Get the New FrostWire for Windows, Mac and Linux (6.1.5)

September 27, 2015September 29, 2015 ~ Alejandro Martínez ~ Leave a comment

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.

New FrostWire 1.6.4 for Android is here.

September 26, 2015September 26, 2015 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

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.

Learning Through FrostWire

September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 ~ Alejandro Martínez ~ 1 Comment

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

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

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.

Music by Exist Strategy “Departure”
Licensed under CC-BY 3.0
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New FrostWire 1.5.3 build 186 for Android fixes crashes, lollipop issues and makes Bitsnoop search faster

April 24, 2015August 14, 2015 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

Download FrostWire Plus (with YouTube Search)
Download FrostWire Basic from Google Play

Changelog:
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 is a file sharing and media player application, it features high performance BitTorrent client, YouTube downloader, Soundcloud downloader, Archive.org downloader, Bittorrent search (searches torrents and individual files in torrents) as well as a full featured music player and file browser. Search, Download and Play in one place. Absolutely free.

New FrostWire 6.0.6 out for Windows, Mac and Linux

February 18, 2015 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

Download from FrostWire’s Official Website
Download Binaries and Source from Github
Download from SourceForge.net

Changelog

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 Thu, 17 February 2015 14:44:30 -0500

New FrostWire 6.0.5 for Desktop out, fixes YouTube search issues and a lot more.

January 30, 2015January 30, 2015 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

Download FrostWire 6.0.5 now

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   Wed, 28 January 2015 14:18:12 -0500

FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including BitTorrent support. In version 5, Gnutella support was dropped entirely, and FrostWire is only a BitTorrent client. Development of the program has been active since the program was first released in September 2004.