Windows Media Player query. Hardly “professional”, but…

[Gunleik Groven]

[Bag] “I’m having trouble editing the MP3 files in ANY application”

I know this aint a workaround, but still:

To edit in mp3’s is not really the way to go. It’s a bit like editing photos as jpegs – they’ll get recompressed and worse sounding for each “save”.

I guess these are tracks of your own music – as you’re asking here.

First: Hopefully you’ve kept a copy of the original file or project. Then you can do your cuts and pastes in that and sound quality will prevail in the finished track.

If not, it depends a lot on which format you have compressed your files to.
(That is: mp3, aac. wma etc etc etc. There are litterally dozens of formats out there…)

If this is your only option to get to your own music back, you coud play around with different mediaplayers (there are a lot and I will not sugest one specific…). Quite a few can crossconvert and most likely there are tools to strip off the drm.

If you cannot get around this way, you’ll have to recapture the audio from the compressed files into an uncompressed format (wav/pcm) and start over.

But again: I cannot really figure why you would choose this route as sound quality will diminish for each crossconversion and each single “save”.

Gunleik

[Graeme Hague]

Thanks Gunleik, yes I’m being a little lazy by not simply re-encoding the original files. There are songlists involved (my bracket lists for playing certain songs at certain types of gigs… eg wedding, party, small pub, etc)and these would have to be rebuilt as well.
I was just hoping for a kind of “turn off the WMP protection with a button” kind of answer.
Never mind.

Cheers, Graeme.

Graeme Hague
Author/Composer
Audio Engineer BREC