Hello there all,i dont know if some of you use windows media player but when i downloaded a few songs,my player lost the ability to play the file music or other.It did before and i did run a thorough virus scan using all of my tools.Yet for some reason the player still could not play it at all.Now i used winamp and it did great,so i went back to it and bang got all of my music to play again.And since i have no viruses i still cant figure out why the windows player couldnt play it.I have the latest one so it should play them like it did before.But i think it would be wise to have the site checked for some possible viruses or trojans.I also seem to be getting some dumb desktop items and artwork that wasnt included in the file.But if it was then someone is doing naughty things like embedding the files with extra crap people do not need.I use limewire for the simple fact it is supposed to be ad free and spam free of anything except songs and videos and programs.So please who ever is doing it please stop you are ruining it for everybody by placing **** like this that we dont need.

Well Mr Asp

It is quite possible that you are downloading fake files, planted by the RIAA, or files loaded with malware, again planted (I feel) by the RIAA.

Also, the reason why WMP can't play certain files is that it may not have the right codec installed, this you can check by the error messages you get.

You say:
There is no "site" to check, the P2P network is composed of thousands of individually owned PCs (like the ones you and I own), there is no central server.

Since you say your PC is virus free, is it also ad and spyware free? In other words do you run Ad-Aware and Spybot to get this crap off your machine?

Finally, I believe that the RIAA has started a campaign to destroy the network with fake files, worms, viruses and whatever else they can get their paid cronies to throw at us, they have certainly made enough threats.

If you keep your PC protected you will be able to continue using the network.




UK Bob