Help needed quickly please!

goshep wrote on 10/26/2006, 2:35 PM
Still under a deadline and now Vegas won't let me drop a simple MP3 on the timeline. I get an annoying little chime sound and it tells me "None of the files dropped on Vegas could be opened." For those of you who missed my earlier post, I was having crash problems with Vegas. 2 reinstalls later it still wasn't working so I reinstalled the OS. Then I got an install error regarding Microsoft SQL library. I'm running without media manager right now because it won't install or work. Wave files work fine but Vegas doesn't even appear to SEE the MP3 files, let alone let me use them.
Please help. Time and my morale are slipping away!

Vegas 6 Win XP w/ sp 2

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DavidMcKnight wrote on 10/26/2006, 2:45 PM
goshep, I feel for you. I've been there, but with other issues, never with Vegas failing to cooperate.

Here's a link to a thread about mp3 and SF 7. Do you have sound forge installed?

Do any other mp3's work and is it just this one? Does it play in a different player, such as Windows Media Player?
goshep wrote on 10/26/2006, 2:58 PM
Thank you for the link.
The mp3s work fine in media player and show up in their respective folders. They are invisible to Vegas however. This is a clean OS install and Vegas is the only app I've added since reinstalling. Unfortunately, the thread you referenced dead-ends at a reference to this problem and nothing more. I'll scour the knowledge base but if anyone has an immediate solution, I'm desperate.
DavidMcKnight wrote on 10/26/2006, 3:30 PM
Were these mp3 bought from a download service such as Rhapsody, WalMart Music Downloads, or something like that? If the mp3's are DRM protected they cannot be brought into Vegas natively. You'd have to use a program like Replay Music to get them into a non-protected format. Or so I've heard.
goshep wrote on 10/26/2006, 3:30 PM
Never mind. I forgot to patch to build D. That seems to have corrected the mp3 problem. ugggg. Still have media manager prob but no time to deal with it. I'll work around it. Thanks all
tazio wrote on 10/26/2006, 3:35 PM
Just a thought, I had a similar problem with media manager and it was a virus problem.

I did a complete reinstall as well, but it would reappear when I reconnected to network. Virus was lurking somewhere else on the Network.

Phil