New FrostWire Plus for Android (1.7.0). Stable Release!

January 15, 2016January 15, 2016 ~ Alejandro Martínez ~ Leave a comment

Now it’s time to download a new FrostWire release. This is a major update. Now, FrostWire Plus for Android is very stable and you’re not going to have any problems when trying to search, download or play.

Also, now the torrent transfer are shown immediately when you click to download it. As well, when you click on “stop and delete data”, the corresponding torrent will be deleted too.

FrostWire 1.7.0 – JANUARY/12/2016
– Updated to new jlibtorrent 1.1.0.19.
– Torrent transfers are now shown immediatly after they start.
– “Stop and Delete Data” now also deletes corresponding .torrent.
– Downloading two partial files from the same .torrent no longer
downloads the entire torrent.
– Lots of icons updated, unused ones pruned.
– Improved update notification for FrostWire plus users.

HOW TO INSTALL FROSTWIRE PLUS?

New FrostWire Plus for Android (1.6.8) – Fixes search & download issues and more

December 24, 2015December 24, 2015 ~ Alejandro Martínez ~ Leave a comment

Download FrostWire Plus 1.6.8 now

Happy Christmas! We’re very pleased to announce the launch of a new FrostWire Plus for Android release. This update includes several fixes (YouTube search is working again) and a lot of improvements on the interface.

Thanks for your patient and we hope you can enjoy this new release!

Changelog

FrostWire 1.6.8 – DECEMBER/22/2015

Fixes and improves YouTube search and download.

Updates to new jlibtorrent 1.1.0.15. Better connectivity, crash fixes.

Japanese translation update by @naofum.

Misc User Interfaces upgrades/adjustments.

Library upgrades for faster search, more reliable HTTP downloads & more responsive UI.

Fixes issue where after touching the FrostWire notification rotating the device would take you back to the Transfers screen.

Fixes multiple crashes.

Enjoy!
FrostWire Team.

How to install FrostWire Plus?

FrostWire 6.15 brings back 32bit compatibility to Linux

October 7, 2015October 7, 2015 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

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.

Thanks For Your Support In 2015

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

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

Listen to Shinobi Ninja. Free FrostWire Mixtape 2015

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 ~ Alejandro Martínez ~ Leave a comment

We’re so happy to announce that our new Free FrostWire Mixtape 2015 features Shinobi Ninja. Shinobi Ninja is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The band is known for high-energy performances and eclectic sound, blending music genres such as Hip Hop, Punk, Funk, Metal, Reggae, Electronic, and Rock.

On this Mixtape Shinobi Ninja is sharing 5 great free tracks, including 2 hit-tracks from their 2014 album “Escape from New York” (“What If Times” and “Gloom Doom”) and “Honey Trap” from their 2015 album “Artistic Visions”.

You can get the torrent here and download it using FrostWire.

For more information about Shinobi Ninja, read our review on FrostClick. Also, you can follow Shinobi Ninja on Facebook and Twitter.

A New FrostWire for Android is Ready for Download!

September 6, 2015September 6, 2015 ~ Alejandro Martínez ~ 1 Comment

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.

Our latest FrostWire for Android release (6.1.4) has been the most stable ever

August 20, 2015August 20, 2015 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

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

New FrostWire for Windows, Mac and Linux (v6.1.3)

August 3, 2015August 3, 2015 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

Download FrostWire 6.1.3 now absolutely free

Lots of fixes under the hood for this release, we’ve also made sure this release was compatible with Windows 10 (but if you have any issues on Windows 10 please let us know).

Substantial changes on the way our bittorrent engine works, which allowed us to simplify seeding settings, and the no more the possibility of file parts staying in your download directory when you didn’t want this.

Users who had issues with external drives to save downloaded files should be glad with this release.

Soundcloud search & download has been restored with Soundcloud’s API updates.

Changelog

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   Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:04:32 -0500

What’s new in FrostWire 1.5.8 for Android

June 17, 2015August 14, 2015 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

Download FrostWire Plus for Android
Download Source Code for FrostWire 1.5.8
Fork Us

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Write runtime libtorrent plugins with Java using frostwire-jlibtorrent #FrostWireLabs

June 1, 2015August 14, 2015 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

We’ve just pushed upgrades to the frostwire-jlibtorrent API that will allow developers to extend and interact the Bittorrent protocol at a lower level through the implementation of libtorrent plugins.

Before today, a libtorrent plugin developer had to code plugins in C++ and rebuild the libtorrent library binaries for the architectures on which the plugin was meant to be used.

We think that non-bittorrent higher level abstractions (e.g. Bitcoin+Bittorrent integration) that need to occur near the core of the bittorrent protocol can be more easily coded, tested and debugged in a language like Java, without having to touch nor recompile the libtorrent libraries.

Today we’ve made available a new portion of the frostwire-jlibtorrent API that allows you to do this without all the C++ development headaches, you just focus on your plugin logic, and your code will also be available in all platforms with the same .class files.

Here’s an example of a dummy libtorrent Plugin implemented in Java using frostwire-jlibtorrent

To create a Plugin all you need to do is extend the AbstractPlugin class, whose newTorrent method will ask you to provide a TorrentPlugin interface implementation, this is meant to be a plugin instance that takes care of what happens when a torrent is added to the libtorrent session.

We provide an AbstractTorrentPlugin class for you to extend and as you do this you may or may not need to provide your own implementation of the TorrentPlugin::newPeerConnection method, which is meant to return a PeerPlugin, a plugin instance that takes care of what happens for every Peer connection, where probably most of your plugin logic will occur. We also provide an AbstractPeerPlugin implementation that you can extend.

Once you have your plugin ready to go, you can add it to the session with session.addExtension(myPlugin) and all torrents added to the session will invoke hooks that could be handled by your plugin implementations.

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