why can't I convert mmm files to MP3 files?

wmdougwom wrote on 1/10/2013, 5:22 PM

I try to convert them and it tells me that they can't be opened by Windows Media Player that there has been a problem. So how do I find the problem and fix it?

Windows 7

Brand new version of magix music maker premium

If I knew how it occured I would know how to fix it. I just follow the directions and that is what I get.

I'd like to be able to take a file of a recording I made in magix and convert it to MP3 and save it on my hard drive adn be able to copy nad send that file to someone as a MP3 file and they be able to open it. I can't even open it after I convert the file in my own Windows Media Player on the same computer I just created the file on in Magix.

Soory if that is not plain enough... Don't knkow how else to put it.

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smartsmurf wrote on 1/10/2013, 5:27 PM

because .mmm files are project files where all the musicmaker settings of an arrangement are saved...

to get an mp3 of a project you need to export the arrangement... choose mp3 format.

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if you like to send your arrangement to a friend (to continue working on it) you need to create a backup folder... where all settings and samples are saved...

wmdougwom wrote on 1/10/2013, 5:31 PM

I have been trying to export it and gthat is when it tells me that Windows Media player has a problem opening it. When I go inot the file where it is stored on my computer it will not open and I get the same message.

smartsmurf wrote on 1/10/2013, 5:50 PM

mmmh... maybe some of your settings of mmm need to be changed concerning your soundcard... in this section I found some interesting answers already but I'm too little an expert in such things to translate them to you...

you might want to give more details about your used soundcard and the setting of your musicmaker...

...and hopefully you'll get the right answer.

wmdougwom wrote on 1/10/2013, 5:57 PM

I was doing exactly what you were telling me to do and it was still telling me it could not open the in Windows Media Player. When I would go to the file where it was stored as an MP3 file and try to open it it would do the exact same thing and tell it that it could not. After two hours or more.... I jsut now opened the same file and clicked on it and it opens fine. I sent it off in an email and the copy in my sent box opens fine too. I don't get it!!! I didn't do anything but sit here and cuss at it for ten or fifteen minutes and tried one more time and it cured itself.......????? Giving up and letting dead dogs lie and asking no more questions.. We'll see what it does next time..... fingers crossed.

VisionarySoundSystem wrote on 1/11/2013, 2:24 PM

Hello WMD. I tend to save my mmm files to WAV files then load them into an external MP3 maker (I use DVD videosoft free studio).

Cheers & good luck.

Vis

wmdougwom wrote on 1/11/2013, 5:46 PM

Found out what the problem is. My Music Maker is using ASIO as the driver to my sound card connection and Windows Media Player was trying to us the same thing at the same time and could not share. Before the new mp3 file could be read by Media Player, Music Maker had to be shut down. I never dreamed that was a problem since Media Player was launching out of Music Maker. So four five hours I had both programs runnig at he same time trying to use the sound card and Media Player would not work. So i thought there was something wrong with the mp3 file. i gave up and shut down Music Maker and went back about an hour later and tried to open the mp3 file again and it worked great. I thought it was a miracle cure. But, then somebody from support wrote me and told me that he could not reproduce my problem and theat he susupected it was because the two programs were batteling it out over the ASIO driver. So much for miracles. I didn't know I was going to to have to learn to be an IT tech to opperate this thing , but I guess it helps.

Thanks everybody for trying to help. All cured now.

smartsmurf wrote on 1/11/2013, 5:50 PM

i'm glad you found that out... I was reading something like this (not an expert myself) in German... but just didn't feel I could translate it properly...

nice weekend to you !!!

wmdougwom wrote on 1/11/2013, 6:04 PM

i'm glad you found that out... I was reading something like this (not an expert myself) in German... but just didn't feel I could translate it properly...

nice weekend to you !!!

That is what you were referring to when you said you didn't know how to explain it. I probably would not have understood if you did. LOL But it made sense when it curred itself and he told me about it. Had aproblem running Music Maker and AmpliTube at the same time because of the same thing. That took me hours to figure out too, why I couldn't do it. had to keep changing sound setting in both programs to switch back and forth. Though that was jusrt weird!