LimeWire is the world’s fastest P2P file-sharing application, letting users share and search for all types of computer files, including movies, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include dynamic querying, push-proxy support for connecting through firewalls, the ability to preview files while downloading, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an extremely intuitive user interface.
What’s new in this version:
* Integrate Bittorrent.
* Require Java 1.5.
* Many, many behind-the-scenes changes to modularize the code. Nearly every single source file was altered.
* Added support for reading metadata from files in Quicktime format.
* Added support for reading metadata from files in MPEG 1 & MPEG 2 format.
* Fixed editing MP3 files to not use ‘unsynchronization’, which caused Windows Explorer to be unable to interpret the metadata.
* Move deleted files to the Recycle Bin on Windows and Trash on OSX.
* Display “&” instead ‘&”, “‘” instead of “‘”, and other fixes for metadata if the metadata incorrectly contained these converted values.
* Begin all file or directory choosers in the last directory that was used, instead of the current working directory.
* Added the ability to drop new files or folders on LimeWire and have LimeWire ask if you want to share them.
* Added the ability to drag search results to the download table and have them start downloading.
* Added the ability to drag files into the media player and have them added to the playlist.
* Added the ability to drag magnet links, torrent files, and torrent links onto LimeWire and have them start.
* Fix to set the icon to an hourglass while a preview is being constructed after double-clicking on a download-in-progress.
* Remove magnet protocol check from LimeWire launcher and put it in LimeWire.exe
* Allow the user to choose whether or not they want LimeWire to be their default magnet handler.
* Do not display hidden files in the library.
* Add a ‘Search in Shared Files’ searchbox into the library.
* Allow multiple hosts to blocked at once from search results.
* Fix to show that a download in ‘Connecting…’ status is really hitting more hosts, by adding ‘Connecting (tried ## hosts)’ after 15 hosts are tried.
* Fix display of ‘Length’ and other formatted metadata values in tooltips and filterboxes to show as ‘HH:MM:SS’ instead of a big number in seconds.
* Allow browse-host to work on yourself even if you’re firewalled or in a private network.
* Allow files resumed from the library to go to the proper directory for the file’s mediatype.
* Analyze all data files when starting to detect errors and ignore them, instead of failing to startup.
Product Requirements:
* Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
* 64MB RAM
