Limewire sucks, I hate limewire
 

I will never waste my money to upgrade to pro at limewire because the people that operate limewire don't care about their users.I can't go to pirate bay and download **** torrents because the mean people at limewire have that stupid rule.I am a big fan of the **** and I love to download files using torrents.I try doing it using frostwire but it wouldn't work.If the people at limewire cared about their customers they would let you download as many torrents as they want.I will not reccommend Limewire to people anymore.The owners of limewire should be ashamed of the way they treat their members.**** You limewire.

I would recommend using either utorrent or Azureus (Vuse) for torrents, & using LW or Phex for Gnutella network. :)

With the new Limewire all that comes in the search is spam i havent been able to download one song?

does he not like lime or network
if he changed to frost and support room would it help

You can still add these things to LW 5; (a) Problems with the search, __ (b) Hostiles List, which may help your search results. Also, if you are getting only spam results, removing an ultrapeer & waiting several minutes until connection re-stabilizes may also help. :)

Besides, you can always downgrade back to LW 4.18, just click on the 'Old Versions' link on the right side of the download page.

I Am Having Lots Of Problems With 360share, Which Is What I Got When I Bought Limewire 4 Years Ago. It Slows My Computer Down Terribly And It Runs So Very Slowly. Many Times It Freezes The Computer Where I Can Do Nothing But Wait From 5 To 30 Minutes Before I Can Do Anything Even Shut It Off.

Does Anyone Have A Solution For This Problem. I Have Already Un=-nstalled It It And Re-installed It About 4 Times. The Results Have Ben The Same.

Well ... 360Share is a variation of LW. Adapted by those who sell to scam sites. They have reprogrammed the original program. And you pay much more for something that gives you less.

If your 360Share program is 4 years old, it is probably out of date in gnutella terms. The newer limewire & frostwire programs for example block out versions older than 2-3 years old. Thus such a version would be difficult to connect with, difficult to get as good search results with.

I have some ideas about how to improve the program's behaviour, however, would be best if you updated to LW 4.18 or similar gnutella program. (No I do not recommend 360share.)

Thank You Lord Of The Rings. It Looks Like I May Have To Download Limewire/frostwire. I Was Thinking That The 360share Was Out Dated And Not Much Good Any Longer. I Have Never Seen Any Updates For S30share.

I love my Limewire Pro!! I was using my MP3 rocket quite alot mainly for the tv and games part but when it comes to downloads.. LW5 Pro is the king!!

antivirus detects everything!
 

i cant seem to d/l anything with the new limewire.. i have V 4.18.8 and use vista.. everything comes up with a detected virus!!! ?? whats up here please , any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you

Here's a starting point: MAJOR TOPICS for Upload/Download HELP (click on blue link) :)

How to find Music has some great tips within. ;)

thanks :) will take a look asap)) appreciate the help

Torrent experts are they? I thought FrostWire was a gnutella program. Last useful piece of advice I had from support room was some 13-15 year old juvenile kids giving a cheekful .. and useless information. They set a great example. Something I've never forgotten.

I wonder how many others were affected by such ... cheeking users. Don't suggest such when Support Room is a 'totally' unknown quantity. Could be answered by an 8 year old. 'Representing' the Support Room in the mind of the question asker.

And BTW stop spamming LW or other gnutella program sections with pro-frostwire posts. NO other gnutella client users do that to FrostWire here or at their psyc-forum. So, please lay that to rest.

hmmm...seems I missed this thread while I was away taking care of business...

to the OP...is that the best you can do?....I mean really that was a lamer discourse on the limitations and attitudes of the developers of LW, not to mention the lack of support they give to paying users...I'm hoping you were simply too drunk/lazy/whatever to state your real feelings in depth...otherwise I would be forced to think you are severely limited as to your abilities to SAY WHAT YOU REALLY MEAN!

FW?...pfffffffftttt....same engine, different name...

While we are complaining, here is mine. Limewire 5 is the worst excuse for an "upgrade" that i have even seen in my life! I can ind nothing about it that is better than the old version, but a lot that is worse. This is a great example of a company telling it's customers what they need rather than asking them what they want. Since V5 came out, I like Limewire and the company less and less. Good grief guys, give us something at least as good as the old version!

limewire 5
 

i so agree... do you have any idea why everything i try to d/l comes up as corrupt???? do you know of any other such programs for d/l'ing music??

Somebody solved that issue by changing their downloads location/destination. They were using Vista.

Someone else solved that problem by going back to LW 4.

oh ok, I didn't see those , thanks
I also have vista

Forgot to mention, if using Vista, need to set your LW to run as Administrator. Otherwise permissions for save folders get mucked up. ;)

ok thanks:)

here we go again
 

totally agree, a while ago this was happening. you search you get crap, then all of a sudden it was working better than ever but it was not to last, now i'm back to the same old search and get crap again. do you think i should just go back to 4.18 or do you think there may be hope for me on the horizon...mind you i don't hold out much hope at alll any more. mac 10.5:bangh::bangh::bangh:

cheers matatkat

same for me
 

LOl sorry to hear it.. still no fix for me either... any other programs out htere that do the same thing???

I'd highly recommend going back to LW 4.16 if you do decide to downgrade. I use LW 4.16 myself. Birdy & I both did experiments with downgrading from LW 5 & LW 4.16 was far better than LW 4.18.8. However there is a small trick with it; see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/mac-os...link-here.html, or for Windows, see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/340213-post427.html

I too Have Vista on My Notbook but I never saw any corrupt DL issue's, But then again I turned off that security service I think it's called UAD or UAC or something like that. Anyway I also recall back in the day I had a corrupt DL issue & I ended up looking in the event log only to see a whole lot of bad block alert/errors (Bad C:\drive) anyway not to tell You guys stuff You already know, but You might check Your drives integrity with a tool like HD Tune

thanks LOTR, gone from 5 back to 4.16. lets see if that fixes the problem.

cheers matt

well at least i now know that the problem is with the entire LW program and not just LW 5.
4.16 is just as crappy, doesn't matter what you search for the same 5 things come up every time.
tried to paste it here so you can see my problem but it wont let me.
starting to think that i should just give LW a big miss from now on, but i find FW even worse.

I will once again suggest that all users of the gnutella network use PeerGuardian while they are on the network...it will at the very least keep you from being connected to spam UPs...and will in some ways mitigate the attacks that get directed at you for just being connected to the network...

As Peerless suggested, spam has nothing to do with the version of LW you are using.

The fact is there are lots & lots of spammers on the network. Their objective is to make people like you feel like giving up attempting to use the gnutella network.

What LW 4.16 does do is give you access to earlier LW version users because LW 5 & 4.18 prevent people using versions of LW earlier than 4.14 connecting to them, thus blocking out part of the network. (I use LW 4.16 & connect to people using versions as early as 4.8). LW 4 has more tools than LW 5. LW 4.16 will resume LW 5's incomplete files efficiently whereas LW 4.18 seems to have a problem.

Here's some tips about searching on the gnutella network: 1. Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them (click on blue link to see),

2. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/tips-t...avoidance tips, __ 3. How to find music

BTW if you downgrade from LW 5 back to LW 4.16, you need to find the Downloads.dat file in the preferences folder & move it to the incomplete folder before installing LW 4.16. This should be done whilst LW is not open. After installing & opening LW 4.16, then go to Library window, find incomplete folder, select all incomplete files & press Resume button. This will force the incomplete files from LW 5 to resume again.

thanks very much. i do realize that spam has nothing to do with the LW version i was just a bit pissed off at the time and needed to vent.
btw thanks for the virus onfo, much appreciated.

cheers matt

also right into bitzi now. don't know how i ever survived without it and urge everyone to get familiar with it as it will save you a huge amount of heartache.

i agree

so thats how the little *******s operate, personally i think they should have their ip address published so we can all send them so much crap that they collape under its weight.
as always govt. regs and laws are way behind when it comes to p2p, if it affected them just see how quick they would act.

cheers matt.

I'm sure their IP addys are in the PeerGuardian 2 database...the problem is plenty of people (who's IPs are not in the PG2 base) don't use PG2 and they down the files and spread them further....

thei songs will start skippin sometimes. i hate that soooooo much. it really annoys me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!1

Have you checked the songs with more than one player? VLC - (click on link) even though is primarily a video play will play all audio files you find on gnutella network. If VLC cannot play the file you know the file is bad. If the skipping also occurs with VLC then you know the file is bad.

is there a simple way of stopping the junk that i get when i search ?
say i search for a movie. i get the same junk no matter what i'm looking for, so i turn the junk filter on and now i get no results in the search at all. go advanced and try more searches but have the same results.
as i said is there a simple way to prevent this ? (no computer gobble gook)
i notice that it is intermitent though, if i get really annoyed at LW i go away for a few months and when i come back it works perfectly for at least one or two times and then the same problems arise again.
LW 5 really bugged me so i'm on 4.16 which i really like the look of and the features, if only i could get the little bugger to work properly.
any help would be greatly appreciated. mac leopard.

cheers mat.

Always going to be spammers out there. Sometimes it's worse than others due to how close the spammers come into your search horizon. Sometimes you might be connected directly to a spammer that is in ultrapeer mode, that's when the spam gets incredibly bad. Some tips here which also applies to video How to find music

As for the junk filter, set it to show junk at bottom of search results. Also, turn the filter strength down lowish. I think mine is set at about 5-10% (near far left of slider.) Some sample junk file sizes, names & other identifying information: Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them (click on blue link to see)

Delete that ****, Get something new!

I've been testing vuze and lime and guess what vuze is better than this crap these lame *** techies are trying to pimp out to all the people who want the simplest stuff, it took my 2 hours to get one song from lime then i tried vuze, 2 min man, I'm sick of my downloads telling me waiting too, waited an hour for limecrap to tell there's no hosts witch were numbering in the 10's.

LOTR: No offense, but Phex is a waste of time too, almost all its connections are Limewire, and when it connects to Limewire ALL the same problems are there. Phex says it filters, but I don't see it, and when I filter, there is nothing real left, so Phex is just Limewire with a different face.

no...Phex is NOT LW with a different face....that's Frostwire....

The longer you connect with Phex, the more chances you have of connecting to other phex & other users. I always connect with at least some other phex users.

Phex is not LW. The code is quite different & so is its behaviour. Looking thru the Phex 'How to's' helps. :)

But if you don't like it, fair enough.