LimeWire 3.9.3 Beta

[Ken]

The LimeWire 3.9.3 beta is released, with the pro version available from a link on your Pro download page, and the free version available from the LimeWire download page.

Changes in 3.9.3 include:

- ID3v2 support!

- Redesigned themes, and a brand new search interface!

- Renamed 'Community Search' to "What's New".

- Icons showing if a search result is already saved, already downloading, or already partially downloaded.

- Support for displaying file-type icons on Windows with Java 1.3.

- Support for browse-hosting people connected to you. (Just double-click on the line in the Connections tab!)

- Automatic recovery of corrupt files. This uses the "Tree Hash EXchange Protocol" (THEX). Contributions from Gregorio Roper & Philippe Verdy were used for this.

- Automatic preferencing for peers with a similiar locale. This means that Japanese users will tend to connect to other Japanese users, or French users will tend to connect to other French users, etc...

- Much faster startup times (on 'loading core components').

- Power Management. When LimeWire is in the background, it will consume less resources & bandwidth so that you can use other programs with no delays.

- Fixed international Windows installer.

- Fixed problems where a file would endlessly download with no change in progress, submitted by Gregorio Roper.

- Full HTTP & SOCKS proxy support, originally submitted by Gregorio Roper.

- Support for running alongside programs that install incompatable java libraries.

- Various bug fixes and optimizations, submitted by Roger Kapsi, Philippe Verdy and Jens-Uwe Mager.

... and even more features, optimizations, and overall goodness are coming in future betas!

LimeWire is keeping it's place as a top-notch program available on all platforms, thanks to open source contributions and beta testers.

Please keep us informed on what you like & dislike with this new beta!

Thanks,

- The LimeWire Team

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[Ken]

Please keep us informed on what you like & dislike with this new beta!

Uh.....ya........uh...........I got a dislike.....................

The network it connects to.

Gnutella returns few search results, has a generic pool of files (and those files suffer the same fate as fasttrack, just not quite as bad), and unreliable, piss-poor speeds.

Now, two of the three can be improved (possibly, but not probably not), but you can't just make higher quality files, and other good stuff, appear on the network out of your ass.

Those who release the variety, and high quality files (DVD rips, non-corrupted software, high quality music in formats not just limited to MP3, and specialized stuff), do not tend to do so on the Gnutella network. You'll find them using the newsgroups, or IRC. Then other users who pass that stuff along, will use Bittorrent or the ed2k network, and possibly WinMX. Very few people who are commited to high quality releases, use Gnutella.

Less of a problem, more of a fundamental human shortcoming.

Oh well.

Edited April 19, 2004 by Ken

[Ken]

Oh, and you can cram your pro version up your ass.

Stay dedicated to open source, ask for donations, and stop stuffing your client with crapware.

This is P2P, don't expect to make a profit.

[napho]

Gnutella blows as previously stated but if you want to mine that network Bearshare works better than any other Gnutella client. Which isn't saying THAT much. The latest beta never has any spyware in it.

[jipper]

man..if slsk wasnt around id prob still use limewire..i always thought it was a decent client...even if it is on gnutella

[Ken]

Well, they're canning the crapware now, or at least, those are the reports from various Limewire fanboys.

It confuses me though, because then, what is the difference between it, and their pro version?

On a side note, it really doesn't make much difference if a client is for better or for worst.

Like I said, the shortcoming is network oriented.

Edited April 23, 2004 by Ken

[jipper]

you reckon they would benefit from doing something like ares and creating there own network?

[Ken]

you reckon they would benefit from doing something like ares and creating there own network?

Even with the perfect network structure and such, it wouldn't matter unless they had a good size user-base, with quality files.