song help

[unitedguy]

when i try to download a song but the bitrate is 160 and it says modem but i have cable and all it says when it is downloading it says awaiting sources, how do i really download it?

[Lord of the Rings]

lol The bitrate is the br the song was encoded at. It has nothing to do with dwnld speed. The higher the no. the higher the quality of encoding. To my knowledge an mp3 can be encoded from about 30 up to 320.
Problems dwnlding a particular file, do another search to see if you can find more sources for it. You can also cancel it from the dwnld list & re-select from the search results. This can work. Occasionally searching for more sources as well.

[unitedguy]

the song i am trying to download is No copyright/wares can be mentioned on forum: see Forum rules and the only one is the modem one and all it says when it is downloading it says awaiting sources. that is all it says and does nothing. how do i download it?

[Lord of the Rings]

One of those rare hard to get ones, huh! Try varying your search options anyway. Try just the artist name or just the song name or try a general search with either or both. You can also try to make it as specific as possible.

If you are really determined to get a hold of it there's some things you can try. You may want to temporarily lift any limitations you have on search quality & speed (Tools-Options-Searching or for mac that's Prefs-Searching.) There's also an option for Local Preferencing, which can be temporarily turned off (I think it's found under Advanced.) But don't forget to change these settings back when finished.

Your file shows Awaiting Sources, which means you've also tried Resuming/Finding more Sources for the file. That can be very effective, but manual searching allows greater flexibility & potentially better results. Also try to do a search at a different time of the day (people go on/off net continually & also might not be so busy at certain times - incl. both you ip line & the network itself.) Other things that might help is to ensure you're sharing plenty of files so you're not being filtered out/preferenced by the source. Hope these suggestions help anyway.