Hi, I've recently downloaded limewire to my nice new laptop, but every song I download skips, its gotten to the point where I dont even want to listen to the music I have anymore as every single song skips multiple times during the songs. Is there any known fix for this or would I just need to redownload my entire library?

Are you using the LW player? It's not very good & can suffer badly if you're actively using LW while playing songs.
Disable it (tools > options > player) & make something else your default player...see if your music still skips:wink:

ah I've already done that, songs still skip with WMP 11, and WinAmp :\

Are you previewing the songs as you download them? Try downloading something (make sure to pick a file with a good bitrate - at least 192, preferrably higher), preview it at at least 50% download. If there are no skips in preview, finish the download & then see it it skips on playback.

Yeah I make sure only to download songs with high bitrates, but alas....skipping continues -_-

Do you preview the songs?

Yeah for the most part, they come in nice and without skips, but then after the downloads completed I play it and it skips :\

Do an experiment
Download VLC player (choose the nearest mirror site for download)...it's free & very reliable. I'm not any sort of music guru but I've just read a thread suggesting that downloading heaps of codecs for players can cause probs. VLC has it's own codecs built in.

So...download the player & then play one of the files that's been skipping with VLC. Open your saved folder outside of LW > right click on a file > open with > choose program > choose VLC.

See what happens then.

thanks, will do

erf...nope still skips even with VLC player o_o