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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 08, 2009
- Total Downloads: 24,825,991
- Downloads last week: 239,503
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1336 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on December 10, 2008
FrostWire is a fork of the LimeWire source code, and as such, it functions exactly the same. When you search for a file using FrostWire, you get results from LimeWire, and vice versa.
However, the user experience differs in two ways. One is that the code is actually based on LimeWire Pro, the paid version of the popular P2P client, so users don't have to worry about simultaneous download restrictions, and they won't get bombarded by ads. Also, befitting the name, the interface has changed from green to blue and has been slightly improved. Tabs have rounded corners, and there are two additions, as well. Connections monitors your outgoing and incoming connections by host name, but also provides bandwidth information, the vendor and version being used, and more. There's also a built-in community chat.
When we tested it, the built-in media player in FrostWire didn't work with MP3s or MPGs, although those files worked fine in LimeWire and elsewhere. The app also comes bundled with the ASK toolbar, but you can opt out of that during the installation process. While some people have experienced faster download times with FrostWire compared with its parent, others have not. FrostWire and LimeWire are practically indistinguishable, although the lack of ads is a big plus.
Publisher's description
From FrostWire :FrostWire is a fork of the very popular LimeWire PRO Gnutella/Bittorrent client. The purpose of FrostWire is to keep and maintain the freedoms that LimeWire LLC may be forced to withdraw. Share any type of file on Gnutella and the Bittorrent network.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.18.4 renews FrostWire's IP BlackList technology to helps to remove over 70% of spam and fake search results. New "Refresh Connections" feature fetches a list of fresh computers for faster bootstrap to get you Turbo Charged in seconds.
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- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 1336 votes
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Version: FrostWire 4.18.4
Pros: its fantastic
Cons: nothing so far
Summary: i have not used it yet but heard good things about it
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Version: FrostWire 4.18.4
"Not a good way to get free music (better use iGetMusic)"
Pros: Free of charge
Integrated search featureCons: Too many fakes
Requires a lot of work from the userSummary: P2P networks have become popular as a way to get access (more or less legally) to, among other things, free music. Frostwire certainly is a premier app to search for and download MP3s. However, there are some serious drawbacks. The first is that it ... read more >>
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Version: FrostWire 4.18.4
"Better than Limewire but could be better still."
Pros: Fast searches and plenty of returns. Good download speed.
Cons: still has limitations that hopefully can be fixed soon. Lots of repeats in the searches and some audio infected and broken up.
Summary: For what it is, Frostwire does the job quite efficiently but it still causes some problems with my system.
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Version: FrostWire 4.18.4
Pros: Unlike Limewire, Frostwire is stable on my pc with Windows-XP.
I don't use it a lot, but when I do, I nearly always find the audio that I'm looking for.Cons: The search results always come up with also a lot of junk and infected audio.
Summary: All in all I'm happy with this free program.
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Version: FrostWire 4.18.4
"do yourself a favor; skip this update"
Pros: It's free.
Cons: It crashes and is unusable
Summary: In the first 10 minutes of use after installing this version, it crashed 4 or 5 times asking me to send a report to the Frostwire website. I didn't get any connections from downloaders during that time, so I think it was crashing every time someone ... read more >>
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