Songs won't play on LW Player
 

None of my songs on limewire will play. I've had this problem for a long while now, and it happens throughout different versions. The strange thing is, it just happened suddenly one day. Why can't I play my mp3's? :confused:

(I can play them with programs outside limewire, like Windows Media Player.)

If you are refering to the LW Player, then It is known not to be very good. Well let me rephrase that. It Totally Sucks. It's better to use an alternitive Media Player. VLC Media Player is Highly recommended here on the Forums, but there are even more choices here.

CODECs list for Movies/Alternate players / Video help forums/ video-mp3 fixers

Yeah, I was talking about the limewire player. I Kinda liked it though, because it was simple, easy, and I could preview songs. How can I get it to work?

I don't think the Developers waste a lot of resources on the player. AFAIK there is NO Fixing it. Having another Media Player as your Default will do everything and a whole lot more than the LW Player. You'll still be able to Preview and listen to your Files with an alternitive Player.

How do I set up an alternative player so that I can just click on a song and it'll play as I'd have expected the LW player to do?

I've just received the most patronising response from someone called Zenzele
- I hope any other 'help' is more relevant.

Sorry Abinequine, Try this player. It's Highly recommended here on the forums. VLC media player - Overview

Setting up default media player.

Do this by going into tools, options, Player, And then choose your player (Probably under program files in C: Drive)

I have found that whenever a file will not play, using the Limewire player, that if I right click on the file in it's folder pane and select 'open with windows media player', I will inevitably receive a message saying that 'windows media player cannot play this file because the file format does not match the file extension' or 'WMP cannot play this file because the file is corrupt or is not a valid file type'. Then I delete the downloaded file and find a different file (of the same song) and it will usually play just fine.
In a nutshell, the only thing I use WMP for is verifying file validity. ;?)

That's good, as long as all your WMP codecs are up to date and it has all the required audio codecs. :)

Now suddenly almost all of the songs I download, will not play. I get the above error messages from WMP and if I select "open with" > iTunes, iTunes will open but it will not play the file or add it to the library.
Today more than 75% of the files I downloaded are like this.
I have reinstalled my audio drivers and codecs but to no avail. Is this just a coincidence that I'm trying to download files that are fakes/corrupt or is there something else that it could be?

Odd .. since iTunes has its limited in-built codecs. Check that the files themselves are valid audio files & not corrupt or virus spam. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/downlo...load-help.html

I am having the exact problem. What is the most efficient thing to do fort his? It is really frustrating to download an mp3 and then silence. Help!!

How large are the files? What are the file sizes of the files that will not play? Check http://www.gnutellaforums.com/downlo...note-them.html & see if the size is listed. ;)

thanks, next time it happens I'll check that thread again for the file size. funny thing though, today I downloaded a pile of tunes and only one of them had that problem.

I was referring to music selections. 1/2 play, 1/2 won't. In this instance, size doesn't matter!:yahoo:

There's various types of spam, one are viruses posing as mp3's or wma's, and another are deliberately corrupt files. mp3 Bit-Rates Versus File Sizes. If you have a rough idea how large a music file should be according to its bitrate & you see a file with a size that does not match what would be expected for the bit rate, then chances are it's a deliberately corrupt file.

Other than that, LW's media player is not that good anyway & gets low cpu attention compared to LW's main functions of uploading & downloading, etc.

Limewire cannot play the file.... there is an unknown error with the audio file
 

I have been having problems lately with some mp3 downloads from Limewire which I haven't had in the past. I did have repair work done on my MacBook Pro laptop computer however, and the replacement system board may be preventing limewire to recognize mp3's for some reason. The message I get when I try to play some files with Limewire is the one I posted in the thread title. I have tried converting the files, and even playing them in other applications with similar difficulty. Sometimes all I get is a few seconds of hiss for a 5 MB file. Yet, other audio files will play

Any suggestions. I've searched the Gnutella forum and haven't found anything specific to this problem which indicates why some mp3 files will play and others won't. What could possibly be causing the unknown error, other than someone pranking gnutella with files which are incorrectly labeled with the .mp3 designation.

Thanks
singa2n

I'm not sure I understand the correlation between bitrate and filesize. What about if there is not a bit rate listed?

So this is my first post here and I believe I'm having the same problem. I really like the limwire player, and just three days ago it stopped working.. I can open my libray but when i double click to play nothing happens. I'm not really intersted in adding other players and am curious if anyone can help.. I use windows vista with limwire 4.16.6 and java 1.6.0

Not sure this will have any bearing on the Crappy LW Player but your Java is Way out of Date. If you want to Update....


Try uninstalling all versions of Java from add/remove programs and then use Crap Cleaner to clean the registry.

Try updating to the latest version of Java here Java SE Downloads (First JRE 1.6.10)Useing the JRE Offline Installer.