Music Only
 

Here's a thought I'm just throwin' out here...:idea:

How about a Music Only version of LimeWire?:w00t:

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I posted a request to be more music friendly by changing the list view to include metatag information so it would be easier to find the song(s) wanted.

Great Idea!!! I hope they listen to us.

I was wanting the view to change to a music oriented view for music, a different view for video, and a different one for documents etc.

This may be irrelevant, but when only searching a specific format, you can customise your search results; eg: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/limewi...filtering.html

Actually what I was suggesting is the view be changed from the same one, to a variant one that was dependant on the class of material being sought.

Eg. MP3 has metatage for title, artist, albumn etc.
Software, in ziped format, do not
Software, in ISO format, also do not
PDF files have meta tags so title and author can be displayed
DOC files also have meta tags similar to PDF

Video has tags but are not well supported generally like MP3 or PDF. The would change is someone could develop a standard that was extensible, so far that has not emerged.

Another thing that would make Limewire more efficient. When checking to see if a song has already been downloaded, Limwire only checks filenames. Better would be to check the song meta tags and see as iTunes when configured to manage files will rename files to <track> <title>.mp3 which is not file name oriented but tag oriented.

As I mentioned earlier, metatags are becoming increasonly used with documents to make them easier to search for and look at more carefully.