New Files...how To Integrate Onto Network???

i would like to make my newly encoded mp3 available to other users? as far as understand, if i drag it to 'shared' and perform a limewire search for that file, it should appear in the results window. unfortunately, the search result was nil.

is this not the case?

is it the encoding software (i used N2MP3 Pro)?

if not, then what is the protocol and how do i verify that my task is successful?

thanks,
DJ Dirty Dan