Need More Sources....

[Kenpoist]

I've read the other posts, however if the music you selected is not availabe (need more sources) how come it shows up on the query. Secondly, what is the best time to download? I download 99% Christian music does anyone get complete albums?
Thanks for your time.

[murasame]

1)If the music you selected isn't available (Need more sources) then run the same search and click Find more sources. You will thus have a little of LW picking up New Sources for dld.
2)There is no real ideal time for dld. If you have a no-restrictions connection then just leave it open and hope that some of the files will be finished by the time you get home from work.
Otherwise, if there are more people on the net, then it will be easier to connect to more people, thus getting a better connection to the network and better/more results.
However, more sources for dld also might mean more traffic their way. In that case, they will have less bandwidth to offer=slower dlds.
3)If you want complete albums, the best way to do that IMO is to use the trusty (ahem, ahem) old Internet and search for bands' discographies. You then look up for each album the track listings and hope you can find them all in Limewire. (you will, but it might take time)

Oh, and by query, do you mean the Downloads window? If yes, then that's only because it waits for you to do something with it: either Kill it or click the Find more sources button.

[Kenpoist]

Thanks murasame for responding...
I used query which is the same as search.
If I search I assume that it finds what I specified from what is available, so with this thinking how can it "need more sources" if it has found users that have the file?

I can't believe that I am the only person that breaks down groups with complete albums!

I do use discographies to search for albums, due to the fact that users rip with different tagging schemes and its hard to tell where the song came from!

By your comment about albums, is it legal since I payed for two years of service to download complete albums?

Thanks for your time

[murasame]

You "paid for two years of service"? Read some of this. I think that it might interest you very very much.

Now, after you've read the link that I provided above and have taken appropriate measures, let's get back to "Need more sources": when click the button for LW to search the Gnutella Net for files matching the criteria you have set (keywords, file types, etc etc...), LW performs that search and returns results as it encounters them. It doesn't go back on a result. This means that if you look for "Title" and LW finds only one file then it will show that result, but it won't delete the result if the user hosting the file disconnects.
That's where "Need more sources" comes in: if you type in "Title" and LW returns 400 results, there's no saying what the users hosting the files will do while you wait for the search to finish. If the users of a file that you want to dld have disconnnected for whatever reason before you click the result for dld, then LW will try to connect to them, fail and show the "Need more sources" status. It will not try to find new sources by itself. You have to do the job.
In other words, Limewire will find users that have a certain file, but will "Need more sources" if those users go offline or can't connect to you.

I can't believe that I am the only person that breaks down groups with complete albums!

You probably aren't. Although I don't fully understand what you mean by that, there are thousands of peers in the Gnutella community. There must be at least one other user that must be doing that (whatever that is).

As for legitimacy issues, go to the top of this page and click the search button. Run a search in the LW forums for the word "Legal". There are many results.