Live5.01 decodes mp3s with glitches (frequently)

Hedroom · Post by **Hedroom** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:23 pm

I'm having a worrying problem with mp3s. Sometimes the wav which ableton decodes will have a (fairly sizeable perhaps a 32th or so) glitch. I can delete the wav from the decoding cache and the next time round it may render perfectly.

This is very worrying as if I have an mp3 clip perfectly warped out and open up a set using this audiofile, it may decode with a glitch therefore putting all my warping out by the size of the glitch for the rest of the track.

This is happening fairly fequency and to such an extent that I daren't risk letting ableton decode mp3s for fear of embarrasing live experiences. I am going back to the old way of converting mp3 to wav by hand for now.

An unrelated prob is that I'm getting erratic cpu spikes, usually on track starts or on muting and unmuting a track (I've trashed the prefs).

Hedroom · Post by **Hedroom** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:32 pm

These are mp3 320s not VBRs.

Running a P4 2.4 GHz with 512MB Ram (will be on a gig from tomorrow)

The audio giltch/dropout/cpu spike is an issue that reared its ugly head in L4. It seems to have got worse in 5. Maybe my extra RAM will help? Hope so, though surely 512 should have been sufficient?

Post by **Alex** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:11 pm

Hi Splashmas,

this is probably a problem of DirectShow which is used for the converting of MP3 to wav. Other user reporting this problem said that it is gone when installing Quicktime. If Quicktime is installed, Live uses it as default.

regards,
Alex

Hedroom · Post by **Hedroom** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:17 pm

Great, well I just tried installing quicktime so hopefully that'll sort it.

If I'm feeling brave enough I'm gonna be test driving Live 5 on Sat night!

Hedroom · Post by **Hedroom** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:19 pm

Oh. And stop working, isn't it past midnight in Germany?!