I know what you will say but i have to ask

[doby]

Hello people, I know that somewhere on the forum this will have been asked already but here goes anyway.

I have limewire pro and have finally got it set up as I want, I share my files and let others have what I have but I am not happy, I don’t know weather it is just me but I find most of the people who have files from me never seem to have anything to share, is this a problem with my set up or is it just freeloaders.

I have my limewire set up not to allow freeloaders but IM not 100% sure that this does anything as I seem to still get loads.

Also if anyone can help, is there a certain way in which files can be found?
When searching for various films I seem to find most are in a foreign language or from a cinema is there anyway of filtering this out, I also do not seem to be able to find that many sources for films and music so I don’t know what IM doing wrong.

Yes I do try various ways of searching before anyone asks I try artist album and all that.

I would appreciate any help or advice you can give me.

Many thanks in advance.

The world would be a better place if people shared.

[birdy]

If you're trying to browse host & it's saying 'unable to browse host', that does not mean the person's a freeloader. Browse host is pretty unreliable Having chat enabled seems to make it work a little better.
There's some info here
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ht=browse+host

For your searching, try using the All Types category, rather than just Audio or Video. This can give you quite different results. For example if you're searching for a movie, search for title - format eg movie - avi or just movie avi

When your search results come up, you can check the file with Bitzi. Right click on the file > advanced > look up file with Bitzi. If a movie's been rated, you can find out whether it's a good/crappy version & other little bits of info. Songs don't tend to be rated very often.

Don't forget to search at different times of day. Hosts in other time zones are logging on/off all the time

You're right, this has been asked before! The search button is top right, next to quick links. It lets you search through all previous threads.

[doby]

You're right, this has been asked before! The search button is top right, next to quick links. It lets you search through all previous threads.

birdy

[mickjapa108]

Hey Birdy, "Songs don't tend to be rated very often"
Have you ever tryed to rate a file on bitzi,music that is, "Try again in 10 sec,s" Yea!, I do it, Don't ask me why. After the 40th time of trying I give up.
We do want to rate songs but its dam near imposable to do so.
Give the Program a bit more Server space so it works Then you will see people use it. Whats your thoughts --Peace

[birdy]

mickjapa108,
I wasn't criticising... just saying that not many songs get rated
I've rated songs on Bitzi, the only problem I've ever had is that Bitcollider's a bit slow to open a browser page sometimes.

Don't worry - nobody's going to go off at you for not rating songs

[foolofthehill]

Originally Posted by mickjapa108

Another way,Make a box to tick for People that only want to connect to those Who have Browse Host turned on.
Give me your thoughts on the Browse Host Button Club thing

If I'm not mistaken, then it is rather a technical problem with "browsing Host" than a question of a ticked box (besides that I haven't seen yet any feature in LW that would allow such a thing like ticking to permit browsing -though I'd like to refer back to the already mentioned infrequent blindness I suffer from ). At least that's what I've read here in the forum so far. However, I'll closely follow up the responses to your suggestion.

[Grandpa]

mickjapa108

Improvment. Well Birdy,What about a clip board for people to pin usful suggestions,Idea's, Fixes and the like,The comman man/woman will come up with the Idea's.The boffins can make them work for us.

Umm That I believe is called New Feature Request it is already available. https://www.gnutellaforums.com/new-feature-requests/

Perhaps you did not read the link left by birdy inside that link there is another link in the post by crawler.Browse host does not work very good. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ht=browse+host read the thread fully. You can not turn off Browse host in LimeWire it is always on. It just does not work very good. Hell I can set at one of my computers and try and browse one of the others sometimes I can sometimes I can't. So using your suggestion I would be blocking myself. Between the 3 computers I have running right now I am sharing 240GB a little over 2800 files. So if there was a feature like you suggested you would probably be reducing the available number of files why would you want to do that.

Solution: Learn to write code and fix the Browse feature