Can't launch Limewire music downloads
 

I've got a G-3 Mac running OS-9. My original Limewire worked great. I am using the free ddownload software. Since it prompted me to upgrade to a newer version of Limewire which I did, I can no longer launch songs. Before the 'upgrade' I could launch a song either while it was downloading (thereby playing only that which had been downloaded at that point) or the completed song in my file. Now it won't play/launch. Any suggestions? Thanks for any help.

I'm not sure what version Limewire I have or had. The "get info" reveals
LaunchAnywhere 4.5 Macintosh edition 2001, that it was created with
ZeroG's InstallAnywhere created 2/24/02 modified 11/2/02.

RZimm1@erols.com Thanks

no files available? disconnected?
 

i'm confused too! why is limewire, that i was using days ago, now not working? what changed? thanks!

Appreciate knowing someone else is looking into this. Please let me know if you get some help.
RZimm1@erols.com

iTunes
 

do you have itunes ? If yes and it is still not working, throw out the itunes preferences and then try it. Good Luckdo you have itunes ?

I don't think I have itunes on the machine in question, but I'll check. Does that occur only with the newer Limewire versions? As mentioned it used to work perfectly but with the 'update' download the problem was introduced. And I can't find the old version to reinstall it so that's not a solution. Thanks for your help, I welcome any other thoughts. RZimm1@erols.com

me too? i have an itunes that i downloaded a while back. what changed though? it was working fine for a while......until now.

itunes
 

I have always used itunes to listen and burn my music. I'm not sure if it has always been that way. I have a friend who uses real player to listen/burn her music (PC user) If you have itunes, try dragging the preferences file to the trash then relaunch itunes. When it asks if you wnat it to find all MP3 files on you hard drive, check yes and let it go throught it's motions. (you can always delete the mp3 files after it finishes.) Then you should be able to launch limewire into itunes. Itunes 2.0.4 is really nice. It has an equalizer that helps make tuens much better sounding. It is much nicer than the itunes that came with MAC OS 9.1.

I don't believe I have itunes. In the past when it was launching songs it did it with RealPlayer. It worked fine. I have those songs saves and they saves as realplayer format. So presuming I don't have itunes any way to direct me via the above?
I was thinking about trashing Limewire and downloading it again. I tried sending them an email about this but didn't get anywhere. I thought about paying for the pro level but I decided not to commit any dollars until I am sure I'll get something that plays. I'm very appreciative that you're trying to help me.
Thanks for your continued thoughts.

From Greg Blidson
 

This was my reply from limewire:

Redownload. We had a Mac Classic problem.

Thanks
-greg

Otherwise, try getting itunes from www.apple.com or www.versontracker.com
I like it a lot and you might, too.

still no limewire 'launch'
 

Hey Drk Ldy and anyone. I'm back from traveling so I'm going to struggle with this limewire thing some more. I don't have itunes, I just checked, so I'm thinking about trashing my Limewire and redownloading it. I'll wait a bit to see if you have any take on this, but I can't see that it would do any harm.

Hello!

Your solution is to install and use iTunes for your music instead. And also to download and install LW once again. As Greg said there where some problems with the Classical Mac OS version that should have been fixed by now.

I will try to download itunes. Is it free from Apple? I had been using realplayer and was very happy until the problem noted arrived. I'll look for the itunes download now. Appreciate your help. Don't go away.

issue update: itunes downloaded. Now I'll trash the limewire and download the latest free one. What do you think?

itunes
 

As far as i know itunes is free. I don't know what system you have but I found the download for itunes 3.0 here they have a classic download at the same address for the classic users.


http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10227

I downloaded itunes, trashed limewire & redownloaded a new free version limewire and same results. I started downloading a song. After some 4% was downloaded I hit launch and nothing. With my old limewire the portion I had downloaded would play. Any new suggestions? Thanks.

Hello!

4% of a song is simply to little. It is a very big chance that the critical resource id information was not transferred. I would not attempt to play songs that was downloaded if less then 30-40% of the song where downloaded. Another thing that you might be doing wrong is to attempt to use the Launch Button from the download section. Instead you should do this:

Click the Library Tab select the Incomplete folder and browse to the file you downloaded and highlight it and then from here inside the Library click the Launch button and see if it will play.

Unless you are double posting, you might also try taking this problem to the forum that is not for OS 10, since you seem to be running OS 9.

Also check your player preferences in LimeWire to make sure it still does not want to use the built in mp3 player.

Then, my suggestion is to retrieve a complete mp3 file from your shared folder and double click it to try and launch iTunes.

Hello!

The Classical Mac OS version does not have a built in mp3 player.

Oops. Sorry.

Another good reason to post in an area relevant to your topic.

I would have sworn the 9 version had the built in mp3 player, but then, I hardly use 9 any more. Just working from memory, which apparently is not as good as I remember.

Hello!

I think that the LimeWire team once had plans to incorporate the mp3 player in LW for Classical Mac OS but that those plans where dropped when Apple released iTunes and suddenly Macintosh Mac OS 9.X users had a superior option. iTunes is built by the same team that built the original Sound Jam player which was considered the best mp3 decoder and player that existed at that time for any platform and iTunes is based on the same decoder and core. So we Mac users are lucky in this aspect and generally share good quality mp3 files over Gnutella since they where created using iTunes which has one of the best decoders around built in to it and it is so simple to use. So there is no reason at all for the LW team to build a built in mp3 player that would just be considered far inferior. Personally I think it is totallyt uneccessary for both the PC version and the Mac OSX version aswell since theses days there is alot better options available to play the music.

I have tried to find the limwire preferences folder or file to look at changing it as recommended above. I opened my system folder then preferences, then limewire, but the only file therein opened limewire. Also someone has noted that this is an OSX forum. I didn't know that. How would I get to a system 9 forum. I am clearly not very good at this stuff. Thanks for your patience and assistance.

I forgot to mention that I went to Library in limewire and hit the launch button for a completed song and nothing happened as well as trying on a song that was 80% downloaded.

One way of navigating here is to use the drop down menu at the bottom of this page that says

Forum Jump

Use that Drop down to get to

General Mac OS Discussions


And then push the 'go' button.

Actually, it says

General Mac OS Support

on the drop down menu.


By the way,

you can also open mp3 files in QuickTime as another option, although many prefer iTunes.

Another place for help is the discussions at apple.com. You can go into a large database of OS 9 users dealing specifically with iTunes.

I see what you're talking about on the other forums. I'm not sure whether I should bail out on this one at this point, although it seems I'm no closer to resolution. I guess nothing prevents me from dropping a note over there and checking on this thread too. You've been very helpful.

"8"

Keep in mind that the people there will be using the same OS as you. That makes a pretty big difference between OS 9 and 10.
For instance, because I am using OS 10 and rarely use 9 anymore, I can't remember or physically see what you are dealing with, and can't easily do much for you without booting into OS 9 myself.

My opinion, it will be less frustrating for you because you'll probably get your problem solved quicker.

Another example:

I went to the Apple discussion for OS 9, searched for discussions on iTunes, and came back with something I had totally forgotten about:

"The place to set that is in the Internet control panel. Open that control panel, click the Advanced tab, scroll to File Mapping - change the app association for mp3 files. "


So that might be a good place to start looking at for your file associations.

Here's the URL to get to the Apple Support page.

http://discussions.info.apple.com/