Why is my limewire only downloading MP3 music
 

I do not under stand whenever i try and download music. It will only download in MP3 music? How do i change that back...Also how did it get that way? Thank you:)

Try selecting other types of audio files to download. :) Check the file extension before you choose to download. :)

How do i select other types of audio files? How do you check the file extension?

Right-click the heading bar of the search box & choose to show Type. That will tell you if the file is mp3, m4a, etc. You can also click that heading to organise the results by type.

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:xeri_ok1ani:I just cant figure out why everytime i type in a name under a artist. The only thing that is downloading is MP3. it will say there is like 100 things ,,,but only 2 or 3 will acutally show up below. Sorry i am not the computer type of person. Thank you so much for helping me with this.

Most audio files on the network being shared are mp3's. wma & m4a/mp4 & Ogg would be next popular at a guess. Then would be real files. You will not find high numbers of lossless file format files being shared. AIFF or WAV or FLAC, APE, WV, etc. are all lossless formats but not too commonly shared.

I personally share about a dozen albums of songs in AIFF format. One or two albums as apple lossless (m4a).
Lossless means no information was thrown away during the conversion into that format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format

Okay thank you so much. I think i have it figured out. Your the best!

I right-clicked on the top of the search bar and it doesn't give me a choice of "type"
so I can download music like I did before. All I get is MP3 and I want to be able to play the music in my car which doesn't have an MP3 player. What do I need to do?

I am guessing you are using LW 5. You'd need to use the advanced search under Tools menu to do an audio specific search. Click on Classic view top right, then right-click on column bar & show extension. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/new-fe...tml#post338459

After downloading the mp3's you'd need to burn to CD-R as an audio type disk, not an mp3 disk. Should be able to fit up to 74 mins on a 650 MB CD-R, or up to 79 mins on a 700 MB CD-R. iTunes & WMP have burn to disk abilities. But Nero is probably best.