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Old July 22nd, 2007
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Hi everyone. I am also having difficulties getting songs to appear when I do a search. For example, I did a search on Tim McGraw the other day and many songs appeared, however, now when I do it I only get 7, and the search tab says "tim mcgraw (20)", which I thought meant 20 songs should be displayed. Does anyone have any suggestions. I am on the same computer as the other day and even upgraded to Pro with no success! Other searches, such as genre searches, bring up no results at all.

Very frustrating! Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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Old July 22nd, 2007
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I am running the Limewire 4.12.15 w/ the new Vista program.
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Old July 23rd, 2007
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It could be the License warning thing.
Just have a look,
Go, Tools/Options/Searching/Basic, it says, "Show License Warning"
Untick the box if you don't want to filter out copyright Files in search results.

This option is enabled at setup, The choice is your decision.
Do a test to see if search results improve.
You can reverse this change at any time, the choice is yours.

P.S. A file that requires a license, is protected so if you obtain a license or not, that file cannot be shared.
So don't put those files in your shared folder.
That will cause more frustration to others as they play only silence.

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Old July 23rd, 2007
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Thanks for the suggestion, however, my box was already unticked. Do you (or anyone else) have any other suggestions)?
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Old July 23rd, 2007
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I could be wrong about this but, since most of the songs that you download come from other users, maybe those other users aren't online when you search for songs by Tim McGraw. After all, if they're not connected, you can't download them. Just a thought.
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Old July 23rd, 2007
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Interesting. I'm a "newbie" at this so don't know much about it, but I've tried a HUGE variety of songs and/or genre and just don't get anything 99% of the time, so you think my luck would be a little better than that )
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Old July 23rd, 2007
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I've had Limewire for a couple of years but I'm new to this forum. I just ran a search for Tim McGraw and came up with 150 songs. Have you tried a search for his songs lately?
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Old July 23rd, 2007
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I did a song search with no luck and then tried artist search and still only get about 7 songs.
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Old July 23rd, 2007
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Waynenchristi

I am inclined to agree with Chaines057 when he said:
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since most of the songs that you download come from other users, maybe those other users aren't online when you search for songs......After all, if they're not connected, you can't download them.
Simply put, you are not downloading from a secure server you are downloading from other PC users like yourself. And, unless you keep your PC on 24/7, you are going to switch it off and go to work/to college/for a walk/to bed, etc.

Also, I have found in my experience that some times are better than others for finding files, e.g. weekends are better than weekdays.

So I would suggest you pick your times when you go looking for files because very few of us P2P users, except for the real die hard enthusiasts, are going to keep there computers running all day and night, seven days a week.


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Old July 23rd, 2007
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I agree with UKbobboy01. Nights are always better during the week and weekends are usually always better than week nights. If you performed your search around the same time as I did and only got 7 songs, then something is not right.

Please don't take offense to this next question, but are you connected to the network when you're performing these searches and, if so, look at the lower left hand corner and see what your connection is listed as. My connection right now is "Turbo-Charged".
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