Ever since I upgraded to the Pro version (the one you pay for) I have a hard time getting songs to download. I f I select 20 to download, 18 will say "Awaiting Sources", 1 will say "Waiting for busy..." and maybe 1 will download. Why list the songs to download if you can't download them when they are selected? What's the point?

Please read the numerous other threads regarding this issue.

Where do I find the other threads?

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=20077

I can see a 91 year old defending a 2.5% download success rate on that thread?!?!

What I don't understand is that of the other filesharing progs I've tried, I was pretty much searching, clicking to downloading and off it went. Now, if I select a certain category of file, when the results come flying in, sometimes hundreds, I'll do everything that's been recommended I can think of:

I'm at home.
I'm uploading fine.
I'm downloading 4 star files.
I'm not filtering on host speed.
I'm on the network for many hours at a time, usually overnight.

However, where, for a given search I get a few files downloaded almost straight off, I can see no change then in over 8 hours, just awaiting sources. It isn't like the stuff I'm after is obscure either, not by a long shot.

Essentially I have a huge list of 'Awaiting Sources' that doesn't appear to attempt to refresh, and doesn't change unless I 're-search' which sometimes triggers a couple off again.

Why is the success rate so low against other filesharing systems I've tried?

What can I do about these awaiting sources, or files partially downloaded that don't seem to do anything for days at a time whenever I log on and leave it for a few hours hoping to pick something up?

It just seems like one can't do a search, see a load of files appear and then start downloading them. One gets a couple, then the others just go on the awaiting sources list.

I don't think I and other users are asking hard questions, we just want to know why it is we commonly and frequently get awaiting sources messages against popular files, and why nothing seems to happen for 8 or 9 hours at a time, where the files I'm hoping to start downloading number more than 50 across a range of interests. I could handle it if every few hours I saw one or two files making some progress, but its just the absolute stillness of this supposedly massive system, if it wasn't for the nightmarish advertising I'd leave, but before I do I'd like to know that I'm doing everything right.

Is there anyone here that is enjoying bounteous downloading, anyone at all?

I'm on Win98SE, adsl modem, running 3.3.5

For what it's worth, I gave up on Lime Wire. Too much frustration, too many hours wasted trying to get it to work. I would select 20 songs to download, 18 would come up "Awaiting" sources, and the other two I was waiting in line or something else. What really ticked me off was that it didn't happen until I paid for the Pro version.
I am now using Rhapsody. After a free trial it costs $10 a month for all the songs you want to be able to listen to. If you want to burn them, it's 79 cents a song. It adds up but there is no advertising, popups, etc. And it works.

To answer Dithnir: I am.

I left limewire pro running for 8 hours overnight UK time, not a single file had advanced of the 3 partially downloaded and there are 25 files in all, none of which did anything other than await sources. The files themselves I would say should classify as popular audio files, not obscure.

If some have easy frequent downloading, is there something I should have done during this 8 hours to move these files forward, or were there just no users on with these particular files?

Yes.

Downloads have to be managed. To get a working download, one often has to try it from numerous different sources (people) at different speeds. One often has to research the file when one gets the awaiting sources message, which you shouldn't be getting with the new version.

Are you saying that if there's a file by, for example 'the rocking rockers' and there are two instances in the results, one on a T1 with 4 stars, one on a modem with 2 stars, I click to download both if they're the same filesize?

As it stands, I double click either a 4 star file, or a 4 star that looks to have multiple downloads attached to it, but that doesn't always happen. Is there nothing else I can try?