Well I've been downlaoding *** ***: ***, but for some reason when i try to preveiw the file, it says "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file." can someone please hlep me out?

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Sounds like you need xtra codecs: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html or another player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ which has built in codecs (choose closest mirror site.)

the same has happened to me, although i can play the same format files from other sites, limewire wont let me play anything, i think its limewires problem and am unintalling it,

i asked for help in another thread and got no reply so i aint wasting time with limewire anymore

OK!

I obviously didn't see your other post unless you didn't give enough details. You need to set default apps to play the files you're trying to launch/preview. For audio files you might want to disable LW's media player so your default mp3 player plays it instead.

Almost forgot to mention. You need to have already downlded a certain % of a file in order to preview it! The more the better.

they wont play in any external player i set as default.

What player is that?

ps. i have read a lot of posts for the same problem as i have, and they say download more codecs, i dont think that is what i need, as i said, i play the same formats from other sites in windows media player, they work fine, except for files from limewire, therefore i assume that most of the files on limewire must be fake, now thats what i think the problem is..

i have used windows media player,(i like this as my default player) i have used nero and power dvd and quick time
no matter what i set as default player when i preview file it says cant play for what ever reason.

Ahar! Now I think I know where your problem is. Many of the most popular files available are from T3 sources & most of these are corrupt. So that's why you can't preview them. The RIAA is flooding T3's with corrupt files to stop people's enthusiasm.

Check these threads out: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28801

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...560#post112560

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...3195#post93195

My advice is to avoid T3 sources where possible.

For movie files I would highly recommend VLC (inbuilt codecs), see the link above. Likewise another program with inbuilt codecs but for audio is QCD: http://www.quinnware.com/ If neither of these apps will play your files then you know they are most likely corrupt or something.