Can anybody help me. I seen to have messed up my FCE. For some reason I can not import a song file that I have downloaded from itunes into FCE. FCE just wont read the file. Does anybody know how to fix this?

Brendan Field

You might be importing it as an MP3 file. Try converting it to an AIF file and see if you can import it then.

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For some reason I can not import a song file that I have downloaded from itunes

Did you buy it from the itunes store? If so the file is protected by copyright restrictions and you cannot use it outside of iTunes. If you ripped it from a CD, iTunes may be set to encode ripped files as Apple's mp3-equal, AAC, from which you can convert to MP3 or WAV or AIFF using a different program.

To get around a rights managed file, burn it to an audio CD or CD-RW (to save discs) and then rip it as an AIFF file.

Always convert to AIFF before importing into FC.

I've run into this problem as well and the best way around it is to burn the downloaded music onto a cd and import that cd back into itunes as an AIFF file. I'm not sure if there is any signal loss with this, but it's the only solution I found works. The only other thing I did with a very basic project I worked on was to finish editing my project in FCE then make it into a quicktime movie, and import the file into imovie, but that was a little more trouble than it was worth in my opinion.

Hope that helps.

Thanks a lot. I did the whole burn to a cd trick, but I did not know if there was an easier way. I guess this will have to do. Thanks again