Limitations in Music?

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   Is there a limitation in the music file format selection?  I've come across 1 song mp3 format that causes Aurora to fault when trying to create a new sequence.

Just so happens it's TSO Christmas Canon Rock.  I tried converting it to .wav - same result. Tried converting it to mp3 at lesser quality - same result. So far this has been the only AV file I've found that caused this but I only tried about 3 or 4.

Sorry if this might be in the wrong forum - I don't yet have acces for posting in the pre-order users and not access in the beta forum.

Despite the quirks that one can expect in beta code - I really like this product - never could quite grasp Spectrum. Loaded this and I'm really making progress 

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bdkeen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Location: Easton,PA Online Status: Offline Posts: 380	Quote Reply Topic: Limitations in Music? Posted: 08 Jan 2008 at 7:04pm
	Is there a limitation in the music file format selection? I've come across 1 song mp3 format that causes Aurora to fault when trying to create a new sequence. Just so happens it's TSO Christmas Canon Rock. I tried converting it to .wav - same result. Tried converting it to mp3 at lesser quality - same result. So far this has been the only AV file I've found that caused this but I only tried about 3 or 4. Sorry if this might be in the wrong forum - I don't yet have acces for posting in the pre-order users and not access in the beta forum. Despite the quirks that one can expect in beta code - I really like this product - never could quite grasp Spectrum. Loaded this and I'm really making progress

Slinkard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Location: El Cajon CA Online Status: Offline Posts: 243	Quote Reply Posted: 09 Jan 2008 at 6:48pm
	I had that same problem with that same song! I just decided not to use it (I had many others) But I was able to finally get it to import successfully after about 10 attempts. I found that this too was a song that hung with the Vista direct show, during use via the scheduler. The fix there was to use the XP (just in scheduler) plug in. Not much help but I had the same issue. Lee
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bdkeen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Location: Easton,PA Online Status: Offline Posts: 380	Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jan 2008 at 7:46pm
	Actually I'm finding more and more mp3's that are giving the same problem - all work fine in Spectrum, LOR demo, and Vixen. Tried converting these to .wav - no good, same problem.

LightsOnLogan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3187	Quote Reply Posted: 11 Jan 2008 at 11:56am
	It's a GDI memory management / backbuffering issue. A fix for this will be going out to the beta testers as soon.


bdkeen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Location: Easton,PA Online Status: Offline Posts: 380	Quote Reply Posted: 09 Feb 2008 at 10:49am
	In the meantime is there a work around this problem in .2? It seems as if many ofl the audio files I'd like to begin sequencing are causing this to happen.. I've tried many different formats (.mp3, .wav, etc) using the various different options in saving the converted audio file in an attempt to somehow get around the problem but nothing seems to work. If there's a possible work-around then I could at least get some sequencing accomplished and switch audio files to a better sounding format once the fix (guessing in .3 perhaps) is released. Thanks