I just downloaded limewire and downloaded a song, but i cant get it to play the song...someone please help me get this thing to work

I had that problem too for a while. What happens sometimes is that if a song has a long title name on it - and many do - and when the file comes in, the '.mp3' file type association isn't at the end of the filename. If you have Mac OS 8.6 or 8.1, you have to put a filetype designator on it. Also, if you DO have the 'classic' mac OS running, may I suggest using SoundApp (just type it up in a search engine to find it) to listen to your songs with. It doesn't look like much, it's got no skins or anything fancy but it's a battlehorse that can handle almost any music file and it's super stable. Functional and plain, not pretty. You open it's playlist and drag the song icon into that, and it will automatically read the filetype and play it - unless you are going after something that's really popular, and it could very well be a bunk file. Lots of the more popular teenybopper stuff is deliberately corrupted, so there's always that. Gotta love the music industry for making new music so easy to discover. Riiight. SoundApp will tell you right off if it is playable. You can set it in it's 'preferences' to change the 'creator type' to sound app so whenever you want to listen to any music again, you

I had that problem too for a while. What happens sometimes is that if a song has a long title name on it - and many do - and when the file comes in, the '.mp3' file type association isn't at the end of the filename. If you have Mac OS 8.6 or 8.1, you have to put a filetype designator on it. Also, if you DO have the 'classic' mac OS running, may I suggest using SoundApp (just type it up in a search engine to find it) to listen to your songs with. It doesn't look like much, it's got no skins or anything fancy but it's a battlehorse that can handle almost any music file and it's super stable. Functional and plain, not pretty. You open it's playlist and drag the song icon into that, and it will automatically read the filetype and play it - unless you are going after something that's really popular, and it could very well be a bunk file. Lots of the more popular teenybopper stuff is deliberately corrupted, so there's always that. Gotta love the music industry for making new music so easy to discover. Riiight. SoundApp will tell you right off if it is playable. You can set it in it's 'preferences' to change the 'creator type' to sound app so whenever you want to listen to any music aga

I had that problem too for a while. What happens sometimes is that if a song has a long title name on it - and many do - and when the file comes in, the '.mp3' file type association isn't at the end of the filename. If you have Mac OS 8.6 or 8.1, you have to put a filetype designator on it. Also, if you DO have the 'classic' mac OS running, may I suggest using SoundApp (just type it up in a search engine to find it) to listen to your songs with. It doesn't look like much, it's got no skins or anything fancy but it's a battlehorse that can handle almost any music file and it's super stable. Functional an

I had that problem too for a while. What happens sometimes is that if a song has a long title name on it - and many do - and when the file comes in, the '.mp3' file type association isn't at the end of the filename. If you have Mac OS 8.6 or 8.1, you have to put a filetype designator on it. Also, if you DO have the 'classic' mac OS running, may I suggest using SoundApp (just type it up in a search engine to find it) to listen to your songs with. It doesn't look like much, it's got no skins or anything fancy but it's a battlehorse that can handle almost any music file and it's super stable. Functional and plain, not pretty. You open it's playlist and drag the song icon into that, and it will automatically read the filetype and play it - unless you are going after something that's really popular, and it could very well be a bunk file. Lots of the more popular teenybopper stuff is deliberately corrupted, so there's always that. Gotta love the music industry for making new music so easy to discover. Riiight. SoundApp will tell you right off if it is playable. You can set it in it's 'preferences' to change the 'creator type' to sound app so whenever you want to listen to any music again, you just hit the song icons and it'll launch. The only thing I have seen that it doesn't handle are the proprietary Micro$oft file formats (.wma), and Apple's AAC .m4a format (which is just an .mp4 file. If you rename it, it will play with the latest version of QuickTime.)

Good luck.

I had this problem and it drove men nuts.. The solution was: When the file is downloaded into the designated folder, (the document will probably look like a blank sheet of paper).. just highlight the name of the file and re-name it with a SHORTER name and add .MP3 to the end. That's It..

The file name is too long and you have to rename it and add .mp3 to the end. Do this and click off the file and the icon will turn into an mp3 icon such as real player... It works every time.

Can't tell you how many downloads I trashed before figuring this one out. This is the only way they will play... shorten the name and add .mp3 to the end. Click off and you will see the icon change to an mp3 icon. Double click it and your default player will start.

Jerry G.