Hi! I am looking for a site for free music downloads for Mac's. I have tried to use Limewire but after I download the song and click on the "launch" button, nothing happens. What am i doing wrong? Is this the best site to use?

Hello!

LimeWire is not a site it is a network access client that enables you to search the network/ decentralised filesharing protocoll Gnutella and initiate downloads and transfer files trough standard http 1.1 connections. All the content on Gnutella is provided by individual users such as yourself.

After you have finished downloading a file you first before hitting the Launch button have to highlight the file in question and click Launch and your default mp3 player will launch and play the song. For Mac's the best option is ofcourse Apple's own free player iTunes. But most Mac owners already have it installed on their computers. I use it and it is great!.

Are you sure that you downloaded a actual mp3 file?

There is alot of fake spam files out ther that is not genuine mp songs. If you hit Launch many times nothing will happen when Launching such files and in some cases your browser will open and take you to a porn site or something similar. A genuine mp3 file has the .mp3 file exstension and are about 1MB/minute large meaning a typical song is atleast 3MB in size and in general even larger depending on the bitrate used.

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<img src="http://www.jordysworld.de/emoticons/blob16.gif">Sincerely Joakim Agren!

Thanks Joakim! Your information is very helpful...I'll pass it on to the students that were having difficulty with the launch. STS

I too am having a problem launching limewire songs. I have been discussing this with Joakim and others in the Mac OSX forum by mistake since I'm running on system 9. I have done everyting I can think of. I've trashed Limewire and re-downloaded it, downloaded free iTunes, and still nothing. I had been using Limewire successfully, (songs or even portions thereof launching in realplayer)and happily until they prompted me to update my Limewire version. I did and since then no ability to launch. I can't get back to the old version of Limewire either. Can anyone make a suggestion?

After upgrading to the latest Limewire I too can't launch the file I've downloaded even afte r I've highlighted it. I never had this problem with eariler versions of Limewire. If I do a search for the file using Sherlock and open it that way it will start up itunes and play but if I just double click the file in Limewire or highlight the file and hit the launch button nothing happens other that what seems to be a click coming from the computer.

It's great to hear that I'm not alone on this. I am frustrated that I can't get to Limewire or whomever creates this stuff to get them to correct it. I had a long chain of discussion in the wrong forum, I think it was mac osx. You might check it out. If you come up with a solution please drop me an email RZimm1@erols.com

Second point. I had saved a bunch of songs in a folder I kept on my desk top. Normally they would start playing in realplayer as soon as I double clicked a particular title. Yesterday I wanted to play a few. I clicked on the folder Icon and it wanted me to use a start up application (I may be mis-stating this) or something. Never having gone through this I guessed at realplayer as the translator. Now the icon on the desktop says realplayer , songs won't start and 'Find' won't locate an artist formerly in that folder. Is this some cruel plot? I'll have to change my gnutella name to paranoid.

If you can locate the file using Sherlock double click it and your mac should state that I can't find the application and for you to choose it. Pick itunes (with translation just incase) and go into Limewire preferences and do the same.

I tried what you suggested, but the folder I named Songs now is saved in Realplayer format. I double clicked Sherlock, asked for Songs, the folder I'm talking about showed up, being on the desk top, I double clicked the folder and realplayer opened but that was it. No songs. And if I now do a find/Sherlock for any of the tiltes that were in the Songs folder it can't find them. ? ? ?

One additional thought. I recently bought a new printer. HP scanner/printer. It said it ran on system 9. I had 9,0. I didn't real ize that there were updates. The printer systems disk or softeware, whatever, jammed my mac while loading it. A guy at the mac store helped solve that problem. He then told me about the updates and we downloaded them so I now have system 9.2.2. I just clicked songs file and then under file went down to show original. It showed the songs there I think, but as realplayer files which is how most of them were saved. Anyway, when I clicked on one it said I needed an update to realplayer. Tried that but got some message that the " real player needs to downloac new software to play this clip." Tkhen it said, "currently auto update has no plugin available to play your selection" catch 22.

I don't think Realplayer is a file format just another player. These downloads are all mp3s (at least that what music files have been until now because Apple has created a new and of course better format). Take one of those songs out of the folder and drag it onto the Quicktime icon. There's other file conversion shareware too. Have you tried to drag a song onto your itunes icon?