I have been having problems lately with some mp3 downloads from Limewire which I haven't had in the past. I did have repair work done on my MacBook Pro laptop computer however, and the replacement system board may be preventing limewire to recognize mp3's for some reason. The message I get when I try to play some files with Limewire is the one I posted in the thread title. I have tried converting the files, and even playing them in other applications with similar difficulty. Sometimes all I get is a few seconds of hiss for a 5 MB file. Yet, other audio files will play

Any suggestions. I've searched the Gnutella forum and haven't found anything specific to this problem which indicates why some mp3 files will play and others won't. What could possibly be causing the unknown error, other than someone pranking gnutella with files which are incorrectly labeled with the .mp3 designation.

Thanks
singa2n