Render to Mp3

Albert Zeeman · Post by **Albert Zeeman** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:12 pm

Hi,

I was wondering...am i the only one who would love to have the option to render to Mp3?

Please let me know in the poll.

regards, Albert

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:22 pm

there's many other things I'd rather have implemented first...

Naive Teen Idol · Post by **Naive Teen Idol** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:48 pm

Meef Chaloin wrote:there's many other things I'd rather have implemented first...

Yeah, it's one additional step that takes about 10 seconds. Life is short, but it ain't THAT short...

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:55 pm

I don't see the need, there's so many very well done MP3 convertors for free out there (on both platforms), it's not a biggy to me.

compositeone · Post by **compositeone** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:15 pm

As said above really, there's a lot of other things I think they should spend there time developing.

Having said that if they implemented it, I would like to see it be able to use and "user defined" codec like LAME.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:29 pm

Isn't that the same as writing a novel and shreddding it instead of printing?

smart1123 · Post by **smart1123** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:32 pm

The nice thing about rendering to mp3 is that it would get around the 2gig file size limit when rendering 4 hour sets, at the moment I have to play them and wiretap... half a day to convert a set to mp3! Is a lot more than 10 seconds.

Albert Zeeman · Post by **Albert Zeeman** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:53 pm

I sync audio with movies in Live and deliver about 60 of them a day, and they need an mp3 file for internet. So now i'm struggling with automator scripts and all to get it done. Would be great to have the option with Lame for instance.

But also for other goals it would be fine. Previewing, publishing on the internet, email and demo's for example.

Albert

roelant · Post by **roelant** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:13 pm

Can't wait! Lame would be great...

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:40 pm

I think I'd rather see the "enter" button work properly in the render dialog before mp3 support is added there....

difference · Post by **difference** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:53 pm

smart1123 wrote:The nice thing about rendering to mp3 is that it would get around the 2gig file size limit when rendering 4 hour sets, at the moment I have to play them and wiretap... half a day to convert a set to mp3! Is a lot more than 10 seconds.

Why are you using FAT32 file system? Switch to NTFS and you won't have the 2Gb limit.

smart1123 · Post by **smart1123** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:56 pm

difference wrote:
smart1123 wrote:The nice thing about rendering to mp3 is that it would get around the 2gig file size limit when rendering 4 hour sets, at the moment I have to play them and wiretap... half a day to convert a set to mp3! Is a lot more than 10 seconds.
Why are you using FAT32 file system? Switch to NTFS and you won't have the 2Gb limit.

Am on osx hfs+, and according to the warning I get the limitation is ableton's... something along the lines of "Ableton cannot handle files over 2048 Mb ..."

difference · Post by **difference** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:16 pm

Ah... should never assume!

Surprised Ableton would impose a limit though.

In which case, why don't you just render the file in two halves and then stitch together in an audio editor?

vinkalmann · Post by **vinkalmann** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:24 pm

smart1123 wrote:
difference wrote:
smart1123 wrote:The nice thing about rendering to mp3 is that it would get around the 2gig file size limit when rendering 4 hour sets, at the moment I have to play them and wiretap... half a day to convert a set to mp3! Is a lot more than 10 seconds.
Why are you using FAT32 file system? Switch to NTFS and you won't have the 2Gb limit.
Am on osx hfs+, and according to the warning I get the limitation is ableton's... something along the lines of "Ableton cannot handle files over 2048 Mb ..."

Yep, Ableton has a limit around 2GB and WAV format has a 3GB limit. Doesn't matter if you're on FAT32 or NTFS.

Idonotlikebroccoli · Post by **Idonotlikebroccoli** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:11 pm

I can't describe how tired I am of converting wavs and deleting wavs. YES! Hell yes!

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