Hi, Why is it that when I do a normal search to see if the songs I uploaded are available to other people I cannot find them?

Is there a certain amount of weeks before Limewire lists the ones some people have uploaded from me in the search list?

Or is it a case of you can't search for your own songs?


Please help?

Thank you.

Come on guys please help

The latter one......LW won't display to you the files you share; besides, you haven't "uploaded" them, since that would require a server. LW is just a P2P client allowing users to connect to other users computer......if you won't to say, you are the server and people interested in your files will download them from you (as the "server").

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Ok thanx, but how come loads of songs are in the list like when I do a search say for Elvis I get loads of songs to choose from but some are not available cause the person or persons that put them there are not online?

So to put it another way it seems that you can queue offline songs and just wait until the person comes online, so therefore shouldn't the songs I have uploaded to people be at least in the list if I'm online or not? But definely if I'm online you would think wouldn't you?

There is no way that I can give you a short answer to a quite complex matter; so why don't you just read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing

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Thanx Iv'e read that but I'm still no wiser.

The thing is, what I'm trying to say is surely if a person uploads songs from me they would still be on their computer, so therefore when I do a search for them they should be in the normal search you would think do you see what I'm trying to say?

It depends on people's settings. Within LW you have an option to share downloads immediately (introduced within the last few versions.) However, if this is not set to yes then those files won't be shared until the person re-opens LW or else, uses the Refresh button on the Library window which recounts the shared files & updates the shared content.

BTW to check the other person's files you could have browsed them rather than doing a search.

I see, thanks for that mate

Its just that Iv'e uploaded loads of files now, some of them have been uploaded many times by different people, so statistically you would think that while those people are still online I would see my file in the normal search wouldn't you?

Another thing that confuses me is why is it that when I do a search for some artists the results will normally display songs from the people who uploaded them onto Limewire which are offline?

I'm assuming they are offline cause if I queue a song which is in the list it won't download which highlights the fact that user is offline am I right, plus its always the same files in the search results.

Am I making sence or shall I try and explain it another way?

If a user's offline, you can't see any of their files.
What you're seeing might be fake files, there are lots around. They'll sit 'connecting' for ages before going straight to 'need more sources'. Typically, these are new releases (though not always) with large numbers of sources (up to 100). Try varying your search terms... look for artist or album rather than song title. Also try the All Types search. Stay away from files with huge numbers of sources, I go for files with 10 sources or less

Thanx for that mate.


But what causes fake files to go onto Limewire? You say typically these are new releases, but surely even if its a new release from someone if they are online it should download am I right?

There seem to be too many files that won't download to be all new releases if you see what I mean?

Can you please explain this a bit more to me, sorry for seeming thick.