new update will allow Android users to make better choices when selecting files to download from the hundreds of often closely named search results, saving them both time and bandwidth and getting them exactly the files they want.
What Is FrostWire?
FrostWire is the only BitTorrent Client and YouTube Downloader for both desktop and Android, featuring built in torrent & cloud search, preview functionality and integrated media player. For artists looking to share their content and consumers looking to access new content, FrostWire’s software is an easy-to-use gateway to the world of torrents, file-sharing and peer-to-peer content distribution.
Featuring a BitTorrent client, YouTube and SoundCloud downloader & Music Player, FrostWire is available as a desktop client or an Android application.
The fully featured FrostWire Plus app, is available for a free download at the official website frostwire.com/android
The FrostWire Basic app available on Google Play is mainly a BitTorrent Client and does not provide YouTube and SoundCloud support due to Google’s Developer Terms of Service.
Thanks to our jlibtorrent library, a multitude of crash reports sent by you and a lot of personal feedback loops, our developer team has managed to produce the most stable FrostWire for Android release so far.
We’ll always have crashes, but our quality has improved dramatically with the jlibtorrent library. As you can see the graphic below, during these last weeks even though we have more users using the app daily the number of crashes reported has been kept to a minimum and every day we fix the new crashes that come in.
number of daily crash reports since August 2014
Featured image licensed under CC0 Public Domain
Created by savanzijlstra0
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Full Changelog:
frostwire (6.1.2) stable; urgency=high
* Search performance improvements. New RxJava-based implementation.
* Search box suggestions improved.
* New Check/uncheck all search engines checkbox.
* TorLock search fixed.
* Added SSL (https) support for torrent web seeds.
* Options window remembers last pane opened.
* Fixes painting issues when searching Starred audio files on the library.
* frostwire-jlibtorrent library updates.
* Library user experience bug fixes.
-- FrostWire Team Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:44:00 -0500
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