Avoid the Limewire player. It's baaad.

I too shut off the Limewire player looong ago. I had downloaded and deleted several files that would not play or just sounded horrid before I decided to start testing them with other programs. For quick loading and ease of use, I actually use RealPlayer to play most of my downloads. It seems to give me pretty good results, playing files that Limewire and Media Player wouldn't touch.