FrostWire

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FrostWire
Software Details:
Version: 6.6.5 updated
Upload Date: 22 Jun 18
Developer: FrostWire Team
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 79

Rating: 1.5/5 (Total Votes: 2)

FrostWire is an open source and cross-platform application (forked from Limewire) that allow users to share large files and folders at faster download speeds over the Internet, with other people. It is compatible with the BitTorrent network, and allows users to download Magnet links.

Features at a glance

Key features include user-friendly online chat rooms, support for Internet radio stations, skins, Apple iTunes support, as well as a media library and audio player. Being an open source software, FrostWire includes no spyware and no adware. Guaranteed!

It is inspired by the well known LimeWire application and has been designed from the ground up to support search inside cloud and .torrent files, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) service, playback of audio and video files using the MPlayer software, as well as local file sharing and streaming via Wi-Fi/HTTP.

In addition, the program allows users to send downloaded audio files to the iTunes music player application in order to play them. Also, the integrated video player component will let you to playback downloaded video files.

Under the hood

Under the hood, we can report that the application is written entirely in the Java programming language and supports the GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Android, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It runs on either 64-bit or 32-bit hardware platforms.

On Linux, the application is available for download as DEB files for the Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as binary and source archives that can be used on any Linux-based operating system, as long as you have the Java Runtime Environment installed, at least 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended) and an Internet connection.

Bottom line

All in all, FrostWire is a decent P2P (Peer-to-Peer) application that lets users to download torrent and magnet files from the BitTorrent network, no matter the operating system they use. It offers a beautiful, familiar and modern graphical user interface that looks the same on all supported platforms.

What is new in this release:

  • Fixes drag and drop freezes introduced by new Java Runtime Environment 1.8.0_60.
  • Fixes SoundCloud search.
  • Fixes TPB search.
  • Fixes BTJunkie search.
  • Fixes TorLock search.
  • Updates to Spanish and Romanian translations.
  • Chat button on header moved to Tools menu. More space for search bar.

What is new in version :

  • Fixes drag and drop freezes introduced by new Java Runtime Environment 1.8.0_60.
  • Fixes SoundCloud search.
  • Fixes TPB search.
  • Fixes BTJunkie search.
  • Fixes TorLock search.
  • Updates to Spanish and Romanian translations.
  • Chat button on header moved to Tools menu. More space for search bar.

What is new in version 6.2.4:

  • Fixes drag and drop freezes introduced by new Java Runtime Environment 1.8.0_60.
  • Fixes SoundCloud search.
  • Fixes TPB search.
  • Fixes BTJunkie search.
  • Fixes TorLock search.
  • Updates to Spanish and Romanian translations.
  • Chat button on header moved to Tools menu. More space for search bar.

What is new in version 6.2.1:

  • Fixes drag and drop freezes introduced by new Java Runtime Environment 1.8.0_60.
  • Fixes SoundCloud search.
  • Fixes TPB search.
  • Fixes BTJunkie search.
  • Fixes TorLock search.
  • Updates to Spanish and Romanian translations.
  • Chat button on header moved to Tools menu. More space for search bar.

What is new in version 6.1.7:

  • Fixes drag and drop freezes introduced by new Java Runtime Environment 1.8.0_60.
  • Fixes SoundCloud search.
  • Fixes TPB search.
  • Fixes BTJunkie search.
  • Fixes TorLock search.
  • Updates to Spanish and Romanian translations.
  • Chat button on header moved to Tools menu. More space for search bar.

What is new in version 6.1.4:

  • 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.

What is new in version 6.1.1:

  • 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.

What is new in version 6.0.8:

  • 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.

What is new in version 6.0.6:

  • 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.

What is new in version 6.0.4:

  • 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.

What is new in version 6.0.3:

  • Solves issue getting correct single file location from transfer manager.
  • Improved MD5 verification. Thanks @abderraouf-adjal
  • Important UI transfer related actions restored for Linux users.
  • Updated frostwire-jlibtorrent libraries, now built with older Boost 1.55, fixes Windows UI Freeze issue.
  • CPU usage reduced managing transfer items.
  • Croatian, Bulgarian, Polish, translation updates.
  • More cleanups and refactors.

What is new in version 6.0.0:

  • New BitTorrent engine based on frostwire-jlibtorrent, a libtorrent wrapper api created by FrostWire.
  • Russian translation updates.
  • Croatian translation updates.
  • Polish translation updates.
  • Simplified Chinese translation updates.
  • Fixes EzTV search, now with https support.
  • Multiple bug fixes.

What is new in version 5.7.7:

  • New: VPN connection status indicator.
  • New: Stop media playback by long pressing play/pause button.
  • Fix: Bug where files couldn't be played with the main player button.
  • Fix: Bug where the speaker icon on the library would still show after the media player had stopped.
  • Fix: Bug after 5.7.5 in which the buttons of the Create Torrent dialog were not visible unless the window was resized.
  • Fixes issue on Linux when player window pixel translucency could not be set. Thanks @foutrelis.
  • Fixes Null Pointer Exception when trying to shutdown and hide an MPlayerWindow that may have not been instantiated.
  • Fixes issue where user could not create new playlist by dropping songs from existing playlist into 'New Playlist' list item in the library.
  • Updated MigLayout source code to version 4.0

What is new in version 5.7.6:

  • New: Filter search results by file extension, source name.
  • UI: Now table rows have a subtle bevel effect.
  • UI: Adds support for full screen mode on Mac OSX. Thanks to Tim Farris.

What is new in version 5.7.5:

  • Improved mp4 parser.
  • Improved cloud search results.
  • Now FrostWire runs with Java8 technology.
  • Fixes player control layout issues when resizing the main window.
  • Fixes soundcloud url track/set downloads.
  • Fixes possible cloud download errors.

What is new in version 5.7.4:

  • Recovered ability to download soundcloud URLs.
  • Can download entire soundcloud playlists from playlist URL.
  • Fixed broken Torrents.fm search.
  • Updated Gson library, included the sources into our repo.

What is new in version 5.7.3:

  • New Yifi search.
  • Added Canonical Peer Priority support. (BEP40)
  • Fixed broken EZTV search.
  • Removed apache httpclient and httpcore libraries.

What is new in version 5.7.2:

  • uTP support enabled.
  • Multiple crash fixes.
  • UX: playable single file torrents now can be played from transfer list.
  • UX: Fixes UI Thread freeze when opening Options > Search.
  • UX: Better error reporting when a torrent can't be fetched from a magnet connection.

Requirements:

  • Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment

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