How about an option to collect automatically all incomplete downloads?

I mean, a button... press it and LM search for all files in the incomplete folder and add them to queue.

is that possible?
if this request is already done, then sorry... i was blind :-)


GMM

I run a LimeWire server 24/7 off a high-capacity DSL line. I don't do any downloading, instead, I use Limewire to publish educational lectures and radio programs, mostly of a historical or religious nature. I have permission to reproduce these file, and interest is high - about 1000 half-hour programs are uploaded each day. I paid for LW Pro to help the cause.

My desired feature is less anonymity. I'd like to be able to leave a system message, pointing users to my website, or some other way of contacting me. Many users will try chat sessions, but because the system is up 24/7 unattended, I rarely see the chat to respond.

It seems that LimeWire is set up to be as anonymous as possible, and that's fine. But it would be great (for those trading non-copyrighted material) to be able to make a connection with others they find through this system. FTP servers have a system greeting, and web servers have title bars. Some kind of system greeting, which could be left off for those wishing anonymity, would make people-to-people connections easier.

Hi Waltbru. One thing you can do is annotate your files with metadata. To do this, select the file in the library, right-click, and choose "annotate". In this metadata, you can include a link to your website, as well as comments. Anyone downloading the files will get the metadata, as will be downloading from the downloaders.

The problem is that users need to know where to look for the metadata. In older versions of LimeWire, that means choosing the somewhat clumsy "change view" or "show annotation" options from the GUI. LW 2.2 (coming soon) makes the metadata more obvious by including it with normal result data--if the user has the appropriate columns turned on.

Also, one thing we'd like to add in the future are optional user names. This would allow users to locate another user by name in order to look for files, chat, etc. Users could also "bookmark" favorite hosts, regardless of whether they have static IP addresses. Needless to say, this is a big undertaking, so it probably won't happen in the immediate future.

Thanks for the comments!

-Christopher Rohrs

I can't tell you how many times I have wanted to right-click on the results tab and see 'Search Again' as an option. Also, could you use a tooltip to show the search category for the tabs? That would be great to know what type of search each one was.

Enable CMD-C copy, CMD-V paste and CMD-A Sellect all. All are needed to keep track of "Upload Names" (on the Monitor Page) in order to create log and keep track of most popular uploads (mp3's etc).

I think there should be a feature to cut-off very slow uploads. often my limewire gets caught with six people uploading at .5k / sec or even 0; this reduces the number of slots for people that can actually get content from my machine quickly.

Slow uploaders don't necessarily waste upload slots. Check out the options in your tools->options->uploads window. LimeWire will initially give out "start upload slots" uploads. Then, as long as there's enough bandwidth, it will continue to give out uploads until it reaches "max upload slots". Be careful not to set "start upload slots" too small, our LimeWire won't be able to tell whether it's you or the downloader that's run out of bandwidth.

Thanks for the tip; my upload slots were a bit low. But i have another question: the people that are constantly uploading at 0 or .5 k/s get their file only after many hours; this is one of the complaints of new users that the gnutella network is slow. Most people usually download from another host if the connection is slow; many people don't. Wouldn't it be a good idea to prevent these slow connections in the first place to encourage people to download only from those who they have a fast connection to? For instance, right now there are two people trying to upload from me at 0 k/s; my concern is that these people will never get their file because they are stuck on my slow upload.

LimeWire tries hard to swarm downloads from multiple sources whenever possible. So one slow download doesn't mean the whole file will be downloaded slowly. Future versions of LimeWire will try even harder to find faster locations.

None of the features you presented. they are all needless in my opinion, except perhaps the remote queuing.

first: HUGE or any other hash-enabling protocol.

second: auto-resuming that actually works.

do you actually enable multisourcing for modem users by now? if not, than that is definitely number three.