Hello!

Your solution is to install and use iTunes for your music instead. And also to download and install LW once again. As Greg said there where some problems with the Classical Mac OS version that should have been fixed by now.

I will try to download itunes. Is it free from Apple? I had been using realplayer and was very happy until the problem noted arrived. I'll look for the itunes download now. Appreciate your help. Don't go away.

issue update: itunes downloaded. Now I'll trash the limewire and download the latest free one. What do you think?

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As far as i know itunes is free. I don't know what system you have but I found the download for itunes 3.0 here they have a classic download at the same address for the classic users.


http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10227

I downloaded itunes, trashed limewire & redownloaded a new free version limewire and same results. I started downloading a song. After some 4% was downloaded I hit launch and nothing. With my old limewire the portion I had downloaded would play. Any new suggestions? Thanks.

Hello!

4% of a song is simply to little. It is a very big chance that the critical resource id information was not transferred. I would not attempt to play songs that was downloaded if less then 30-40% of the song where downloaded. Another thing that you might be doing wrong is to attempt to use the Launch Button from the download section. Instead you should do this:

Click the Library Tab select the Incomplete folder and browse to the file you downloaded and highlight it and then from here inside the Library click the Launch button and see if it will play.

Unless you are double posting, you might also try taking this problem to the forum that is not for OS 10, since you seem to be running OS 9.

Also check your player preferences in LimeWire to make sure it still does not want to use the built in mp3 player.

Then, my suggestion is to retrieve a complete mp3 file from your shared folder and double click it to try and launch iTunes.

Hello!

The Classical Mac OS version does not have a built in mp3 player.

Oops. Sorry.

Another good reason to post in an area relevant to your topic.

I would have sworn the 9 version had the built in mp3 player, but then, I hardly use 9 any more. Just working from memory, which apparently is not as good as I remember.

Hello!

I think that the LimeWire team once had plans to incorporate the mp3 player in LW for Classical Mac OS but that those plans where dropped when Apple released iTunes and suddenly Macintosh Mac OS 9.X users had a superior option. iTunes is built by the same team that built the original Sound Jam player which was considered the best mp3 decoder and player that existed at that time for any platform and iTunes is based on the same decoder and core. So we Mac users are lucky in this aspect and generally share good quality mp3 files over Gnutella since they where created using iTunes which has one of the best decoders around built in to it and it is so simple to use. So there is no reason at all for the LW team to build a built in mp3 player that would just be considered far inferior. Personally I think it is totallyt uneccessary for both the PC version and the Mac OSX version aswell since theses days there is alot better options available to play the music.