Hokey smokes! over a thou postings in this nook of the board alone.

I'm a longtime limer, first-time poster:

Lessee, first, I'll get my vitals outta the way: running 4.1.2 Pro on Panther and on a first gen. 466 MHz G4 with 896 Megs SDRAM

Used to hate this software...called it alternately LameWare and LemonWire. But now since I've migrated to X I've gotten to love it, but still see major room for improvement:

Since there are Sooo many posts here it is impossible to find if ALL of these have been covered before or not, so without further ado, here is my Top Ten wish list for, say, LW 5pointO


10 - Dunno about anyone else, but in other software programs, I enjoy the ability to mark records and organize them in multiple ways, usually color-coding is the easiest & most visual metaphor (to wit, Finder's labels). If color-coding could be built into all panes (search, download, upload, connected hosts, incompletes), I'd be WAY more in control of my search organization and the files extant on my local volumes.

9 - I think a needed filter or pref ought to be for the end user to be able to select which file formats he/she wants INCLUDED in the searches (obviating the use of those anemic, and very limited, exclusions which are unnecessarily harder). Say, one wanted ONLY .ogg files and no .wma or .mp3s. Why should the user have to wade or devote search bandwidth to useless files?

8 - Why no date column in the Library tab's panes? I could really use knowing when certain incompletes were attempted (I'd trash older ones and keep & re-attempt the more recent ones, but as it stands now I cannot tell which are which)

7 - Movable search tabs (so I can organize the searches on my screen in any order I'd like) and while you are at it, provide the user the option of stacking search tabs as was the metaphor in previous LW versions (now if you want that feature you gotta apply ungodly skins, which among other things, besides using egregious color combos, resort to the old proprietary - and cumbersome - non-Mac-standard LW menu system). I hate, hate, HATE the current linear search tabs!!! The old system was FAR more elegant, even IF it did crowd me from time to time vertically (in which case, I'd begrudging opt for the linear format, but immediately toggle back once screen turf was ceded by the lower panes).

6 - In WAY older versions of LW, all grouped results could be un-collapsed into their individual hosts, but...no longer, a real step backwards for the citric P2P app. If the dominant host in a grouping is messed up for whatever reason, I would prefer to choose another host in that grouping but short of mousing over and trying to grok the IPs IF that even works (it isn't infallible).

5 - In congress with point #6, there used to be a CONSISTENT notation of the host IP in a column in the search pane (now many of them are not listed or masked as multiple(1)s with no reveal upon mouseover. Not only that but the download pane ALSO showed the host from which that dl'd file came or that dling in progress file was coming. This was handy for a number of reasons (if you had to abort searches and continue later, and you wanted to search for that IP specifically).

4 - It'd be nice if there were SOME multi-alert system for when LW is running in the background. In my pipe dreams, I'd make the dock lime glow & throb green when a connection is established (bright green for turbo & dull green for weaker connex) and maybe shrivel up or glow red when the connection is down. AND make the icon optionally bounce when a new file has downloaded (especially helpful for slow connections or huge files).

3 - If you discover a host that routinely is a problem node (mislabeled files, corrupted or just badly done files, etc.) the end user ought to be able to "mark" that host so that they are excluded from any future searches. A "not" filter, as it were.

2 - Why no true Boolean searching? the current filters are fer s***. Rather than returning results that match ALL your criteria, they return results that match ANY and given the sheer quantity of tuneage out here that is often an unmanageable list of results. Lots of times results are returned that cryptically match NO search criterion. Go figure.....

And the number one feature I'd love to see implemented into the next build of LimeWire:

1 - As IS mentioned elsewhere, I am very behind saved searches, a "like duh" no-brainer. If you crash or just have to close down a session for whatever reason, it is a real pain to bring up old searches again., N'est-ce pas? Maybe the ability to bookmark favorite searches and hosts like general purpose browsers do would do the trick. But also saved current searches in the case of crashes. And a more robust recovered download in the case of said crash while you are at it, guys. Many (most) of mine "disappear" upon reconnecting even if it is nigh on immediate. You can't tell me that all them hosts crashed too, or that I scared them away. ;-)

I like the idea of regular expression searches too. Like quotes if I want exactly that keyword and no hits for files with similar keywords.
Plus I would like to specify that I would want some keywords not to occur in the hits. An OR operator would not be necessary IMO but nice as well.

Faaaar from an expert here but:
-Isn't banning almost exactly what you describe in 3? If so, then it's already available.

-Saving searches, huh? Seems nice, but to properly work, the exact same users that returned you these results would have to be online the next time you used any of the saved searches, right? And that seems kinda impossible. Besides, if any of the users have changing IP adresses, then saving their adress at one time won't guarantee that next time you use a saved search you'll find the hosts, even if they are all online.

Again, far from an expert, but these are my opinions. I'd like to have them cleared (confirmed or "rejected").

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murasame,

What I was more looking for was a more user-friendly method, like, if you downloaded a corrupt file or are pulling up questionable files in your searches, you can click on that record and invoke a command or drag the offending file into a "penalty box" and ban them THAT way.No need to memorize arcane "text strings" of IP addresses. Use the GUI metaphor to do your "dirty work". P;us on swarmed groupings, sometimes the *.* doesn't quite get ALL offending hosts and you need to ferret out all those IPs. How much better would it be to one-click and....voila!

Only if you want to save the search RESULTS, not the actual searches themselves. I am constantly looking for maybe 4 to 5 dozen tunes at a time and if there's something I cannot stand, it is retyping them every time I restart LimeWire. Gee it'd be great if they were right there when I launched all ready to seek out any sources available at that time.

Sam

Ooh, ooh, I get it now.
Yeah, I see how the saved searches would work. And the ban thing too.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

"Raise your can of Beer on high
And seal your fate forever
Our best years have passed us by
The Golden Age Of Leather"
-Blue Öyster Cult-