Clients do not propagate their connection speed when downloading, so that could be quite hard to implement. Downloading about 6Gigs shouldn't be any problem, though.

As for your bandwidth usage, how many Ultrapeer connections are you generally keeping???

I'd love it if there was a way to ask someone to share a file you know is out there, but not shared at the moment...

That is not possible with gnutella. ICQ or another IM generally helps you out. - It is possible, though, to chat with a host you want to download from.

i keep 5 or 6 which is my max

Desired feature
 

I'm using LimeWire 2.3.2 Pro and I like to rearrange the order and size of the display columns in the Search and Download windows. For example, I move Chat as far off the screen as possible since its wasted space.

This is great for as long as that LimeWire session lasts, but LimeWire doesn't save those changes, so I have to do it again the next time I start it up.

Could it save this information?

it should be saving that info for the search results tab, but the information for the other tabs aren't saved yet.

Maybe It's Already There...
 

Maybe you've already implemented this, but I'm using 2.3.3 and I haven't found it. Anyways, here's the idea: automated search and download. Essentially, you put in some parameters (file\artist name, format, bitrate, etc.), and it would continue looking\regular search (say every 3 minutes) for the file and automatically download it even if the file could not initially be found on the network.

For example: I'm looking for Joe Unknown - Obscure Track.mp3. After doing a quick search manually, nothing shows up on the network. So I put in the artist name, format, and minimum bitrate into an automated search and download, then go watch tv for a few hours. About an hour after I leave, Jane Doe comes online and happens to be sharing that file. The automated search and download takes another poll, finds it, and downloads it. I come back in another hour and look at the screen showing my track automagickly downloaded with a big dumb grin on my face and put on my headphones. (-8

This could also have the side effect of encouraging people to stay on the network longer, which would mean more files being shared...

Just an idea.

Automated searches every three minutes, - even sending queries every 30 minutes causes very high traffic.

LimeWire has currently implemented (only in cvs) a downloader robot, that will let you specify a search and start requerying the network for the search keywors (not quite every 3 minutes, but it does requery...). When it receives a result, it will try downloading it automatically.

what about requeries for original parameters [including whether audio/video/program/etc] ?

That's currently not supported by any other client. - When searching for hashes, you could probably reduce the requery interval to 15 minutes or so.

even that would help, better than now

broken record
 

just give me an "incomplet" tab!

it would list those file, but you could double clic on one to re initiat a search.


or at least a copy/past menue

greg

Re: broken record
 

as is if i've got a title in the download window saying requery and it says over 10,000 in secs, i have to research, kill current file and click the same file name again - what about reducing that requery timer back to a smaller level as a choice rather than killing it at all.
if it isn't listed then it could say 'couldn't download' or something like that?

The next version (2.4.0) will show only 300 seconds to the next requery (after 5 minutes it tests if any requery has been sent in the last 45 minutes and if not, sends a requery).

not sure if it makes sense - language filter
 

hi,

i'm really excited about audio-books, but for me as a german it is not easy to find these in a specific (my) language. does it make sense to filter requests by language? i think it will, if you could set your language in the tools-options menu.

still sharing...
netrunner

...what is absolutely nonsens if you can't select your connections to ultrapeers/"servers" by preferred language.

what does this mean to the community?
hmpf

netrunner

I would love to be able to connect to ultrapeers in specific countries--for example, I am a big fan of Indian pop music and would be thrilled to find a listing of servers in India that I could hook up to.

Anyway, feature requests: remote browsing, and make incompletes re-search when you doubleclick them instead of playing a preview. Or a popup menu with re-search on it.

Feature? or just more info?
 

Not sure if this qualifies as a "feature" but,
It would be great if version upgrade info could be added to the LW Pro download pages.

As a LW Pro user I am amazed by the number of LW version "UpGrades"
paraded on my download page...
(I think that there have been about (15) since my original purchase).

Now, realistically(?) are ALL of these version changes right for me and my OS ?

Most other programs I use give me at least a hint as to what is new and what has been fixed
in the latest release version offered.
I have not been able to find any such info (or link to this info) on my Pro download page.
And, I'm thinking that (maybe) the "newest" LW offered may not have anything new for me...
perhaps the fixes are only for PeeCees...
or, just fixes for my Mac...
or, new features that I do not want or need...
or is this a "MUST HAVE" upgrade?

It would be great (to me) if version upgrade info could be added to the LW Pro download pages.
Might this also speed-up our testing of new features and fixes?

I Second That!
 

I will directly grab a snippet of a post I had made earlier the other day to the forum:

<snip>
I messed around
with morpheus and kazaa on the windows xp side and found kazaa to be the best
for me in that category. Until I tried limewire, no other programs in linux
came close! Limewire is #2 overall if I had to compare it with all p2p programs
regardless of OS. LIme Wire could be #1 only if they could get their system to
be able to handle multiple multimedia files (ie avi, mpeg, mpg, divx, mp3, etc)
whether internally with their own player like what kazaa has, or by accessing
an external media program like xine, mplayer, ogle, divx, etc.
</snip>

That is my view on this matter. Plus the browse host feature, of course, was an added plus to the program. Incorporate these two features and there would be no reason why this program should not be number one on my list!

altoine

Add support for OGG Vorbis
 

I think you should add support for OGG Vorbis into the internal player. It's a great format.. it's all I use.

Do you want a good file sharing app or a good media player. I don't think you can have both, regarding LimeWire's limited resources.

The Original Concept Is Best
 

I would rather it be the best app it can be with zero mediaplayer support now that I see how great the program is now. I just don't really want it to support media files internally but rather have a plugin to access media sources or allow the individual user to configure it themselves.


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altoine

I don't think any of these options are what I want - I would like to see newer versions of the software yield more query results, not less. Thanks!

On the Mac platform they use Quicktime to drive their internal player .
Yet , the Windows users get this skipping piece of junk !
I told them before that they should utilize DirectSound if they want their internal player to become of some value on the Windows platform .

Their response was something like : Quicktime is standard on Mac OS and DirectX isn't on Windows .
C'mon , show me any regular Joe who doesn't have some version of DirectX on his computer ! :mad:

It Isn't Easy
 

It isn't easy to implement a non-cross-platform API like directsound for use on a cross-platform program. Well, it is easy but not to create the code to detect system arch and OS in order to facilitate the proper loading of the appropriate API.

altoine

I didn't say it would be easy . :D

YOu are correct. My apologies. I just look at things from a coder's perspective, as well.

1. Automatic resume (with search if necessary) by clicking on incomplete files or with the Force Resume button would be the big revolution for me. Many users have been begging for this feature for months. I know the LW team is working on it. Let's hope it appears in 2.5 along with file hashing.

Why? If you're fed up with seeing the requery countdown for days on end, if the server goes offline, if it gives endless busy messages or if stays at 0k/s you'll eventually give up and hit the Kill Download button. Then you're stuck with the incomplete file.

2. I would like to see more accurate server information: To have [real] available upload bandwidth in the the Speed column in the search window i.e. '4k/s' or '28k/s' instead of 'Modem' or 'T3'.

3. Like many others , I'd like to see a Copy, Paste fuction - this one surely can't be difficult to implement?

4. Browse Host with a list of favourites.

For me the internal media player is totally unecessary. Everybody has their favourite dedicated player (Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Winamp, itunes etc.) so why waste development time on what is merely a secondary feature that won't work as well anyway? All that's needed is the option to configure which player you want to use for each file type (.mov , .mp3 , .mpg ....)

Cut & Paste was introduced in SUN JRE 1.4.0 .
But 80-90% of the people are still hanging on to 1.3.1_02 for their own idiotic reasons .
And that version doesn't support Cut & Paste .
LW runs even smoother using JRE 1.4.0 .
I can't see a single reason why they want to keep using 1.3.1_02 .

That may well be true for Windows and Linux, but unfortunately Mac users don't have an option:

MacOS X only has JRE 1.3.1 available and Mac OS 9.x users are stuck with Apple's MRJ 2.2.5 which is based on Sun's JRE 1.1.8 . So Limewire on the Mac - esapecially on 9.x - is buggy, bloated and with no mouse wheel or cut'n'paste. Though, obviously, there isn't much the LW team can do about this other than write a native version of Limewire for Mac (not likely).

We can only hope that JRE 1.4 is forthcoming for OSX (OS9 is on its way out so don't hold out any hopes for an advance on MRJ 2.2.5).

This is one of the problems for LW development as a lot of users , myself included, can become confused about which features or bugs are due to the Limewire code and which are related to limitations in the Java virtual machine (for example mouse wheel or cut & paste).

As for Windows users , I agree with VTOLfreak and would advise any one who can to upgrade to JRE 1.4 as I've seen that Limewire runs much better.

Youre right .
In 1.4.0 they did not only introduce Cut & Paste but also did an overall maintenance of all components .
For example : They revised the entire networking component .
If you are into P2P using JAVA that alone should urge you to upgrade .

Besides I don't know why all these people are making a fuss about it .
It's free ! You can download it freely .
They even changed the license agreement so you can burn it onto a CD and give it to your frends !
(Wich you already do but now it's really legal OK ?)

"their own idiotic reasons" whatever.

I have my reasons. The skinLF package, which AquaLime uses, doesn't run as well under 1.4.0 as it does under 1.3.1. As a result, AquaLime is faster in 1.3.1.

1.3.1 is also smaller. For HD space misers, this may be a factor.

And regarding cut and paste, I'm a little confused. I am using (as stated) 1.3.1, and I have no problems cutting and pasting. ??

Anyway, for regular old LimeWire, you may as well use 1.4.0, but I at least have my reasons, since I'm not using regular LimeWire.

If i was limewire i would add a find more hosts (multisource downloading). The multisource downloading that is in there now isnt good enough, i think there should be a mouse click option, like right click find more sources, this would help download speed.

Secondly, i would kill the whole limewire player, we dont need it for the osx version and maybe even the 9 version because of iTunes.

I'd like password protected filtering please. Doesn't have to be perfect (I know it can't be), but it'd make life easier.
I know there's a separate thread about it, but as you were asking....

I didn't say that cut&paste was impossible under 1.3.1 .
You can always write your own code to support it .
But since 1.4.0 it is nativly supported so it will work in any Java program .
Even if it was not written to support it .

which of them???
 

All of the options discussed sound good to me!!!!!

my two cents
 

1. browse host computer!!!
2. display time remaining (or some approximation) in download section
3. when choosing "search again" don't get rid of previous search results
4. don't bother improving mp3 player, adding video, etc..., dedicated media players=much better IMHO

I think the repeat search needs to be sorted out aswell, it shouldn't clear the previous results, it should just add to them like a lot of other clients do. I would like this feature to be implemented in the most.

An integrated mediaplayer is a huuuge task to implement. 1) Java is probably not the appropriate for that. 2) The whole LimeWire team could easily spend one or two years on the media player before it worked decently. I think you should rather get an extra player software instead of limewire as a media player.

Chat Button on the Monitor Page
 

Somebody downloaded my entire catalog and I wanted to talk to them about that. But there's no chat button on the monitor page so I was doodoo out of luck.

God, this is psycho psychic. I was thinking exactly the same thing today, because I wanted to inform the person dowloading a certain file from me that I was willing to hand around if he was going to finish downloading at that session, if you will. Big files can take a long time to transfer, you know

Sometimes you can chat with uploaders, right-click or command-click one of the lines in the Monitor window. There should be a chat option in the contextual menu that appears. In recent LimeWire versions however I had a hard time getting that contextual menu to show up.

I'm using the cvs version and chatting with uploaders works very well. - To allow chatting with each and every uploader you'd have to block all non-limewire clients from downloading from you - and that will certainly not be done.

A different view
 

I'd like the app to WORK--1. When I click outside the app, it crashes every time--no matter what you say--it STILL does. 2. For every other app I've ever seen, when you put something in quotes, it searches for the exact words--except for Limewire--it searches for something that contains one or more of the words. 3. The highly-praised new feature that does a future search for something follows the same twisted logic as #2, above. It downloads anything that con tains one or more of the words in quotes--when you are searching for a song title of, let's say" "the street where you live", it might download a song with the word "street", "live". "where" or "you" in it, etc. This is not very helpful. 4. Partially down-loaded files do not continue to download after the app is closed--about half the time.

So, I don't want anything fancy in your next upgrade, I'd just like the features you already have to work properly.

1. probably a problem with java, do you get any error messages?
2. Advanced searching is not supported by the gnutella protocol.
3. With meta-data search you can try to specify more clearly what you are looking for, so you receive less 'bad' results.
4. Well, LimeWire tries to continue incomplete downloads but it doesn't always work because the remote host serving the file might not be available or LimeWire crashed and the downloads.dat file was corrupted.

You're right, advanced searching (and, or, not, "") is no longer possible on the gnutella network since the introduction of QRP, which allows only the type of keyword search sudarat described (QRP is a great thing nevertheless).

However, the feature he requested is still possible. All LimeWire would have to do is to perform a regular or-search for the specified keywords first and refine that search later. That means, if one queried the network for "the street where you live", every search result that does not include this exact string would simply not be displayed. it's quite easy actually.

Personally i'd like it best if every search tab would contain a refinement box (like in gnucleus).

-- Refined Search/Filter tools --
 

I would really like to refine the search results... that is a search within the search results or better yet a filter that could be applied to search results allowing various patterns to be searched while retaining the original search results.

There are occasions where I am looking for a given song by a given artist... I have found that typos and outright misspelling cause results to be erratic... so if I know the song is by say, Jackson Browne, I do a 'net' search for Jackson Browne and the would be able to search/filter the results for the song or fragment of song.

Minor feature requests
 

1) Perhaps a button that allows LimeWire to scan your shared folders and refresh your list of shared files. I often see "File Not Found" messages in my upload list because I have a tendancy to rename blatant misspellings or misnomers. It also doesn't seem to refresh after file deletion. I'm not sure if there's a way to automatically detect file modifications, but at least the user could refresh manually.

2) An exit command from the file menu. Ideally, the user should have the choice either to shut down or minimize to system tray (in Windows) by the normal close button in the top right, and there should be a dedicated, immediate exit function available also. Just an aggravation to me. Maybe I haven't figured it out yet.

Brandan L.

From Brandan:
An exit command from the file menu. Ideally, the user should have the choice either to shut down or minimize to system tray (in Windows) by the normal close button in the top right, and there should be a dedicated, immediate exit function available also. Just an aggravation to me. Maybe I haven't figured it out yet.


You can select your shutdown option from Tools/Options/Shutdown

Re: Minor feature requests
 

Brandan, try clicking Refresh in the Library section after making changes. That should reload all the shared files.