Help with Limewire ?

Question

I just downloaded limewire
and the connection is only staying at one bar
i checked the firewalls and everything and its not working!
does this happen the first times you use it, and then it works?
or is there something i can do to fix it?

Answer 1

Yes uninstall and get frostwire much safer free at frostwire.com limewire is part of the gneuteela network being watched by the RIAA

Answer 2

There are several options for free, legal music downloads. A lot of people recommend Limewirem, Bittorrent, Bearshare and the like, but most the content on such networks constitute a copyright violation.

The first legal source is Podcasts. My favorite is Crap from the Past at crapfromthepast.com. The host Ron "Boogymoster" Gerber, describes it as a graduate level course in pop music, and he's not far off. You'll hear a lot of music that hasn't been on the air for a long time. The program is available as a podcast, with three half hour segments coming out a week.

Another great source of Public Domain and Creative Commons music is archive.org. For example, It's amazing how much old school Jazz has fallen into the Public Domain. A lot of techno and pop artists use a Creative Commons license that makes non-commercial distribution legal.

Jamendo.com is a record label that makes all their music available for download for free. The idea is to give away MP3s to encourage people to buy the actual CDs.

You can also look into various music Podcasts. For example, there are some really good Celtic music podcasts, Celtic Music News being my favorite. celticmusicnews.com

The BBC and NPR have a variety of music programs, most of which are free downloads or can be listened to as streaming media.

Finally, there's etree.org. A LOT of artists give permission to allow the recording and distribution of their live performances. etree.org only offers "lossless" recordings, so you'll need to convert them into another format to use them on your portable media player. The good news is since these are lossless files to start with, you won't have the data degradation and conversion artifacts typical of say, converting a WMA to an MP3. It's more like ripping an CD.

All told, there's a LOT out there free of charge. The Kuro5hin article I link to below has even more detail.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/5/05113/70314

http://www.celticmusicnews.com/
http://archive.org
http://crapfromthepast.com
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
http://www.etree.org/
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/5/05113/70314
http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/03/free-music-list-december-200