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janie123
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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject: Audio on WMM2.. HELP!! |
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Hiya, Im just wondering if any1 could help me. 4 Some reason my WMM2 wont let me upload .mp3 files, just .wma which I can hardly find any songs in tht type !!
When I try to upload an .mp3 audio/music file an error message says:
C:\Documents and Settings\Janie Gonsalez\My Documents\Ronan Keating- Iris.mp3 could not be imported. The selected file is not valid or is corrupted.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem?? it would be a big help as I am limited to using .wma files atm and I can't get hardly any music in tht type 
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Aislynn
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Hi again!  I'm not quite sure what's causing that problem with the .mp3 and WMM  but if you have a CD drive on your computer and a CD-RW (rewritable) disc, you can take all of your .mp3 and burn them onto the rewritable disc with Windows Media Player, then use WMP to rip them back off the disc in .wma format. That should work to convert the .mp3's into .wma's for a temporary fix. If you need help with how to do any of that, just give a holler.
Oh and it doesn't HAVE to be a rewritable disc, by the way. That just saves you from permanently burning 1 or 2 songs onto a disc. With the rewritable, you can erase it and use it again if you don't want to keep the songs on it. |
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janie123
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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Hii, yes this helped thanks! 
I'll try it, and if I need any help I'll give u a bell.
Thank you  |
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janie123
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Aislynn, I really need your help
Ive got the disc and songs ect but Im sooo confused about ripping and everything and converting .mp3 to whatever wma.
Could you possibly explain in a little more detail pleeasse? 
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mistojen
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Since I beat Ais to the punch...
Uh, okay, I'm going to assume you've got Windows, since you're using WMM 
To rip the songs back off the CD, open up your Windows Media Player when the CD is in the drive. Then you'll want to click "Copy from CD" (if you don't have this listed on a sidebar, then click File, Copy, Copy from CD) then once that window is up, put checkmarks in the boxes next to the songs you want ripped as WMA. Hover your arrow over "Copy Music" and look at the bottom underneath the part that shows the progress of the playing song (if you were playing one, that is) and it will tell you where the music will be ripped to. Usually it goes directly into C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator (or whatever you've named your computer)\My Documents\My Music but I always check to make sure when I do it for the first time after a reformat or when I'm on a different computer. Then click the "Copy Music" button and it will rip the songs into a folder called "Untitled" inside the folder it had listed as a location. The tracks probably won't have names, because you're ripping from a burned CD, so you'll have to listen to the tracks and find out which is which in order to rename them, but when they rip, they will rip as WMA.
Hope that was helpful and not confusing Good luck, hon 
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Aislynn
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| janie123 wrote: | Im sooo confused about ripping and everything and converting .mp3 to whatever wma.
Could you possibly explain in a little more detail pleeasse?
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Sure! I'm not sure which version of Windows Media Player you have but hopefully they'll all be close enough that the buttons and such will be named the same things! (If you want to check your version, after you start up WMP, just go to Help --> About Windows Media Player and it will give you the version number. It'll probably be version 10 or 11. Mine is 11. )
Anyway, ripping is just another way of saying "copying from a CD onto the computer's hard drive." I have no idea why they just can't say that, lol! (Just as burning is another way of saying "copying from the hard drive onto a CD." ) Now, I'm not sure if you already have your songs burned onto a CD at this point or not. If not, there are several ways to do it but this is how I usually go about it:
1. Drag each of your songs out of their file folders into the Now Playing area on the right side (where it usually says something like "Drag items here to create a playlist). You can save that playlist or not, it shouldn't matter either way.
2. Click the Burn button at the top of WMP, then insert your blank disc. It should give you the option of Burn The Now Playing List.
3. Click Burn down at the bottom and it'll go to work. Depending on how long the songs are and how many of them you have, as well as how fast your computer's processor is, it'll take anywhere from a few minutes to as long as 15 or 20.
Once that's done, you'll just need to check your settings in WMP before you're ready to rip them back onto the computer.
Go to Tools --> Options --> Rip Music --> Rip Settings Format. That should be a pull-down menu offering you different audio format settings. If it's not already in .wma (just the basic Windows Media Audio -- WMP 11 offers a couple of different kinds of .wma, Pro, Lossless, etc. Just go with the regular Windows Media Audio. ), then change it to it. Click Okay.
To rip a CD:
1. Put the CD in the drive if it's not already there.
2. Click Rip at the top.
3. It should read the CD and give you a list of all of the songs on there. If you don't want to rip them all, remove the checkmark next to their name. Otherwise, click Rip down at the bottom.
Since this isn't an "official" CD, WMP will put it in your My Music in the folder called Unknown Artist. Inside of Unknown Artist, it will have created a subfolder called Unknown Album with the date in parentheses. That's where your songs should be. You can move them out of there into new folders or just leave them there and import them into WMM from there.
Sometimes WMP is able to keep the song and artist info with a song all of the way through this process. If not, you'll see them ripped as Track 1, Track 2, etc. You can right-click them one at a time and click Rename to put the name of the song back on for an easier way to find them to import them into WMM.
Hopefully that should get you around WMM's dislike of .mp3! *crosses fingers that it'll all work* If any of that isn't clear or you have any other questions, just let me know! Good luck!  |
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Aislynn
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Annnnd that was all pointless since Jen just answered you, sorry! Thanks, Jen! |
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Aislynn
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*reads Jen's post* Wow, that's totally different than how I do mine! I've always been WMP Playlist Impaired, though! It took me a looooooong time to figure out how to put playlists together and to get it into my head that just because my music was in a folder on the computer, it wasn't going to play it for me until I put it in a playlist as well!  |
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