Problem importing .wav files

BamaBBQ wrote on 3/31/2005, 5:00 AM
I have a subscription to MusicMatch Jukebox and I purchase music from their site to use in my home videos and Sony Vegas Movie Studio. I save these .wav files to my hard drive and then attempt to import them into my videos, however Sony Vegas is not letting the files import. It gives me an error message immediately after the file seemingly imports, but the file never actually imports. I have even tried burning the files to a CD, which plays great in a CD player, but still won't import into the Vegas software. To make matters worse, I have had 2 wav files that imported successfully, but I can't recreate this success, it just seems to be a "hit or miss" process that is 99% miss. This is very frustrating because (1) it's the only thing keeping me from completing my project and (2) I pay for this music and try to do it the legal way. Is there a bug in the program, or is this just a setting that needs to be changed. Please email me at arabcartage@otelco.net if needed.

Thanks so much,
Russ
Alabama

Comments

B_JM wrote on 3/31/2005, 5:28 AM
you sure these are really wav files ? or are they raw pcm or something?
BamaBBQ wrote on 3/31/2005, 5:38 AM
I'm not sure, I say they are .wav, but they may be mp3. All I can tell you is that I download these from MusicMatch and burn them to a CD, and they play great in any CD player. Also, when I am attempting to import these files to Sony Vegas Movie Studio, the message box refers to the file as a .wav . Also, the 2 that have imported successfully are shown in my Media Pool as .wav . Hope this helps.

Russ
B_JM wrote on 3/31/2005, 5:51 AM
I went to thier website and it says this: "As stated in the Musicmatch Downloads Terms of Use, all tracks available through Musicmatch are delivered in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. We do not offer any other file formats at this time. The record companies supply the WMA files to Musicmatch. They chose this format because it supports the file security of Digital Rights Management (DRM). We are bound by contract to use these files."


Which means two things (reading the terms of use) ,
1. you are not allowed to use them in video production in vegas or any other NLE and
2. many of the tracks have DRM, which means they are can only be played on the machine for which they were lic'd for.



B_JM wrote on 3/31/2005, 5:53 AM
you can read this here:

http://wwws.musicmatch.com/faq/LIC006.htm


you would have seen this also signing up (they say) ...
BamaBBQ wrote on 3/31/2005, 6:01 AM
BOO TO MUSIC MATCH !! So much for the legal route. You know, I paid good money to these sons-a-@#$#% and their music downloads can't even be used in my home videos. If I had simply bought the CD at a retail store (which, by the way, is usually no more expensive) I could have used the music any way I pleased. The music industry wants to sue and badmouth the Napster sites, but then they turn around and screw the paying customer's like myself through MusicMatch. To hell with them, I'll go back to the old way that actually worked. LONG LIVE NAPSTER !!!
B_JM wrote on 3/31/2005, 6:28 AM
well actually you cant use music off a cd technically either without permission ..
Jsnkc wrote on 3/31/2005, 6:35 AM
"LONG LIVE NAPSTER !!!"

Ummmm...in case you haven't heard Napster is a pay site just like musicmatch :)