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Big music problems!

Postby pyro08 » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:11 am

when I add music to my timeline the player says that there is an error and must be shut down. What is the problem?
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Postby NS » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:16 am

You're using MP3s yes?
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Postby pyro08 » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:19 am

yes.
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Postby NS » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:01 am

Don't, That's your problem. For WMM I found you should use .wma files.

I'm not sure if .wav files would work, but given the simplicity of WMM i'm guessing they wouldn't.

Oh and don't tell me that you've used MP3s in the past and it's always been fine. I know it's like that. i used MP3s for a long ass time when I had WMM, then they just stopped working. So, yah
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Postby CrackTheSky » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:42 am

NerdStrudel wrote:I'm not sure if .wav files would work, but given the simplicity of WMM i'm guessing they wouldn't.

That doesn't make sense.
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Postby NS » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:44 am

Well I was thinking, If It can't handle MP3s, Then it can't handle .wavS XD... Was my information misleading?
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Postby Scintilla » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:10 am

NerdStrudel wrote:Well I was thinking, If It can't handle MP3s, Then it can't handle .wavS XD... Was my information misleading?

I'm not following the logic here. The vast majority of .WAVs are uncompressed, therefore easier to handle than MP3s for video editing apps.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:19 am

.wma is a worse compression than .mp3 (quality-wise)

use .wav if you can
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Postby Cornwiggle » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:00 am

JaddziaDax wrote:.wma is a worse compression than .mp3 (quality-wise)

use .wav if you can


If your MP3 won't work, then just save that audio in WMM as "high quality audio" and you'll get a WMA just as good in quality in the MP3.

Trust me, I've done it...quite a bit. Audio always turns out good at the end.

Or, here's a better idea.

If your MP3 won't edit, do the WMA thing and edit with that. When you're done, delete the WMA and then reinsert the MP3, it should still match up perfectly, then save.
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Postby Minion » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:18 am

oh god...
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Minion: masturbate into someones desk and giggle about it for the remaining 28 minutes
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Postby Prodigi » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:22 am

Cornwiggle wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:.wma is a worse compression than .mp3 (quality-wise)

use .wav if you can


If your MP3 won't work, then just save that audio in WMM as "high quality audio" and you'll get a WMA just as good in quality in the MP3.

Trust me, I've done it...quite a bit. Audio always turns out good at the end.

Or, here's a better idea.

If your MP3 won't edit, do the WMA thing and edit with that. When you're done, delete the WMA and then reinsert the MP3, it should still match up perfectly, then save.

Yeeeeeeeeah. Let's compress an already compressed mp3 into a wma file, and THEN compress it again when distributing the video :up:

I mean, it's logical, right? 3x compression = 3x the awesomeness?
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Postby pyro08 » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:39 pm

:D hey, guys! I figured it out. One of the codecs (ffdshow audio decoder is what was calling the problems. I disabled and things have been working fine. Thanks for your help!
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Postby NS » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:36 pm

:lol:

I feel dumb now. It was late, Idk what My logic was behind it. I get fucked up logic a lot of times.

Either way. whatever ^
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Postby Autraya » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:16 pm

Minion wrote:oh god...

X2

I often wonder if he's this stupid on purpose to elicit flames or if it really is just ignorance. T_T
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Postby Autraya » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:18 pm

actually this has come up before and it had something to do with codecs and FFdshow.... i should probably get the FAQ updated to include audio
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