I am adding some musical tracks and having an odd problem with one file. I have the entire cd ripped onto my computer and all tracks show in my Real Time player. However, when I click on the Add Background Music in Roxio and select the CD folder only 1 track is displayed. I can pull this into my production but cant even see the remaining tracks. Anybody ever see this problem before. All tracks are mp3.

Thx/John

If you have the space, rip the CD to your computer using a wav format. You will get a little better result. Also, what program did you use to rip the CD to mp3 files? There are a lot of different mp3 format variations and Roxio has some problems seeing (using) some of them

thanks for the advice. What's weird is that when I ripped the original CD to my computer I used real Time and it processed all tracks. When i look at their folder, there are all the tracks listed as MP3's. However, when I look at the folder from within Roxio, only the first track is listed. the remaining tracks, 5-6, don't even show. What do you think?

John

Have no idea. The next time use Media Import to import the music. Is some of the music from an on-line store and then burned to a CD? That usually is OK but who knows. Real music files are not recognized by any other program. Is it possible that you used a real variation? Why fight it? It is going to take you much more time to figure it out than just to rip again. I've given up trying to understand the reasons why most things happen on computers.

When you sugget 'Media Import' is that a Roxio function or a Microsoft one? I'm unfamilure with it.

John

Since you posted in the EMC 8 board, I assumed that you had Roxio Easy Media Creator Version 8. Media Import is part of that. What do you have from Roxio? If you have EMC 8, open the Home page , click on applications and look to the right. If that is not what you have, please post what you do have.

I do have EMC 8. All I've used so far is the slide show assistant in creating slide shows with background music. I've done several with good results. I've always used the mp3 files created when i ripped cd's by using real Time.

Am I correct that this Media Import function can be used to re-rp the CD; or is it to be used instead of the 'add background music' function? I find the EMC 8 software pretty good but the documentation and help leave a lot to be desired.
John

You can use the Media Import to import the music files from the CD to your computer. Open it, select Audio and then the drive that the CD is in. Import the files as wav for best results.

Mt Recommendation: Do not use the Slide Show Assistant in MyDVD (two step) to build your slide show; use VideoWave. it is not subject to some of the quirks that you'll find in the Slide Show Assistant. If you really like the way that Slide Show Assistant allows you to set up slide shows, use the one that you'll find under photos (3 step). That way you can save it easier and even edit it in Video Wave if you run into a problem.

You might want to look at the tutorial videos available for V8. they are pretty basic but perhaps can help you get orientated to some of the terms.

Thanks loads for the advice. I really appreciate it. What do you think about this...I have quite a bit of music on my hard drive, mostly as Mp 3 files. Could I use the process you describe above to re-import all this music so that I could use it in MC 8?

You could but the question remains of why the program won't recognize the files. I have no clue. Re ripping the files to your hard drive in wav format will give better results but they are essentially 10 times larger than the mp3 files. If you have a lot of hard drive space, you can do that. I foyu don't have all the original music, you can try this.
You could also try Sound Editor to edit those files. It is also part of EMC 8. Load the music files and then export them. That may change them to a compatible formats so that VideoWave can see them. If you cannot load them into Sound Editor, download the free trial of Gold Wave. It has a batch converter so you can select a folder and convert the music to another mp3 format or to a wav file. EMC 8 seems to like wav files better. You may lose a little in the conversion but you already lost a lot by ripping them to mp3 rather than wav.

I don't know if you have solved your problem yet, but if not, you may want to try imoprting your music with windows media player. In the tools menu, select options, then got the rip music tab. Select "winsows media" and slide the quality all the way overr to the right for maximum quality. Insure that the box under "windows media audio" which reads "copy protect music" IS NOT CHECKED. All projects I have done use WMA files perfectly, and the quality is better than MP3. You may also use "convert CD's" under the "audio" menu in Creator 8 to rip CD's to your hard drive. Likewise, goto tools and select what type of file you wish to convert to, i again suggest WMA.
Hope this helps..

Why do you suggest WMA and not WAV? Or are you just comparing mp3 to wma?
As you know, wma is a proprietary compressed format, sort of like an mp3 file. WAV for the most part is uncompressed. If you have the hard drive space, the wav files will sound better. You can read about compressed files which try to trick the listener into thinking that all the frequencies are there. If you do not have hard drive space, you would be well served by buying an external hard drive to work from and for longer term storage. Yes you can put more music on a CD using mp3 or wma but there has to be a reason that the wma and mp3 files are about 10% of the size of a wav file.