Hopefully this will be of assistance: How to find music

As you probably know, LW has a search horizon, and within that search horizon there's probably a number of spammers. This really depends on the ultrapeers you are connected to. Some people unluckily get connected directly to spammer ultrapeers & get very little decent search results.

This usually varies every few days or you get an especially bad week occasionally with searches.

I have a suspicion LW 5 does not hold onto its uploaders as well as LW 4 did. I have a suspicion it's some kind of bug with LW 5. Discussed this with a couple of other moderators here.

If you are losing hosts, re-do another search. And then choose the option, Find More Results by right-clicking the search tab.

Welcome to the Gnutella forums btw.