Hi, as you can see, I'm new here. I pretty much figured it out (for the most part) but I noticed that on most of the songs I have downloaded, the endings were missing, or they would cut off in the middle of the song. Is there a way to hear the song prior to downloading it? I dont know if the problem is on my end or where I'm getting the songs from. As I have said, total newbie here. Would appreciate any help. Thanks

i have noticed a very much songs with no ending but there is no way on earth that you can hear that song before you download it and sometimes i even get a song that only hear it from left side or only the right side of my headphones.

The preview button will often allow you to see/hear the bits of the video/music downloaded so far.

However, over time we learn to identify and avoid downloading a bunch of corrupt and incomplete fakes. Often the spammers are on T3's, and the files are the first to show in many results. The Preview button will not work on those files, since the contents are not really reliable.

Apparently many of the files on the network by Kazaa users were as you described--the middle of the file was garbage. Since many Kazaa users have switched to the gnutella network (LimeWire uses gnutella), we should be seeing more garbage being shared.

You can also use the Bitzi lookup (right click a search result to get at the Bitzi option) to see if anyone has reported that file before you download it.

Thanks very much, both of you, for your responses. Live and learn I guess. Eventually I'll get the hang of it. I'm never sure where its best to download from. I have a cable modem, so I tend to lean toward the T3 or cable. Unfortunately, I dont know what I'm downloading till the song is finished.