I have a question about limewire?

Question

I installed it but can't figure out why it won't play any of the songs I want to hear. Says not enough sources. what do I do?

Answer 1

ahhh i know wat u mean, and before i start, just to set the record straight, it dosn't just play songs straight away. you have to download them, therefore, owning the song. anyway to answer your question, you have to search for another copy of that song. there is an option to "find more sources" but that takes FOREVER and it actually doesn't work at all, your still not able to download the song. so search for the song again, and as you can see there is 100s of results, some will download, some won't, it all depends where there from and what the download speed is. you can cancel your download at anytime, so if its not downloading, do just that! and start again by downloading another one. when it starts downloading, a bar will come up telling you how much percent its downloaded. you'll soon get used to recognizing a good download speed song from a bad one. good luck!

Answer 2

I dont suggest limewire since it usually comes packed with spyware and not to mention you can easily download something that you dont really want, but a lot of people have an option turned on where they do not allow people to download their files without the person attempting the download has a certain amount of files that they are sharing in the first place. So add a folder with tons of pictures in it or something and then try again.... there may be other things that cause this though.

Answer 3

You don't play them from limewire, you need to download first, then you can play them from any media player you want. If it's saying not enough sources, there is no one online who has that song shared. You need to try another file.

Answer 4

Limewire is P2P network software. Which means you and me and can share our MP3, Movies and anything else, and I connect to you directly. Limewire provides the service to search and connect to you.Not enough sources means the bandwidth may not be enough to support the download.
Some more from Wiki
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.

Answer 5

To begin with, P2P sites such as limewire are infected to the hilt with malware and viruses! You dont download from a site, you are downloading from another members pc! You would be smart to uninstall it to begin with!

Answer 6

you can play songs on limewire using the media player in the corner try highlightin it and clickin FIND MORE SOURCES

Answer 7

You shouldn't be playing the songs in Lime wire anyways. You get major virus' that way. download them completely first, then check for a virus, and then you play them once you know you don't have a virus for sure. I'd never use their player.

I'd imagine that its connected to windows media player though.. do you have that? if not you should download it.

Answer 8

Try downloading another one of the list of songs. That happens to me sometimes. The song wont play fully until the whole song is downloaded.

Answer 9

you have to download the whole song to hear it....if it says no sourses right click and select serch for sources...other wise find another file of that song

Answer 10

Yeah it just downloads them. Try to find the highest amount of sources you can.!!