Hi,
I'm new to Limewired - well, to any type of mysic downloads.

One question:

Is there any way I can download a whole album in one go, or do I always have to download individual songs? It seems to take forever!

There are people who share albumwrap or similar types of files. This is like an album of music being zipped. For more about this see How to Downld whole albums & Albumwrap

eg: you could search artist or album title - albw (which is an abbreviation for albumwrap.)

Other terms you can use are whole, complete, total, etc.

yes but it will download as one big file of about 50+MB depending on the bitrate or you can just type in the album title in the adio search options instead of title or artist.

Just a quick note to LOTR, you have seriously taught me a s**t load of good stuff today. thanks

Another question -

would purchasing LimeWire PRO really speed downloads up quite considerably?
I mean, I don't want to spend the moeny, if it doens't make much of a difference anyway.