Hello,

Because LimeWire takes no part in the playing of "song files", LimeWire is probably not to blame for "songs that only play a short while." Unless LimeWire is found to be corrupting files during upload/download, then either:

1) the song file you downloaded was already corrupt, (from the person you downloaded from). In this case, download the same song from a different source.

or

2) your system is having problems playing any song file. In this case, try to fix your windows install.

Regards,
-T