Question: Ableton 4 does not see my MP3's (DJ Issue)

ianarmstrong · Post by **ianarmstrong** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:40 am

Ok slap me and call me stupid, whatever, just answer the question.

I was playing with DJing through Ableton and noticed I couldn't pull any of my beatport or digitaljaymusic MP3's into Ableton. Do I really have to convert every track on my hard drive to WAV format? I doubt it... please advise?

Ian

krushing · Post by **krushing** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:10 am

No support for MP3 yet. Sorry.

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:10 pm

ianarmstrong wrote: Do I really have to convert every track on my hard drive to WAV format? I doubt it... please advise?

Ian

yes - or Aiffs - If you want to DJ in that way an external HD is highly recomended, unless you have a big internal drive

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 8:51 pm

i have no problems using aif's in Live4.0.3

dave dominey · Post by **dave dominey** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 8:57 pm

aifs work

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:16 pm

oops, i see you meant that mp3's can be converted to wav or aif...sorry for the confusion, forge.
i wonder why the lack of mp3 support, and other obvious DJ-related features? My guess is that Live wasn't originally meant to be approached as a DJ-style program, like Traktor, but it has caught on a lot with DJ-style musicians, just as it maybe wasn't necessarily conceived as a full-blown DAW, but has caught on as such. Now it seems like Live is being pulled in 3 directions at once. Its such a great, flexible program that every user seems to develop their own unique method, and thus has ever more specific desires for its future expansion. I think having add-on software "modules" would be a good way to go... like for $50 you can buy the "DJ" update that adds a load of DJ-specific features...or the "film-score" update, with video support... or "DAW" update with plugin-delay-compensation...
so many ways to go...

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:59 pm

Do a search; MP3 support is difficult to implement due to the way Live works.

-Paws

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:05 pm

ethios4 wrote:oops, i see you meant that mp3's can be converted to wav or aif...sorry for the confusion, forge.
i wonder why the lack of mp3 support, and other obvious DJ-related features? My guess is that Live wasn't originally meant to be approached as a DJ-style program, like Traktor, but it has caught on a lot with DJ-style musicians, just as it maybe wasn't necessarily conceived as a full-blown DAW, but has caught on as such. Now it seems like Live is being pulled in 3 directions at once. Its such a great, flexible program that every user seems to develop their own unique method, and thus has ever more specific desires for its future expansion. I think having add-on software "modules" would be a good way to go... like for $50 you can buy the "DJ" update that adds a load of DJ-specific features...or the "film-score" update, with video support... or "DAW" update with plugin-delay-compensation...
so many ways to go...

true. That's what FLStudio did

the ar · Post by **the ar** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:10 pm

C'mon guys, read the manual... It's always the same bloody questions...
I'm not being picky, it just gets on my tits.

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