Whenever I search for a song, I always get a HUGE list of different files for the song, but when I click any of them to download, they just sit in the downloads section with a "Connecting..." status and don't do anything. Most of the files in the search section under the Location column say "Multiple" with high numbers like 90 or 100 in brackets next to them.

What's with this, and how do I fix it?

Hmm. maybe by actually using this guide instead of just posting

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Limewire 4.12.3 / Newest Phex / Newest Azureus

I recommend using either an old Limewire version without BitTorrent support or Phex for Gnutella, Azureus is BitTorrent. None of this Limewire Gnutellatorrent hybrid crap.

I did... It helped a bit, but I still get tonnes of different files with the "Mutiple" thing in brackets, and when I download them, they just sit there and say "Connecting...". Even when I download bigger files with high bitrates.

In one of the first sections of that guide it says in so many words that all results that go close to or above 1000 hits are bogus fake files.

Whenever you get the same song listed with eg.
#
100
99
97
96

Don't even bother trying. instead try another searchphrase

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Limewire 4.12.3 / Newest Phex / Newest Azureus

I recommend using either an old Limewire version without BitTorrent support or Phex for Gnutella, Azureus is BitTorrent. None of this Limewire Gnutellatorrent hybrid crap.

Alright, got my own system now. Filtering out wma's, arranging the search results by size, and downloading the files with the biggest # which are close enough to the top to make sense to be real. Seems to work really well.

Hi I tried to download a movie
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and in the end all I got was voice no picture

is there a secert to downloading movies

Thanks
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You should edit your post...talking about copywrited material is against the forum rules

Try posting in another thread...this is about music!

Good Luck

ok when i started lime wire and i went in to download a song for the first time soemthnig came up about downloading music and i hit dont show this again and hit NO and now when i type things in to search a lot comes up but i cant download any of it. : ( please help me

See if this helps:

How to fix the license problem

Good Luck

Dano

Blank files with just a hiss on some previews ............ very strange

Look I tried searching for blank files referring to blank MP3 files but it never turned up any links so a friendly bit of advice would have been nicer than a short sharp hyperlink dont you think .......... was you a school teacher in a former life ?

I can't give any advice if you don't explain yourself.

What do you mean you are searching for blank files? What are blank files? Are you searching on Limewire or on the internet? What player are you using to 'preview' these files? Can you otherwise listen to music on your computer? Did you actually read this guide?

Sorry but I haven't found my way round here yet, m,y apologies if I posted in the wrong place

What I was trying to say was I was searching the forum to find out if people were experiencing files that were allegedly MP3 files but just turned out to be blank with a noisy hiss when previewed

Thanks! That's much more clear. I haven't encountered that myself.

Does it happen a lot? Can you give some examples of what type of file you are downloading (no file names), i.e. how many hosts, what bitrate, connection type of host? Are the files you're attempting to download very new or popular?

Spam is getting more and more common on the network. With your input, we can all be better equipped to avoid it if possible! By the way, you can listen to music on your computer, right? Some songs do play?

Thanks

Dan