I been able to get about 90% of what I want, and I feel the problem lies not with Lime Wire or how it 'crunches numbers'. I've tried other programs and have had the most success with Limewire. More than one reason for that I'm sure.

All the advice on this forum is great though and if integrated into how one goes about downloading (atleast in my case) the success rate is greatly increased.

btw, I'm using the free version of Lime Wire

I think there's more than one issue there. Many people are aware that LW's media player is not always reliable for playback. Particularly if LW is overly busy searching, downlding, etc. So I wouldn't judge things by LW's own player. Many people disable LW's media player so when they launch a song, it's played by their default mp3 player.

As for the other points YoMaster suggested, I don't think they've done much if any research about this on the forum let alone this thread. eg: How can one song be say 5 MB in size with a bit-rate of 160 kbps & another offered by T3's that is 5 MB size but 320 kbps. That doesn't make sense if you think about it does it! But when you downld the 320 kbps from the T3 it turns out to run for 30 mins of silence or something sinister like that & the mp3 player showing it having a bit-rate of 32 kbps. You can't tell me that file was in good shape before it was downloaded. It was offered as a corrupt file for sharing for a very deliberate reason. Now who would want to do that.

I find that if I download anything older than say six months it's completely possible -- I've downloaded almost every song Disturbed has ever made and it worked. I downloaded recently about 15 Beatles songs and htey all worked just fine. It's teh new stuff, the stuff that'll really sell that isn't working...

I've found that if you decrease your download bandwidth you will have better success downloading. I've nearly downloaded the whole American Idiot album using this tactic. Only Song I can't get is American Idiot. Someone Else try it and see if it works for them. Ps: I have mine set at 30 kbs. Later

Time to find another p2p software!

i was using kazaa and was having the same trouble with corrupt files. it wouldn't tell me that they were corrupt, but they were 20 minutes long and complete silence. so obviously, it's not just limewire.

i read this whole thread too, since i was having trouble with limewire and corrupt files. i tried everything everyone said but nothing helped.

i was trying to download john mayer's "daughters" which is top ten. so, i purposely misspelled it as "john mayor" and i actually got a T1 that wasn't corrupt.

just an idea that worked for me...

I did What you said And I think it's working

Thanks

I have to say I am not impressed with LimeWire. I have spent the last two hours trying to download music and each one give me a File Corrupt message. Is this typical. I am using Mac OS X and have never had problems in the past with other downloads. Can I use something other than LimeWire?

I have had the same problem as many other people.... some songs are designated as corrupt and I don't know how to fix it. It seems unlikely that every listing for a song is corrupt. I had the same problem as others about it automatically deleting the corrupted files and fixed it. I had to go under Preferences, View, Pop-ups, and check the box there to fix mine. However, once I was able to download the corrupted files, I still cannot play them. They are several times larger than normal and silent. Do we have a way to fix this yet? Please HELP!!!