Damn, I'm straight up disappointed. Limewire was the one hope for download agents and it's now going to hell.

Every download I search for now ends up with biased results for "advertisements"! It's not even the SONG. =\ What's up with these "sponsored results"?

And is it just me or is the availablity of songs/movies on LimeWire depleting?

I wish they'd spend more time making their systems run with integrity giving GOOD results instead of biased results, like Google does.

Sigh.

Sorry to disappoint but, Limewire IS NOT the P2P network, Gnutella is the open P2P network & LW, cant control what users share. and, have you checked your computer system for any viruses you may have picked up lately? Also, Ive never had any problems and have download MP3s and movies just fine, use the filters to filterout the junk files and stay away from the smaller files that get generated on the network by dummy hosts that are usually viruses/trojans/worms.

i know with all the info in this forum, i'm sharing a lot less than i started with. although i still have too many, around 3,000 songs. if people didn't have to worry about who's "spying" they might have more out there.

not even factoring in the freeloaders!!!

is it possible to have a "wish" list?? i know i've been trying to find michael mcdonald christmas anything, for about 4 wks. finally found 6 songs. maybe by next christmas i'll have a whole album.

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ChrisAvalon try to ignore files less than 1 MB (1,000 KB) in size then you'll get what you want. Use the spam filter to filter out the spam. There's discussions as to its use in the LW Beta section of the forum.

As far as the shape of the network goes, I'd say that since the Grokster court case, mysteriously a high no. of mp3 spam suddenly started to autospam the network. 1. autogenerated spam results, & also 2. autogenerated mp3 spam results & over the past 9 months, a lot of virii has also started showing up; WARNING: Viruses on network you should be aware of! (click on link) & also porn results Direct instructions to eliminate porn from results. But, the network has grown in size & poplulation. The no. of files shared has increased as people have swapped from other networks & new p2p users buoyed by the popularity. The issue is, search results are being fogged by spam. Learn to deal with it & you'll get more than you might have at the start of the year. And I say that whilst humouring within 42 degree celsius (107 F) on the last day of the year. lol

Some search tips: 1. Cant search well help

2. See the following link & follow “ALL” the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to help solve your problem: To continue files downlding (click on link)

. . hobo

if we had a wish list i could get all the music out of my library, and only have in it what someone wanted to download.

if i gave you a list of all my albums, i'm sure you wouldn't want all of them. but if you looked at the whole list, instead of part of it, you might actually find one that you want.

the list would have to be standardized tho, (so you could actually find what you're lookin' for).
ie: if the columns are separated, maybe there's a reason why!! it's frustrating to sort by columns if there isn't but one column.

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If your shared albums are properly detailed with id3 tags then people who search/browse you can separate the files into albums anyway using the LW audio>album filter. * Good tagging tools: http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/ Personally I use Media Rage to id3 tag/correct my files, & I use iTunes to organise my files for uploads. iTunes shared library & this Albumwrap/iTunes

remember, i'm from the dark ages!!

all my music is filed generally by genre, artist & album.

i don't know what "properly detailing with id3 tags" refers to.

audio>album filter???

i don't use an mp3 player, nor i-tunes. i still like cd's cause i have a killer stereo in the car (good vibrations), a 5.1 on comp & a 7.1 on the dvd. i play any or all at one person level. (when no one's home)

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it doesnt suck you suck, joking

Im Sorry But I Don't Know What the hell your talking about everytime i search and download a song its the song ( ur not high are u ? LMAO ) ANYWAYZ I JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF YOUR doing something wrong.....becuase all my searches are fine.. peace out ( oh and i forgot to tell you that my searches are faster than ever....

Sorry to disappoint the disappointer but I'm not disappointed by your disappointment!

And yeah, it's just recently for me that I've not been able to find anything. The songs/movies end up with this "sponsored result" crap - maybe I'm more of an isolated case.

I don't pay for it, so maybe that's it. But what kind of crap is that to make the Free Version suck so bad that you're FRUSTRATED into upgrading to something that has a chance of not being crap?

I think that's ugly business. But that's probably not the case. Maybe I'm doing something wrong - considering I've been d/l'ing for years I have NO idea what.

PS. No I'm not high. :P

AS Sphinx told you LimeWire has nothing to do with the Gnutella net it is just a app to get you there. What amazes me is you comment about Google.Below is the the results of a google search for LimeWire the first sites you click on are scam sites. As a matter of a fact all of the sponsored links are scam sites.
Now where is the integrity in that.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

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I'm sure you know a lot more about Google's search engine algorithm... so you could probably make a better more integrous system... you're tottaly Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Why don't you go apply for Google and give them your ideassss.

Listen - the point is Google does make an attempt to provide completely UNBIASED results with their searches - even their sponsored PAID FOR results are secluded in sections where you know where they are - they're not overwhelmingly taking up the entire search - and additionally, they have a screening process for their paid results. They refuse scam sites, inappropriate language/content, and generally have systems in place to check up on that ****.

Knock them for it if you like, I think they do a helluva better job and spend a lot more of their time developing a search engine that produces quality results.

By the way - your link? The top search result is Limewire.Com, and those "scam sites" are not scams. But okay. I guess anyone with attmpts to make a buck are scams these days...

People. :P

i downloaded limewire yesterday, was looking for a couple programs. today i scan my machine and find 40 infected files... in a "complete" folder... that i did not even create. all stuff that i did not even download! this has got to be one of the shadiest networks i have ever used. thoroughly disappointed, not to mention the 1 program i did download was a totally different program AND infected as well... how do people get away with this kind of stuff???

There's not much in place to counter it, that's for sure. But what can they do? It's just upsetting that such a great p2p is now getting so screwed up.

ChrisAvalon

I don't know about you but I always thought that anytime you only spoke half truths and charged for something that was free it was a scam. And I bet you that 99.9% of the rest of the world does to. I think they only charge $25 for LimeWire basic which is free. And look at all the things they promise it is all unlimited wow what a deal.

Perhaps you can point out to the rest of us why this is not a scam after all it is the first site on the google search.

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