does anyone know if some mp3's available on limewire are somehow encoded to be unburnable? when i go to burn them, half of the one's i successfully downloaded show up as "ok" and some of them are not accessible. thanks for any help you can give me

Which software bundle are you using to burn CDs?

Also, mp3s can become corrupted after being shared over and over again. The file my in fact be fine and intact, and you may be able to play it, but persnickity, bean-counting programs will call it invalid. I've had this happen to me before. All I had to do was use MusicMatch to convert it into a valid wave file, and I was able to burn it.

Hope this helps!

I've experienced the situation where every file downloaded since upgrading to 2.1.3 is rejected by Toaster when I try to burn a CD. I've heard a lot of advice about using QuickTime to convert, about shortening the names of files and adding the right suffix to the name... as below:

4-2Q. On my Macintosh computer, all my MP3 downloads appear as LimeWire documents or LimeWire docs. None of my software players can recognize these files. How can I fix this?
4-2A. Try shortening the file name and adding the appropriate extension (i.e. mp3 for a song) manually to the file name. The maximum length of a file name on a Mac is 32 characters. You can also play MP3 LimeWire docs with a program called MacAmp.

... I found that the "blank page" LimeWire files have names that already comply with the above suggestions. They play, not through the LimeWire interface, but they are simply spit-out by Toaster. I've heard that Musicvac will convert these files back into something usable... but much effort in trying to track down this freeware lead to a puzzling string of dead-ends.

LimeWire and Toaster worked beautifully before upgrading. Mp3s downladed as beautiful little QuickTime files that burned beautifully. Now they don't.

Any suggestions about this?

The problem seems to lie in creator types. The files LimeWire is saving to your hard disk don't have the right creator codes, or whatever, so Toaster doesn't think they are real mp3s. So, I would recommend finding a program that can change file creator codes ("filebuddy?"). I do own a mac, so I cannot offer much more help.

Do you have iTunes installed? New versions of LimeWire save mp3s as iTunes files. Perhaps you could use iTunes to burn them?