I have noticed LimeWire will sometimes return results that have very little to do with the search string I gave it. Most of the time the results will contain those 1mb garbage ad files, that have absolutely nothing to do with what you searched for.

Is LimeWire searching via the filename, or metadata? It would be nice if it just searched for items using the filename, as metadata is usually wrong anyway.

The LimeWire search capability is about the worst I have seen in P2P programs. I get hundreds of garbage results on each search. Also, if I enter both title and artist, I get results that match either one rather than both, which is useless. And there isn't any way to filter or search within results for entries that match text of my choosing; I can only filter by the criteria chosen by LimeWire, which are rarely helpful. I need a way to get only results that match all keywords; even if it's just a capability to copy the results to the clipboard as text so that I can perform more advanced searches within them using another program.

Have you ever tried using the Junk filter? That's what it's there for ... to filter out junk if you train it properly.

For better audio searches, see sleepless's thread here: How to find Music

[QUOTE=Lord of the Rings]Have you ever tried using the Junk filter? That's what it's there for ... to filter out junk if you train it properly.
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How do I train the junk filter to filter out "TOTALLY HIP TRACK", for example? Keep in mind that I DO NOT want to filter out results with only the word "totally", the word "hip", or the word "track"; these words are common and are likely to appear individually in results I am looking for. Unless the junk filter allows filtering of phrases and sets of keywords, it is useless to me.

When I search for "new math", I get large numbers of results that match only "new" or only "math". Furthermore, I don't seem to be able to restrict the results to those that match words; words like "Mathers" that contain my search strings as a subset also appear in the results. How do I prevent this?

All I want is a capability to get _all_ of the information returned by a search onto the clipboard or into a file, where I can search it myself with better tools. Why is this not possible?

We are trying to get the programmers to better the search, but your reply also tells me, that you didn't even look through the link that LOTR provided for you

Yes, I did read it. Maybe I missed something; could you please explain exactly what you think I missed?

For one the junkfilter isn't very good. Two: Vary your searches. Three: You can add and remove keywords from the keywordfilter as you like, meaning if you put totally in there, and then you want something that says totally then just remove it, until you found what you were looking for, then add it again.

Seriously, it's all we have at the moment. I have been nagging the programmers with no luck. People have tried to make a fix, no luck either.

You could register at Limewire.org and nag them yourself BTW

Vote for it here as well https://www.limewire.org/jira/browse/GUI-29

"new" is such a common word, maybe you should just look for math and instead use the get more results a few times. Also search under documents if you really mean math

My point is, the problem with the keyword filter is that you have no way to predict whether or not a particular word will toss out a good result. The keyword filter, like the keyword search, looks for words in the body of the file as well as the file name, does it not? When I'm searching for a rare MP3 track that there might be only one of on the network, won't I be screwed if that single MP3 file happens to contain a comment by the maker that includes the word "totally"? And even if the keyword filter only examines words in the filename, don't some filenames include the album name? How am I to know whether the one file that exists has a name like "Barfoo - Angel with a Hardart - Totally 80s volume 1"? I still say that the keyword filter was implemented by someone who was unconscious at the time. Please fix it so that phrases or contains-all-of-these-keywords can be specified; without these capabilities it's just not sensible to use it.

[Ha! Microsoft Word's grammar check hates passive voice so much, it wanted to change one of the above phrases to "won't the maker that includes the word “totally” ***** me if that single MP3 file happens to contain a comment"!]

NOTE: The asterisks aren't mine, this forum apparently doesn't allow the word "scrwe"!