There is probably one partial filesharing enabled client that sends corrupted data. I just downloaded a CD-Image and 30 of 512 file blocks were corrupted...

Hopefully LimeWire 4.0 will be able to recover from file-corruptions.

Allrighty, I'm using a 3 week old HP Pavilion, Windows XP, and Limewire 3.8.6. I omitted that because I don't think that's the problem. What I think is going on is that people that I'm downloading from just have corrupted files. From what you've been answering (though the help is most definitely appreciated), I'm not sure that you understand exactly what I'm talking about. I'll download a song, it'll say "Limewire detected a corruption", I'll go ahead and get it anyway. I play the song and it skips, like a skip on a song from a scratched CD or something, and because of this skip, caused by the corruption in the data, the file won't burn to CD, probably because of some screwup in the data from the corruption. That's why I don't think it has anything to do with the OS, cause I'd encounter this every once in awhile with Kazaa, but not often. I just figured there's been an increase in people who's files are screwy. My questions were simply "Can you burn corrupted files to CD with a different burner", and "Where the heck do I get uncorrupted files"? As to my comment about none of the downloads being uncorrupted, yes it was an exaggeration. No, they're not all corrupted. Yes, most of them are. Yes, it's a rare occurence to find one that's not.

So, to wrap it all up, I think that the corruption causes the skip that causes the screwy data that causes the unburnable track, indicated by Limewire telling me that it's corrupted at a certain point in the download, verified by the fact that it skips at about the point that I was told it was when I preview it.

That's what THEX/Tigertree is for, - I wrote a patch that takes care of corruptions using TigerTree hashing. Maybe it'll make it into LimeWire 4.0.

I guess what's really confusing me is the fact that a lot of people seem to be generally unafflicted by this problem. I suppose that's why you pressed the issue of something being wrong with my computer, urs, because it certainly does seem highly unlikely that I'm just the poor sod with the bad luck to come across an array of corrupted search results just about every time I do a search. Does owning the paid version of Limewire do anything to sort of tidy up the search results, in terms of quality and such? And, confusion further dogs my footsteps when it comes to Bitzi. I've discovered the option for a Bitzi checkup when right-clicking a file, and (shockingly enough, I suppose) so far none of my downloads have checked out. So does Bitzi only verify songs that have been registered, songs that were actually taken from a CD, or what? Cause I've been to the website and used the search function with pretty limited results. I'm certain the artist I checked up's got more songs than that.

Hi...

Bitzi is dependent on users 'filing reports'...
The Bitzi database is growing fast, but many of us wish it was much faster growth !

The only way that is going to happen is for more people to participate in Bitzi !

It does seem quite likely, unfortunately, that you have hit on some deliberately corrupted files.
This practice of corrupting files IS actually happening.

Nice, hmmm ?

It isn't the normal user who is doing this corrupting... It is simply another facet of the attempt to diminish or eliminate p2p participation.
And, before anyone says that my words are 'paranoic'... Believe me, I thought the same of others who said these things about the music industry... I was wrong... It really is happening.

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Eh, my download strategy is mostly just grab best quality and largest looking file. I'm not really wooed by advertising in the file names. Though I will take a look at the bandwidth and IP from now on, just as an extra little checkup.