It's already possible to filter out certain words, but not for a specific search -- you set it up in Options to exclude stuff (e.g. if you're looking for porn, you probably want to filter out any results that claim to be "illegal", "preteen", etc. -- yuk) ... also, it's my understanding (and observation) that Gnutella queries do match on shared subdirectory names. If someone's sharing a file named shared/foo/bar.mp3, a search for "foo mp3" will generally turn it up. I think it also matches metadata sometimes -- title info in a file for example. I've had a jpeg with a bogus-looking alphanumeric code turn up as a search hit, which when downloaded proved to be relevant, and had metadata (e.g. camera model, date picture taken, title) containing the search term.

better rating system
 

Maybe its time for a better rating system. Instead of scoring a file just based on speed (three stars, four stars, etc) include with it an ability for users to downgrade the score if they find out its a virus, spyware or just a bad copy. You could allow only one 'vote' per IP as to deter one person skewing the rating too much. This could possibly help people filter out bad files when used in conjunction with the minimum rating feature. You might also do this by host, but that could be more complicated.

Ya, I just discovered you can set up a general filter, but per search would be nice.

The big one is being able to set a max number of words per file, that really cuts out the spam.

The ipod spams have as many words in the file name as you used in your query -- no more, no less.

Folder sharing and download like in Direct Connect (DC++)
 

The very important is be able to share and download folders like in Direct Connect (DC++) because many files belongs together E.G. movie+subtitle, music cd, etc. Is this so big problem or is it due gnutella network disabilty?

LIMEWIRE DEFINITELY NEEDS THESE 2 FEATURES
 

These spammers are really annoying and ruin the network. I don't know how hard it would be to incorporate, but there are two features that woulf fix all this:

1) There should be a "<, <=, >, >= File Size Filter". This way if you are looking for a 1GB file, you don't get 300 search results for a 36.4Kb FREE IPOD file, because you would have the option to search for a file that is >= 800MB. Conversely, you could download that 5MB song and NOT download that 20MB.mp3 of Silence.

2) Secondly, we shouldn't have to block by host IP's. That can block GOOD users who have been victim of bad files. It also doesn't work, because for every one bad IP blocked there's 100 in line to pick up the slack. So the solution is that when search results come back and we KNOW it's a bogus file already (like those lame S_P_A_M files) we should just be able to block results for those exact files altogether. Right click on the result, and say BLOCK THIS FILE FOR THIS SEARCH. Limewire should just ignore any future results and move on to the real file that is out there.

Thank you for your work Limewire. I would purchase PRO if I had money and definitely would sell some blood if it had these features. Without these 2 features, spammers and the RIAA have ruined Limewire.

Kill, push & resume needs to come back! why they were taken away is beyond me.

they are still there, they were never removed..... you must seriously be having problems lmao.

Here's a strange one.

If a file finishes downloading, recent versions of limewire freeze for a bit; if you cancel a download, likewise. If you clear inactive or cancel a lot of downloads it completely locks up solid.

But if you go to the library tab, incompletes, and resume something (even a file already downloading) from there, this problem goes away for the rest of the session until you restart limewire -- if a file finishes downloading or you cancel a file it doesn't freeze, and if you cancel a bunch or clear inactive, it freezes for a short time instead of locking up.

So here's a feature request -- whatever changes when you resume from incompletes, make it happen automatically at startup. It shouldn't be too difficult -- it can just pretend the user flipped to the library tab, clicked the first item already in the downloads tab, and then hit resume and switched back, without of course actually visibly jumping around in the gui. This should remove those annoying freezes and hangs.

There was an unnecessary amount of locking that was going on. We've greatly improved / eliminated the freeze... you should notice the difference for the next update.

Thanks for the help!!

I just got the update, 4.9.17, and I can confirm that this problem is NOT fixed. It still hangs and freezes in the same circumstances if you don't use the library tab to resume an incomplete at the start of a session.

What kind of computer do you have (i.e. CPU, RAM, etc...) Also, how many files do you usually share and how many do you usually download at once? Thanks.

Hmmm, well that's disappointing but good to know.

Please include your operating system and Java version when you respond to zab's request.

XP SP2, latest Sun Java, sharing about 800 files, and since I have broadband I've increased downloads-at-a-time from 5 to 30.

OK. I'm sick of this.

Pick ten files and hit Download. A little while later...

file01.xyz 53% Awaiting Sources
file02.xyz 74% Awaiting Sources
file03.xyz 13% Awaiting Sources
file04.xyz 24% Awaiting Sources
file05.xyz 17% Awaiting Sources
file06.xyz 91% Awaiting Sources
file07.xyz 56% Awaiting Sources
file08.xyz 63% Awaiting Sources
file09.xyz 22% Awaiting Sources
file10.xyz 11% Awaiting Sources

I think it's high time something was done to stop it getting a bit of one file, then a bit of another, etc. and then giving up on them all instead of just downloading the blasted things. And these weren't even huge files with only one source or anything -- they were small files.

Canceling them all and hitting them all again from the search list gets maybe two of them to actually complete, and some more to get some more progress, and so on.

It would be better for the network if people could just start the client, pick files to download, bugger off, and in a while the files are all downloaded. Instead it requires constant nursemaiding, additional manual searching (wastes time and bandwidth), doing things like restarting the client or canceling and restarting lots of downloads that are bad for the network (the latter because Limewire hangs for a good ten minutes after selecting a group of items and hitting Cancel, during which time it presumably is not participating in the network)...

It's been this way for so long it seems almost as if there's been a deliberate conscious decision to make it require constant nursemaiding if it is to download files! But that, of course, makes no sense...

I notice it doesn't require any particular nursemaiding to keep uploading files successfully. Only downloading. I wonder why?

When your downloading from a host, possibelety for pressing a + to see al ip's where your downloading from.

So you can chat to them or something else

That actually used to be there, but it disappeared around version 4.0. Anyone know why?

It consumed too many resources.

If a chat window receives a message from the remote host while it lacks focus, it should play an alert sound.

Link's broken. It doesn't actually go to a jpeg at all, but to some sort of login page?

Pictures maybe but probably not videos. Java video players suck.

That's because Java sucks.

lol, then dont use it? no? then go away. kthnx

I strongly suggest a system which allows people to search for specific filetypes if they want to (such as an "advanced search" field under which one could enter file extensions (such as WAV, PDF, or OGG) and only those files would show up as results. Please, please, please, do that. It would be infinitely helpful to those who are searching for the kind of music or ebook format of their preference. (For example, it's very annoying to have to sort by type for every audio search I do; if I could have specific file extenson(s) be the only ones which showed up, it would stop my endless scrolling and sorting by type.)

library folders
 

I would like to have the library folders remember their collapsed state between sessions. Thanks.

Now playin in
 

WMP has a function that allows MSN users to show other people what music there listening too..now im guessing the LW media player uses WMP. so why does the songs ure listenin in WMP come up in MSN.
can this be done so that the song ure listening too on LW come up like it does for msn ??

Change disincentives to freeload
 

The current disincentive to freeload is to afford preferential treatment to some uploaders based on how many files they purport to be sharing. Unfortunately, this is misguided at best, broken at worst. People without much bandwidth, with clients like Limewire that scale very poorly to sharing huge numbers of files and start crashing once it gets into the thousands, etc. are instead incentivised to fake it. And the methods they are using are as devious as they are varied. The obvious would be for a hacked client to falsely report thousands of files shared when asked for a count, even if there are really only 2. Another obvious one is just to host a lot of files nobody wants with alphanumeric names containing no words anyone ever searches for, if bandwidth is the problem rather than a client that scales poorly even if nobody's actually downloading the files.

And then there are the really wacky things I've seen. People host popular files and set up six zillion upload slots on their modem-connected 286, resulting in every file you want showing up on this modem speed source and downloading at 0.001kb/s. (This seems to be especially common among Shareaza hosts, for some reason.) Perhaps these are trying to get around preferencing based on #upload slots. Then there's the idiot I just ran into. Like several such idiots I've encountered, he lets you connect and start downloading a file and then hits cancel download to conserve his precious bandwidth while fooling almost any anti-freeloader detection, even one that is based on observed successful download starts of a file and not just on a host claiming to have a file. (In fact, since he did it at exactly 1/3 of the file sent, and again at 2/3 when I tried to resume it, it's almost certain it's actually automated, meaning someone has written a deliberately malicious client that will send 1/n of a file and then deliberately pretend the connection died, presumably so idiots can semi-freeload without seeming to freeload.) First, though the download was throttled down -- it had reached 32% and then the throughput began dropping precipitously. Within ten seconds, throughput had ceased entirely, and the file hadn't even made it to 33%. Of course since I was watching when this happened I got annoyed and lo and behold the bugger's chat was on. So I hit chat ... nothing. Hit it again...nothing. Hit it again -- what? Greyed out? The jerk had disabled chat. The client obviously gives them some option to reject a chat without the sender receiving any reply packet, instead of auto-accepting like Limewire does if chat is enabled. He knew he was being buzzed, but blocked it, and when it happened twice quickly, he disabled chat. More evidence of a client designed for use by arseholes, since nobody else is going to need features for screening out irate chats. A bit after, the jerkwad pulled the plug on the download entirely -- busy signal. I hit resume and it went to 34% and straight back to busy. Resume again, 42%, busy. Resume again, 67%, and then the throughput started dropping off again. I right clicked -- jerk had turned chat back on. So I hit chat -- nothing. He never turned it back on but he never replied, though I tried twice more. Window never appeared (it should so long as the menu item wasn't grey, IMO). Of course, a bit later he interrupted the download again. I hit resume, and the jerkwad sent a bogus remaining 33% of the file -- it rapidly went to 100% and then File Corrupted.

B*#&ARD!!!!!!!!!!!

If you really don't want people to download the file from you DON'T SHARE IT, MORON!

So why was he sharing it? There's only one possible reason: to evade classification as a freeloader. It certainly wasn't actually to successfully share files, given that he kept trying to abort the transfer and then when it became clear I wouldn't be fobbed off with busy signals purposely polluted the file, which was pure spite since he'd spent as much bandwidth as sending the file properly, and there was really nothing further to be gained by doing so... This behavior is actually being encouraged by current anti-freeloader preferencing measures. Those measures are therefore causing more problems than they solve and need to be changed.

The solution is something needed for antispam measures anyway: reputation management. Integrated reputation management of files is needed for antispam purposes, and reputation management of clients to nerf the thousands of self-votes the spammers will submit for themselves and their spammy files. Reputation management of clients can then be used to give freeloaders a poor rap as well: they can get some sort of "less of a freeloader" points for each successful, verified file someone downloads off them and doesn't subsequently vote bad. Then jerks like the above example will quickly get a bad rap even if they score well on current freeloader-detection systems: files that get to some percent and then languish in busyland won't count for anything, and corrupted transfers may actually count negatively. (Spam certainly will, against whoever hosted it as well as against the spam itself.)

Give us working reputation management in 5.0 please! The current bitzi thing is basically useless -- it's so cumbersome to use, especially involving an external app (and a big, slow, bloated web browser at that) and a slow, graphics-encrufted Web site as it does, that nobody uses it. Worse, you can look up search results with it but when you download a file and decide it's misleading, you can't do anything about it -- there's no "mark this file eeevil" option next to the "preview" option or in the previewer itself. Until it's easy to participate in rating files, reputation management will not really work well, and until it's easy to review at a glance all the ratings of all the results of a search it will not really work at all. Fully integrated reputation management, for files at least, is sorely needed Real Soon Now.

Rip Offs
 

All these Spams for LimeWire make me want to make a website ripping people off and not even giving them limewire :D

Your link doesn't work. It says "images.jpg" but I don't get a jpeg, I get an html page -- some sort of login page? You have to host the image somewhere where any joe can view it, not some members-only part of the web. Or, perhaps you misspelled the URL.

its a picture of a baby peeking out of a trash can. can't see the images? wants you to login? how about you register for this forum instead of being guests.

I'm sorry, but I rather prefer my privacy. Anyway, what business is it of yours whether I register at the forum or not? As far as I can see, registering brings only two benefits -- edit and delete your posts, and post attachments. And it brings at least one downside: you have to hand out your email address, and that's the kind of thing that carries with it the risk of drowning in a torrent of spam.

Auto-block eTomi hosts
 

Auto-block eTomi hosts. I don't know what the hell eTomi is, but it is definitely not a legitimate client. Every attempt to download a file hosted by an eTomi source ends with "File Corrupt". RIAA and MPAA polluters, maybe? (though it seems to happen with jpegs, zips, and other file types, not just mp3s and videos...)

These are more in the nature of "bug fix requests" actually, and involve nuisance behaviors of the UI.

1. When there's a selection, and items in the selection move, the view shouldn't jump if there are still selected items in view. Currently it will jump unpredictably to different parts of the selection.

2. When there's a selection and it contains items that need more sources, await sources, or are busy, the Resume/Find Sources button should not be greyed out. Currently, if there are selected items connecting, downloading, or waiting in line, as well as at least one item that is not doing any of the above, it will sometimes be greyed out and sometimes not. If there is any item that is resumable it should not be.

Incidentally, what does the status "Locating Sources..." mean? I see this occasionally right after selecting to download some search results. Usually the item that shows this does so for a few seconds and then shows "Need More Sources". Also, what is with search results that "need more sources" right away anyway? Isn't that supposed to mean Limewire doesn't know of any hosts on the network that have the file? But it does -- the one that returned the search hit 2 minutes ago. In the worst case, that host might be busy. So any batch of fresh search results you go to download should end up in some mixture of connecting, busy, waiting in line, and downloading states, in theory. In practise this doesn't happen -- apparently because there are hosts on the network that return search results for files that don't exist, or that they don't actually have? Or hosts that exist for the purpose of sending search hits, but do not exist for the purpose of actually uploading files? That is bogus -- a host should report a busy signal, not pretend not to exist, if it won't or can't immediately honor a download request for a file that it does have, and it should not return search results referring to files that it does not have.

What is going on with guest posting???
 

I can't seem to post this anywhere but here. What is going on? Guest posting seems to have been turned off nearly everywhere. I can't add to the beta 4.9.0 thread, or apparently post much of anything anywhere else either all of a sudden. This thread seems to still allow guests to reply however. What is going on???

Ok, Garribaldi you don't have to give out ur email incase your sorta like, Blind:confused:

Oh, and can people like put Online Games for people to download? Games like Counter-Strike or the Game extensions like Steam?

cause if you do, i will, i need Counter-Strike source now :D

Sorry if these have already been mentioned as I dont have the time to read 20 pages of posts.

Better Media Player
Multi-Network support (as long as security and connection speed is good)
Some sort of built in filter for ad's and virus's. (the ones that are named whatever you searched for)

I <3 Limewire so wheather some of my ideas are implemented I will still be happy!

Feature Request
 

It would be nice to have an Image previewer. When you are downloading Images, you don't know what you are going to get. If you could have a Image Previewer you could see if you wanted to get that image or not and you would not have to waste time and download it to see what it is.

For some reason, I can't seem to post anywhere else but this thread without signing up for an arseload of spam and giving up my privacy first, so I guess I'll post this here, though it isn't, strictly speaking, a feature request. (Didn't guests used to be able to post anywhere? It's been a few months, but I thought so...)

How does one view arestra files? Despite the .jpg extension, these don't seem to be any image format Windows Explorer understands, nor my paint program. These are those thumbnail-sized images with __ARESTRA__ in the name.

yep....TO ME!...MUHAHAhahahahaha...and when you start trolling around I'm gonna come over to yur house and beat you with a baseball bat!!!!!!

sheesh d00d, give me a fekking break...

- a function the send downloads that linger below a certain download rate to the back of the que to make room for others, ie if a song sits on 1kb/s for a minute it is sent to the back

this would be handy for leaving comp on unnatended, so it will download the maximum it can rather than 20 songs over 10 hrs.

OK -- so why does it say "you may not post new threads", "you may not post replies", etc. everywhere except this one thread, where it says "you may post replies" but that's it? Sure looks like guests aren't allowed to start new threads, or to post replies anywhere but this thread. I'm just wondering why.

I was thinking and I do not know how you would do this but here is what I would like to have. there are alott of cell phone game programs ringtones and thiing I was thiing would it be nice to be able to download them with likewire and then we could add them to are cell phone are selfs.

Well all members can set within their own user control panel settings whether they receive email notification re: replies to threads they're subscribed to. Posting anywhere ... well just goes to show doesn't it. Like a dog on the street, if it can't find a pole to do it's business then ... lol :D Members can find out about their personal settings by looking at the f.a.q. (button above) where it's all explained. Oh & the Forum Rules are posted at the top of every section. Privacy: well there's only limited privacy no matter what you do on the internet. Only your username is accessible to others on this forum unless you wish to divulge info about yourself. emailing is optional setting. Only members can post to this thread from now on. ;) :)

video request
 

i want Bonez tour in London video for Avril Lavigne please

this is pic for the video

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...iccythingy.bmp

This Forum is "New features requests".... actually this type of request is not allowed in the forums ... You search for something like this on Limewire and if it's there ...it's there :)

Hi everyone, I would like to suggest to replace the current media player with a better one, just like in kazaa (which uses windows media player). I would suggest to use a down-graded version of VLC media player, which supports playlists, volume control, time control, and has MUCH more functionalities than the current one.

Windows media player would also do the trick for the media player, but I would prefer VCL.

In fact, it would be awesome to have a media player that also plays videos and jpeg's and bitmaps.

Sorry if it already has been suggested and sorry for my crappy english.

P.S. Limewire is teh b0mb!!11 lol!!1

I want a new itunes preference setting for video files.....

I want LimeWire to automatically transfer video files to itunes just like it does for music.

Ther should be a lock for the "hide adult content" and "filter keywords" options. With two children in the house (including a computer wiz son) for an hour when i'm at work, I don't want them seeing innappropriate things.

The ability when ever you see a file name to always be able to right click and press delete, play/open and rename.

Have it search for new download spots for old files by it self( ie a changable setting that says it will always have at least 5 files that it is searching for if nothing else is going on ) so people would be more tempted to leave it on over night while it keeps searching for files for them.