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@bzan Export as WAV and use another tool, for example the free XMedia Recode. Years ago you had to pay license fees to use the Fraunhofer MP3 encoder, so for each activation Sony had to pay a fee. This is the way these old softwares had to be

Movie Studio

14 answers, most recent on 3/26/2025

RE: MP3 imports are being reduced to 4-seconds length + Not playing!

@Apollo89x @johnebaker @AAProds It has stopped saying this about using mp3 files on the MMS specification page but still says the following on the VPX specification page. ² Requires Windows Media Player Version 10 or higher. Ray.

SOUND FORGE

13 answers, most recent on 8/8/2025

Can't register SF-7b even with the key

I sent the text below to Magix Support 2 weeks ago and have not received a reply. Meanwhile, I found out that my product is registered with Magix. Why should my new registration not work? Thanks for any help! ================= I have been using SF-7

SOUND FORGE

3 answers, most recent on 1/14/2025

RE: SF 17

HI John, I will play with different Bitrates to see if I can reduce the size of the files to be emailed. Simple audio files that don't require audio quality...voice message, phone conversation content, MP3 is good enough for my purpose.Mono is also

SOUND FORGE

7 answers, most recent on 10/4/2024

RE: There is no template available for this format / Can't save MP3

I think you are missing the point of my post. After editing a podcast on AS17, I was unable to simply export it into a MP3, which is one of the most commonly used formats for distributing audio and also required by my podcast hosting service. I

SOUND FORGE

12 answers, most recent on 5/24/2024

RE: Audio Vinyl Recording files not saving as mp3

Resetting Sound Forge usually resolves the MP3 issue.

SOUND FORGE

5 answers, most recent on 2/14/2025

RE: SF 7.0 now wants me to register for mp3

@bzan If you remember your old Sony customer account e-mail address and password, you should be able to login at Magix.com and download an installer from your Magix customer account. I believe Magix updated those to be able to contact the Magix

SOUND FORGE

6 answers, most recent on 6/15/2025

RE: Can't save sound recordings from vinyl rsestoration tool as mp3

I am using a folder in user/documents. Not a temp file. I am not doing any editing on the file (may nornalize). I can see why you save as a wave file. I used the reset all preferences and clear cache. Recorded again, same thing. If I go to the file

Music Maker

One answer, on 5/30/2024

mp3 maker 10 deluxe

I own mp3 maker 10 deluxe, I found it listed on your site when I logged in with my password. I like to re download it to my computer but cannot find the CD, is there a way to download it when I am sign into my account

SOUND FORGE

12 answers, most recent on 5/24/2024

RE: Audio Vinyl Recording files not saving as mp3

I'm not able to save the audios in MP3!!! HELP

Music Maker

One answer, on 7/3/2024

how I can convert .mmm file in Mp3?

Music Maker. my operating system is window 64 bits

SOUND FORGE

7 answers, most recent on 10/4/2024

RE: There is no template available for this format / Can't save MP3

Yes, I mean if you have more than 2 channels. If there are only 2 channels it works fine, but if there are more than 2 channels, you have to use another program to make the MP3.

Music Maker

5 answers, most recent on 11/19/2024

RE: I need an upgrade code to music cleaning lab 3.0 deLuxe to be able to

@Anders-Lundquist The company behind the encoder (I think it was Fraunhofer) no longer supports it. So there is no way to get a code. Best workaround is to use plain WAV files and convert them in another application to MP3, for example the free

SOUND FORGE

53 answers, most recent on 10/29/2024

RE: SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 16 – Feedback Thread

Hi @Roger-Dey and welcome to the Magix Sound Forge users community If you are working with MP3 or other lossy file types, try enabling "Always proxy compressed formats" in the 'Options> Preferences> General' menu.

Audio Cleaning Lab

32 answers, most recent on 11/21/2024

RE: importing a stereo mp3 file into both tracks seprately

@browj2 Hi John . . . . Move the playback marker to where you want the next split . . . . Can you clarify this please. My interpretation would be to drag the playback marker, which in VSCL creates a range as I showed in my example here at the 48 sec

SOUND FORGE

3 answers, most recent on 11/10/2023

RE: [Solved] SF12 cutting off the end of tracks when saving

@EOHAudioEditor Are you editing compressed audio files like MP3? Better activate to always proxy compressed audio files in the preferences.

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 9/8/2025

[Solved] Nvidia RTX 5080 Graphics Card | But MEP 2026 suddenly stopped using it

I have MEP 2026.Via settings, it's already set to import/process/and export using this Graphics-Card.But when exporting a video (as Mp4) I get the following message on the top-bar:"Mixdown (Please update your graphics-card)"And it's taking literally

SOUND FORGE

38 answers, most recent on 9/16/2025

RE: MP3 conversion glitches

Hi Rick, Attached is a the media report for one of the files at random. Sorry, the forum won't allow a text file, so I had to take a screenshot. By the way, according to a search I did, SF18 uses the Fraunhofer MP3 encoder, but SF18's Batch

SOUND FORGE

38 answers, most recent on 9/16/2025

RE: MP3 conversion glitches

Thanks, SP and I hear you. But my worry here is that if I edit it a WAV and need to save it to a 192 kbps MP3, that SF18 is doing something screwy with it that isn't happening in (for instance) SF14. It was displaying other really strange behaviour,

Music Maker

3 answers, most recent on 8/6/2024

RE: timestretch or speeding up a song

@Connie-Alexander Usually, MP3 is also a paid feature. At least it was in the versions prior to version 2025. So it might be also missing in the trial version.

SOUND FORGE

4 answers, most recent on 6/7/2024

RE: Bought new SF Pro 18 Suite from online vendor

Any idea why the files that I created (MP3) worked six months ago but are not recognized now?

SOUND FORGE

10 answers, most recent on 10/11/2025

RE: MP3 files skipping / glitching when opened ...

Audio skipping and repeating. This problem has been happening on the past few versions of SF Pro. I'm currently working with Audio Studio 17 (17.0.2 Build 109), but it was the case with SF Pro 16 (16.1.4 Build 71). I have a RME Fireface UFX II.

SOUND FORGE

38 answers, most recent on 9/16/2025

RE: MP3 conversion glitches

@Paul-Fegan In our experience it's not a good idea to edit MP3 files. They are already lossy compressed, this means they are missing data compared to the original WAV files, and they are read out in frames of data instead of individual samples,