cant download: awaiting fu*king sources
 

i was fine before i paid for the program. now that i did, all i get is waiting for sources error. does anybody elses computer run slower when limewire is on? i have a gig of memory and a g4, so it shouldnt slow down.
-pissed off pirateer

in answer to your problem
 

you may notice that i have a thread up on this forum stating that i have the same problem. Several people seem to. It is almost impossible to actually get this version of limewire to download anything. I have had only two successful downloads but i will tell you the only suggestions that I can think of that may help you that i have found from reading other threads. Go to preferences/firewalls and force your IP. If you read the other threads in this forum one of them gives a link that can help you find out what your computer's IP is. Also, go to preferences/download and select show all speeds and also only show three or four star qualitys. also if you have a download in progress and halfway through it tells you that it is awaiting more sources, go to the clear inactive button-then go back and double click on it again under the search that you found it--this works no matter how many times it times out on you because this is how I got one of my two downloads to complete. I hope this helps you. I don't know of anything else to do really. All i can say is if a song says it can not download straight away, the only thing I know that you can do is do another search and/or try other ones of different speeds. Hopefully one of these will work for you :D

A Totally Unproven Theory On LimeWire
 

I hope the suggestions work for you. For me, everything sucked on LimeWire until I got my firewall and router properly configured and since then, it has been smooth sailing. The only mishap I have had is when somewhere along the line LimeWire changed the file it saves stuff to, and it has persistently refused to allow me to change it back. That is ok, I just made some adjustments and I really don't care where it saves my stuff as long as I can find it and share it.

My theory on LimeWire, and on p2p software in general is this: you can tweak stuff and try to fix problems, and sometimes it works but I think the bottom line is very often that either your computer "likes" LimeWire or it does not. Maybe a team of full time geeks could explain the hows and whys (or then again, maybe not) but LimeWire, or some versions of LimeWire simply will not work for some people no matter what fixes they try. Some of the longtime users here may try to make it sound as if having persistent problems means you don't know what you are doing, but I don't buy that. LimeWire, like all p2p is essentially experimental software "running the (lousy) Gnutella network".

My own cursed software was Ares. Ares did a fabulous job of downloading music, and it is ad/spyware free (they don't charge for that neat feature, by the way). The trouble was, in spite of very carefully and properly configured share settings, suddenly and without warning Ares decided to share my entire hard drive. Oops! I found out what was going on before any serious damage occurred (in about 5 minutes!) but the program should not have done that. So what was the glitch? Who knows. Again, may geeks would tell you I had to be doing something wrong. Sorry, I checked and rechecked those share settings. Just another chapter in the experiment that is p2p. Use at your own risk, and good luck!

katgirl