Stretched music

Nets_VC_15 · Post by **Nets_VC_15** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:19 am

some of my songs as I import them come out like 2minutes longer or so, what's going on?

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:07 am

What's in the extra two minutes? Just silence? Because you can just chop that off. Or are there other problems with the audio as well? What kind of file are you importing?

Nets_VC_15 · Post by **Nets_VC_15** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:00 am

They are MP3's with the itunes logo on them. It's strange because I already used 3 other MP3 songs that worked perfectly, I checked it out and for some reason it happens to be that some part go stretched, like the song peices to it moves extremly slow. It's like a 4:50 clip but for some rason it keeps showing up at 7:33. It was the song Nothing by Stabbing Westward

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:45 pm

"iTunes logo"? What do you mean by that? Are they actually MP3s, or the .m4a files that iTunes uses?

In either case, you should be editing with uncompressed .wav files, not MP3s.

Nets_VC_15 · Post by **Nets_VC_15** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:15 pm

When I go to the "My Music" folder where I have most of my songs stored in, they all itune logo's on them. The icon is a sheet of paper with a CD on it, then a blue muscial note overlaps it and right under the CD and musical note it says MP3, but I have a feeling that it might be a .m4a or so since all my songs were originally saved in a file that is opned by my iTunes.

It's a weird thing, if I look at the property of the song when I bring it to WMM, it gives itself a new duration which tends to be double or triple the songs length. For example, I tryed putting in A7X's The Wicked End which is like a 7 minute song, it's new duration time was 21 minutes. It only happens to a few songs, but those are songs I want to use.

I have a question, in iTunes I can right click a song and there are two options that say "Convert ID3 tags . . . " and "Convert Selection to AAC"
The ID3 has options, there is one thing where I can choose it's version and checking off a check box by it and another option about Reverse Unicode. Could any of that help?

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:12 pm

When I go to the "My Music" folder where I have most of my songs stored in, they all itune logo's on them. The icon is a sheet of paper with a CD on it, then a blue muscial note overlaps it and right under the CD and musical note it says MP3, but I have a feeling that it might be a .m4a or so since all my songs were originally saved in a file that is opned by my iTunes.

That just means iTunes is your default music player, which is inconsequential in determining what the file type of any of these songs is. Look at the actual name of the file. Does it end with a .m4a extension, or a .mp3 extension?

For example, I tryed putting in A7X's The Wicked End which is like a 7 minute song, it's new duration time was 21 minutes. It only happens to a few songs, but those are songs I want to use.

Do you have the CDs for this music? If so then we can just skip all this and rip the uncompressed .wav files from the CD, which you should be editing with anyway. More info on how to do that here.

I have a question, in iTunes I can right click a song and there are two options that say "Convert ID3 tags . . . " and "Convert Selection to AAC"
The ID3 has options, there is one thing where I can choose it's version and checking off a check box by it and another option about Reverse Unicode. Could any of that help?

Probably not. iTunes probably isn't really a good file converter, and I wouldn't know how to instruct you with it anyway :/

Nets_VC_15 · Post by **Nets_VC_15** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:19 pm

CrackTheSky wrote:
When I go to the "My Music" folder where I have most of my songs stored in, they all itune logo's on them. The icon is a sheet of paper with a CD on it, then a blue muscial note overlaps it and right under the CD and musical note it says MP3, but I have a feeling that it might be a .m4a or so since all my songs were originally saved in a file that is opned by my iTunes.
That just means iTunes is your default music player, which is inconsequential in determining what the file type of any of these songs is. Look at the actual name of the file. Does it end with a .m4a extension, or a .mp3 extension?

For example, I tryed putting in A7X's The Wicked End which is like a 7 minute song, it's new duration time was 21 minutes. It only happens to a few songs, but those are songs I want to use.
Do you have the CDs for this music? If so then we can just skip all this and rip the uncompressed .wav files from the CD, which you should be editing with anyway. More info on how to do that here.

I have a question, in iTunes I can right click a song and there are two options that say "Convert ID3 tags . . . " and "Convert Selection to AAC"
The ID3 has options, there is one thing where I can choose it's version and checking off a check box by it and another option about Reverse Unicode. Could any of that help?
Probably not. iTunes probably isn't really a good file converter, and I wouldn't know how to instruct you with it anyway :/

I don't have the CD's for some of them (I use iTunes store or Limewire) and they are all .mp3 from the working ones to the stretched ones

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:21 pm

Ok, well, do this then (although this may result in a loss of sound quality). Follow the guide I mentioned twice above to rip the songs from the CDs, if you can. If all you have are the MP3s, follow this guide to convert them to .wav files. Lots of editing programs either do not take MP3 files or mess them up when they're imported, so it's best to edit with uncompressed .wavs instead.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:23 pm

The loss of sound quality I mentioned above will only happen (maybe) if you follow the second method; ripping songs directly from CDs results in near-perfect quality, so do that if you can.

Nets_VC_15 · Post by **Nets_VC_15** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:58 pm

Don't worry, I figured it out already. The thing is Liewire users soetimes through in the larger files and they come out great on WMM. Thanks for your help anyway though