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Unsigned Musician Sean Fournier Draws Over 25,000 Downloads in One Weekend
FrostWire™ is positively on the news this morning showing how P2P can achieve great things when artists have an open mind when it comes to sharing some of their work for free.
As of FrostWire™ 4.17.0, we can promote legal content, or important information using the FrostWire™ welcome screen. We’ve vowed to never use this screen for spam or evil purposes of any kind, only to help content creators of all kinds (musicians, film makers, writers, software programers, photographers, video game shops and independent professionals) that are willing to share some of their work for free, or under creative commons licenses get their message across our ever growing network.
Sean Fournier is the first musician to do so, in only 4 days his 6 track album “Oh-my” was shared via FrostWire™ by over 25,000 users, at the time of this writing the download count by the torrent tracker is 27,923, saving Sean almost 1 Terabyte of data sent, plus having his music on tens of thousands of computers and who knows into how many portable music players.
You can read the full story on FrostClick.com, our initiative towards the distribution of 100% free and legal content over FrostWire™.
Here’s a press release we found this morning on the news:
Milford, CT (PRWEB) December 2, 2008 — Musician Sean Fournier harnesses the power of Peer-to-Peer networking to distribute his free album, ‘Oh My’, to hundreds of thousands all over the world via FrostWire’s welcome screen. Within the first weekend, this exposure returned over 25,000 complete downloads for this independent singer/songwriter.
FrostWire Welcome Screen Featuring Sean FournierSpread it like the plague.
Fournier’s ‘Oh My’ is the first free album download to be featured on FrostWire’s Welcome Screen, which is a new feature designed to help musicians and content owners share their media for free on the FrostWire network.‘Oh My’ is a six-track album which was created to be 100% free. Sean encourages his listeners to download it, share it, give it friends and family – and do anything within their power to “Spread it like the plague.”
Aside from it’s recent exposure on FrostClick.com, listeners can get their hands on ‘Oh My’ at Sean Fournier’s Official Website.
If you’re a professional content creator willing to share some of your work for free to get more exposure and thus increase your sales, contact us at FrostClick.com
Related Links
Sean Fournier’s Blog – FrostWire related Post #1
Sean Fournier’s Blog – FrostWire related post #2
FrostClick.com – Sean Fournier’s “Oh My” – A great Free Album
Torrents. Changing MIME type and File Type Associations on Mac OSX
After FrostWire 4.17.1 on MacOSX, FrostWire’s Info.plist file tells Mac OSX that FrostWire can be used as an application to open both torrent links and .torrent files.
If you like FrostWire only for Gnutella but not as a torrent client, you may probably want to have your .torrent files, and torrent links going by default to your preferred torrent client. It could also happen that another client is already set as the default torrent application, and you may want FrostWire to be the default.
The following screenshots will show you how to change the file associations and MIME type associations, which tell your web browser which application to open whenever a torrent link is clicked on.
Changing File Associations
1. Select a .torrent file
2. Right click on it and select “Get Info” (or press Command + i )
3. Select the Application you want to open it with, and click on the “Change All” button
4. All your .torrent file associations are now changed to the new program.
Changing MIME associations in Firefox
Open your Firefox “Preferences” and head to the “Applications” tab. Search for “torrent” and change the behavior. You can make it ask you every time for what application to use, or you can set a new default.
Note: If somebody knows how to change MIME type program associations in Safari, please let us know.
FrostWire gets popular on SourceForge.net
FrostWire on the web – November 2008
These are the blogs and sites we’ve spotted talking about FrostWire recently.
Our thanks to all for spreading the word.
Bill Mullins’ Weblog – Tech Thoughts
If you have reviewed or talked about FrostWire on your blog or website, please leave a comment on this post, and we’ll update the list by adding a link to your page.
Kalong from Strands.com got a FrostWire T-Shirt
Thanks to Kalong from Strands.com for posting this video of her receiving the FrostWire T-Shirt and stickers.
Also thanks to all the users that have posted pictures of their stickers and t-shirts on our Flickr Photo Album
About Strands.com
Strands is a life streaming service that helps users discover new things based on what their friends like and do, and allows them to see what’s hot among the people they care about.
From Wikipedia
New FrostWire 4.17.1 Released
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Official FrostWire 4.17.1 Download link
FrostWire.com — The last of the 4.17.x FrostWire series is finally out. The following is a list of the most important updates made for this release, which irons out most of the complains received from the community in regards to 4.17.0.
The new FrostWire will allow us to distribute twice the number of installers using the same bandwidth employed by 4.17.0, The new FrostWire installer has been reduced in sized more than 50% by using the latest in compression technology.
About FrostWire
FrostWire, a BitTorrent/Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source developers and contributors 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.
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FrostWire on the Blogosphere recently
Here’s a list of some of the blogs that have taken the time to write about FrostWire recently:
Easy Tech Talk – Stop Using LimeWire
Carlos Leopoldo – FrostWire como LimeWire PRO pero gratis
Zzillez dot net – FrostWire Chat Server
Waterfowl Blog – Faster and better LimeWire alternative
FrostWire is the most popular Mac download on download.com
FrostWire 4.17.0 was listed on download.com for the first time only 2 weeks ago, two weeks after, the mac user base has made it the most popular software for the week ending July 20th of 2008.
Thank you, keep spreading the voice
FrostWire 4.17.0 Released
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Official FrostWire 4.17.0 Download link
After 6 months of work, a completely new fork from the LimeWire code base has come to fruition, FrostWire 4.17.0 features over a year’s worth of core and user interface upgrades made to the original LimeWire client, now included in FrostWire along all the previous work done over FrostWire 4.13.x.
Among the most important updates:
- Upgrades on our update notification system, capability for featured content and recommendations
- Updated Playlist (drag & drop support, and Playlist rearrange options)
- New Media Player with volume and seek controls (Plays mp3, ogg and wav)
- Support for private torrents
- Greater control over your Shared files
- Add Magnets to Open Dialog
- Improvements in bootstrapping
- Warn When Too Many Files Shared
- Make Ultrapeers ignore partial results
- Mojito DHT capable (still not active for 4.17.0)
- More translations to be available for the community on launchpad.net. Many improvements for Spanish, and Italian and Chinese have been finally been added among others
- Reduce query traffic by knowing firewalled state; implement leafs informing ups of firewall status.
- Recognize flv as a video extension.
- Enable removal from playlist via the ‘Delete’ or ‘Backspace’ key.
- (Bittorrent) Extended BEncoding to support rational numbers.
- Add support for alternate location lookup for BitTorrents.
- Use less memory for large number of leaf connections.
- General Save folder improvements.
- Smoother Icon Tray Icons for Linux and Windows
- FrostWire now runs under Java SE 6 on Mac OS X (however SE6 is temperamental; it exhibits some strange connection issues). More integration with the MacOSX dock and other components
- Speedup Magnet/Torrents at startup.
- Add partial search results.
- Exclude magnet downloads from being purged after 7 days.
- Incremental search on the Settings window
- Default setting tweaks for users with high speed connections (T1,T3) to make the most out of their bandwith
Faster than ever
Here’s a full screenshot of the new speeds achieved with FrostWire 4.17.0 when downloading torrents.
FrostWire 4.17.0 is a major milestone on the project road map, many new innovations are to come after this release, stay tuned.
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.
Official FrostWire Blog 