I have been a member for many years and have had my membership lapsed for a few years and thought that I should purchase the newer version of Lime Wire Pro.

I just feel that there is NO difference at all, and in fact there is MORE SPAM in the results.

I was searching for an ARTIST and ALBUM title and I got EVERYTHING but the the ALBUM title...

Very disappointed with my purchase and I would have been better off with the free version IMO

If this is in the wrong section to post this, then feel free to relocate it, but IMO this "paid version", is no better than the free one and I feel ripped off.

If the administration staff care to move this to a more appropriate thread that's fine and if they care to send me a message I would gladly accept and read it.

np. Open discussion or this section.

Spam affects everyone. Does not matter which version you use, pro or basic, or a different gnutella program.

The idea is to learn to recognise the spam & designate it as junk & then leave it at bottom of search results.

BTW the new LW 5 when it eventually is released will have some built in spam reduction via known ip banning of spammers.

In meantime, here's the spam sizes you can learn to beware of Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them (click on blue link to see). I always arrange my search results by size by clicking the top of the Size heading bar twice which puts the largest at the top.

Some other things you can do to help:
(a) Check 'both' links in this thread as one deals with general spam terms also to add to your filter list: Direct instructions to eliminate porn from results

(b) Problems with the search. There are more spam ultrapeers out there too. Sometimes you connect directly to them. Thus more spam than usual.

(c) Hostiles List. This should be updated regularly.


Personally I find LW Pro is better for seeking out the rarer files. Not the commonly found ones. Pro's advantages over Basic are small & subtle. For example, with Pro you can download from 10 hosts per downloading file, instead of Basic's 8 hosts per file. Pro has a slightly better ability at reaching further in searches, this applies when searching for not so common terms. Because LW Pro connects to 5 ultrapeers instead of Basic's 3, it means there are more people the searches are going through.

Thanks for the reply, but it still does not explain the fact when searching for an ARTIST and ALBUM title and I get EVERYTHING but the the ALBUM title...

I even get other artists other than the one I have entered

Just personally, what I experienced when I used to get awesome downloads - NEVER put in both the artist name and album name. I used to get nothing but junk results (they looked normal but never downloaded) and porn.

So I did one or the other and just ended up spending time weeding through the results, but they were good results. Try one or the other but not both? Then if you search by artist, you can sift through album names using the menu that comes up on the left of the results box.

Totally agree!