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Update: A new FrostWire 4.13.4 installer for windows is now available to help fix this problem, you can just download it again and the problem will be gone. If you don’t want to download it again follow these instructions for a simple fix.

If your new frostwire is crashing, due to :

"Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException:
resource: frostwire_theme.skin doesn't exist." 

Just Download and save this file:
http://www.frostwire.com/beta/skins/frostwire_theme.skin

For Windows XP, save it at:

C:\Documents and Settings\<name>\Application Data\FrostWire\Themes\

For Windows Vista, save it at:

C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\FrostWire\themes\

(where “<name>” is your user name in windows)

This should solve the problem.

This problem affects only users who never had FrostWire installed on their machine, or users that may have removed their FrostWire Preferences folder.

Thanks to CodeMoose for posting this fix.

Curious Mac and Linux users get to take 4.13.4 for a spin before everyone else.
Might be uploading the Linux installers during the next hours.

Mac OSX DMG (No more zips for Mac users)
MD5 -> 6690b1d08109059a508961fb057c9176

Ubuntu/Debian package
MD5 -> 276c319df17869a18f3e11fb3ecddc55

TGZ
MD5 -> e8bfaa395bcd8ab188166cc142c4dd83

RPM
MD5 -> fdd7ef316e05fb1c63f0914b5259dc76

Take it for a ride. Windows version coming soon, We expect to have it ready for tomorrow

CHANGELOG - Mowi po polsku ?

version 4.13.4 (November-December 2007)

On November 20th 2007, FrostWire gets a very positive review by CNET’s download.com, and makes it to the home page of download.com as the Killer Download of the Day

Click here to read

Their review makes us very happy, at the same time, it pushes us to include new killer features that LimeWire may not be able to have in the near future, however if you follow LimeWire’s code base, it seems they’re working hard to release a web based Music Store that will be included on an embedded browser inside their client, probably in the fashion of the online iTunes store, but probably powered by P2P (we hope, if they stick to their p2p philosophy and hopefully without DRM so that files can be shared or bought, at least this worked beautifully for Radiohead).

It’d probably be a smart move by the LimeWire store to include the possibility to buy their music from outside their site (with commissions on sales of course), that way, other music sites could trigger purchases based on search, as well as other p2p clients such as FrostWire.

For the 3rd week in a row we’re on the Top 20 of download.com and going up.
Last week on position #19, now we went up to #15!!!

Thanks so much for downloading, we’re working hard on the next version, coming out very soon.

This feels like graduating or something similar. I can’t believe our grassroot efforts after about a year of work has gone so far, far enough to make it to the Top 20 most popular software on download.com

I guess we can only thank all the users and all the people that have helped spread the word, since this is 100% the work of word of mouth, bloggers and tech writers that mention us for one reason or the other.

Thanks, we can only feel like releasing more and more FrostWire versions for you in the near future to see if we can get on the top 10 now.

The FrostWire Team

I went yesterday to the Apple Store in SoHO to try FrostWire in Leopard, I managed to install it and run a few tests and it seems to work without a glitch.

If you have Leopard and now your FrostWire copy gives you problems you didn’t have with tiger, please write us at contact@frostwire.com

Please remember that if you are in the US, you can support FrostWire by getting yourself a tshirt at shop.frostwire.com

It seems there is some kind of conflict between the Java Virtual Machine and Tortoise SVN, this is the reason why FrostWire may be crashing on you lately.
We’ve found a solution by overriding some of the launch parameters. All you have to do is create a new file called launch.properties right next to your FrostWire.exe (Usually at c:\Program Files\FrostWire)

The file should contain the following, and the application will launch, and you won’t have to remove Tortoise SVN


-Xms32m
-Xminf0.10
-Xmaxf0.25
-Xmx128m
-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.NoOpLog
-Djava.net.preferIPv6Addresses=false
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-ea
-jar
FrostWire.jar


The FrostWire Team

Thanks to our community and especially to Micheal K. aka “Only A Hobo” for his continued help on the forums, supporting the community, and also for reporting the early problems with the LimeWire Update messages appearing on FrostWire.

We took a while for this fix because we decided to implement our own FrostWire Update System and not just silence the LimeWire messages. This way after 4.13.3, everytime we release a new version, everybody on the network will know about new updates.

Changes for 4.13.3 include:

• New Update Manager. Also allows delivery of special announcements to the community. And no, we won’t use this feature for spam, only for special announcements to the community, or special downloads.
• The Update Manager supports the delivery of torrent broadcasting to all the FrostWire community. This will allow us to lower bandwidth costs if we decide to distribute an upload using bittorrent trackers.
• FrostWire startup time back to normal, no more waiting for Chat window to load, the chat is now loaded on a background thread

As of 4.13.3, we are proud to announce that we’re now partners with IAC Search & Media (Ask.com/AskJeeves) on the distribution of the free Ask Toolbar. The success of this relationship will ensure the perpetual continuity of FrostWire’s absolutely free Peer-2-Peer tool and also improve the evolutionary technology behind it.

Thank you!
The FrostWire Team

On the Periodic Table of the internet that is. Great honor for FrostWire.com