My point exactly! I have been using LimeWire for about half a year, and I have tried to discuss this issue earlier (http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=2892). I even came up with two simple and easy to implement suggestions which would make working with LimeWire a little less troublesome - but nobody has commented on it yet.

LimeWire uses all the political correct ideas: its' free, its' based on an open standard, it's written in java, it's cross platform and it doesn't contain any spyware (though it isn't open source) - but it is also way behind other current file sharing programmes.

It is still struggling with basic connectivity problems while it's competitors offer more advanced search options, they are not limited to using the “old school” file information like file name, file extension and file size but will show you bit rates, length, image resolutions, codec format etc., they allow you to download the same file from multiple sources simultaneously, they can automatically resume your broken downloads and redo your searches...

I seriously doubt we will see much of this in LimeWire this year. It might be implemented at some point of time, but other file sharing programmes already have it, and there is no reason to believe they won't continue to work on making them even easier to work with.