Greetings, all. I would greatly appreciate some wisdom regarding how in the world to play audio downloads. I have that brick wall thing that shows I'm behind a firewall, but audio tracks seem to download just fine. But then they won't play. I get a QuickTime error message saying that "the movie won't play." But it's not a movie. Nothing happens when I try to play them with the LimeWire Media Player. And although I have iTunes importing enabled, iTunes won't recognize any LimeWire downloads.

The user manual keeps directing me to the "Enqueue" button, but it's grayed out.

Help, O tech wizards of LimeWire ...

Sounds like your audio files have QuickTime player as their default program. You need to change it to iTunes. See How to change default program in OSX & use iTunes as the program to select for both mp3 & m4a files.

As for your firewall issue, we need more information; System details - help us to help you (click on blue link)

Make sure your OSX firewall is configured or turned off; OSX Firewall settings for Tiger. However your firewall problem might be your modem/router.

Thanks for your help, Lotr. I did as you suggested: both reconfigured my firewall to permit Gnutella/Limewire access and changed the default program for opening sound files. Now, when I select a downloaded file in Limewire and click "Launch," iTunes opens but nothing happens. The track in question doesn't show up, and the silence is deafening.

Any further ideas?

Thanks again for taking all the time and trouble you take to help technological idiots like myself.

Go to LW's prefs/options (keyboard shortcut: command/apple key & comma ⌘ ,)
Then go to Media player, uncheck box & press apply. You may need to restart both LW & iTunes I am not sure .. it used to be like that, maybe not now.

Thanks for all your help, LOTR. I followed your suggestions, but still no dice. When I select the downloaded audio and click "launch" in LW, iTunes opens, but nothing else happens.

I subscribed a few months ago to easymusicdownload.com, and they gave up on me long before you did: responded to my queries with "Sorry it's not working, we're refunding your money." And they did.

So I guess I'm fated not to be able to enjoy music downloads on my computer--why, I don't know. I'm not a computer novice, although obviously new to LW and the protocols involved. I can usually figure my way through these kinds of glitches, but this one has me totally stumped.

Thanks again for all your help. If you have any other ideas, I'm all ears. But I'm really starting to think it's just not in the cards.

I personally don't allow iTunes to automatically import due to 2 reasons. One, I like to check the songs & add/re-check/fix id3 tag information before adding to iTunes. Two, I have my iTunes library & program on an external drive which I only turn on when desired.

So my image attachment sample shows it unchecked, but you should check the option where the red circle is. (click to see larger image. Both are animated GiF's so wait to see each.)


2nd image is iTunes settings. Copy files to iTunes & look for shared libraries I think should fix your issue.


* Warning, after changing settings in either iTunes or LW, it does not have an immediate effect. You need to restart both programs. After LW finishes downloading a song, it will open iTunes anyway.

Your help is excellent explained, thanks:

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if u go to C:/mydocuments/limewire/saved/ it will take u to the music you have downloaded if u double click it you're media player will open up and you're music will play

That's if they are running windows on their macs? Mac users don't have C drives. Mac operating system is different to windows.

Thanks Lord for your hard triying to help. I have the same problem. Files that do not show a Bitrate Number, will not play neither in iTunes, RealPlayer nor LW Player. The downloaded files show on the information panel 3450 KB, but no Bitrate.
Could there be the problem??
Thanks for your help
Hansdiego