every song that i've downloaded, skips. every song, numerous times throughout the songs. am i doing something wrong?

You too!

A number of people have complained about this. I'd suggest you use your default player. To do this go to LW's Tools>Options>Player & untick the option box. Now your default player will load everytime you launch a song.

To create a default player, select an mp3 on your comp (not within LW), & either right-click or go File menu>Properties & Open with... & select your prefered app. If you don't have a great player may I suggest QLC it has built in codecs & plays most things & is free: http://www.quinnware.com/

If an other player don´t help, the MP3 might be corrupt. In future avoid T3 connections, some of them are sending bad data (RIAA and other copyrightholders).

Morgwen

As difficult as this may be to believe, your problem(s) could be caused by more than one thing...

And one of those things could be a need to defragment your Hard Disk Drive.
(An 'old' problem that does not go away !)

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thanks everyone, changing my player helped greatly!